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Problems Of Selection And Acquisition Of Legal Materials
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Historically, the law libraries are closely
tied to the history of the judiciary system as well as to the history of
the development of formal legal education. In the United States, the
college of William and Mary lays claim to founding of the first
professorship in law and the beginnings of a small collection of law
books within the confines of the college library in 1779. The Harvard
law library, now the largest law library in the United State, was
established in 1817. Yet, until the primary focus for legal education
moved in the late nineteenth century to the university from the law
office, where aspiring lawyers and read the law under the tritelage of
established practitioners, few law libraries (other than Harwards)
compare in size and breadth of collection with Bar Association libraries
of collection with rare developed to meet the needs of the practicing
bar. However, the major concern in this piece of work is the problems of
selection and acquisition of legal materials by law libraries in
Nigeria with particular reference to Imo state Judiciary library
(system) Owerri.
1.2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF THE IMO STATE JUDICIARY LIBRARY
The
Imo state judiciary library was established in 1916 at the creation of
Imo state. The library stared with few books inherited from the former
high court, Owerri, Division of the then east central state of Nigeria.
The
judiciary library is situated within the High Court premises, judiciary
headquarters along Orlu Road Owerri, about Onekilometre (1km) from the
main post office, Owerri. Judiciary library is a special and one of the
indispensable arms of the judiciary. The library is the workshop of
judges, magistrates, legal practitioners, law students etc. it has
collection of laws and statutes, law reports, encyclopedia and
dictionaries official gazettes, periodical, law texts, newspapers,
magazines etc.
At present and in addition to the judicial central
library, Owerri, there are two zonal libraries at Okigwe and Orlu, three
directional libraries at Abon-Mbaise Mbano/Etiti and Oguta.
Judicial library has a professional librarian, four Para-professionals, two library Assistants and other supporting staff.
Judicial
library when it started was housed in a (12.2x12.2) room before it was
re-located to a library hall now in use. The library has a complete set
of computers.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The primary aim of the
study is to fulfill the requirement of obtaining the ordinary National
Diploma (OND) certificate. It is also the belief of the writers, that
this work will be useful to researcher who may which to carry out
further research in the area. Besides, it will serve as a reference
source in law libraries where selection and acquisition are not properly
carried out.
1.4 OBEJCTUVE OF THE STUDY
The specific objectives of the study are as follows:
 To find out the problems encountered in selection and acquisition of legal materials by law libraries in Nigeria.
 To ascertain if legal materials are selected and acquired in the library under study
 To find out the type of legal materials being acquired.
 To identify the channels of acquisition of legal materials
 To find out the criteria’s used in selection and acquisition of legal materials
 To ascertain those involved in selection of legal materials.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work examined the “PROBLEM OF SELECTION AND ACQUISITION OF LEGAL MATERIALS BY LAR LIBRARIES IN NIBGERIA. With Imo state Judiciary library as a case study. It uses a survey research method with questionnaire as the instrument for data collection, conclusion and recommendations were made based on the findings of the study. The findings confined the existence of legal materials in the library under study as well as the problems effecting effective selection and acquisition of le ... Continue reading---
