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The
Library was set up in 1950 with a meagre budget of a few
thousand rupees and a generous donation of books and
periodicals from Profs M N Saha, P C Mohanty, P N Ghosh,
N N Das Gupta, A K Saha, S K Ghosh and others. Indian
Science News Association, Indian Association for the
Cultivation of Science and the National Institutes of
Science in India made gifts of periodicals.
Since then the
Library has grown steadily in size (now 6500 square metres) and resources. Its
budget, only Rs 50,000 in 1960, went up to Rs 2 lakhs in
1970 and 14 lakhs in the early eighties. It stands at
5 Crore now.
The Library has
the Libsys 6.1 (with the Web
OPAC) software installed on a Linux platform to help
access the Library Databases using any standard
browser.
On-line
access to journals is available to the institute
members only. Journal sharing facility exists among a
few Libraries in Kolkata. The Library offers its reading
room service to the outsiders on appropriate
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