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
Organization of bibliographic resources
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.
• 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 work in specialized areas such as Law,
Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work, intermediate 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 the
official newspaper 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 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.
The Legal Library is located in the facilities of the
National Registry in Zapote
Third Floor, Module 1
Service schedule
Monday through Friday from
7:30 a.m. to 4: 00 p.m.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS: (506)
2020-873/ (506) 2281-3179
You may send any questions and/or comments to our
electronic mail bjuridica@rnp.go.cr
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