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› Law Library / Esther Hoorn

Information skillsWelcome to the law library

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Program

› Legal information skills: do we have a problem?› Advanced library tools› Basics: start at the library portal› Examples from A Guide to Preparing a Paper or

Master’s Thesis by J.G. Brouwer and A.J.J. de Hoogh

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Google generation: myth or reality?

Google generation, born 1994 and laterGeneration Y, born between 1978 and 1983Generation X, born before 1978

JISC Information behaviour of the researcher of the future, 2008, 11 January

Nearly half of the world’s internet users (49%), for example, live in Europe and North America where less than one in five (17%) of the world’s population live.

www.InternetWorldStats.com, 2007, 10 June

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89 percent of college students use search enginesto begin an information search (while only 2 percent start from a library web site)

93 per cent are satisfied or very satisfied with theiroverall experience of using a search engine(compared with 84 per cent for a librarian-assistedsearch)

`books’ are still the primary library brand associationfor this group, despite massive investment indigital resources, of which students are largely unfamiliar

Survey OCLC

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The Google generationWhere are the skills gaps?

The problem here is that they simply do not recognizethat they have a problem: there is a big gap betweentheir actual performance in information literacy tests and their self-estimates of information skill and library anxiety.

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The library and the social software revolution

› Linkage and communication› Community-readership› Community-interpretation› Creation of professional knowledge tools

Paul Maharg, Transforming Legal Education

› Use old-fashioned tools like networking and snowball snowball strategies to get your resources.

› Talk about your topic…..also with the librarians.

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Advanced possibilities (to explore yourself)

› Metasearch engines• RugCombine (Metalib)• Livetrix• Specialised legal search engines (e.g. Legal Intelligence)

› Reference tools• Refmanager• Endnote• (RefWorks: webbased with sharing options:30day trial possible)

› Repositories• SSRN (Open Access publications)

› Social Software (blogs, collaborative portals etc.)• www.opiniojuris.org• http://www.haguejusticeportal.net/

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Our library website

› Legal databases and favorite law links:http://www.rug.nl/bibliotheek/locaties/bibrechten/favorieten?lang=en

› Instruction:http://www.rug.nl/bibliotheek/instructies/locatie/bibrechten/index?lang=enhttp://rechten.uvt.nl/ICTenRecht/finding_right_sources/

› Eurlex (example European Courtcase 1999, 184, Choose simple search, natural number, keywords Eurovox!):http://eur-lex.europa.eu/

› Peace Palace Libraryhttp://www.ppl.nl/Free access to catalogue (same interface as Picarta)Innovative features: see keywords, RSS feeds to subjects

• Plinklet (link resolver) => RUG (example Afghanistan)

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Examples from the research guide of de Hoogh

› Putting it to practice:› Catalogue Peace Palace www.ppl.nl› Afghanistan: title?? No, all words› Restrict attack› See all this valuable extra library information.

› "Operation enduring freedom" and the UN Charter : the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent military response / Preiser, Simone

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Thank you for your attention