LEGAL
COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
FOR
EFFECTIVE
LEGAL
RESEARCH
IN THE PHILIPPINES
by
Milagros Santos-Ong
(
.)
Director, Library Services
Supreme Court of
the
Philippines

LEGAL
COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
Policy
1.
Define what one needs
2.
Acquire these materials
3.
Maximize
access to these
materials
4.
Maintain and preserve them

LEGAL
COLLECTION
1.
Primary or prescribed
information
-
SOURCES OF LAW
2.
Secondary materials
-
Annotations,
Commentaries
and Treatises of law
--
Philippine
Legal Information Resources
and
Citations
(
Philippines_Part2.htm
)
.

Legal
research
vary
according
to
the
country
and the legal system
Jacobstein, J. Myron & R.M. Mersky
Fundamentals of Legal Research, 8th
ed. (Foundation Press, 2002) p. 1.

PHILIPPINE LEGAL SYSTEM
UNIQUE
BLEND
of :
1. CIVIL LAW (Roman) -
Spain
2. COMMON LAW
(Anglo-
American)
–
United States
3.
MUSLIM
(Islamic) LAW and
4. INDIGENEOUS LAW

SOURCES
OF LAW
1900- Present
1.
