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Law Libraries: A Community Service for Modern Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Sally Phillips
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I would like to start by having a brief look at the basic aims of a librarian before relating them to the specific title under discussion, namely, the old adage: “the right book (or information) to the right person at the right time”. It is to this end that we practice our technical skills of book selection, cataloguing and classification, information retrieval, etc. In titling this paper “law libraries: a community service” I am aware that I am introducing an unusual juxtaposition of ideas. A law library is generally considered to be an esoteric service for a professional elite rather than one intended for the benefit of the community as a whole, but if a community is in need of this type of service then surely it is up to us to provide it. In this paper I want to introduce a completely new concept into law librarianship and suggest, that this is what is needed in Africa today.

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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 1976 , pp. 109 - 114
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Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1975 

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