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Contents Project Pegasus Latest Update Contents Project Pegasus Latest Update Saturday Opening 1 ’ Project Pegasus 1 The Inn s planning application for the redevelopment of the Treasury Building has been submitted to the Annual Review 2 City of London Planning Department and is now Gibraltar Visit 8 available on its website. Training Dates 8 Legal Reference Materials Course 8 The plans allow for the creation of a third and fourth Humanities Digital Library 9 floor to house an educational centre with training William Paca 9 rooms, an auditorium and offices to provide for an History Society Lecture 10 increasing requirement for education and training Forthcoming Events 10 facilities within the Inn. AccessToLaw: Information Law 11 New Acquisitions 12 The plans preserve the use of seven of the existing reading rooms (Rooms A-G) on the main floor of the Library but not the Library Gallery which becomes part of the new third floor. A book storage room in Saturday Opening the basement will house some of the material displaced from the Gallery. One of the four Inn Libraries is open from 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on each Saturday during the legal terms. The Inn intends to mount an exhibition of the proposed scheme with visual depictions of the February exterior of the building, interior layouts and a new 18 February Gray’s Inn entrance/reception area for the main building. Details 25 February Inner Temple of the exhibition will be available on the Inn’s website March shortly. 4 March Lincoln’s Inn 11 March Middle Temple Preliminary work on identifying the alternative 18 March Gray’s Inn facilities needed to run the Inn during the 25 March Inner Temple construction phase, estimated to start in spring 2019, will be intensified once the planning application is April approved. This will include the provision of a 1 April Lincoln’s Inn temporary library service. 8 April Middle Temple 15 April CLOSED A set of the latest floorplans for Project Pegasus is available at the Library Enquiry Point. This timetable gives details of the Saturday opening hours of all four Inn Libraries up to the end of July 2017. Website: www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk Blog: www.innertemplelibrary.com Legal Gateway: www.accesstolaw.com Inner Temple Library Newsletter Page 2 Annual Review 2016 AccessToLaw - the content of our gateway site, which covered areas such as the document supply service, provides annotated links to over 1300 free legal enquiry service, the Current Awareness blog and the websites, was checked and updated on a quarterly Library’s gateway site, AccessToLaw. An information basis. There were 148,324 individual visitors to the sheet Ten Reasons to use the Inner Temple Library site from 197 countries, the majority coming from the was circulated to participants. UK, USA, Malaysia, India, Canada, Australia and Singapore. The sections of the site accessed most Committees - the Librarian acted as secretary to the frequently were Case Law, Court Information, Legal Library Committee and as coordinator of the Bar Journals, Northern Ireland, Caribbean, Courts and Librarians Group, and attended meetings of the Tribunals, Republic of Ireland and Regulatory Law. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library Committee. The Deputy Librarian continued as a Binding - a total of 538 volumes of UK law and 131 member of the British and Irish Association of Law volumes of Commonwealth law were bound or Librarians Conference Committee and helped to rebound during the year. Bookends Bindery, which organise a very successful conference in Dublin. specialises in dealing with manuscripts and early printed books, carried out conservation and repair Current Awareness Blog - the coverage of the blog work on a number of items including two manuscript includes the latest legal news, new case law and works by Francis Maseres and a volume of the changes in legislation, commentary from chambers’ Marshall Hall press cuttings. blogs, announcements of forthcoming lectures and seminars, and advertisements for chambers Branding - a new library branded vacancies. A total of 4,250 posts were added in 2016. mug was given to students at the The blog now has 46,581 posts, 1,108 subject fresher events we attended at the categories, 2,562 subscribers via email or RSS feed London Bar schools and to and 8,200 Twitter followers. The number of individual participants in our open afternoon visitors to the site was 200,087. for students and induction sessions for pupils. The Library tote bag was The top ten most frequently accessed subject also given away at a number of categories were sentencing, appeals, police, human events. rights, murder, internet, children, media, local government and sexual offences. Apart from the UK, Cataloguing - around 170 new law titles and editions visitors to the site came from a wide range of were added to the catalogue during the year. This countries including the USA, Russia, Malaysia, Hong total includes only practitioners’ texts, and excludes Kong, Australia, India, Canada and the Republic of continuation volumes of periodicals (which are of Ireland. course heavily represented in a library such as ours), reissue volumes of encyclopaedic works, non-law We will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the books, or general reference books or other non-law blog in April 2017. titles, so the actual number of volumes acquired (and in most cases, individually catalogued) would be many times that total. Circuits - in February the Librarian and Deputy Librarian took part in a Circuits Conference convened by the Treasurer. For the Library this was an opportunity to explain about the services available to members who are not based in London. Our presentation to representatives from the Circuits Website: www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk Blog: www.innertemplelibrary.com Legal Gateway: www.accesstolaw.com Inner Temple Library Newsletter Page 3 Annual Review 2016 Displays and Publications - during the year we Document Supply Service - this service is available to mounted a number of displays to commemorate barrister and judicial members of all four Inns anniversaries and events and to highlight particular wherever they are based, and to student members of parts of our collection. They included LGBT History the Inner Temple. Over the year 206 items have been Month, International Women’s Day (Women at the scanned and emailed to barristers located in the UK, Inns of Court), the Easter Rising in Dublin, the Great the Bahamas, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Fire of London, Canada Day, and the World Cup 1966. the Republic of Ireland and the Turks & Caicos To accompany the displays we produced information Islands. sheets and leaflets all of which can be found online via our Publications webpage. Donations - members of the Inn continue to present copies of their newly published works. Donations resulted in a saving of over £3000 on monographs and over £8,000 on loose-leaf releases and journals. We continue to receive Wildy, Simmonds and Hill publications free of charge. In August, thanks to the generosity of Lady Le Quesne, the Library received some 40 volumes from the library of the late Master Le Quesne who was Treasurer of the Inn in 1989. Master Le Quesne Enquiries - staff at the Enquiry Point dealt with 3,654 personal and telephone enquiries from barristers, judges, pupils, students, and clerks. Enquiries were, as always, very varied and included establishing what discretion to admit fresh evidence was exercisable by judges under the R.S.C. as in operation in 1954; assembling legislation and case law concerning criminal appeals in various Caribbean jurisdictions; Women at the Inns of Court and finding historic statutory guidance relating to child protection. Particularly intriguing was a request for an early 18th- century Act concerning insolvent debtors, to which an incorrect title (and date) had been applied by a later commentator; the matter was only resolved by reference to the Acts of the period as originally printed. We have increased the range of stationery items available for purchase at the Enquiry Point in response to users’ requests. Website: www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk Blog: www.innertemplelibrary.com Legal Gateway: www.accesstolaw.com Inner Temple Library Newsletter Page 4 Annual Review 2016 Historical Enquiries - enquiries dealt with during 2016 In November two members of the library team, related to a wide range of topics, including: the law Tracey Dennis and Simon Hindley, travelled to examinations taken by Gandhi; evidence of Gibraltar to run a training session for members of the commercial production of legal material in the 17th local Bar, which gave an overview of the key points century, especially Hobart’s Reports; and the life of to consider when carrying out legal research. E.W. Barker, law minister in the government of the newly independent Singapore. As ever we received a We continue to provide one-to-one training on great many enquiries concerning persons supposed databases and printed material as required for to have been members of the Inn and these were students, pupils and barrister members of the Inn. dealt with in collaboration with the Archivist. Littleton Basement - 250 items were requested from IT - public access PCs are in the process of being the Library’s basement store in the Littleton Building. replaced with new models to improve the IT In the main material housed there is not available experience for all library users. online. The most frequently requested works are old editions of textbooks, law reports and journals. More Legal Research Training - the Library ran its legal parliamentary material was requested in 2016 than research training course for new pupils in the spring in any previous year. and autumn of 2016. The course covers UK case law and legislation. Manuscript Enquiries - the range of subjects being investigated by visiting scholars continues to bear A new initiative in 2016 was the introduction of legal witness to the variety and richness of the manuscript research training in the context of the Inn’s qualifying collection.
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