Governments in almost all countries have made provision for legal deposit. In Namibia, the Library and Information Service Act, (Act 4 of 2000) stipulates that each publication must be delivered in five copies to the National Library. It means that publishers are required by law to give, free of charge, one or several copies of every publication that is issued or produced in the country to a specified library (or several libraries). The University of Namibia, Oshakati campus library serves as one of the legal deposit libraries in Namibia.

UNAM library takes pride in collecting, preserving of national heritage and provide access to Namibian publication and thereby fulfilling its national mandate of making contribution towards Namibia`s socio-economic development.

Apart from the Oshakati Campus Library, physical access to legal deposit collections are also searchable at National Library of Namibia.