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In the last two decades, advancement in technology has transformed every aspect of librarianship. Law Librarianship in Academic Law Libraries discusses issues and model practices in academic law libraries. This text will help librarians and library school students understand the operation, resources and facilities that are available in the academic law library. It explains the practices and trends that are widely practiced in different parts of the world. This book describes the expectations of an aspiring professional with an interest in specializing in law librarianship; revealing facts pertaining to management and administration which are not necessarily taught in library schools. The first chapter introduces the history of academic law libraries, and defines law librarianship. The remaining chapters are dedicated to different aspects of law librarianship including the importance of emerging technologies and how they are implemented in the academic law libraries setting, finishing with a concluding chapter on global opportunities available for law librarians.

Law librarianship in Nigeria is not as old as the legal profession but certainly older than public librarianship or any other brand of librarianship. The oldest libraries -those of the Lagos High Court and Federal Ministry of Justice– are law libraries and they date as far back as 1900.

The 11th IALL Course on International Law Librarianship, titled "Legal Information Sources and Changing Times in Europe," will be held in Max-Planck-Haus, Heidelberg, Germany, September 8–11, 1991.The IALL Course will deal with problems that law librarians face today rising from recent political and legal changes in Europe. Topics to be discussed will include: "Law Data Banks Today and Tomorrow," "The Challenges for Law Librarians in Germany," as well as "Legal Changes and Their Sources in East and Central Europe."

Courses on topics of international law librarianship and legal information have been a primary feature of IALL's educational program since 1966. The courses have been held at prominent institutions throughout the world at intervals of one to three years, and have been offered annually since 1993. Throughout its history, the International Journal of Legal Information has published advance information and reports on the courses, as well as selected papers. Since 1994, full proceedings from the courses have usually been published in the Journal. Proceedings from some courses, as well as from other IALL meetings and programs, have been published separately. Separately published proceedings are included in this volume in the section: "Publications of the International Association of Law Libraries."

In his introduction to IJLI v. 27 no.2 (Summer 1999), "Looking Back to "Rome 1998," Holger Knudsen encapsulated the special nature of the IALL annual courses: the opportunity to extend our learning in international law and librarianship, to travel to new places, the meeting of friends, and finally: the "Courses beautifully designed by selfless and magnanimous local colleagues, who manage to add that specific local flavour, or, 'ambiente.'"

The Federation of Malaya received her independence from Britain in 1957. On September 16, 1963, the eleven states of this Federation, the former colonies of Sarawak and Sabah on the western coast of Borneo and the State of Singapore united to form Malaysia. In August 1965, however, Singapore seceded from this newly-formed federation to become an independent republic. Malaysia as it is known to-day consists of eleven states of the peninsula that constituted Malaya in 1957, (this is referred to as peninsula Malaysia) Sabah and Sarawak. Peninsula Malaysia is separated from Sabah and Sarawak by the vast South China Sea.

The article by N. A. Ogbeide published in Volume 4 No. 1 of the International Journal of Law Libraries (Pp. 19–26) makes interesting reading, but the last paragraph headed "Unacceptability and Apathy" leads to one sad conclusion: namely, it shows that for some decades the Nigerian legal practitioner and the law librarian have been coming into contact, but it does not appear that any meaningful dialogue has taken place between them.