About the ISID Library

The ISID has been maintaining a specialized research library over the years, containing a collection of books and reports primarily in the areas of industrial economics, foreign investment, corporate sector and related subjects. The library aims to provide a comprehensive perspective regarding current issues and developmental policies to meet the needs of the faculty and visiting scholars.

Collection Development

The library's collection is growing in the form of both published and unpublished materials. Besides books, its collection also includes directories, handbooks, dictionaries and reports, official documents such as policy statements, reports of committees, commissions and working groups, plan documents, statistical publications, acts, rules and guidelines. The unpublished collection of library consists of conference proceedings and papers, research reports, and working papers from various organizations. The library currently subscribes to 37 Academic Periodicals and 9 Magazines. It regularly receives over a dozen of newsletters from various research and academic institutions.

To these a sizable collection of CDs and video cassettes have been added during the last few years. Some of them are: Multimedia Encyclopedia of S&T, The Complete National Geographic (110 years) 1988 to 1997, Census 2001, National Accounts Statistics, training cassettes for popular computer software, etc.

Library Databases

ISID library maintains and updates the following bibliographic databases which can be access through Local Area Network (LAN) and internet. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has chosen ISID to host the NIC-ISID Center for Exchange of Databases. The Website of the Institute provides access to its databases on a round-the-clock basis to Internet users. This facility is being upgraded with High Speed NICNET connectivity which would enable faster data transfer.

Books & Working papers database

It consists of entries of books, institutional publications, research reports, government documents/policy papers, conference proceedings/papers. over 363 have been added during the year 2006-07.

On-line Index of Indian Social Science Journals (OLI)

This On-line Index enables users to retrieve the desired information from a cumulative computerised database of 125 Indian Social Science Journals in the field of economics, finance, management, business, health, education, sociology and a number of other social science subjects. Nearly, 1.5 lakh reference has been added to the database till date. The OLI allows users to search and identify articles using string or keyword search in the title and/or by author's name by indicating the name of the journal, title of the article, name(s) of the author(s), year and volume number, issue number, and starting page number. Every effort is made to cover the journals from the very first issue.

Press Clippings Index (PCI)

The computerised index of 15 daily English newspapers, referred to as the Press Clippings Index (PCI), was initiated in 1990. The newspaper clippings files are categorised under 58 subject heads. These subjects cover not only economic news, catalogued industry and issue-wise, but also important news and information on political, social and other developmental issues. Important news items, articles, editorials and book reviews are maintained chronologically since 1980-81 in the form of bound volumes. Beginning from 1990, titles of important clippings in all subjects have been placed in this database. Each of the entries can be identified according to the title of the article, name of the author(s), newspaper, date, nature of clipping (article/editorial/news item, etc.) and main subject classification by simple string or keyword search.

From the year 2001 the institute started scanning the clipping images and converting them into digital format using powerful scanners. The images are then placed in the document database along with basic identifying details. Intranet users can retrieve the images with the help of a powerful search utility, developed in-house, for viewing and storing/printing. Over 9 lakh references of the PCI can be accessed through ISID website. Scanning of the clippings of the earlier years is under progress and ultimately the entire clippings archive would become available online within the institute and to the Institute's members.

Database of Periodicals & Clipping Volumes

It contains the basic information about the title along with its holdings in the library.

Library Users

A number of research scholars, activists, students, media persons, faculty members of colleges, universities and others research institutions use the ISID library resources directly and indirectly through the Institute's website.

Information Services

The library provides a variety of services to its users. These include reference queries, referral services, reprographic services and inter-library loan. As a member of DELNET, the ISID library is in position to offer more facilities to its users.

Inter-Library Loan services (ILS)

The Institute's library offers inter-library loan services to the faculty, with the well-established libraries of Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and Institute of Economic Growth (IEG).

Current Awareness Service (CAS)

To facilitate easy and quick access to its collection, a current awareness service is provided by the ISID library on regular basis in the form of:

• Contents of current periodicals through e-mail, and
• The faculty are informed, soon after a new book/report is accessed, through e-mail.

Document Delivery Service (DDS)

The library arranges to provide photocopies of limited number of pages of books, journals and press clippings to outside users on nominal charges.

Training

The library remains actively involved in organizing and conducting various training programmes from time to time for the benefit of users. In 2006, for instance, a Demonstration-cum Discussion programme on "ISID-RRCD" was jointly organized by ISID and National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) in Delhi. Nearly 35 library & information professionals from various organizations participated in the discussion.

Digital Library

To make sharing of documents more convenient and to enable in-house users take advantage of the certain advantages of digital documents, like search, copy & paste and selective printing, the institute's library has taken steps to organize a digital library by using Greenstone digital library software. Currently it holds about 200 documents such as annual reports of ministries, policy documents, statistical reports, reports of committees/working groups, working papers, etc. which have been downloaded from various ministries, national and international organisations. The digital library is accessible only by the in-house users.

Library Software

The Library uses a package, developed in-house by the Institute's Computer Centre, for database management, retrieval and other in-house jobs.

Library Timings

We are open Monday to Friday, 9.00 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. Access is free to research scholars with proper identity cards or letters.