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	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 A. 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 is currently 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.
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