The IISR Library was set up to provide support to research
and development workers of the Institute. The Library aims at acquiring
scientific literature related to spice crops and various scientific
disciplines of interest to the scientists, organizing and displaying
these materials and making them available to users. The infrastructure
facilities of the library has been expanding continuously, the latest
being the establishment of National Informatics Centre on Spices.
This was inaugurated by Dr. SL Mehta, DDG (Edn.), ICAR,
New Delhi on 28th November 1998 to serve as a documentation centre
for disseminating information on various aspects of spices.
Mandate
To function as a National Information Storage and
Retrieval System for spices and related crops.
The National Informatics Centre on Spices is a centre for disseminating
information on various aspects of spices.
Objectives
To select, acquire, process, preserve, organize,
circulate and disseminate publications in all areas of spices research
and related fields.
To provide various services like compilation of bibliographies,
Agri Science Tit Bits and Content Page Service.
To provide Inter Library Loan service.
To retrieve and disseminate information.
To provide reprograhic services to the scientific community
Resources
The major resources of the Library include Books, Journals,
CDs, Theses, Reprints, Annual Reports and Technical Reports. At present,
the library has a total collection of 4077 Books, 2650 Bound Volumes,
154 CD Roms, 2292 Reprints, 853 Technical Reports, 123 Theses, 127
project reports and is subscribing to 30 foreign journals and 64 Indian
journals and also receiving 13 journals and 48 newsletters on gratis.
Information Resources
The Centre is building up a rich resource base of
books, journals, reprints, bound volumes and CD-ROMs. At present
the Informatics centre possess CAB CDs from 1973 onwards, Biotechnology
CDs from 1982 onwards and AGRIS CDs from 1975 to till date. Scientists
and research workers working in the Institute can have free access
of these CDs.
The Informatics Centre has automated a majority of its
operations using the Library Management Software, LIBSYS. A sizable
database of books, journals, reprints and bound volumes has been created
and is available for access by scientists. Attempts are also being
made to introduce Internet facilities at the centre to get exhaustive
online information.
