The Inner Temple Library will be open this Saturday, 11 October, from 10am to 5pm. Entry will be via Inner Temple Lane on Fleet Street and the Church Court door to the building. We look forward to seeing you.

Members returning to the Library after our summer closure will notice that some of the core collection has been moved to make more space for growth, and to consolidate some of the collections. These changes involved moving over half a kilometre of books – more than enough to cover the entire length of Fleet Street – during the two weeks when the Library was closed.

We no longer have separate collections for European Union, International Law, Human Rights and Medical Law.  The materials from these collections have been integrated into the main textbooks, journals and law reports collections.

Legislation is now on the North side of Room C, and Law Reports are now shelved on the East and South sides of Room C as well as in Room D.  Textbooks remain in Room A, and Journals can still be found in Room B and the Lift Lobby.

 

Summer opening hours begin on Friday 1 August. We will be open from 9am to 5.30pm.

The Library will be closed from Monday 18 – Friday 29 August inclusive so that general maintenance work and book moves may be carried out. See this calendar for more information. During the closed period the document supply service will be available.

Last weekend, the annual Inner Temple Big Picnic brought families and sunshine to the gardens, and we joined the fun by creating colouring sheets for our younger visitors. The designs were adapted from Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1770–1786), a stunning work from our printed books collection.

One of our absolute favourites (pictured below) was created by Matthew, age 10. The intensity of the colour work is arresting and the attention to detail would surely be admired by Buffon himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Tracey, our ex-Deputy Librarian who retired in March this year, who has won Wildy BIALL Law Librarian of the Year! https://biall.org.uk/tracey-dennis-awarded-wildy-biall-law-librarian-of-the-year-2025/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A list of New Law Titles and Editions received by the Library between January to April 2025 has recently been published.

As a Graduate Trainee in the Library, you will help to provide and support a range of reader services to a professional standard. At the same time, you will be obtaining experience and training in a wide variety of duties relevant to the profession generally, and to legal libraries specifically. As such, this post offers an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in a busy law library prior to embarking on a postgraduate course in Library and Information studies.

https://www.innertemple.org.uk/news/job-gradtrainee/

This has now closed 22.05.2025

Religious Disputes and the Custody of Children: Dr Barnardo in the House of Lords, Thursday 8 May at 6pm in person at The Inner Temple and livestreamed. See the Inn’s website to read more and to book.