I think CALI is an excellent way for legal research and writing students
to learn the Bluebook. I incorporate the CALI exercises on the Bluebook
right into the course syllabus. I also give them a take-home exam on the
Bluebook, and I tell them that doing the CALI exercises is the best way
to prepare for it.
Fritz Snyder, Univ. of Montana Law School.
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Kory Staheli wrote:
> This inquiry is for Academic Law Librarians that are subscribers to CALI.
> My question is whether CALI is heavily used at your institution, and if so,
> how you promote the product and get your students to use it.
>
> We were CALI subscribers for several years, but use was very low.
> We tried everything we could think of to get professors to endorse it
> through their classes but were unsuccessful. We even loaded some of
> the programs on a terminal close to the Reference Desk where we could
> promote it, but with the exception of the Professional Responsibility
> program (which was used mainly the week before the MPRE) use was
> very low. A couple of years ago we canceled because we didn't feel
> the cost was justified based on the low use. Recently our Dean was
> informed that 160 law schools are subscribers of CALI. He wanted to
> know why we didn't have a subscription. Now we are considering
> subscribing again, but are giving it some hard thought based on our past
> experience of nonuse.
>
> Please don't get me wrong -- there are many excellent programs
> available through CALI that have the potential of benefiting law students,
> but with today's budget constraints it doesn't make sense to us to pay
> for a product that will get very little use. Any advice on how to promote
> this product and whether we should resubscribe will be most
> appreciated.
>
> Also, are any of you using the Harvard Interactive Video Discs? If so, do
> you like them? Are they being used? Do you feel the cost justifies the
> use?
>
> Kory D. Staheli
> Head of Reference Services and
> Director of First Year Legal Research
> Howard W. Hunter Law Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801) 378-6657
>
>
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