Information Seeking Behavior of Legal Researcher Towards Use of Electronic Legal Resource: A Study

Abstract

Law researchers often involve in various complex tasks of drafting, counseling and advocacy and experience considerable problems in satisfying the information need. The timely access of accurate information required is a major factor of performance as a researcher. Librarians understanding with researcher’s subject practices are vital element for supporting scholarly research by collection development, research training and reference services. The advent of ICTs as research tool has solved the basic problem relating to gathering and collecting legal literature. The study seeks to examine the information seeking behavior of users of academic law libraries in digital environment. The study helps to understand the basic research habits of legal researchers, problems encounters while accessing digital law library.