Legal Learning Support Services through Building Collections and Capacities in Libraries

Journal Title: Indian Journal of Library and Information Science - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue 3

Abstract

The law profession and its challenges are pervasively known to professionals of other disciplines as well as people in society. The Libraries have been playing a great role in supporting the Law profession by providing the legal information resources and services at great precision and speed. The paper explores the literature for the current practices applied in various libraries in different parts of world as well as discusses the collection building in law information services. The paper also highlights the capacity building at libraries through various services and collection building at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) library in context of serving the academic users in the field of Law and Governance. The in-depth literature review provides a wide spectrum of legal information scenario.

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Shiva Kanaujia Sukula

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  • EP ID EP459138
  • DOI 10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.11317.16
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Shiva Kanaujia Sukula (2017). Legal Learning Support Services through Building Collections and Capacities in Libraries. Indian Journal of Library and Information Science, 11(3), 387-393. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-459138