P.M. Monday and Thursday with the exception of State and Federal holidays. The library is maintained as a free public library for the Appellate Division Fourth Judicial Department, the Supreme Court, and other courts of record of the Seventh Judicial District, the local courts of the county of Monroe and the city of Rochester, and the people of the state. All eligible patrons must present an Appellate Division Law Library card to borrow circulating materials. Some subject treatises and reports are lent to other libraries and governmental agencies through InterLibrary Loan. Overdue materials are assessed a one dollar per day fine.
All materials are subject to immediate recall.
The loan period for most library materials is one week. Bound copies of records on appeal circulate for one month. There is a portable microfiche reader which is available for loan to library borrowers. Treatises may be renewed once by phone as long as no other borrower has reserved the material and the material is not overdue. Reporters, statutes, formbooks, and books from the new book shelf are not renewable.