Most Recent Issue of the Canadian Law Library Review

The most recent issue of the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR) is available online.

The CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL). It is an open access publication.

Check out the feature article "Inescapable Skills: Testing Legal Research Skills in an Escape Room" by  David H. Michels and Hannah Rosborough of the  Sir James Dunn Law Library at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (starts p. 10): "This micro-ethnographic case study explores the effectiveness of an escape room format game to test legal research skill retention. Previous attempts to benchmark legal research and information literacy skills of Schulich Law students across the program have met with  limited success in part because of the difficulty in recruiting participants. This study used a game format to gather data on student skill retention over the course of the program. Using an adaption of the popular escape room format, student teams in the first and second years of the JD program solved a series of research problems to 'escape.' Observations of four escape room sessions allowed researchers to  evaluate both research skills and participation in library activities. This article describes the planning and development of the escape room, as well as the data capture, analysis, and results."