Aims & Objective

The primary mission of the Medical Library is to provide the information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources in the field of Mental Health and Allied Sciences to the scholarly and informational needs of the institute community. It also support the educational and research programme of the institute by providing physical and intellectual access to information, consistent with the  present and anticipated educational and research programmes of the institute. In accordance with the objectives of the institute, library provides a wide range of current, accurate and authoritative information from a vast selection of print and electronic resources using state-of-the-art technology.

Collection

The library collection focuses primarily on Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurosciences, Psychiatric Social Work and Psychiatric Nursing. The collection of the library which includes books, journals, VHS, VCDs, Reports, Dissertation, Thesis, WHO publication, Microfilms and e–journals is regarded one of the richest collection in the country. It has some rarest collection of reference materials dating back from 1910 and onwards. It maintains approximately 35000 books, 15000 bound volumes of journals and WHO publication. The annual budget of the library is over 2.5 crores. The library currently subscribes 306 print journals and has access of almost 2000 e-journals by using different platform such as Science Direct, OvidSP, Blackwell-Synergy, Informaworld, Springerlink etc. Library is also a member of the ERMED- India consortia which is run by National Medical Library, New Delhi. ERMED provides full text access of almost 1500 journals on its platform. It is no exaggeration to state that the CIP library is the largest and finest of its kind in the country.

The library offers services such as Borrowing of library materials, References Services, Xeroxing, Users Guiding Services, Digital Circulation, Display of New Arrivals, Document Delivery Service, Current Awareness Service etc. Library has On-line and Off-line literature search facility also. Library is well connected with LAN of the institute and has 128 Kbps Leased Line and 2Mbps Broad Band Internet connectivity.

The library has been using the LIBSYS and Integrated Library Management software package with all the modules of library housekeeping operations. All the holdings of the library have been digitised and users can search the library database by using LibSys OPAC online.
 
Library is currently running in Technical Block of the institute. A three storied new building will be ready by the end of the year 2009. The new building will be equipped with latest electronic surveillance systems and the state-of-the art automatic circulation system
 
Library is currently being opened from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm without any break except on every 2nd Saturday of the month, Sunday and all Gazetted holidays. Currently library has 6 staffs comprising of 2 library professionals (i.e. Sr. Librarian and Librarian), 2 Nursing staffs, a Peon and a Safaiwala each. Any one can contact the library for any type of information needed in their academic/research work by using the e-mail address ciplibrary<at>hotmail<dot>com