What follows are just some random thoughts - not even particularly well
organized. I also remember reading about some great sounding programs
last year, so you might wish to check law-lib archives.
We have done 4 Take Your Kids to Work days now. I ask faculty to do a
class (or two) and I do one. This year, I talked about arguing before the
Supreme Court, using Troxel v. Granville (grandparents' visitation rights)
because it came from Washington. The professor did a
contracts/professional responsibility combo using Rumplestilskin. Fairy
tales work well to talk about the law.
As you can tell from the above, I have branched out from talking solely
about the library to more about law. We have *return customers* who have
already done our library-based classes - looking at how a book is
processed - figuring out how to catalog a book - exploring our foreign law
collections, investigating our catalog, that sort of thing.
Last year, I got two colleagues to run through in a mock theft/pickpocket.
Then had the kids become *witnesses.* What did they see, who did what,
what did the people have on, how tall, all that sort of thing. We have
also gone through Goldilocks (watched the video of the tale, then
discussed it as a case). I played Goldilocks (blond wig and all) to
permit them to serve as lawyers trying to question me to get all the facts
out.
I love having both professors and library personnel involved - different
approaches. I urge you to investigate having an associate or partner
involved. *Street law* examples to work through work well for kids also.
Nancy
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| Nancy McMurrer |
| Reference Librarian |
| Gallagher Law Library |
| University of Washington |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Keefe, Thomas R. wrote:
> I have been asked to do some sort of law-related presentation for children
> 7-15 in conjunction with Take Your Kids to Work Day. I am wondering if
> anyone has any good ideas. I apologize if this question is duplicative. I
> thought I saw a similar question a few days ago.
>
> Thomas Keefe
> Information Manager
> Shefsky & Froelich Ltd.
> 444 N. Michigan Ave.
> Chicago, Il 60611
> 312-836-4132
> tkeefe@shefskylaw.com
>
>
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