One-to-one Legal Research Training Sessions
Library staff offer one-to-one training on a wide range of topics. Book online for an in-person or virtual session tailored to your research needs.
Library News
You can find all the Inner Temple Library’s news here, updated regularly so you never miss out on the latest developments.
Library Tours for Bar Students
Get to know the Library and the services available to you with a short, practical introduction from library staff.
These 30-minute tours are exclusively for student members of the Inns of Court. Tours are designed to give you a quick orientation so you can make confident use of the Library, its collections and its facilities. Book online.
Summer Opening Hours 2026
During August and the first week of September the Library will open at 9.00am and close at 5.30pm. Also the Library will be closed from Monday 17 August to Monday 31 August inclusive. This calendar gives the opening hours of all four Inn Libraries over the summer vacation.
During the closed period the document supply service will still be available.
Library Special Collections Exhibition
This is an invitation to find out more about the Inner Temple Library special collections. Ranging from the 12th to the 21st century, and covering a disparate range of subjects, our special collections contain thousands of items that even the most inquisitive Library user is unlikely to have encountered on the open shelves. Book your ticket to view a hand-picked selection of these items up close and in person on 21 July, guided by members of the Library team.
Library & Archives Newsletter Issue 81 – June 2026
The latest issue of the Newsletter is now available. It contains Saturday opening; Summer opening hours; AI in the Library; Lexis+® with Protégé™ Training; tours for clerks; a summer exhibition of our special collections; New Acquisitions; Wellbeing spotlight; training at IALS; our Librarian on HistoryHit TV; Visits by the Library staff to the House of Lords and St Edmunds Hall, Oxford; a continuing feature – Rarebytes – to showcase those little known items in our non-law collection; from the Archives we have training for the Oral History Project and a History Society Lecture by Dr Valentin Jeutner; and from our student Intern, a look at the Petyt Printed Book Collection.
New Books List March – May 2026
A list of New Law Titles and Editions recently received by the Library between March and May 2026 has recently been published.
Lexis+ Protégé
LexisNexis Protégé™ is now available for use in the Library.
Online sessions with a LexisNexis trainer will be available on:
‘LexisNexis Protégé™ is the personalised generative and agentic AI assistant within Lexis+ that powers conversational search, insightful summarisation, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities.’
LexisNexis Protégé™ Now Available
LexisNexis Protégé™ is now available for use in the Library. We are running a drop in session in the Library on Wednesday 13 May from 12.30pm to 4.30pm. An online session is also available on Monday 11 May which can be booked via Eventbrite.
‘LexisNexis Protégé™ is the personalised generative and agentic AI assistant within Lexis+ that powers conversational search, insightful summarisation, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities.’
Easter Opening Hours
On Maundy Thursday, 2 April, the Library will close at 2.00pm. We will reopen at 9.00am on Tuesday 7 April. See the opening hours of all four Inn Libraries over the Easter vacation.
Job Vacancies
We currently have two job vacancies in the Library: Assistant Librarian (Acquisitions) and Assistant Librarian (Training).
Please apply online via the application forms. Deadline for both is Sunday 19 April.
