ABSTRACT

 Law libraries are essential tools for the training of potential lawyers and as such must be properly and adequately maintained. Law libraries are special libraries established to serve the information needs of law students, lawyers, judges, law clerks, historians, members of house of assembly, house of representatives, senates and other scholars of legal profession in order to study or research the law. According to Malami (2012), a law library is the library set up to provide legal information resources to assist judicial officers, other members of the courts and their clients in case of litigations, law scholars and students in an academic institutions and other law officers in ministries, police force other law related institutions and agencies. A law library is the accumulation of legal information resources, historically consisting of treaties, statutory codes and case reporters as presented by Prabhu and Kumar (2018). Modem law libraries go beyond this, their collection consists of prints and as well as digitalresources. Law collections are known to be dynamic in nature as they are frequently published and mainly in successive forms. Quality collections is the life blood of any academic institution and law libraries are invariably not left out as quality of their resources determine to a large extent the quality ofservices they can offer and it also governs the extent to which such services can he provided. Law collections are categorised into three, viz: