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Abstract |
This paper explores the role of law libraries in promoting legal education and creating qualified legal professionals. The connection between legal librarians and professional library users is examined using the uncertainty management approach. A society built on equality and the rule of law is subsequently created as a result of this. The impact of the law library's renovation on accessibility has been looked into. The Digital Reference is the initial effort to offer mechanisms for identifying, outlining, and developing key parts of the service. The Digital Reference is the initial effort to begin identifying, outlining, and developing mechanisms for evaluating various facets of the service. Its main goal is to help librarians create and implement better digital reference services by raising the standard of digital reference services. While financed institutions only offer services to their members, law libraries generally offer specialised services to the broader public. The accessibility and availability of academic law libraries' services and resources are frequently valued by self-representing litigants. Many library resources only make papers available electronically; as a result, some users only have access to a small number of them and must rely on public legal information websites. They can visit the library to seek assistance from the reference service on this matter, even though they are not physically compelled to do so. The value of e-books, studies on the assessment of e-book collections in law libraries, current e-book usage in law libraries, patron-driven acquisition (PDA), demand-driven acquisition (DDA), and numerous open access forums were also covered in this article. This essay offers a summary and introduction to the specific problem.
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Keywords | Legal Education, Law libraries, Online database, Legal Institution. | ||||||
Introduction |
Law is the architect of the cosmos; everything from the nation to society to the family is governed by law, which affects every aspect of our lives. Everyone's life is greatly impacted by legal education. Good legal education has a creative aspect that shapes our future for all time. It is a crucial route that leads to both success and personal development. Getting a legal education includes learning the knowledge and abilities necessary to practise law. It entails becoming a member of the profession and teaching law as one of the academic courses required for practising law. Professional and liberal arts education, i.e., legal education, serve as both a tool for social control and a tool for social transformation, both of which are necessary for producing civilised law-abiding people who grow up with an understanding of human rights and values. The conventional universities founded for the study of law as well as legal education are both present in India. A law library contains highly specialised materials that call for particular handling abilities. Legal information mostly consists of news on settled cases and statutory provisions. These two categories of legal writing concern "authority" and "instance," respectively. Therefore, until these documents have been scanned, no research of any type will be finished. The Law Library is much more than just a place where faculty, staff, and students can go to research the law. Since they are accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, academic law libraries now have new opportunities and challenges to better serve their clients. E-books are also more affordable for law libraries and take less time to process and circulate, which makes them very popular with users. The law library serves as a resource for anyone looking to learn more about the law, including law students, attorneys, judges, and clerks. Law libraries can be classified as a type of specialised library due to their distinct and limited user base and availability of specialist legal resources. The ubiquity of information distribution systems, the move towards centralised management of higher education infrastructure, and changes in the market for legal services all demonstrate that the conventional law library is unable to satisfy present demands. But because of the complexity of today's law librarians, law libraries have the capacity and opportunity to provide significant benefits in this context. The field of law librarianship is complex and has a wide range of user information needs. In a free society, the law library is an institution of remarkable social importance and plays a significant role in the administration of justice.
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Objective of study | 1. To increase knowledge of the value and significance of law libraries to the world while also fostering understanding and cooperation among law libraries.
2. Library law gives the people's representative a chance to take part in all aspects of how public libraries are run.
3. It offers rules for the system's structure that are suitable for the locale and the relevant authorities. creates norms and procedures for the profession.
4. Through the establishment of the idea of library access, subsidies from the government, library funds, etc., assures enduring and enough funding for the development of public libraries. |
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Review of Literature | Literature Review An educational institution's
legal library must provide the information that various user groups need to
complete their varied academic activities. Priya Rai (2015) studied at National
Law University in Delhi and describes a thorough experiment that was conducted
to include e-books in library catalogues using LIBSYS-7. Through library
automation software, an effort is made to collate search results by integrating
the print book catalogue with electronic books. Yates and Shapiro (2010) assert
that a nation's legal database must be thorough, accurate, and current and that
users must have convenient, dependable access to it. In addition, we advised
that choosing the most long-term viable legal information system for a
developing nation necessitates a methodical review of all relevant concerns and
all viable alternatives, which is carried out during the needs assessment. In
doing this analysis, it's critical to keep in mind that the technology must be
based on the needs of both the data that makes up the database and the
end-users that access the database. Yates and Shapiro (2010) draw the
conclusion that developing effective planning, development, and implementation
techniques are necessary for creating a sustainable legal information system.
Creating, compiling, and disseminating governing laws in electronic format are
the three key factors to take into account while creating a legal information
system. It was advised that, based on the findings and recommendations, a need
assessment be performed at each stage of the legal information system before it
is finally put into operation. According to Alison Taylor (2007), to improve
user access to the variety of textbook materials available, the University of
Worcester Information and Learning Services established an e-book project,
according to Alison Taylor (2007).In their article, Dr. K. Kumar and T.
Raghunadha Reddy (2012) reviewed the literature from 91 ML and I Sc
dissertations, including 991 citations, and described how an e-book project was
set up at the University of Worcester Information and Learning Services to
improve user access to the variety of textbook material available. The study's
findings can be used as a case study. It has implications for the development,
user, and archiving service designs in libraries. After library management and
cataloguing, library science as a whole received the most citations. Education,
literature, and social science all received relatively few citations. |
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Main Text |
A glance at Legal Education in India Every society's cornerstone is the rule of law. The
foundation of citizens, attorneys, and scholars can be said to be law.
maintains individuality in society through training judges. Since the Vedic
era, when it was principally founded on the idea of dharma, legal education has
been practised in India. Although there is no evidence of any formal legal
education being given at the time, the majority of the monarchs themselves
judged, and much of the instruction in law was self-educational. Sometimes
judges are chosen to uphold the law. The law has always been a crucial component
of ethics, religion, and consciousness. Since that time, the law in India has
developed, starting with early religious prescriptions and a legal system
founded on the idea of "Dharma," and eventually reducing to the
current legal system after passing through the common law and the secular legal
system. The Smritis made the Vedas' message known, and the Vedas themselves
served as the source of law. The Dharmasutras, which are regarded as the oldest
expositions of law, were written by the renowned jurists known as the
Smritikars, among whom Gautama, Bandayan, Apastambha, Harita, and Vaishya were
held in particular esteem. In comparison to western nations, India's way of
doing justice was less complicated, and life was simpler during this time.
Giving people the appropriate path in all spheres of life was the fundamental
idea behind education in ancient India. The purpose of education was to spread
religious morality while acknowledging that "man is potentially divine but
a victim of his ignorance, desires, and immoral tendencies, generated by his
own past actions (karma)." A common law system was developed with the
entrance of the British and the East India Company, which was based on
court-established legal precedents. The Mayor's Courts at Madras, Bombay, and
Calcutta were formed in 1776 with King George I's approval. The spread of the
mayoral court system outside the three cities, which finally supplanted the
earlier Mughal system, was a direct outcome of the Battle of Plassey and the
British army's subsequent triumph. With the creation of the first Law
Commission, the coding of laws got underway seriously. The Indian Penal Code
was written, passed into law, and put into effect in 1862 under the direction
of its chairman, Thomas Babington Macaulay. By 1862, the Indian Penal Code had
been written, approved, and put into effect. The same commission also created
the Criminal Procedure Code. From the very beginning of Indian independence, a
plethora of additional laws and regulations were introduced, including the
Evidence Act (1872) and the Contract Act (1872). The constitution of the new
republic in India was launched on January 26, 1950, and for the first time in
its long history, India became a full parliamentary democracy with a modern
institutional structure. The Parliament of independent India was the bastion
where a document that would guide the young nation was being prepared. soon
after gaining independence. In 1948, the Indian government established the
University Education Commission to assess the standards of higher education and
recommend changes. The commission, among other things, looked into how legal
studies were being taught in various colleges at the time. The Commission
concluded that the state of legal education was inadequate. The Commission
noted that legal education has always held a prominent position in the studied
curriculum in Europe and America. Law graduates frequently go on to hold
prestigious posts in government, amass fortunes in private practice, or develop
renowned reputations as scholars without ever practising law. There is a great
deal of respect for the teacher's legislation. " However, the Commission
found that conditions in law schools in India were generally at a "low
ebb" and that these institutions did not have "a place of high repute
either at home or abroad." The law had not "become a field of
profound scholarship and wise research" either. However, the Commission
emphasised that this harrowing circumstance was primarily the result of
"conditions inherent in our status as a dependent nation." This
period offers the chance for originality.There was barely any stimulating legal
research. " There was undoubtedly no demand for it, while others carried
the weight of governing, performing public duties, and conducting legal business.
The commission made note of the crucial role that legal education plays in
independent India It is essential that we create top-notch law schools staffed
with real scholars who can produce men who can handle international,
constitutional, and administrative problems as well as current civil, criminal,
and routine demands. With the achievement of independence and the ensuing
responsibility of developing our own constitutional government, as well as
international relations, which are now as important as domestic affairs, this
is no longer an option. We could learn systematic law and jurisprudential
principles just as well as anyone else, based on our aptitude for philosophical
studies. "It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the Indian Bar
to the Independence movement; the fact that the movement's tallest leaders
across the political spectrum were attorneys provides adequate evidence.
Jawaharlal Nehru, a distinguished lawyer, served as the new country's first
leader, and M. K. Gandhi served as a father figure. The ensuing understanding
of the law and its relationship to society may have been what inspired the
founding fathers to invest the time and effort necessary to draught a
constitution of previously unheard-of scale and length. The Indian Constitution
serves as the nation's supreme law and serves as a model for all
administrative, legislative, and judicial decisions. It attempts to be
compassionate while being extensive. The Constitution decisively shifted the
course of the system—originally designed to uphold colonial and imperial
interests in India—in favour of social welfare. The Constitution specifically
aspires to strengthen the most vulnerable elements of society, and this goal is
furthered by judicial interpretation. Organic law: India's common law system
has resulted in organic law. This has been adjusted for Indian conditions by
judicial rulings and legislative action. Even though it was an individual
decision, the shift in the Indian legal system towards a social justice
paradigm can be considered as a reflection of developments in other common law
jurisdictions. The Indian legal system has changed from being a creation of the
colonial masters to being a vital component of the greatest democracy in the
world and a pivotal front in the fight to protect constitutional rights for all
citizens. The goal of formal legal education in India, which was established in
1855, was to prepare students for careers as judges or as lawyers, which would
enable them to assist lesser courts and high courts. Legal research is not a
tradition, and the direct lecture approach and academic legal training have
been used to teach required subjects for almost a century. The Bar Council of
India was established in 1961 under Section of the Advocates Act. A strong
legal profession depends on an effective legal education system. As a result,
the 1951 All-India Bar Committee report took into account some aspects of legal
education but did not offer any firm solutions to the numerous issues impacting
legal education. In addition, the committee recommended that a legal education
committee comprised of 12 people be established as part of the proposed All
India Bar Council, which would include representatives from various state bar
councils, to study issues related to legal education. The committee should be
made up of two judges, five individuals who will be chosen by the All-India Bar
Council, and five additional university students who will be co-opted by these
seven members. The first law school in India, known as the "National Law
School of India University," was founded in Bangalore in the year 1985. At
this time, India began offering the LLB degree. In addition, the tutorial,
seminar, moot court, and case method of instruction were introduced. In India, one
can only enrol in a law programme after earning an undergraduate degree in any
subject. But by the National Law School's paradigm, admission can also be
sought for a five-year integrated law study after graduating from the tenth
grade. Law Course 1. Bachelor's in Law (LL.B.) 2. B.A., B.Sc., BBA, and B.Com. LL.B. integrated
undergraduate degrees (Their period is usually 5 years.) 3. Law Master's (LL.M.) This master's degree takes one or
two years to complete. 4. Professional law master's degree 5. Ph.D. 6. Integrated MBL-LLM/ MBA-LLM. - This is often a
three-year, two-degree course with a focus on business law. Law Libraries A law library is a library that has extremely specialised
content and calls for specific handling abilities. Along with citing books,
lawyers and judges are required to cite numerous other sources. Yet, no one can
remember all of these sources because no two people have identical memories,
some of which may be short or even limited. Law libraries can be considered
specialist libraries because they focus on specific topic areas and cater to
specific clientele. Nevertheless, they are a distinct category in and of
themselves. Types of law libraries: Academic Law Library Any law school's law library is the most crucial
component. Legal reference works are a lawyer's tools. The legal library is the
undergraduate law school's lab. Additionally, a legal library differs from
other libraries in several significant ways. These differences are significant
enough to necessitate different accommodation standards, management and
administrative procedures, and staffing requirements. The primary incidental
distinctions between these libraries and those established to meet the demands
of other university departments, particularly those in the humanities and social
sciences, might be summed up as follows: 1. Law students should use ten to twelve times as many
books as art students do. 2. A large reading space is required for each student
because it is common for quite a few books to need to be available to one
reader at a time when studying a particular topic. 3. Law students
frequently use law books in a way that makes it desirable for them to be able
to converse with their peers while they work. 4. A "common law" law library does not yet have
a reliable cataloguing system, or if one has been created, it has not yet been
generally used. To the chagrin and annoyance of lawyers, the Dewey system, for
instance, is not suitable for legal libraries. 5. Either in the form of case reports, legislation, or
periodical literature, a relatively significant fraction of a law library's
total collections are in series. Academic law libraries play a crucial role in the
day-to-day activities of a law school community. For a person or group of
individuals who want to have a thorough understanding of the discipline and be
proficient in particular areas as a whole, academic education is crucial.
Academic libraries and educational institutions are crucial in guiding social,
political, and cultural scientists in the appropriate direction for the
advancement of technology in society. Any educational institution must have a
library as a necessary component. If you prefer working in large libraries,
enjoy the in-depth analysis of legal issues, and find the scholarly setting
interesting, academic law librarianship might be the career path for you.
Academic law libraries are a crucial and integral part of higher education
establishments like colleges and universities and serve two complementary
functions: one is carried out by the students, while the other is carried out
by the faculty and is incorporated into the daily curriculum of the students.
Students are given access to the academic law library resources they require to
support their coursework and faculty and student research projects. Law
professors and academic law libraries collaborate closely to train law students
in efficient legal research methods. Academic law libraries are very
significant in higher education settings because they support research. The
majority of law school librarians conduct their own research, publish their
findings, and engage in other professional pursuits. They may hold tenure, hold
faculty rank, or teach courses and seminars. Highly specialised items are found
in legal libraries, and using them takes specific expertise. Statutory
legislation and reports of court decisions make up the majority of legal
content. These two categories of legal writing concern themselves with,
respectively, "authority" and "precedent." The legal
community could require a variety of information, including case law,
notifications issued under certain statutes, statutory provisions, the purpose
and justification of any act, rules formulated under any act, and amendments to
any act. Judicial Libraries The Judges' Library is run by a group of knowledgeable
employees who provide a variety of services through legal journals and
subscriptions to online resources to meet the information needs of the
Honorable Judges and Officers of the Court. The library of judges contains
significant legal texts, including books on the law, dictionaries,
encyclopedias, Law Commission reports, gazettes, government publications,
journal digests, central and state Acts and Rules, and legal journals,
estimated to include bound volumes of both domestic and international legal
journals. It is crucial to understand the framework that India's multi-tiered
judicial system operates within. Here is a quick guide to the court systems in
India: The law libraries in India can be divided into three groups: those that
are part of academic institutions, such as law colleges, faculties, and
departments in universities; those that are part of the legislative
infrastructure, such as Parliament and State Legislatures; those that are part
of the judicial infrastructure, such as the Supreme Court and High Court, etc.
Libraries are living organisms, so they need to be taken care of. For various
information needs, various types of legal literature should be reviewed. Bare
Acts, Commentaries on specific Laws, Manuals/Local Acts, Reports, Constituent
Assembly Deliberations, Lok Sabha Deliberations, Rajya Sabha Deliberations,
Parliamentary Bills, Law Commission Reports, Committee/Commission Reports,
Annual Reports, Parliamentary Committee Reports, Joint Committee, Select
Committee, Standing Committee, Gazettes, Academic Journals (Containing Only
Articles), Law Reports (Containing Full Text of Case Law) contain both case
laws and a blend of both. Some journals also publish statutory materials like
Acts, while others solely publish statutory materials like Acts, Digests, Legal
Dictionaries/Law Lexicons, Legal Encyclopaedic Works, American Jurisprudence,
Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsbury Law of England, and Halsbury Law of India.
Modifications to rules and notifications, etc. To meet the users' information
demands, law librarians have to provide a variety of tools, both domestic and
foreign. One such tool is an alphabetical index of all acts, which includes
information about revisions. Topical bibliographies on significant legal
issues, an alphabetical index of recent cases that have set the standard for
the law, Current periodicals union catalogue, case law databases, databases of
articles from journals subscribed to by the library, and indexing of government
gazettes are all available on-site. To maintain the calibre of legal education
in India, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has been established as a statutory
authority. The BCI Rules do not precisely define the qualifications for law
librarians working in academic institutions. A skilled and experienced
librarian should be in control of an academic law library, per the BCI
Inspection Manual. The UGC defines the requirements for employment in colleges
or universities, and academic law librarians' requirements are the same as
those of other academic librarians. Academic law librarians are not required to
have a law degree or specific legal library training. The BCI's current
requirements are insufficient to assess the capabilities and effectiveness of
law libraries in India. Government Law Libraries Governments now have a greater obligation to promote the
welfare of the populace on a variety of fronts, including national development.
For information of all kinds, including documents from numerous government
ministries and divisions, libraries are necessary. Naturally, these satisfy the
criteria for legal information. Ministries and departments arrange their
libraries differently from other types of libraries to satisfy their functional
needs. The reference service offered by the law library is designed with the
needs of its staff in terms of legal information in mind. It fulfils the
requirements of specific courts, agencies, and legislative bodies. Public
access is offered by some government law libraries. It provides customers with
a wide range of print and online legal books, publications, and databases. Research Libraries A research library has a substantial collection of
reading material in one or more disciplines. Primary sources as well as
secondary sources are both present in research libraries' extensive collections
of literature on a given subject or set of related areas. Research libraries
are built to accommodate researchers' needs, and as a result, they are supplied
with reliable sources of information. There is a selection of textbooks,
reference materials, and magazines about the numerous research topics studied
by students. The research library offers exchange services. The library service
goes beyond standard duties like book transfer and collecting. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has unveiled a new
centralised portal with ten links to audio-video and text resources for
students and professors, allowing them to enhance their own teaching
techniques. This has benefited researchers more because it allows them to study
their subjects while seated at home thanks to these links. 1. Vidwan is located at vidwan.inflibnet.ac. The
faculty's webpage is here. On this, there are 7 lakh 55 thousand 195 citations,
49 thousand 652 experts, and 5 thousand 786 organizations. The website also
provides funding-related information. 2. Shodh Ganga: The website shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in
hosts over 260,000 electronic theses. 3. UG-PG Moocs: Students can study online for PG K 86 and
UG 222 courses at ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs courses.php. 4. Cecedusat: cecedusat.youtube.comWatching YouTube
videos can help you with your studies. 5. Students can continue their education at the PG level
with more than 23,000 modules in 40 subjects on the website
app.inflibnet.ac.in. Here, you can access more than 20,000 e-texts and more
than 19, 000 pieces of video content. 6. Research in all UG-PG fields is being done through 32
DTH channels on the website swayamprabha.gov.in. 7. Where to find UG e-content courses: The e-content for
87 UG courses is available at cec.nic.in/cec. On the website, there are
numerous e-content modules available. 8. The National Digital Library is available at
ndl.iitkgp.ac.in Students can access online materials in all languages that are
available in libraries around the nation using this website. 9. Website: ess.inflibnet.ac.in for E-Shodh Sindhu. More than 15,000 core journals and peer-reviewed articles are available on this platform. Teachers can utilise this website just like researchers can. 10. SWAYAM: Swayam.gov.in offers a variety of UG-PG
programmes for study. The categories of school education, out of school
education, undergraduate education, and postgraduate education all have courses
available on this portal. Legal Databases- Law libraries ought to keep a
strong collection of publications covering both domestic and international
news. The specific library is required by law to maintain a subscription to at
least one reporting journal from each state. There are numerous additional
databases accessible online. To discover all the materials, look at the
complete list. You will use additional resources as you complete your courses
and study to fulfil any unique research requirements, such as the need to
consult an expert resource for a certain area of law, such as labour or
corporate law. Or you might need to look up the laws of a specific country,
like French or German law. Online Legal Research Databases (National) Manupatra A thorough online legal and business policy database of
Indian law is called Manupatra. This contains pending federal bills; judicial
committee reports; rulings from business enterprises; decisions from state high
courts; court rules; judgments from various administrative tribunals and
commissions; and federal and state statutes, rules, and regulations. These
include databases with relevant content. Commentaries, e-books, and secondary
sources with cases and statutes from numerous additional nations are all
available. Manupatra, a company founded in 2001, quickly became the market
leader while providing simple and intelligent legal text search to assist
lawyers in their work. The information you have and the information you need
will determine how you locate Manupatra. A "Manu search," which
enables you to use keywords to search across databases, is the most fundamental
type of search. SCC Online: Every day, people from the
Indian subcontinent and around the world use SCC Online, including lawyers,
judges, students, corporations, governmental agencies, and educational
institutions. This legal database contains a huge amount of legal information
from India and other nations. The Privy Council (1872–1949), the High Court of
India, tribunals and commissions, Indian statutory laws (including central
statutes, circulars, notifications, directions, rules, and regulations), Indian
secondary material (including reports of commissions and committees,
Constituent Assembly debates, and Law of Commission), and Indian case-laws of the
Supreme Court of India (from 1969 onwards) are all included in the Supreme
Court's case law collection. SCC Online compiles more than 380 databases of
Indian case law from the Supreme Court of India, all High Courts, Tribunals,
and Commissions, as well as from a number of other international jurisdictions
and significant international law. AIR High Courts and SC. In addition, it
offers free resources and reference materials on a range of subjects, including
e-litigation, intellectual property, and others. Users can also read the
information on Singapore relating to particular topics. All India Reporter: India's oldest publisher is
AIR (All India Reporter). It includes the Indian Supreme Court and a large
number of high courts. It has always been at the vanguard when it comes to
making decisions, choosing decisions, receiving top-level feedback, and
publishing all volumes in the legal library. The group All India Reporter has
significantly altered the legal publishing industry. With the emergence of the
e-medium as a trustworthy and practical means of information transmission, All
India Reporter has entered the journals and e-database segment. Publications
and databases are now accessible on CD-ROM as well as the web. In addition to
Bench and Bar, this programme is frequently utilised by academics, lawyers,
researchers, and intellectuals in more than 27 other nations. Indlaw: Indlaw has been developed to
address the issues; it does so by dividing the legal texts into the fewest
number of sections and fusing them with judicial decisions. The most pertinent
provisions and automated determination of court decisions are made possible by
a tight integration of court decisions with and with the laws themselves. It is
a component of the online project that was started in April 1997 as a joint
effort between the UK and academics and professionals based in India to create
an electronic legal library to give professionals and clients access to
information on a variety of primary and secondary legal documents, including constitutional
texts, parliamentary debates, case law, parliamentary and state acts, and
delegated law in both India and the UK. Faster than any other source, Indlaw
makes sure you are aware of the most recent changes to the legal and policy
landscape. The legal database of Indlaw includes case law, legislation, rules,
notifications, circulars, business notices, practise instructions, forms,
reports, proceedings, FAQs, Indlaw Articles, news and press releases, as well
as business notices and practise instructions. Corporate Legal Counsel: India's top online, exclusive
e-library on corporate/SEBI and business laws is called Corporate Law
Advisor-Online (CLA Online) (Since 1950). Company Law, Securities Law, SEBI
Law, FEMA Law, Banking, SARFAESI, SICA, Competition Law, LLP, Arbitration,
Consumer Protection, IPR, Information Technology, Money Laundering, Insurance
Law, and Other Laws for Professionals and Institutions, Powered by One of the
Most Reliable Journals (Corporate Law Adviser) on the Subject. It gives customers: 1. It has a huge collection of publications;
notifications and circulars; and acts, rules, and regulations that are
constantly updated. 2. Commentary on the Companies Act of 2013 3. Corporate law procedures 4. Corporate law byth 5. Discussion and response 6. Cases (SC/HC/CLB/SAT/CCI, etc.) with Head Notes Online Legal Research Databases (International) JSTOR is an academic e-book, image, and primary source
digital library. More than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and
primary sources from more than 75 different fields are accessible to readers.
The humanities and social sciences are the main areas of the archive
collection. History, economics, the history of medicine, political science,
religion, and other topics are covered in it. Academic monographs, research
reports from reputable institutions, top peer-reviewed scholarly publications,
respected literary periodicals, and a range of primary sources are all included
in the collection. LexisNexis is a database that is tailored for
professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law
enforcement, accounting, and academic fields. Clients of LexisNexis have access
to a wide range of publicly accessible information, public records, and
non-public information sources, including the U.S. and Canadian Business Finder
Directory, Secretary of State Filing, Uniform Commercial Code Filing, and
Judgment and Lies. In the beginning, the Lexis and Nexis services were used to
develop online information. With 10,000 people worldwide, LexisNexis Legal and
Professional provides services to clients in more than 175 nations. Westlaw International is a database of legal information
created by West Publishing Company, a division of Thomson Reuters Legal
Information Group, in 1975. More than 100 countries and regions have employed
it up to this point. It provides users with access to some of the world's top
legal, journalistic, and business information. It contains more than 28,000
databases of laws, rules, treaties, and directories. Westlaw International is a
vast platform for legal, regulatory, news, and business information. is an
international law research library. In addition to news, company, and business
information, it offers access to all of the world's laws and regulations,
precedents, legal journals, monographs, instructional materials, dictionaries,
and encyclopedias. World LII: The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) offers its services for free. The Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (LII (Cornell)), the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII), and the Australasian Legal Information Institute all have databases that can be searched through WorldLII (PacLII). several Asian countries' databases; South African databases; and databases with rulings from international courts and tribunals (provided by Wits Law School). More than 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions across 20 nations are included in WorldLII's inaugural release. It includes databases of case law, laws, treaties, reports on legal reform, law journals, and other materials. HeinOnline: The Access to Law Movement, or FALM, is a global voluntary association with more than 60 organisations as members. HeinOnline: It is free. Its purpose is to make legal material, including case law, statutes, treaties, proposals for legal change, and legal scholarship, freely available online. The Legal Information Institute (LII), founded in 1992 at Cornell Law School by Thomas R. Bruce and Peter W. Martin, catalysed the movement. It also includes a list of the member organizations’ home nations and territories, including Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Philippines, the Pacific Islands, Southern Africa, Uganda, and the United States. |
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Conclusion |
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, a former president and educator, echoed the adage that "Books are your true companion," stating that the library is the only location with such a wealth of knowledge. The legal profession pays well. The need for law schools is growing as a result of shifting social and economic dynamics as well as an expansion of government regulatory roles. Most court libraries use computers and different types of IT products to provide information to their users, both in offline and online formats, while they collaborate with law school administrators and faculty colleagues to foresee and create the future of legal education. To prepare law students for their professional lives, which will heavily rely on technology for research and communications, legal education should make use of modern technologies. It's critical to educate in a way that helps kids feel more at ease using technology and working in groups. Students that are tech-savvy will be able to access current information and resources once they start practising law. Online legal databases are tremendously helpful for both lawyers and the judicial system. Databases are useful for advanced search technology, particularly federated search methods. The most popular databases in court libraries are SCC Online, AIR Online, and Manupatra Legal Database, while Supreme Court Cases, AIR (SC), and SCR are the magazines most frequently used to track Supreme Court judgments. The community needs a legal information system that is connected to a search engine. Legal professionals need to become proficient in a number of skill sets and languages to become competent and successful professionals. These suggested daily activity models for Indian law schools emphasise adhering to the curriculum while mostly serving the goal of legal education. |
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