MISSION

Ensure Excellence In Providing Legal Information Services To All The Stakeholders, Through Continous Improvement In The Quality Of The Library Process And Enrichment Of Manpower.

VISION

Creation and Maintenance of Legal Knowledge Wealth through conscious and consistent updation and upgradation of Information and Knowledge Management processes through technological and manpower development to provide support to the Judiciary in facing ever increasing challenges

ABOUT  US

The Bombay High Court has a well equipped Library for the Hon'ble Judges, located at the Ground floor and third floor of the Main building.  The Library  caters to the requirements of Hon'ble Judges by providing latest case laws, legal news, articles, commentaries and law reports to enable them to discharge their responsibility effectively.


The Honourable the Chief Justice appoints the Judges of the Library Committee of the Bombay High Court which is Chaired by a Senior High Court Judge and two other Sitting Judges as its members.  The Library Committee regulates and controls the functioning of the Library.


The Main Library is located at Bombay. There are Judges' Libraries at the Benches of Nagpur, Aurangabad and Goa.

WORKING HOURS.


The Library works in two shifts 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. to provide good service to the Hon'ble Judges.


MEMBERSHIP


The Hon'ble Judges of Bombay High Court and Officers of the Registry.

 

COLLECTION


The Library Collection comprises of Law Commentaries, Law Reports, Government Gazettes, Bare Acts (Central Acts and Maharashtra Acts), Law Commission Reports, Manuals and General Books.


The Total book collection is approximately 100,000. 



Computerisation of the Library

The Bombay High Court Judges' Library has taken initiative to develop a Special Law Library Management Software with the help of National Informatics Centre (N.I.C.), Mumbai. This system is developed using LAMP technology . The term LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run websites or servers. In LAMP 'L' stands for Linux Operating System, 'A' stands for Apache Web Server, 'M' stands for MySQL database and 'P' stands for PHP, the scripting Language. Linux is an Open Source software.

The Library Information System is aimed to keep all types of records i.e. Accession Register, Acquisition Register,  Approval Register, Billing Register (Ledger), Book Issue & Received Register, News paper article retrieval system.


1. Recording, Storage and Retrieval of Books purchased  by Hon'ble Judges Library.

2. Books circulation details

3. Creation of Master Databases.

4. Generation of periodical reports, Accession Register, Billing Details etc.

5. Bar code generation for all books.

6. Information retrieval via screen and customized reports.

           

 

 The Highlights of Library Information System are as follows.

            1.   Streamlining of the functions of the Hon'ble Judges Library and keeping track of every book.

            2.   User-friendly and Web-based system

            3.   Data Integrity, accuracy and timeliness in accessing books

            4.   Searching a particular record/book title wise, author wise, accession no. wise and by keyword.

            5.  Default values would be maintained and used at a number of places minimizing data entry work.

            6.  Bar code provision for each book as well as each member

            7.  Generation of various Statistical and Periodical reports

            8.  Data Safety by using proper backup management.




Sections of the Library:

Acquisition Section: Books received on approval are firstly checked and titles are verified. The books are then placed before the Honourable Judges of the Library Committee for selection and approval.


Technical and Billing Section: The Data Entry and Bar Coding of the books are done here. The bills are called for the books approved by the Hon'ble Library Committee Judges' and are processed for payment.


Legislation Section:  Bare Texts and Manual of Central and State Acts & Rules are arranged here and issued. The arrangement of Bare Texts of Acts (both Central and State) in the Court Rooms as per the Sitting List of the Hon'ble Courts is done by this Section. Updating of bare acts with latest amendments are done here.

Journal & Gazette Section: 60 Law Journals/Reports (Indian Law Reports - 48 and Foreign Law  Reports 12, 18 Magazines (15 Indian and 3 Foreign) and 12 Newspapers are subscribed. Latest Law Reports, Magazines and Newspapers are regularly circulated to the Hon'ble Judges'. The loose parts of the Law Reports are sent for binding. The Indian Government Gazette (I.G.G.) is subscribed and the Maharashtra Government Gazette (M.G.G.) is received as complimentary from the Government Printing Press, Mumbai.  The gazettes are bound at regular intervals. The data entry of the law reports and gazettes are done in the Library Management software. The indexes of legal articles and latest gazette notifications are also maintained in the Library Management Software. Important legal news from national dailies are indexed using the Library software and news clippings are maintained.

Circulation Section: The books are issued to the Court rooms and the Chambers of the Hon'ble Judges'. The record is maintained electronically in the Library software.

Binding Section: The binders of the library do the binding of bare acts & gazettes and re-binding of old law reports.


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