IIRS Central Library has a wide range of collection of documents and information resources in print and electronic form to meet the requirement of its user community, especially on literature pertaining to Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Geospatial Technologies and their applications in various fields. Presently, it has a collection of over 23,600 volumes of documents (until November 2011), which include books, monographs, technical reports, dissertations & theses, proceedings, back volumes of journals, etc. Besides, multimedia CDs, video cassettes on several topics are also archived for the benefit of students/trainees as a supplementary material for outside-classroom learning. The Library subscribes to 57 national and 50 international journals in print form. Its electronic resources (online full-text) at present include 29 Journals and 589 e-books.
The house keeping operations and user services of the library are automated. The resources can be searched through Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) available on LAN. The Library is open to its users six days a week during 09:00 – 20:30 hrs.
