ABOUT THIS TUTORIAL AND PATHFINDER.
OBJECTIVES;
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW;
CREDITS;
OBJECTIVES;
Process:
Students will become knowledgeable about
the many subparts of the legislative process
and demonstrate that knowledge by being able
to put the various legislative steps in chronological
order.
Documents:
Students will become knowledgeable about
where in the legislative process specific
kinds of legislative documents are created.
Students will demonstrate this knowledge
by being able to put a body of legislative
history documents in chronological order
and by being able to identify in which subpart
of the legislative process a particular document
was created.
Tools:
Students will become familiar with the various
legislative history finding tools and to
be able to identify the strengths and weakness
of the various print and on-line-tools.
Using the various finding tools, students
will be able to compile a legislative history.
In addition, students will be able to locate
specific legislative history documents within
the Law or Government Documents library.
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW;
Most items crucial to effective legal research
may be defined by three important labels:
Process, Documents (or Artifacts), and Tools
(or Finding Aids). It is a Process that begets
Documents which in turn begets Tools to organize
and find these Documents. This tutorial derives
its organization from this conceptual schema.
The elliptical image on the home page presents
the document categories in a way that also
represents the often linear progression of
the legislative process.
CREDITS;
Peter Hook - Design and Text.
phook@law.uiuc.edu.
Peter first created this tutorial and pathfinder
while he was a graduate student in Library
and Information Science at the University
of Illinois. Peter has a law degree from
the University of Kansas and currently works
as an academic law librarian at the University
of Illinois School of Law.
Michael Robak - Development of the Process, Documents,
Tools Schema.
Michael, at the time of his consultation
with Peter, was a graduate student in Library
and Information Science at the University
of Illinois. Michael also has a law degree.