Electronic Law Library has been inaugurated

AHMEDABAD: An electronic law library named after justice V B Raju was inaugurated at the metropolitan court in the city.

The Late Justice Shree V B Raju e-library was inaugurated by Justice Anant Dave, Gujarat high court judge, and principal session judge S H Vora.

The e-library has four computers and two printers and the access would be totally free. The library, according to S V Raju - senior lawyer and son of Late Justice Shree V B Raju - will have the latest judgments of the high court and the Supreme Court. The library will also have the central and state laws.

"A person coming for research would have to pay for the printouts only," said Raju.

Ahmedabad rural district and session judge J N Patel was also present on the occasion. Inaugurating the library, Justice Dave asked bar members and advocates to use the e-library facility optimally.

Source | Times of India | 22 August 2012

Report of the Book Exhibition

 Exhibition cum Sale of law books was held in the library of K.C. Law College from Monday, 13th August to Friday, 17th August. This was a very successful event that received participation from both students and teachers.

References for Competitive Exams

The Government District Library, Mumbai Upanagar, Mulund has gone fully digital.  A separate new section "Competitive Exams" has been opened today.  It is free for all for consultation.  Users can access web-OPAC for searching information. 

International Journal of Contemporary Laws

Volume 1 issue 2 of the International Journal of Contemporary Laws has been published. Access it at http://www.ijcl.co.in/current-issue.html (Copy and paste this link in your browser)

Chandigarh gets Asia’s first RTI library

If you wish to see, possess or deposit papers related to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, then here is good news for you. A library of RTI documents, touted as Asia's first, was inaugurated at Dwarka Das Library, Lala Lajpat Rai Bhawan on Friday. The library has been formed by Servants of People's Society in association with the Citizens' Voice and RTI Users' Association.

Interestingly, it was also the seventh anniversary of the RTI Act in the country. A large number of RTI documents were deposited with the library on the inaugural day. Onkar Chand, chairman of the Servants of the People's Society, said, "Making documents public will help those who want to refer them for litigation or research purposes. The process to collect documents from RTI users is on and we will upload the whole collection online within a few months, making it possible for anybody to access the information from anywhere in the world."

Hemant Goswami, chairman of the Citizens' Voice, said the library would ensure that documents procured by RTI users are put to further use. The library is an open source depository of information collected under the RTI Act. Anybody can become a member of this library free of cost and can also contribute to information available. The documents will be catalogued according to subject matter, ministry/department and whether they relate to the central or state government, making it easy for anybody to navigate through the collection.

"We call upon all RTI users to share the documents that are of no use to them now," said Goswami.

Source | Times of India | 16 June 2012

World Book and Copyright Day

 23rd April is celebrated as The World Book and Copyright Day

23rd April is a symbolic date for world literature, since 23 April 1616 was the date of death of Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. 23rd April is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.

This is why UNESCO chose this date to pay a worldwide tribute to books and their authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and to gain a renewed respect for the extraordinary contributions of those who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.

The idea for this celebration originated in Catalonia (Spain) where it has become a tradition to give a rose as a gift for each book purchased.

By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright.