Last fall, I did a survey on Law-lib concerning schools that do their own
training and schools who use scripts in training. I said that I would
summarize for the list. I did a very general summary of the reasons
for doing your own training, but I don't think I every posted the full
results.
The following schools do most or all of their own training (as of last
fall)
Boston Univ. Wake Forest
Utah Ark. Little Rock
Emory Cincinnati
Univ. of So. Calif. Southern Illinois
Stetson Univ. of San Diego
SUNY-Buffalo Marquette
Univ of Oregon Pennsylvania
Cardozo Duke
Wayne State CUNY
Georgetown Georgia
Richmond Cornell
Washington & Lee South Dakota
The following schools use scripts and require vendor reps and/or student
reps to follow the scripts
Boston University
Golden Gate
Notre Dame
Texas at Austin
Alabama
Marquette
Some schools appear on both lists because law school or library staff
teach a large portion of the classes and student reps or vendor reps
teach the remaining classes using scripts prepared by law school or
library staff.
The reasons for doing your own training vary, but by far the most common
reasons are
maintaining consistency in training
tailoring coverage to fit with legal research class
getting unbiased comparison of systems
too much promotion and salesmanship by vendor employees
The reasons for using scripts are the same.
Mary Brandt Jensen University of South Dakota
Director of the Law Library School of Law
Professor of Law 414 E. Clark St.
MJENSEN@CHARLIE.USD.EDU Vermillion, SD 57069-2390
(605) 677 6363 Fax (605) 677 6357
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