Welcome to GIDS Library : A Learning Resource Centre

The GIDS library is an invaluable resource center for students, researchers and faculty of Social Sciences disciplines. The library is as old as the Institute and has built its robust collection of rare documents in social science research. It is an asset for academicians, researchers and policy makes in this part of the country. The collection is more than 40,000 Library documents covering books, reference volumes, monographs of national & international organizations, U.P. Government Official publications, Bound volumes and Microform & CD Collection.

The GIDS library is a modern state of the art, fully automated providing online and electronic library facilities to its scholars .It provides access to the rare academic resources and infrastructure for its users. The core areas are economic, sociology, education, political sciences and their allied fields.

The library is linked to a few on-line subscriptions and provides this facility from any networked computer within the Institute. The commitment of the library is towards fulfilling its mission of facilitating access to current, global and relevant information by identifying, acquiring, organizing and retrieving information to serve the academic needs of research fraternity.

 
About GIDS Library Resources Library Collection and Services E-Resources Facilities Other Services

Library Documents Periodicals- print and online version

  • Periodicals Subscribed Hyper link of List

  • Institutional Collection

Exchange Programme with Major Social Science Research Institutes

  • CD-ROM Collection

  • Hyper link of List

  • Micro forms of Gids Publication

  • Special Collection

  • U.P. Official Documents, ILO, UN, OECD, WB, CMIE

Bibliography & Documentation Service

  • Bibliography on Demand

  • Documenation on U.P.

  • Reference & Information Service

  • Special Collection

  • On-line Information Retrieval & Dissemination

  • SDI, CAS, ILL

Cyber lab Facilities

World Bank Electronic Library

Indiastat.com

EPW Archive

JSTOR

ISID Database

World Bank CD-ROM Databases

Networking Activities

  • Member LUCKLIBNET

  • ICSSR Institute Libraries Consortium

  • WB Depository Library Network

  • Member Open Index Initiative

 

Reference Services

Photocopying

Scanning

Inter Library Loan

Orientation Programme

Database Searching

Indexing/Abstracting Services

Online Public Access Catalogue

Digitized collection of Institute Publication

* Library Consultation is allowed only to bonafied Ph.D. Scholars and on guide’s or HOD’s recommendation
 
OBJECTIVES

To create a support system for researchers.

To act as the centre of learning resources.

To strengthen the academic infrastructure of the institute.

To support the research and consultancy programmes of the institute.

To store, retrieve and disseminate information.

To have repository centre of information on the state of Uttar Pradesh.

To provide modern state of the art, integrated and networked library services.
 
MAJOR LEARNING RESOURCES

Books.

Periodicals.

Institutional Publications.

Digitized & Microforms of GIDS publication.

Official publications on Uttar Pradesh.
 
SPECIALIZED SUBJECT AREAS

Environmental Economics.

Women Studies.

Rural/Urban development.

Agriculture development.

Specialization on U.P.
 
WORLD BANK DEPOSITORY LIBRARY STATUS

GIDS Library is the WB Depository from 1983 wherein it holds all the WB Publications for wider academic use. Now GIDS library avails their e-library facility also.
 
LIBRARY NEWS AND EVENTS

The Institute Library conducts workshops on Library Orientation and Training Programme to students, researchers and Teachers for use of e-resources. The recent programme are :

Information Resources Management for Social Scientists in Emerging Knowledge Era.

Capacity Building in Information Resource Management.

The library also organizes Academic programmes in partnership with the World Bank Group.
 
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

The library completed an ICSSR sponsored project on "Compilation of Union Catalogue of Government Publications of Uttar Pradesh".

A Ministry of Information Technology sponsored project on "Creating a Digitized Repository of GIDS Publications" has also been completed.
 
WORKING HOURS

10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on all working days except Sundays and Second Saturdays.
 
THE LIBRARY TEAM

Library is not only rich in its academic resources but also has dedicated competent and enthusiastic staff. The team members who contribute to its functioning are :

Dr. Anuradha Kakkar - Librarian
Library Administration, Planning & Policy Making, Managing IT Resources, Facilities & Services, Documentation Activities at local & National Level, Automation & Networking, Teaching & Conducting Training Programmes.

Ms. Rita Sinha - Assistant Librarian
Computerized Serial Control & Management, Attending Reader’s Queries, Documentation on U.P. Monitoring & Attending to E-Resource Facilities.

Ms. Anjali Srivastava - Assistant Librarian
Book Acquisition, Cataloguing & Classification, Current Awareness & bibliographic Service, Attending to reader’s queries.

Shri. Sarabjeet Yadav - Library Attendant
Library Maintenance & Stacks Organization, Assisting the Library visitors, Circulation & Card Filing.

Shri. Pramod Kumar - Library Attendant
Managing Circulation Desk, Assistance in Book Acquisition, Label Pasting & Card Filing.

Shri. Nandan.S.Bisht - Library Peon
Xerox Machine Operation, Operation of Current Periodicals Reading Room, Handling Physical Movement of Files etc.

Ms. Lata Bajpai - Typist
Routine Typing, Data entry & Processing on Libsys Software.