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  LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

 

NUEPA Library and Documentation Centre are situated in a building of the Institute covering 750 sq. meter of carpet area of three floors. It has a wide collection of more than 53500 volumes on educational planning and management includes books, documents, government publications, annual reports, project reports, UNESCO, World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) publications. It has about 4141 bound volumes of journals. In addition, the library has audio-visual facilities containing about 370 items of non-book material such as audio cassettes, video cassettes, films, micro-films, microfiches and CD-ROMs on education and its allied disciplines. Users can view video films from the library collection in audio-visual room. The library subscribes to more than 250 journals and magazines both national and international in the core area of education, planning and management.

NUEPA's Documentation Centre comprises of a unique collection of the Central and State Governments' publications such as Census of India, State Census Reports, State Gazetteers, Statistical Handbooks of States, All India Educational Surveys, Economic Survey, State Economic Surveys, State Educational Plans, Five Year Plans, NUEPA Research Studies, NUEPA Occasional Paper Series, NUEPA Training Programme Reports, Annual Reports of various Ministries, International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris. Moreover, it holds a rich collection of theses and dissertations on International Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration (IDEPA) and Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration (DEPA). Moreover, the centre holds a rich collection of non-book material such as CD-ROMs on Census of India 2001, District Report Cards 2001-2004, Maps at School, Maps of India, State Human Development Reports, World Development Reports, etc. Documentation Centre subscribes to 20 national and regional newspapers and maintains the press clippings for the use of faculty and other users. 

It has computerized all its operations by using an integrated software LibSys 5.0. Moreover, the Library and Documentation Centre are equipped with electronic databases like Educational Resources and Information Centre (ERIC). The Library and Documentation Centre have a membership of DELNET (Developing Library Network) to promote the sharing of resources at national and international level.

Moreover, the Library and Documentation Centre have developed an online library that provides access to more than 200 full-text Indian and foreign journals, national and international indexing databases, current contents of periodicals, newspapers and full-text reports both national and international. 

It has air-conditioned facility, which provides conducive environment for the readers of the library and documentation centre.  The Library and Documentation Centre have the reading cum reference room that having the capacity of more than 75 readers on three floors. It meets the information needs of faculty, researchers and participants of workshops, seminars and training programmes conducted by NUEPA time to time.

LIBRARY HOLDINGS

Sr.No. Items

Number of Items

1. Books (Including Reference Books) 31552
2. Documents 17500
3. Bound Volumes of Journals 4141
4. Non-book Material (Including CD-ROMs) 370
5. Journals and Magazines 250
6. Light Reading Magazines 18
7. Newspapers (including Employment News) 20
 

For information on any specific item, please click on the items of interest listed below:

Newspaper
In-house Databases
Online Public Access Catalogue
Documentation and Current Awareness Services (CAS)
Issue and Return
Library Hours

Newspaper

Documentation Centre is subscribing 20 newspapers daily.

  1. Amar Ujala (Hindi)
  2. The Asian Age
  3. Business Line
  4. Dainik Jagran (Hindi)
  5. The Economic Times
  6. Employment News
  7. The Financial Express
  8. Hindustan (Hindi)
  9. Hindustan Times
  10. The Indian Express
  11. Jan Satta (Hindi)
  12. The Kashmir Times
  13. Navbharat Times (Hindi)
  14. The Pioneer
  15. Rajasthan Patrika (Hindi)
  16. Rashtriya Sahara (Hindi)
  17. The Statesman
  18. The Telegraph
  19. The Times of India
  20. The Tribune
In-house Databases

Six in-house databases developed in the Library and Documentation Centre are:

  1. BOOKS
  2. DOCUMENTS
  3. NON-BOOK MATERIAL
  4. SERIALS CONTROL
  5. INDEXING DATABASE
  6. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
On-line Public Access Catalogue

OPAC facility has been provided to the Library and Documentation Centre users. All faculty members can access the library catalogue and other in-house databases from their terminals.

Online Documentation and  Current Awareness Services

Online Documentation and Current Awareness Services (CASs) provided are:

  1. List of New Additions (Monthly)
  2. List of Journals Subscribed 
  3. List of Indian and Foreign Journals Discontinued
  4. Current Contents of Periodicals
  5. List of Indexing of Journals' Articles
  6. List of NUEPA Research Studies
  7. NUEPA Orientation Programme Reports 
  8. List of Theses
  9. List of DEPA and IDEPA Dissertations
  10. Press Clippings (Monthly)
  11. Bibliographic Service (On demand)
  12. Interlibrary Loan/Resource Sharing Service 
  13. Photocopying Service
Issue and Return

The Library and Documentation Centre have assigned the period of lending documents to different categories of users:

  • Faculty members can borrow up to10 books from the library for a period of 2 weeks only. In addition, they can also borrow 2 back issues of the magazines for a period of one week only.

  • Faculty members can borrow up to 05 documents from the Documentation Centre over night only. Reference documents and theses and dissertations would not be issued to the users.

  • Reference books and current journals/magazines would not be issued to the faculty and other users.

  • Officers of the NUEPA can borrow 10 books from the library for the period of two weeks. They are entitled to borrow one back issue of the magazine for two days.

  • NUEPA staff can borrow up to 2 books from the library for the period of two weeks. They can get issued one back issue of the magazine for two days.

  • Library Hours

    The Library and Documentation Centre remains open from Monday to Saturday. The timings of the Library and Documentation Centre are:

     

    • Library and Documentation Centre            Monday to Friday 9.00 AM to 5.30 PM      
    • Library                                                             Saturday 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM

     

    Last updated: 02-11-2006

     

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