The Supreme Court Judges Library, which was established in the year 1937 as Federal Court Library, is one of the largest Law Library in Asia. It contains significant legal literature to support the needs of the Hon’ble Courts and Judges.
The Supreme Court Library is a state-of-the-art Library containing more than 3,80,000 legal documents which manifest in the form of books, monographs, Encyclopedic Sets of law (both Indian and Foreign), Law Reports, Statutes, Commission/Committee Reports, State Legislation, Parliamentary Debates, other Legislative materials and e-Resources in the form of Online Reports and CD-ROM Legal databases. Complete documentation of Acts, Amendments (both Central and States), Rules, Regulations, Bye-laws, Schemes and Notifications is being done by the Library so that the same may be made available expeditiously to the Hon’ble Courts and the Hon’ble Judges at the time of requirement. The Judges Library subscribes to 131 journals, including 107 Indian and 24 foreign publications, 19 newspapers, and 8 magazines.
Judges Library is a network of Libraries. Main Library is spread over the four floors (Ground +3) of the A Block, Additional Building Complex and was made functional by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud on 24th April 2023.
Supreme Court Judges Library is working on all the 365 days except 03 National Holidays, Holi and Diwali festival. It is a network of libraries containing 34 Residential Libraries and 14 Court Room Libraries and 3 Digital Court Libraries for 3 paperless Courts. Two of the Library staff members are deployed in each Court to provide the cited books to Hon’ble Judges at the time of citations in the Court Rooms. Telephonic requisitions from the residential office of the Hon’ble Judges are catered by sending the required information / documents to the residential office. Library is managed by Professional Librarians and other supporting staff.
The second floor of the new library also houses Soli Sorabjee’s Bibliotheca, some books from the personal collection of Late Mr. Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General and Constitutional Expert, which was given by his family to the Judges library. This bibliotheca was made functional by unveiling the portrait of late Mr. Soli Sorabjee by Hon’ble Chief Justice of India on 24th April 2023.