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The Library is closed from 2.00pm on Friday 20 December and will reopen at 9.00am on Monday 6 January. The opening hours of all four Inn Libraries is available on our website. We wish all our Library users a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
A new issue of the Library Newsletter is now available. In it you will find the Inn Libraries’ Christmas opening hours and your chance to grab some mini-book Christmas decorations. Also featured are: our new sponsor a book scheme; upcoming training events; an intriguing piece examining how pages from books were used in the bindings of other books; an article on using AI safely in legal research; a reading list on Environmental Law; write-ups on a Bibliographic Skills Day and our student induction; information on the 2025 Book Prize; and retrospectives on History Day and the recent History Society Lecture from the Archives team.
History Day is taking place at Senate House, University of London today from 11.00am to 4.00pm. The Librarian and Archivist will be there showcasing various collections and items from the Inner Temple, including a leaflet on the Gunpowder Plot.
The Library is closing at 3.00pm on Grand Day, Wednesday 6 November. The document supply service will still be available until 5.00pm.
Our Halloween book exhibition ‘The Law of the Dead’ in Room E is available to view until Tuesday and free bookmarks are available to take away from our spooky display in Room B.
The Library has responded to a user’s request and now has a coat rack/umbrella stand in the Photocopier Room Lobby next to the water cooler.
Please bring your refillable bottles when you visit the Library. We no longer have disposable cups at the water cooler as part of our plan to be more sustainable.
A list of New Law Titles and Editions received by the Library between July to September 2024 has just been published.
The date of the next session on legal research is Wednesday 23 October via Zoom. Library staff will go over the basics as well as some of the topics you may not yet be familiar with. Booking is via Eventbrite.
On 10 September, as a representative of the Inner Temple Library, James Rowles partook in the lecture to the new ICCA students delivered by the four Libraries of the Inns of Court on legal research, held in the very impressive lecture theatre at the Inner Temple.
Using a legal scenario on copyright law, we worked through how they can use both the legal databases and the hard copy collections available at the Inns’ Libraries to answer the legal questions that the scenario posed.
This is a great opportunity to introduce the students to the libraries and the librarians and give them a firm foundation in legal research which will be an important basis on which they can build their careers at the Bar.
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