Overview of RGSL Law Library Baiba Bebre Head of the Legal Information Centre
Riga Graduate School of Law A top-tier law school in the Baltic region Programmes in international law and EU law; interdisciplinary programmes that combine law with business, finance, politics, and linguistics All programmes taught exclusively in English International student body ~ 400 students
RGSL Law Library A combination of library and legal information centre Focus on legal information services and research assistance All services available in English and Latvian
~ 15,500 items, including more than 10,000 up-to- date law books and ~ 4,700 legal journals 70% of resources in English, 14% in Latvian, 11% in Russian, 4% in German ~ 20 legal and interdisciplinary databases available to students, including Westlaw, HeinOnline, Ebsco, and Ebrary Digital collections of RGSL research papers and working papers RGSL Law Library in a nutshell
Developer of the legal research vortal juridica.lv Member of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and the Association of Latvian Academic Libraries (LATABA); a founding member of the Consortium of Legal Resource Centres and Legal Information Specialists for Central and Eastern Europe Member of the Union catalogue of Latvian libraries Library catalogue fully operational in English and Latvian; all subject keywords available in English
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