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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

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