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
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
