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The Legal Library is a
specialized support service that works as a single system within the Ministry
of Justice (National Registry, Social Adaptation General Office, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic,
and the United Nations Latin American
Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
[ILANUD]), with the capacity to provide support for substantive functions of
the institution, such as project research, placement of laws, decrees and
resolutions, and employee training.
General objective
Providing employees of the
Ministry of Justice (National Registry, Social Adaptation General Office, the
Attorney General's Office of the Republic, and ILANUD) specific, pertinent
and relevant bibliographic and documentary information, as the basis for
drafting, executing and evaluating plans, programs, research efforts and
projects that are the responsibility of the Institution.
Bibliographic
resources
The Library has a bibliographic collection primarily
specialized in subject matters in the following Legal fields:
• Penal Law
• Constitutional
Law
• Public and
Administrative Law
• Penal Procedural
Law
• Penitentiary Law
• Constitutional
Law
• Registry Law
The Legal Library has a
bibliographic collection entered into the BIJUC, LEY and MISE data bases, to
be used as references.
• BIJUC data base
Made up of monographic works
(treaties, manuals, dissertations, reference material, reports of conferences
and meetings, legislation, vertical file materials, and articles in
periodical publications).
• LEY data base
Bibliographic records from La Gaceta official newspaper on laws, decrees, agreements,
projects, etc., which are the responsibility of the Institution. It contains
legislation promulgated from the second semester of 1987 to the present.
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MISE data base
Made up of national literary
works and general material on various subject matters. Most of this
collection is of a recreational nature, and it was designed for employees to
enjoy reading during their free time. It is currently contained in
traditional library card indexes.
Users
The employees of the Ministry
of Justice are the principal users of the Legal Library, and can be
categorized as follows:
• Internal users:
Ministry Office, Minister and Vice-minister, Advisors, Higher-level
Management Offices, Executive Office, Administrative Office, Legal Office,
Specific Programs of the General Social Adaptation Office, the National
Registry, the Office of the Attorney General, and ILANUD.
Internal users in specialized
areas such as Law, Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work, Technicians, and
others.
• External users:
principally university, high school and elementary school students,
researchers, other Information Units and the general public.
Services
•
Internal users (Institutional)
- Searches for bibliographic
information (Library's and external data bases)
-Loans of documents for the
room and home.
-Guidance in the use of different
materials in the Library, and location of information which the Library does
not have, in other Information Units.
-Inter-Library loans.
-Printed products. The
following products are within this category: "Boletín
de Reseñas de La Gaceta"
(Bulletin of Summaries of La Gaceta) and Boletín Judicial (the Judicial Journal), specialized
bibliographies which are the result of searches carried out in the Library's
data base.
-Electronic dissemination of
the "Boletín de Reseñas
de La Gaceta" (Bulletin of Summaries of La Gaceta) and alerts on new on bibliographic entries.
-Inquiries in the SINALEVI (the National Current
Legislation System)
•
External users (students, researchers and others)
-Loan of documents for the
room.
-Searches in printed indices.
-References (replies to
telephonic and e-mail inquiries).
-Photocopies (the material may
be taken out of the building to be photocopied, with previous presentation of
an identity card, carnet or other identity document.
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