Issues Facing County Law Libraries

As pertaining to ORS 9.815, every county in Oregon is required to operate a law library or provide law library services.

 However, county law libraries have not received a budget increase since 2007 (almost 20 years)!

This has caused state-wide struggles of upkeeping staffing, services, and legal resources for our community members. Especially with the increasing numbers of self-represented litigants and a widening access to justice gap in the United States, adequate funding for law library services are more important than ever.

Support the Law Library

If you would like to support the Lane County Law Library, the best thing to do is to contact your legislator and representatives and share your story and support of the library.

 If you don’t know who your representatives are, click here for an online tool.

 We do the best with what we have, but if you want improved staffing and resources, your support can help us improve our services!

 Goals of the future with increased funding: increased staffing, streamlined and card-payment printing, Spanish-language facilitator services, lawyer in the library programs, and more!