Use of Law libraries in Mysore city: a survey

This paper " use of law libraries in Mysore city: A survey". Attempts to examine the nature of the users of law libraries, quality of the collection of the law lib raries in Mysore city. Investigators have also tried to find out the perceptions and outlook of law library users with respect to the image and the facilities available in these libraries . Different methods adopted by the library users in searching the legal information are studied. The use of online and offline legal databases by the users is identified. An attempt is made to assess the service quality, use of various search engines and impressions of the law libraries is presented. Some of the popular journals and databases used are listed. The study shows that the quality of law library collection is good with respect to books, journals, cases, reports and reference works.Users occasionally use West law, one of the well-known online databases. see online is the most heavily used offline database. Google is the most popular search engine among the users for browsing the net. Book lending service is the most sought after service by the user. Finally , impressions of the users about the libraries are good.