ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the acquisition of printed materials for foreign, comparative and international law by law libraries. While it is true that digital materials gain an ever more important place in the field of information provision, it is also true that printed materials still play an important role. Nobody knows the exact figures of global book production and statistics are virtually non-existent and those few that exist are not very reliable. It may suffice to say that shortly before the end of the millennium about 903,000 books were published annually worldwide, based on the global figures (ascertained country-by-country in 1996, although some few countries delivered earlier data) recorded in the last Unesco Statistical Yearbook (Unesco 1999, IV-80, IV 90).1
