The Institute library is one of the best equipped libraries in the region. Being a research oriented institute, it provided the required support to the academic and research activities. It remained open on all working days from 8 am to 2 pm including the Saturdays. It also remained open during the Sundays and the Gazetted holidays from 10 am to 6 pm. It had added 1289 number of volumes in its fold which includes 360 books and 929 bound volumes of the journals during the period from 1st April 2002 to 31st March 2003. The library had subscribed 195 journals during this period.

During the last year basic emphasis had been provided to the conversion of the Video Cassettes to VCD format because of more durability and user friendliness. The emphasis was also given to procure maximum number of journals on-line. We have been providing on-line access of the periodicals to our users of 85 journals.

We had provided the Web Enabled library catalogue to our users. The library can be termed as completely automated library system, which includes acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, search modules etc. This on-line catalogue had increased the opportunities of the use of our library resources by the neighbouring organisations such as INSDOC, TIFR etc. through the Document Delivery Services. Normally we provide the DDS on request through post, at a very nominal cost, but rquest had also been honoured through e-mail. We had encouraged the use of the library consultation facilities by the research scholars from the neighbouring institutes. We are planning to introduce the article indexing service and SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) service in the near future.