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L i b r a r y<br />
The Library was shifted from its crowded quarters<br />
in the Banjara Hills district of Hyderabad to<br />
ICRISAT Center on 28 February 1977. The new<br />
quarters, although temporary, are spacious and<br />
accommodative for the time being. Permanent<br />
Library facilities are expected to be ready sometime<br />
near the end of 1978.<br />
Acquisition<br />
The Library continues to acquire only highly<br />
specialized research documents pertaining to the<br />
areas of interest to ICRISAT scientists. The<br />
procurement of each document, therefore, requires<br />
special efforts. Growth in the Library<br />
collection is presented in Table 82.<br />
Catalog<br />
The card catalog of back-volumes of periodical<br />
holdings has been maintained in addition to the<br />
usual Official Catalog, Public Catalog, Shelf<br />
List, and Accession List. Back volumes and the<br />
subscribed completed volumes of periodicals<br />
have been bound. In all 1 133 books and periodicals<br />
were bound during the period of report,<br />
making a total of 4000 bound volumes of<br />
periodicals available to Library users.<br />
During the period under report 109 documents<br />
were supplied to libraries and scientists in<br />
ICRISATs areas of interest over the world.<br />
These figures reveal the excellent relations that<br />
the ICRISAT Library is maintaining with other<br />
libraries.<br />
The ICRISAT Library has up-dated its collection<br />
of the annual reports of various international<br />
and other institutions with areas of<br />
research similar to ICRISAT. It now has a<br />
unique collection of annual reports from 130<br />
institutions of 28 countries. This helps our<br />
scientists to avoid research-in-parallel and in<br />
planning their research-in-series.<br />
Another unique collection consists of copies of<br />
all the papers and tour reports of ICRISAT<br />
scientists.<br />
Documentation<br />
In the field of documentation, the Library has<br />
published the following:<br />
ICRISAT Library: Monthly List of<br />
Additions.<br />
Catalog of Periodicals: ICRISAT Library.<br />
1976.<br />
Bibliography of Theses on ICRISAT Specialities.<br />
1977.<br />
Cooperation in Agricultural Libraries in India.<br />
Paper presented at ICAR-PAU Seminar<br />
Table 82. Accessions of the ICRISAT Library.<br />
Total<br />
Mar 1974<br />
Total<br />
Mar 1975<br />
Total<br />
May 1976<br />
Added<br />
1976-1977<br />
Total<br />
May 1977<br />
Books 580<br />
2688 5225 2385 7610<br />
Bound volumes of periodicals 231<br />
1045 2551 1469 4020<br />
Microforms -<br />
311 471 389 860<br />
Periodicals subscribed 232<br />
23<br />
344 394 193 587<br />
Reprints for master file of bibliographies<br />
- - - 1400 1400<br />
Total (less periodicals) 13890<br />
237