Entering 1Ls, make sure you look for the yellow “Law Library & IT Orientation Essentials” handout in your orientation packet!
This is a ‘scorecard’ that asks you to visit certain places and people, and do certain tasks, that are essential to your success in law school. Some are library or IT “housekeeping” that it will ultimately help you to have dealt with early, and others are there to introduce you to the basics of our services. Each task/visit that you verify to a library staff member can earn you a sticker on the score card. We hope this will be really fun, in a “scavenger hunt” kind of way… but there is the added incentive of real prizes (including an iPad mini!). If you can fill at least 13 of the 15 boxes on your card, and return it to us by September 5, you can be eligible to win.
Note that some really important things are marked with an asterisk — you have to do all five of those to enter the contest —, and some tasks (like registering your Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg passwords) are really important to do right away to be ready for your classes, whether you care about prizes or not.