Last year I was fortunate to receive a Rosalind Patrick award to attend the Teaching the Teachers Conference for Law Librarians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
I am leaving for this on Monday 27th May (so John will be the Law Librarian for that fortnight. Good luck John!).
As part of my application I had said that I would do a report-back on my learnings and what I did. I am organising this reportback now so that I don’t forget and because I have an exam at the end of June.
Please come along to hear my report back about the Conference on Tuesday 18th June at 2pm in Room 210 (PJH) to hear what I learnt and to see my “work” pictures from my time in Philadelphia
LLB students in LAWS and BCJ students in CRJU202 are both being set a number of online Library and legal research skills lessons to complete over the next few weeks.
Each of these lessons are designed for these 500+ students to learn how to find legal material within the Library and legal databases.
The students also need to complete a one-change time-limited quiz for the course they are enrolled in:
LAWS205 students – 50 questions in 90 minutes
CRJU202 students – 30 questions in 75 minutes
I have set everything up so that it works on the UC computers but sometimes there are issues due to the multiple moving parts + live databases students do sometimes encounter problems. If you get any questions about either of these courses please refer them to John or me.
If a student is having issues while trying to finish one of the quizzes please tell them to do what they can and then email me once their time has finished with details and ideally screenshots.
The annotator will be based on Level 7 today and tomorrow.
Lynne comes in a couple of times a year to update our NZ statute books. She will cross out anything that is no longer law in red pencil and paste inserts into the books with the new law. It might look like she is defacing the books but it is absolutely ok and ensures that our print collection is up to date!
While we now have access to legislation online in multiple places (WestlawNZ, Lexis Advance and www.legislation.govt.nz) John and I do still sometimes use the print books to trace currently legislation back in time to before the databases existed.
Lynne has an office chair and a trolley. I will pop these away once Lynne has finished tomorrow afternoon.
The 500+ LAWS110 students have a 1,500 word essay due tomorrow.
This is the first essay that the students must use the NZLSG so there are LOTS of questions coming through AskLIVE and email about this.
I am running a drop-in Zoom session between 11am and 1pm today and the details of this are on the LAWS110 Learn page under Assessment.
John and I will try to be on AskLIVE as much as we can today but if you get any tricky questions please get students to email us and we will get back to them by the end of the day. Alternatively please get the students email and forward us the chat!
500+ LAWS110 Students are being asked to complete 4 modules made up of 5-7 videos and then complete a quiz worth 10% of their final grade. These are on the LAWS110 Learn page under Legal Research Skills.
Everything students will need to know is on the Learn page. I’ve also created an FAQ page and added notes so hopefully the questions will be minimal *fingers crossed* But just in case please ask any students to get in touch with John or me if they have any questions.
Students may encounter problems if they are using their own laptops or accessing them from home. The modules will work if the students use the UC computers and access them on Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Students have until 31st March to complete the modules and quiz.
Thanks
Theresa (and John too!)
PS – there are three (LAWS110, LAWS205 and CRJU202) online legal research modules/lessons all live at the same time. It’s a huge piece of work and reaches 1000+ students each year!
LLB students in LAWS and BCJ students in CRJU202 have both being set a number of online Library and legal research skills lessons to complete over the next few weeks.
Each of these lessons are designed for these 400+ students to learn how to find legal material within the Library and legal databases.
The students also need to complete a one-change time-limited quiz for the course they are enrolled in:
LAWS205 students – 50 questions in 90 minutes
CRJU202 students – 30 questions in 75 minutes
I have set everything up so that it works on the UC computers but sometimes there are issues due to the multiple moving parts + live databases students do sometimes encounter problems. If you get any questions about either of these courses please refer them to John or me.
If a student is having issues while trying to finish one of the quizzes please tell them to do what they can and then email me once their time has finished with details and ideally screenshots.
The annotator will be based on Level 7 today again. She is back to finish our bi-annual legislation updates.
Lynne has a red office chair and a trolley. I will pop these away once Lynne has finished this afternoon
Any questions please let Sara or I know.
Theresa
From my message last week about the annotating…
Lynne comes in a couple of times a year to update our NZ statute books. She will cross out anything that is no longer law in red pencil and paste inserts into the books with the new law. It might look like she is defacing the books but it is absolutely ok and ensures that our print collection is up to date!
While we now have access to legislation online in multiple places (WestlawNZ, Lexis Advance and www.legislation.govt.nz) John and I do still sometimes use the print books to trace currently in-force legislation back in time to before the databases existed.
Lynne comes in a couple of times a year to update our NZ statute books. She will cross out anything that is no longer law in red pencil and paste inserts into the books with the new law. It might look like she is defacing the books but it is absolutely ok and ensures that our print collection is up to date!
While we now have access to legislation online in multiple places (WestlawNZ, Lexis Advance and www.legislation.govt.nz) John and I do still sometimes use the print books to trace currently in-force legislation back in time to before the databases existed.
Lynne has a red office chair and a blue trolley. I will pop these away once Lynne has finished this afternoon
I’ve had a call from the Law Society Library this morning.
They are trying to track down the details of a Court case in the 1980’s involving a UC lecturer/professor who was convicted of fraud.
Apparently the lecturer intervened (by impersonating the student) in ensuring that a student didn’t get a scholarship and further opportunities based on the scholarship. He was then convicted of fraud due to his actions.
The lecturer was Nirehay Singh and he was a Psychology lecturer/professor.
Does this ring any bells with anyone (who may have been here in that time) so that we can narrow the dates down and locate the newspaper report?
We can’t find this case or any reporting of it in any of the NZ legal databases and everything online Papers Past / Knowledge Basket / CCL Papers index etc all either end before or start after this!
I have suggested that the NZLS also visit Tūranga and view their microfiche press index to see if it’s mentioned there.
I have moved desks on Level 5 but I haven’t moved very far!!
I am now on the other side of the partition and you will still see my smiley face when you walk past 🙂 This also means I can spread my piles of books and papers across two desks.
Tiresa Ierome (our new Pacific Liaison Librarian) will sit where I was once she starts in December.
