The library is the 'heart' of any academic institution and plays an important role in all academic activities and more so in law institutions. Keeping in view, the aims and objectives of the Law School, the library has been planned and is being developed by a team of qualified professional library staff and guided by the Library Council. It has a collection of over 25000 volumes covering a wide range of general and special subjects consisting of text books, reference books, back volumes of journals and reports etc., apart from current legal periodicals. The library functions from 9.00 A.M. to midnight.

The library has adopted an open access system so as to facilitate readers to have easy access to the library resources. The NLSIU Library has also established links with other important libraries such as libraries attached to the High Court of Karnataka, the State Legislature, University Law College, Bangalore University, British Library, Bangalore, and USIS Library, Chennai in order to provide inter-library loan facilities. This resource sharing among the important Libraries in Bangalore and neighbouring places is systematically planned for the benefit of students and teachers of NLSIU. To assist the Students and Research Scholars in locating literature as well as information in their area of research, general reference, current awareness and computerized catalogues have been introduced. Further, essential reading materials will be supplied to the students in each subject at the beginning of the trimester by the University. An orientation programme for new students is also organized to help them acquaint themselves with the library system and services for the maximum utilisation of the available resources.

The NLSIU has introduced computerised facilities for both house-keeping as well as information retrieval. Since we have now a leased line connection to the internet, it is possible to have easy access to information directly from all available computerised data bases all over the world, not only in the field of law but also in other disciplines. Keeping in mind the New Vision Goal to create an E-Law School, the University has the subscription to LEXIS.com an enormous internet database of International Case Reporters, statutes, reports and articles from law reviews, which provide an invaluable, source to a law school student.

Membership to Manupatra, a similar Indian database has also been acquired. NLSIU is among the first educational institutions in India to subscribe to these online databases. The Library has CD-ROMs search facilities and the library has acquired important CD-ROM databases such as SCC-Online and Grand Jurix. With a computerised library system it is the aim of the library to establish a network of law libraries in India and also to establish a National Legal Information Centre, which will act as a clearing house of information in the field of law. At present the library is housed in one portion of the Academic Complex.