The Law Library by JADE is complete library management software for barristers’ chambers. It brings your physical law books and your digital case-law collection into one searchable catalogue that you can lend, track and share. It is free to start at lawlibrary.io.

A catalogue built for law

Add books by ISBN, by title, or by photographing the barcode. Each record is enriched with full bibliographic detail, covers, subjects and jurisdiction. A fast online public access catalogue (OPAC) lets you search the whole collection and filter by subject, jurisdiction, author, resource type, publication year and availability.

Catalogue your shelves with a photo

Point your phone or camera at a bookcase and shelf-scanning reads the spines, matches them to catalogue records and adds the books in bulk. Map an entire room from photographs, then keep an accurate stocktake by re-photographing the shelves.

Loans, holds and reminders

Lend books to members, see who holds what and when it is due, place holds, and send branded due-date reminders. Borrowers can renew a loan just by replying to the reminder email, with no sign-in required.

Share beyond your chambers

Lend to trusted colleagues at other chambers, run interlibrary loans with in-transit tracking and delivery slips, and discover nearby copies through the shared library network. You control what is visible and to whom.

Your library follows you

Your catalogue is personal to you. Move between chambers, or go solo, and the copies you own travel with you.

Law reports, series and chapters

Build a run of law reports in a single action, track which volumes you hold and which are missing, and handle multi-volume works and edited collections properly, right down to individual chapters.

Part of the JADE suite

The Law Library sits alongside Conspectus, the litigation brief and court-book workspace at brief.lawlibrary.io; Jot, the legal reference manager at jot.lawlibrary.io; and the CPD Recorder at cpd.lawlibrary.io. Start free at lawlibrary.io.