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Using Law Library (Legal Methods)

The document summarizes the resources available in a law library, including primary sources like constitutions, legislation, and case law; secondary sources like commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and dictionaries; and tertiary sources like case indexes and directories. It explains that law libraries contain both print and digital collections that are convenient for accessing national and international case law, legislation, and journals. User orientation programs are important for legal researchers to learn about legal sources and research techniques for their subject areas. Useful legal research websites are also listed.

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Using Law Library (Legal Methods)

The document summarizes the resources available in a law library, including primary sources like constitutions, legislation, and case law; secondary sources like commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and dictionaries; and tertiary sources like case indexes and directories. It explains that law libraries contain both print and digital collections that are convenient for accessing national and international case law, legislation, and journals. User orientation programs are important for legal researchers to learn about legal sources and research techniques for their subject areas. Useful legal research websites are also listed.

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USING LAW

LIBRARY
LAW LIBRARY
A library is not only a walled structure but also a collection of resources,
opportunities, knowledge and learning of experience. A law library is a
collection of legal information resources, statutory codes, case reporters, books,
journals, newspapers and much more. A modern law library has a hybrid
collection of print as well as digital information. It is very convenient to refer
case laws (national or international courts), legislations(central or local or
international bodies), law journals( of universities across the globe), law reform
reports of international bodies etc.
Resources of a law library may be categorized in the following three types on
the basis of its generation.
• A) Primary Source of Law
• i. Constitution of India, as well as constitutions of other countries.
• ii. Legislation/Code/Acts/Statue whether of the centre or of States.
• iii. Case laws of the Supreme Court of India and 25 other High Courts
in the form of SCC, AIR.
• iv. Research journals of Universities or Law instructions across the
world. For example: journal of National University Delhi; Yale Law
journal; Harvard Law review.
• B) Secondary Source of Law
• i. Commentaries: Commentaries on statutes, judgements or Reports.
• ii. Legal Encyclopedias: Halsbury's laws of India.
• iii. Books: Law Libraries also have a good collection of text books,
reference books and guide books.
• iv. Law Dictionaries: Law dictionaries are an important tool that may be
used by a student or teacher to understand technical legal terms better. For
example- Black’s Law dictionary.
• v. Digest: SC yearly digest; AIR yearly digest; Criminal law digest;
labour law digest.
C) Tertiary Source of law
Tertiary sources are publications that summarize the information in
primary and secondary sources to provide background on a topic, idea or
event.
i. Case index: AIR case index for parallel citation.
ii. Directories: UGC directory; judges directory; Institutional Directories.

User orientation programmes in law libraries


User education programme is a pre-requisite for a law library. Legal
researchers need various types of information based on their subject area.
Orientation programme gives a basic introduction to legal sources and
research techniques. It provides an overview of statutes, regulations, and court
cases and the relationships among them.
USEFUL SITES
• Law octopus
• Bar and Bench
• Legally India kanoon
• Manupatra
• Live law
Conclusion
Law students, teachers and researchers must be well
versed with the kind of materials available in law library to
be able to utilize its benefits.

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