ABSTRACT
Legal deposit legislation has different aspects and these vary from country to country. In Canada and Poland there are a growing number of government departments issuing directives on legal deposit for the own internal use. Legal deposit regulations can be very general or very specific in describing the type of material that is required to be deposited. The Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of the few private libraries in the countries under study that has the right to legal deposit material, although it is limited to the field of law. The legal deposit of publications produced by the various government and quasi-government agencies and departments, be they national, provincial or municipal, is very important if the aims of legal deposit to exhaustiveness of information is to be achieved. The purpose of legal deposit is given today as the preservation of the nation’s cultural heritage.
