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The Mysterious Affair at Squire: Using Code-Breaking Games to Deliver Law Library Skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2021

Lizz Edwards-Waller
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Abstract

The Squire Law Library has designed and run a series of popular escape room-style events, aimed at masters and undergraduate law students. Intended to prompt students to explore the full range of legal resources available to them, the games typically challenge participants to open a locked safe: relying on legal databases, the library catalogue and print materials to decipher a six-digit combination. This article, based on Lizz Edwards-Waller's presentation at the BIALL (virtual) conference 2020, reflects on the practicalities of running and promoting code-breaking events within the library and considers the benefits of this style of event in addition to, or instead of, more traditional law library orientation tours.

Keywords

escape roomlegal resourcesstudent orientationacademic law libraries
Type
Selection of Papers from the BIALL ‘Virtual’ Conference 2020
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 218 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 Simon Usborne, ‘Get me out of here! Why escape rooms have become a global craze’, The Guardian, 1 April 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/apr/01/get-out-how-escape-rooms-became-a-global-craze

2 Ina Pruegel, ‘Cambridge Codebreakers: Developing a Codebreaking Adventure Across 4 Museums’, University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden Collections In Action blog: https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/blog/2018/03/02/cambridge-codebreakers-developing-a-codebreaking-adventure-across-4-museums/