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Highlights of Selected Databases

Provides tips and tricks for navigating some of our most popular databases, while highlighting some of their special collections.

Aspen Learning Library

The Aspen Learning Library Study Aids database provides access to study guides and study tools use explanatory text and multiple questions to review course content. Check out the Library's Study Aids page to find out more detailed information about the Aspen Learning Library Study Aids database. This guide provides resources for you to start to explore the Aspen Learning Library Study Aids database. Provided in tabs of this guide are selected lists of titles in the Aspen Learning Library Study Aids collections including: Emanuel CrunchTime ; Emanuel Law Outlines ; Examples and Explanations ; Glannon Guides ; and Bar Exam Prep.

Please note that Aspen Learning Library is a subscription database and off-campus access requires a login with NCCU username and password.

Aspen Learning Library Study Aids Collections

The Emanuel CrunchTime series provides flowcharts and capsule summaries on major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips, sample exams, and essay questions with model answers.

CrunchTime helps you with exam-prep in the following ways:

  • Uses flow charts to walk you series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on an exam.
  • Features capsule summaries to help you quickly review key concepts.
  • Provides exam tips, which recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.

Emanuel Law Outlines (ELOs) are written to help you understand key classroom concepts as you learn them and assist you with studying for your exams throughout your law school career. nsures that you understand the concepts as you learn them in class and helps you study for exams throughout the semester. 

ELOs help you in the following ways:

  • Quiz Yourself and Essay Q&A features help you test your knowledge throughout the semester.
  • Exam tips alert you to the issues and fact patterns that commonly pop up on exams.
  • Capsule Summaries provide a quick review of the key concepts covered in the full Outline.

The Examples & Explanations (E&E) books provide series of hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

E&E titles help you throughout the semester in the following ways:

  • Provides clear explanations of each class topic in a conversational, funny style.
  • Features hypotheticals with corresponding analysis to use during the semester to test your knowledge/understanding of important topics you encounter in your coursework.
  • Offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks and suits any class on a given topic.

"The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom:

  • It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
  • Both correct and incorrect options are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work.
  • Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick."--Publisher's description.

"Bar Review materials from Aspen Publishing provide the essential information students and instructors need to prepare for Bar Exam success. Our bar review materials offer up-to-date NCBE and author-written questions, as well as class-tested tips and strategies to help students learn to analyze questions, apply rules to fact patterns, avoid wrong answers, and structure essay responses. The Emanuel Bar Review Series is full of advice on how to analyze questions, how to handle each MBE subject, and tips about how differences in wording can completely change the meaning of an answer."--Publisher's description.

Use the search link below to find Aspen Learning Library exam preparation resources in the library catalog.