Circulation

Most of the material in the Library is available for loan to practitioners for 24 hours or for use in court. Extended loans are provided to the Judiciary. Interlibrary loans are also available.

The Library’s databases

The Library’s automated legal database information system was established in 1991. There are two main databases. The library utilises the software package CDS/ISIS developed for UNESCO by the ILO for use in libraries in the management of information. The databases were first designed using version 3.07 of CDS/ISIS. In 1997 the windows version of CDS/ISIS, commonly called WINISIS, was introduced into the Law Library.

The two main databases are:-

TTCASE Database which is a database of headnotes and abstracts of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago. The database contains both current and retrospective material and facilitates retrieval of case law through several access points including subject, judge, suit number and parties to the action.

TTLEX Database is a database of Trinidad and Tobago legal material. It indexes such material as reports, speeches, conference papers, research papers and journal articles. In some cases, the material is abstracted.