SC e-library finally going online by June
THE SUPREME Court will open its electronic library (SC e-Library) to the public by June, 15 years after it was launched. In a press statement, the SC said the e-Library project is intended “to enhance transparency and provide better access for lawyers, law professors, law students, and legal researchers to decisions, resolutions, issuances, and rules of the court.” SC Public Information Office Chief Brian Keith F. Hosaka said the court is aiming to have the actual opening coincide with the launch of the SC’s improved Web site on or before the High Court’s 118th Anniversary on June 11. The SC e-Library, launched in 2004 and spearheaded by Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio, is a database of jurisprudence, including SC decisions and resolutions from 1901 to the present, past and present laws, SC issuances such as present and past Rules of Court as well as resolutions on administrative matters. References include bench-books, books catalogues of court libraries, and an index to Philippine periodicals. There will also be a ‘Memorabilia Room’ of past and retired SC justices. — Vann Marlo M. Villegas
