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The Supreme Court Judges Library was established in 1937 under a different name. It supports the needs of judges and contains over 280,000 legal documents including books, reports, and journals. The library has a central location and 46 branch locations. It subscribes to Indian and foreign legal databases and develops its own databases of case law, articles, and legislation. The library provides literature search, case retrieval, and other research services to judges and authorized users through its collection and digital resources.

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Judges Lib

The Supreme Court Judges Library was established in 1937 under a different name. It supports the needs of judges and contains over 280,000 legal documents including books, reports, and journals. The library has a central location and 46 branch locations. It subscribes to Indian and foreign legal databases and develops its own databases of case law, articles, and legislation. The library provides literature search, case retrieval, and other research services to judges and authorized users through its collection and digital resources.

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The Supreme Court Judges

Library
„ Established in 1937
„ Then known as Federal Court Library
„ Users of the library are:
9 Hon’ble Judges,
9 Senior Advocates,
9 Officers of the Registry,
9 Law Clerks attached to Hon’ble Judges
Library contains significant legal
literature

ƒ Supports the need of Hon’ble Courts and Judges


ƒ Collection: About 2,80,000 legal documents
¾ Books
¾ Monographs

¾ Commission Reports
¾ Committee Reports

¾ Government publications
¾ Center and State legislations

¾ Other legislative materials


• Subscribes about 220 Indian
and Foreign legal journals
(both academic and reporting)

„ Staff strength:
85 including 14 professional librarians
The Supreme Court Judges
Library
Central Library

Bench Libraries Residential Libraries


15 31

Reference and Research Wing


of Apex Court
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SERVICES OFFERED
¾ Literature Search
¾ Case-law Retrieval
¾ Statutory Information
such as objects and reasons of particular
Act, amendments, date of enforcement of
acts etc.
¾ Bibliography Compilation
¾ Reference Service
¾ News paper Clippings

¾ Current Awareness Service

¾ Up-to-dateness of Bare Acts by


incorporating amendments

¾ Documentation of Govt. Gazettes for


easy retrieval of rules, notifications,
schemes /bylaws etc.
¾ Inter-library Loan

¾ Information Retrieval through Internet

¾ Information Retrieval through CD-ROM


databases & indigenous databases

¾ Documentation of Law Commission


Reports, Committee/Commission
Reports & Miscellaneous Reports
LEGAL DATABASES
SUBSCRIBED
™ SCC ON-LINE (CD-ROM)
(Database of Supreme Court Cases since
1950)
™ Westlaw International
™ (Database of Foreign Case Laws and other
materials)
„ Manupatra (On-Line Legal Portal)
(Database of Supreme Court & all
High Court Cases)
„ AIR INFOTECH
(Database of Case Laws of Supreme Court
and all High Courts)
„ ITR (Database of Income Tax Cases)
„ EX-CUS
(Database of Excise and Custom Cases)
„ CORPORATE LAWS ONLINE

„ DIRECT TAX LAWS ONLINE

„ SERVICE TAX ONLINE


INDEGINOUS DATABASES

DEVELOPED BY

THE SUPREME COURT


JUDGES LIBRARY
9SUPLIS
{A Database of Supreme Court Case Laws
since 1950 along with parallel citations and
retrieval through famous / popular names}

INDIGENOUS DATABASES
DEVELOPED BY LIBRARY
SUPREME COURT JUDGES LIBRARY
9SUPLIB
{ A Database of Legal articles published in Law
Journals subscribed in the library}
9CATALOGUE
{An online public access catalogue (OPAC) of
the Supreme Court Judges Library}
9LEGISLATION
{A Database of Central Legislations alongwith delegated legislations
and complete legislative history}
‰ Database of Law Commission Reports

‰ Database of Joint Committee Reports

‰ Database of Select Committee


Reports

‰ Database of Miscellaneous Reports


available in the Library
PUBLICATIONS/TOOLS
DEVELOPED BY LIBRARY
™ ACCESSION LIST

™ CUMULATIVE ANNUAL
CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT

™ INDEX TO ALL CENTRAL ACTS


WITH AMENDING ACTS
„ INDEX TO STATE ACTS WITH
AMENDING ACTS
(Separate Index for each State)

„ UNION CATALOGUE OF CURRENT


PERIODICALS IN SUPREME
COURT & HIGH COURTS’
LIBRARIES OF INDIA
HOUSE KEEPING ACTIVITIES
™ Acquisition of books/statutory
materials/reports etc.

™ Classification of documents

™ Maintenance of COURT ROOM


libraries

™ Maintenance of RESIDENTIAL
„ Indexing of articles published in Law
Reports/Journals

„ Indexing of Case-laws

„ Indexing of Statutory Information/


Notifications/Commission/Committee
SUPREME COURT JUDGES
LIBRARY
TILAK MARG
NEW DELHI – 110 001
„THANK YOU

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