PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF COOPERATION AMONG LAW LIBRARIES IN A DIGITAL ERA: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

Current trends in information production and dissemination have made it practically impossible for any library, no matter how large, to acquire all the information resources it requires so satisfy the information needs of its patrons. While that vision may not yet be realisable, law libraries do have within their grasp the possibility of access to much more extensive collections than any one of them currently holds by forming cooperative alliance. The digital environment provides many new opport