The University of Iowa Law Library has three basic missions: first, to support all of the domestic, international, comparative, and foreign law scholarship and teaching of both a traditional and interdisciplinary nature that occur in the College of Law; second, to provide the legal and legally related materials necessary to support the research and teaching activities that occur in the University of Iowa community at large; third, to serve the legal research needs of Iowa government officials, the Iowa legal profession, and the Iowa general public for legal information resources not otherwise available to them.  The Law Library also seeks to maintain its position as the best public law school library in the nation and as one of the two or three best public or private law school libraries in the nation, as measured by its accessible on-site legal information resources.  A library of such outstanding quality is necessary because it is a prerequisite to the accomplishment of the College of Law's academic aspirations and the successful performance of its academic missions.  Such a library also significantly enhances the reputation of the College of Law to persons outside of the institution who may have need to use its extensive information resources.