Sara and Theresa recently attended and presented at the NZLLA (New Zealand Librarians Association) Conference in Wellington. 

In this session they will report back on the highlights of the conference as well as repeating two presentations from the conference. 

The first is a joint presentation entitled: “Are you the Law Librarian?” – How we teach enough students to be recognised at our local supermarkets : Legal Research Teaching at the University of Canterbury in 2017

Abstract: Sara and Theresa are the two Subject Librarians for Law (as well as Criminal Justice) at the University of Canterbury. Each year they teach LLB students legal research skills in a mix of embedded and extracurricular classes. In 2017 they made major changes to how they deliver introductory legal research skills to the first-year cohort of 400 students. They will share how they were challenged, encouraged and implored to move away from traditional tutorials and face-to-face delivery of legal research skills. Their teaching now includes lectures and online modules to teach legal research skills to students in a way that ensures a scaffolded introduction and reinforcement of skills in a way that best supports students learning. They will share the lessons learnt, the skills they taught and how this all fits into the plan to ensure UC LLB graduates are graduating as competent and confident legal researchers.

In the second Theresa will share findings from the designing and running the NZLLA member survey in 2016 – what was the process, what worked and what did not work so well, what could be done differently next time. This will also profile who a “typical law librarian” is according to the data that was gathered.