EVALUATION OF THE USE OF LAW LIBRARY AMONG LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN KWARA STATE,
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2021
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EDULIB Journal of Library and Information Science
Abstract
The study evaluated the use of the library by legal practitioners in Kwara State. A
descriptive survey was adopted, a simple random sampling technic was adopted for the
sample selection of participants and the questionnaire serves as an instrument for data
collection. A sample size of 257 participants was selected from the study population of 772
and only 252 copies of the questionnaire are returned and found useful, constituting a 98%
returned rate. The study found that law reports, law textbooks, reference materials, index
and abstracts, legal periodicals, legislation and statutes, and digests are the library
resources available to legal practitioners. It was further reported that the majority of the
respondents use legal periodicals, law reports, law textbooks, indexes and abstracts,
legislation and statutes, and digest daily while the majority of them use reference
materials only once in a month. The majority of the respondents purposely use library
resources to further knowledge on legal issues; for work in progress; to keep informed of
the development in the legal profession; to defend their client in the court of law, and for
case preparation. The test hypothesis indicated that there is gender difference in male and
female legal practitioners’ use of library resources in Kwara state. The reason for this is
that the t-value is 84.961, and the associated p-value which is 0.000 less than the level of
significance 0.05. Also, the mean score of male legal practitioners is significantly higher
than the mean score of female legal practitioners, that is, the mean score of male legal
practitioners is 37.190 compared to the mean score of female legal practitioners which is
28.832? The study, therefore, recommended that adequate provision should be made for
current legal information resources in the library
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Use of Library, Law Library, Legal Practitioner, Legal Information, Kwara State
Citation
EVALUATION OF THE USE OF LAW LIBRARY AMONG LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN KWARA STATE, Ibrahim Olarewaju Yahaya Zainab Olanihun Ambali Tunde Toyese Oyedokun Tawakalitu Raufu Balogun