For Immediate Release
May 15, 2008

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Georgetown Law Library has received a Law Library Publication Award from the American Association of Law Libraries for developing several Web-based legal research tutorials designed to teach first-year law students the basics of legal research.

Covering case law, statutory, regulatory, and international law research, as well as legislative history, the tutorials were enhanced in 2007 to incorporate additional multimedia elements such as interactive demonstrations of online research, scored review questions and sound.

An article about the project is featured in the September 2007 issue of the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library Friends Newsletter.

The Georgetown Law Library, comprised of the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library and the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library, is the nation’s fourth largest academic law library, with over a million volumes.

 

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Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.

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