American Association of Law Libraries. (2018, February 6). Types of law libraries. American Association of Law Libraries. Retrieved September 28, 2021, from https://www.aallnet.org/careers/about-the-profession/types-of-law-libraries/. 

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Law libraries are designed to help law students and legal professionals in their research. Not all law libraries requires librarians to have degrees in both Law and Library Science. Law librarians are not allowed to offer legal advice and can only assist in finding library materials.

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Types of Law Libraries

Desautels, J. (2017, May). Joshua Desautels's INFO 210 Research Guide on Legal Reference Resources. Retrieved September 30, 2021, from https://ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu/info/jd203blog/

Types of Legal Information Resources

The main types of legal information resources are:

- Primary resources
- Secondary resources
- Citators are a special type of secondary resource which allow users to track case or statute histories, as well as how the courts have subsequently treated cases or statutes.

There are three main types of law libraries:

- Academic law libraries
- Government law libraries
- Private law libraries

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