Reading Habits of Advocates in Kalaburagi City

Reading habit helps to increase awareness and knowledge of various professionals including Advocates. Reading is essential for Advocates to study the latest developments in cases at different courts and also needed to know about the revision and amendments made to different Acts and legislations. Reading helps to gain knowledge about new Acts and Legislations passed by the Government. Hence, reading is essential for Advocates and for this purpose, many of the Advocates visit different libraries such as public libraries, Law School Libraries, University Libraries, Court Libraries, etc. To assess the reading habits of Advocates, the present study has been made in Kalaburagi city. Totally, 140 Advocates practicing in High Court and District Courts were surveyed using Questionnaires. It is found that, Advocates are experts to use various documents, still they are unaware of many documents especially, electronic resources. Hence, it is suggested to librarians to organize user education or information literacy programmes for Advocates.