Transformational Role of Law Libraries in Access to Justice in India: Time to Act Locally and Think Globally

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dc.audienceAudience::Law Libraries Section
dc.audienceAudience::Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
dc.audienceAudience::Information Technology Section
dc.audienceAudience::Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
dc.conference.date16-22 August 2014
dc.conference.placeLyon, France
dc.conference.sessionTypeLaw Libraries with Parliamentary Libraries, Information Technology and Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
dc.conference.titleIFLA WLIC 2014
dc.conference.venueLyon Convention Centre
dc.contributor.authorChadha, Ravinder Kumar
dc.contributor.authorRai, Priya
dc.contributor.authorAkash, Akash
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T08:22:18Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T08:22:18Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIndian government has ushered a number of digital preservation and network based projects for strengthening democracy and maximum disclosure of information through open accessible government data for the benefit of common men. The paper codicillary highlights importance of open access to public legal information and benefits of adoption of innovative approaches for facilitating organization and delivery of legal information services to foster effective and efficient administration of justice and promoting rule of law and access to justice as social justice. The article will focus on various government and non-government initiatives connecting legal institutions of India. The article critically evaluates the integral role of law libraries in providing basic understanding to researcher and litigants about various e-resources and databanks through outreach plain and promotion strategic programmes in India.en
dc.identifier.citation1. Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information available at http://fas.org/sgp/library/unesco_govinfo.pdf (Last accessed on 29th June 2014) 2. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) http://www.niscair.res.in/ 3. National Informatics Centre available at http://www.nic.in/node/41 last accessed on 29th June 2014. 4. Zorzo, Richard. (2012). The Sustainable 21st Century Law Library: Vision, Deployment and Assessment for Access to Justice available on http://chicagobarfoundation.org/wpcbf/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sustainable-law-library.pdf last accessed on 30th June 2014.
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5415
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject.keywordOpen Access to Law
dc.subject.keywordPublic Domain Resources
dc.subject.keywordIndian Legal Information
dc.titleTransformational Role of Law Libraries in Access to Justice in India: Time to Act Locally and Think Globallyen
dc.typeArticle
ifla.UnitSection:Law Libraries Section
ifla.UnitSection::Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
ifla.UnitSection::Information Technology Section
ifla.UnitSection::Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
ifla.oPubIdhttps://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1044/

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