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Academic Law Library Collections in Africa Comparative Notes on Nigeria and South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Yemisi Dina
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The law library is an essential service in the functioning of an academic library. Unlike other disciplines where the library is just one of a number of supporting overhead services provided to enable the researcher and student to do their work, the law library is like a laboratory, thus making it an essential service to legal research.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , Winter 2002 , pp. 454 - 465
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Copyright © 2002 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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1 For further discussion of law as a library-based subject making it highly necessary to have an efficient library, see Dane, J. and Thomas, P., How to use a Law Library, (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1996;) Dada, T.O., “Professional responsibilities of the law librarian” in Ajomo, O., ed., New Dimensions in Nigerian Law, (Lagos, University of Lagos Press, 1989;) and Jegede, O., “New Dimensions in the Administration of Academic Law Libraries in Nigeria,” Commonwealth Law Librarian 1 (1992): 7–20.Google Scholar

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