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7. The “Law Librarian” of the stuff being hereby mooted may not necessarily be a qualified lawyer as such. He should be the type that had undergone a process of education for law librarianship based on a well designed and tested syllabus consisting mainly of masterly blending of law and library science topics. This could go a long way lo solving the current impasse.Google Scholar

8. FEM is the acronym for the Foreign Exchange Market while SFEM stands for the Second Foreign Exchange Market. These fiscal measures were introduced by the Federal Military Government to regulate and control the value of the Nigerian money and the economy in general which hitherto had shown advanced traces of strains and stresses in relation to the Dollar and Sterling and devaluation had set in. The various monetary policies and control devices were introduced by the “Second-Tier Foreign Exchange Market Decree 1986 No. 23 of 1986”.Google Scholar

9. This would be in tune with the resounding success that characterized the participation of some American Scholar Law-Librarians in the seminar organized by the Nigerian Association of Law Libraries in 1981 at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Such eminent Law Librarians as Professor Julius Marke, Professor Ervin Surrency, and Mr. Philip Cohen, the President of the New York based Oceana Publications, delivered papers and led discussions at the seminar. Some British experts in the law book trade as represented by the Sweet and Maxwell also took part in the seminar. The changing economic and fiscal conditions notwithstanding, there seems to be every cause to be optimistic that such bodies as the United States Information Service (USIS), the British Council and some reputable Law Book Publishers and renown academic and research law libraries overseas could assist in making the right calibre of resource personnel available.Google Scholar