The National Council of Justice made a decision about a development plan in order to form the court libraries into a unified information system after a long preparation work in 2006. It charged the Hungarian Judicial Academy within the institutional framework of the Office of the National Council of Justice to organize and co-ordinate this task.

The Information and Documentation Centre of the Academy together with the librarians and information professionals of the court libraries worked out a level-balancing programme for the court information institutions having different opportunities.

The programme has marked three main areas to develop: the information technological equipments, a further professional training programme for the librarians of the library network and the purchase of informatics software for more efficient search and thematical retrieval. It was realized partly with own financial resources and by tender funds.

The most urgent task is to unify and modernize the information technological equipments of the court libraries with the help of an EU-funded programme. Parallel with this development an introduction of the integrated library system has also been carried out using own financial resources.

The following step is the preparation of a training system in order to be able to operate and use the modern technology. Beside the traditional training methods the organization of e-learning courses seemed the most appropriate. The development of this area has been realized with the help of the State Reform Operational Programme of the National Development Plan. The tender application was given in under the following title: "The development of the knowledge-based jurisdiction (the training of Hungarian judges and justice personnel and the formation of an integrated knowledge basis)".

Simultaneously with the above mentioned two areas the working out of a legal thesaurus is also happening to support content retrieval and we would like to buy and fit into the existing ILS a metasearch system to increase the discovery concerning the efficiency of own and online documents and resources.

At the closing of the project in the third quarter of 2010, according to our plans, a court library network, operating as a unified and a standardized system, based on the efforts of the co-operating information institutions, is going to the serve the Hungarian jurisprudence.