Many thanks to Mary Brandt Jensen for collecting information on which law
schools do their own CALR training, who uses scripts, etc.
I feel that I would be remiss if I were not to clarify the situation at
Boston University, which was categorized as providing most of the
teaching using library staff. Since the time of her survey early last
fall, we have doubled our first year training requirements (part of their
Research and Writing course) and have been able to do so largely because
of the cooperation and expertise of the commercial reps we currently
have. They taught almost all of the classes working from the scripts we
worked together to create. While several types of classes are still
taught by the librarians, I must report that our commercial reps have
taken on the bulk of the student training this year, and we have been
pleased with their efforts.
Even with the closest of working relationships with our reps, though, we
cannot give our students evaluative or comparative information using the
commercial representatives. I was very encouraged to see so many schools
listed as using librarians to teach most of their CALR.
Thanks again to Mary Brandt Jensen for collecting and sharing this
information.
Anne Klinefelter Pappas Law Library
Senior Reference Librarian Boston University
anneklin@bu.edu
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