Abstract
This study ascertained the information needs and purposes for utilization of law library by law students of two universities in Southeastern Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey method. The population of the study was nine hundred and twenty (920) registered students of these law libraries under study while stratified simple random sampling technique was used to sample one hundred and eighty-four users. The questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The researchers administered one hundred and eight four (184) copies of the questionnaire. One hundred and seventy-six (176) copies were returned and found usable, representing 95% response rate. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation while t-test statistic was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that law students need information in different areas ranging from professional to legal administration and research, and that a variety of legal information resources on legislation, case law, law textbooks, reference resources are provided by the law libraries. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the law libraries and librarians should first understand the information needs of their users - the law students more seriously, among others.
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