This book is aimed at providing a manual law librarianship to practicing librarians; as well as a guide to teachers and students of MLISc programme. The book has seven parts and seventeen chapters covering India's legal history; courts and their role in judiciary; legal structure in India-their role, kinds, Indian law libraries, and hints on law library administration; legal material as well as legal sources-traditional as well as modern; IT-based legal information systems; and a chapter each on legal research; information services, legal education. The work concludes with a discussion on association for law librarians. Thus, the work gives a comprehensive coverage suitable to the needs of practising law librarians, students and teachers of library and information science.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P S G Kumar
Dr P S G Kumar is a prolific writer in the field of library and information science. He wrote about 70 books and 142 papers which include Indian Library Chronology (2 editions); Indian Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (23 volumes); Kumar’s Curriculum Series (16 volumes); and Library in India Series (10 volumes); etc. He has a distinguished first class career from BSc (Ag) to MLibSc. He earned doctorate from Gulbarga University. He was associated and also headed several national and international bodies like Indian Library Association (ILA); Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) for 12 years; Joint Council of Library Association in India (JOCLAI); Library Association of SAARC countries (LASAARC) (one term of two Years); Good Offices Committee (GOC); Vidarbha Academic Library Association (VALA)n for 4 years; and Council Member of IASLIC for two terms; etc. Friends, students and admirers instituted Dr P S G Kumar Oration on Library and Information Science (with RTM Nagpur University); Dr P S G Kumar Life-Time Achievement Award (with ILA); and Dr P S G Kumar Library Foundation at Nagpur which is sponsoring Mahiti Yug (Information Age), a quarterly journal in Marathi; and Information Age in English.
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