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Reference Sources and Services

Notes 10.5.2 Facilities Available at NASSDOC

• Library and Reference Service
• NASSDOC Databases/Publications
• Bibliography on Demand/Literature Search Service
• Acquisition of Theses
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary loan/Reprography Service
• Current Awareness Service
• Study Grant (for consulting libraries)
• Grants-in-Aid to Bibliographical and Documentation Projects Continuing Education
Programme
• Preservation of Documents: Microfilming
• Library Automation (for modernising the services)
• ICSSR Sales and Distribution Unit.

Library and Reference Service
The ICSSR-NASSDOC library has a rich collection of reference sources viz, bibliographies,
encyclopedias, doctoral theses, research project reports, books on social science research methodology,
computer and information technology, research surveys and also on all social science disciplines.
The collection is augmented by bound volumes of periodicals, current Indian/foreign periodicals
including ICSSR publications and other abstracting and indexing journals in social sciences,
newsletters and annual reports of different organizations. Government reports/serials and
institutional publications are also acquired on regular basis.

Library collection
Doctoral Theses = 5,406
Bound Volumes of Periodicals = 12,000
Books = 13,615
The collection is augmented by 900 current Indian/foreign periodicals Publications including ICSSR
publications and other abstracting and indexing journals in social sciences. Government reports/
serials and institutional publications are also acquired on regular basis.

Library membership
ICSSR-NASSDOC library’s membership is open to the following categories of readers:

Official Members
These include ICSSR Council members/ senior officials of the ICSSR secretariat and regular
professional staff of the ICSSR (i.e. Research Assistants/Documentation Assistants and above are
official members), they are entitled to borrow books from the library.

Institutional Members
This type of membership is open to autonomous organizations, corporate houses, and research
wings of public/private bodies. Institutional/Corporate membership fee is ` 4000 per annum. An
institutional member can borrow five books at a time for a period of one month.

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