Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Law School Information Literacy Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-478-4
This 100+ page report presents extensive data and commentary from 15 North American law schools about their information literacy and technology training practices. Among the many topics covered: information literacy requirements, the number and status of information literacy instructors in law schools, the role of information company reps in instruction, number and type of courses offered, specialized instruction for faculty and summer associate programs, assessment, spending on training materials such as webcasts, courses and info literacy conferences, use of video and other tutorials, and evaluation of the importance of training in the products of specific suppliers such as Lexis, West, Bloomberg and Hein, as well as Google Scholar.
The report also includes data on the pervasiveness of training in various software packages and other information technology such as Adobe and Microsoft products and cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox. In addition, the report covers emerging training in artificial intelligence in legal information searching.
To allow for easier benchmarking, data in the report is broken out by size and type of law school and law school ranking.
Just a few of the many findings of the report are that:
• The overwhelming majority of surveyed law schools require some form of information searching or information literacy training for graduation (78.57%). There is a stark difference by funding status – while almost all public schools (90%) maintain the requirement, it is only in place at half of private schools.
• On average, 0.29 company representatives teach information searching/literacy courses at the law schools surveyed, with a maximum of 3.00 doing so. The higher the school ranking, the more likely they are to teach, with an average of 0.60 doing so at top-ranked schools
• On average, 42.18% of summer associates at least once take a special information searching/literacy course or workshop designed for summer associates.
For a table of contents, excerpt and list of participants, view the product page for this report at:
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=459
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