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The term Library, emanates from the generic term, Liber, which refers to "an exercise
to liberate" which also serves as a genesis for the term Liberty. A place where
books are kept serves as the hallowed epicenter of knowledge inculcation and dissemination.
The cobwebs of mind and soul can be erased in a cleansing and generative exercise
of mental fulfillment through what we have on offer in our 'GNLU-Library. It is
the place where our brains meet and for a change, do not talk, but add on to their
grey matter. The Library is a deep reservoir of rejuvenation and reinvigoration.
GNLU, our esteemed school of legal learning, has been able to aggregate together
a rich library including a variegated slew of titles in a short span of time. The
library now boasts of a compendium of 25000 volumes of journals and knowledgeable
tomes.
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The University is grateful to Dr. Bimal N. Patel who was instrumental in procuring
a treasure chest of books (some 6000 volumes) from the Peace Palace Library, The
Hague. These books cover a wide spectrum of some 400 themes in Law and stream paper
related subjects, including international journals. GNLU was preferred over other
claimants from Belarus, Turkey and Greece for this donation. For the building up
of the library, the contributions of the Indian Society of International Law (some
1100 volumes, including a complete set of the Indian Journal of International Law),
the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Library (some 500 volumes), the Department of
Legal Affairs of the Government of Gujarat, and indeed the parents of some of our
students, must be gratefully acknowledged.
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Besides the regular law reports (AIR, SCC etc.), these collections cover some rare
volumes of Indian Decisions, a complete set of Moore’s Indian Appeals of the 19th
Century, US Federal Court Reports, International Courts of Reports, Reports of the
International Law Commission, European Yearbooks of Human Rights, British Foreign
and State Papers and so on. About 2,500 books were acquired in the last semester
including complete sets of Bare Acts and commentaries on important laws besides
reference books. On the anvil is the arrival of a complete set of Harvard Law Review
journals which are part of our latest collection to metamorphose the Library into
a place to be. We would make a special endeavor to extend our thankfulness to Mr.
Peter Throoboof, United States Diplomatic Service. He played a helping role in providing
our Law School with Journals from United States of America which bear all the Ivy
league, Law schools of the order of Harvard Law School and others of the ilk in
various Universities in U.S. Other prominent contributors to our fledgling Library
include the personages of the order of Judge Pieter Koovijmans from the International
Court of Justice, Mr.Arthur Witteveen, former First Secretary, International Court
of Justice's secretariat. It would be a significant discrepancy on our part if we
do not acknowledge the philanthropist role played by some of our "GNLU parents."
These father figures of our legal "neo's" are Prof. Arvind Agrawal and Advocate
Mr.Rao from Hyderabad. These are only a few references but we owe our gratitude
for all the benefactors who have lent their helping auspices to us.
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Such a background can serve as a sound foundation for the evolution of a vibrant
and eclectic library for legal and social science research with legal studies definitely
getting the pedestal to lead on the surge of learning. At the initiative of the
Minister for Law and Justice, our students are granted access to the rich libraries
of the Gujarat Assembly and the Legal Department. The Gujarat High Court has also
granted them access to its library, and to the resources of the Gujarat Legal Services
Authority. The Law Minister also sowed the seeds of what should become in course
of time a Museum of Indian Legal History, by procuring for us a copy of Sardar Vallabbhai
Patel’s certificate of admission to Bar at Lincoln’s Inn. We will indeed continue
to work for the realization of this coveted and sacrosanct dream of ours in the
land of Mahatmas and divinity. Let the Blindfolded Lady of Justice brighten up the
path of our students.
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The Resource Centre is located on the second floor of the academic building and
the adjoined area is declared as a "Silent & Non-Speaking Zone". The Resource Centre
remains open from 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. on all week days and on weekends between 9.30
a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The students are expected to observe the library rules and code
of conduct when visiting the library, borrowing books and using its resources. Adhering
to the rules would help in ensuring optimum use of library facilities. Strict disciplinary
action will be initiated against students found to be violating the rules. In the
Library, we intend to add all the prominent and academically acclaimed journals
not only in the field of Law but also relating to other Streams. We want to disprove
the distinction between the "Law" and "Stream" and make our august collection of
books into a true-blue cornucopia of vibrant knowledge with its attendant exercise
of assimilation, too.
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The library is maintained by Mr. Lagdhir Rabari, Ms. Avani Vyas , Mr. Kamlesh Parmar and Mr. Hemant Joshi. The Library Committee is coordinated by Ms. Mamta Biswal
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