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The library is accommodated in a separate building with three floors. Main stack is in cellar, while the ground floor has the main reading area for about 40 users, and first floor presently has individual cubicles for 8 research scholars. |
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The acquisition of books and periodicals for the Library started right from the inception of the Centre. The collection grew to a strength over 25,385 in a span of more than two decades. The Library receives about 150 Indian and foreign periodicals. There are 2344 back volumes, which include most of the Indian Economic Journals. |
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Data sets, which are the staple of scholars engaged in socio-economic research, find a place on the shelves of the Centre's Library. These include NSS reports, Population censuses, Agricultural censuses, ASI, CMIE data volumes. A collection of Doctoral and M.Phil dissertations is also available for reference. |
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As the only depository Library of the World Bank in the state of Andhra Pradesh, receives the Bank's research publications, which are of immense value to the research community. |
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The Library maintains liaison with other Development Research Institutions in India and abroad. The list of such institutions includes UNCTAD, OECD, Asian Development Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute besides many of the ICSSR funded institutions in the country. As a result, the Library has been able to build a collection of working papers, constituting the 'Grey Literature'. |
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The Library makes extensive use of the e-mail facility to receive current contents, table of contents of Journals, both received and not received, in the Library. It has already built up a sizeable collection of working papers and policy documents in electronic format. |
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