The Ruth Lilly Law Library has a collection of approximately 603,000 volumes in print and microform. Library holdings emphasize Anglo-American and international law materials, with modest collections for comparative law and some foreign jurisdictions.
The Ruth Lilly Law Library is one of the early United States government publications depositories. It is also a full depository of the United Nations, both for regular documentation and for U.N. mimeographed documents. Additionally, it includes a 20,000-volume Commonwealth collection.
The library collection includes virtually complete holdings of federal statutory and case materials; attorney general reports and opinions; federal, regional, and state digests; all published state encyclopedias; bar association reports and proceedings; and the standard sets of encyclopedias, annotated cases, and citators. Extensive collections of legal periodicals, law and law-related treatises and textbooks, specialized law report sets, multivolume practice sets, and jury instructions complement the primary holdings. The library subscribes to virtually every looseleaf service for which a significant need exists, including some that support research in international and foreign law. The library attempts to balance the demonstrated needs of law faculty, law students, the university community, the bench and bar, and the public in general; thus, the collection is particularly extensive and varied. The collection is supported by both state and private funding, as well as by individual and corporate donations of books and materials.
The library is a depository for records and briefs of the Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana Court of Appeals. It is also a depository for or subscribes to documents of the European Economic Community, the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights, the American Bar Association, the American Bar Foundation, the American Judicature Society, the National Association of Attorneys General, the Council of State Governments, and the National Center for State Courts.
