The library will be conducting voluntary training sessions and mini-tours regarding library services and computer services for all new students.  Check out the schedule and drop by!

Welcome and welcome back to all law students!

CALI lessons are interactive lessons on a variety of law school topics provided through the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. Each lesson focuses on a specific aspect of the legal topic and contains dozens of practice questions.  Check out the CALI lessons page for the list of topics.

All new BU students received CALI authorization codes in their registration packets.  If a new or returning student needs a code, just drop by the Reference and Information desk in the library to pick one up.  What follows are CALI’s instructions for creating your account using the authorization code.

1. Before creating a new account at cali.org, find your school’s authorization code and have it handy.
2. Use your school’s authorization code just one time. During your first cali.org registration/account creation process, enter it into the box entitled “Authorization Code.” You’ll never, ever type or even have to think about your school’s CALI authorization code again after your new cali.org account is created.
3. Your school’s authorization code IS NOT your cali.org username or password: You create your own username during registration. You create a unique password by following a link CALI will send you in an email immediately following the first registration step. This may sound confusing, but take two minutes to watch the video and you should understand.
4. Once you’ve registered, use the username/password you created during registration to login at cali.org. Once registration is complete and your account is created, you use your own username and password — not your school’s authorization code, which you can officially scrub from your memory.
5. Please watch this 2 minute video for step-by-step instructions on how to register at cali.org for the first time and how to run CALI Lessons. Contact Austin, agroothuis@cali.org, with any questions.

BARBRI Challenge, an interactive game for law students and recent graduates preparing for the bar exam, is now mobile. The interactive game challenges players with a series of multiple-choice bar exam questions that must be answered within 15 minutes. Users can play the game alone or challenge other players to multiplayer games. BARBRI Challenge is available as a free download from the App Store or online from iTunes. For more information, check out the press release.

This summer the ABA Journal brought together a panel of experts to determine The 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows.  From Law & Order to Matlock to Night Court, find out which of your favorites made the cut.

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Keep track of changes to the very great Hein Online through this library eresources update!

If you use Google Reader to keep up with the Pappas Law Library Blog, you may have noticed that our posts appear as spam when viewed through Google Reader.  We are aware of the problem and are working to remedy it.  Meanwhile, just click a post’s title to go directly to our blog to read the real (not-spam) post.

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