ROLE OF LAW LIBRARY SCIENCE IN LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA

Ms. Sunita Devi*

* Librarian
Shamsher Bahadur Saxena College of Law, Makrauli Kalan, Rohtak-124001 Haryana, India
Email:- sunitachahar13@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:- The functionality of library science play an important role in legal education. Depending on that
nature creativity of legal satisfactory to check, gain and up to date knowledge in the fields. Then, production of
comprising legal aquarium through law library or law e-library, mostly current information available in book,
brochures, circular and newspaper etc. which avail in law libraries an internet as sequential to connect with it
and according to need to get professionalism area means, to acquire write knowledge about the subject. But
legal enrolment to generate empowerment of basic conceptualization in well- mannered. In this paper both legal
education and library information science every type of current affairs to demonstrate in these arenas. As, any
organizational views to mandate result or decision making myths to visualize in electronic media as well as
circulate through memo in law libraries or law e-libraries. Maintain disciplinary administrative law in justice.
Worthwhile creatures get updation in require fields. Information technology field as play joint venture role
between library science and legal education.
Kewords:- aquarium, legal empowerment, legal decision making, database library

Legal education in the India generally refers to the education of lawyers before entry into practice. Legal
education in India is offered at different levels by the traditional universities and the specialized law universities
and schools only after completion of an undergraduate degree or as an integrated degree,
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Like any other library a law library is a trinity of men, material and building. It has been aptly remarked
about a law library that the law library is truly a vital factor in the administration of justice, an institution of
extraordinary social significance in a free society. Inspiring is the example of men and women of vision who
devote their talents to the creation and perpetuation of law libraries whose benefits reach out far and beyond the
personal interests of the original creators. In addition, the law library is a community trust, which Gilbert
Stephenson defined as an ocean liner receiving its cargo in part from living trusts, which are private ships and
carrying it over into successive generations as to a distant port, there to be distributed for the common good.
The law library is truly plays a vital role in the administration of justice. It is an institution of
extraordinary social significance in a free society, inspiring the men and women of vision who devote their
talents to the creation and preparation of law libraries, whose benefits reach out far and beyond the personal
interests of the original creators,
The law library has skilled people to classify and arrange the books in an orderly
manner. A law library need not stock books on law and law alone. It has to stock authoritative books from allied
branches like philosophy, political science, public administration; economics etc. It must also stock language
dictionaries, dictionaries of law, judicial dictionary and thesaurus.
Legal education has developed around the law library as the centre of the students legal study. Still
heavily reliant on developing legal reasoning skills through the Socratic method, legal education renders the law
library a research laboratory where students must perform the experiments of identifying the building blocks
of successful legal analogies.
Law Libraries to help it develop the educational programs and services needed by law librarians
interested in preservation, Libraries are designing their services and space to accommodate the changing needs
and the demands for technology. One model for providing integrated technology and information resources is
the Information Commons. A law library is not merely a collection of books. It is a collection of legal literature
properly housed, and organizes for services. Library and Information Services in Institutional law libraries that
lending, literature search, newspaper clippings, information retrieval by intranet, current awareness search in
one form or the other and case law retrieval by CD-ROM databases are provided by most of the Institutional law
libraries in India. It is gratifying to note that most of the Institutional law libraries using computers for providing
information to their users through various IT products such as CD-ROM databases, e-journals, e-books etc. and
are also using internet as an effective tool for providing the desired information to the users Law and libraries
the next generation of technology, the role of planning for the future development.
Traditionally, highly skilled and specialized law library professionals provide law faculty with the
utmost in customized research support for their teaching and scholarship, a level of research support that is
unavailable in general Institutional libraries.
Essential requirements for law librarians regarding legal education
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Although these general competencies are required by librarians employed in all types of libraries, library
instruction must also include and emphasize the components of these areas that are specific to law librarianship.
Areas of general competency include:
1. Library Management
2. Collection Management
3. Organization and Classification
4. Reference and Research Services
The librarians should perform the following activities in order to meet the present context regarding legal
education:
1. Disseminate the digital information.
2. To be expert in information technology
3. To be master of contents of world resources rather than a librarian of a single library.
4. To do research in information technology.
Law librarians must possess knowledge about the legal profession in order to understand the forces that
drive its information needs. Specifically, law librarians need to know about the institutions and professional
organizations of the legal profession and law librarianship. Legal terminology is the professional language of
those who are directly or indirectly involved in the legal profession. Thus, it is essential that law librarians have
a working knowledge of legal vocabulary, including legal abbreviations and citation systems.
The users should have complete awareness of day-to day problems and the acts, rules, amendments,
ordinances, etc. which are being formatted recently or modified. In order to make themselves aware of the past,
present and changing laws, they ultimately depend upon law libraries and information centers. They can find
good collections of bare acts, commentaries, digests, and back volumes of essential journals like All India
Reporters, etc. in law libraries.
One of the most important functions of a librarian is to disseminate the information to keep its readers
well informed and up- to date in their own.
A reference service is an integral part of the college library for teaching and students and mostly for
research scholars. It is the one of the means of self education because of the scientific advancement and
exploitation of knowledge depends more on efforts and exports higher standards of performance not only from
the students but also from the library. They want more material and more reference service.
Online Legal Research-The future of legal research is migrating to the internet, primarily because of the
universality of internet access. Computing lawyers, law librarians, and many other net citizens are salivating
over the possibilities of a system of citation and research freely usable by any citizen of the internet, and it is
certain that future lawyers will use the internet as a primary source for legal research. These developments bode
well for the solo and small firm practitioner, and for the general public. There is a great unmet need for
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inexpensive online legal research. Continued development of such inexpensive web based legal research
resources and tools are clearly inevitable.
Web services of law libraries- In addition to turning to the physical library, the law librarys constituency
relies on the scholarship, expertise, and resources displayed on its web site. Law libraries have capitalized on
the power of the Internet by using their web sites to publicize their services to the campus community, to
colleagues, and to the community at large.
Thus, we can say the law libraries play a vital role in legal education by providing relevant and up to
date material to the legal professionals, law students and common men curies about awareness of law.

Conclusions
Legal education and library information science base bias of coin. Such legal analogies explanatory framework
to check there reforms. Most of practitioner follow libraries and e-libraries. To reach the final destination and
matching cases to previous cases to generate new ideology system. For future work most of the lawyers
interactive to connect with library system. Enumeration the result to aspect analysis level. How it becomes more
easier and best helpful in E-services in library information science .
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