Library

N. R. De Resource Centre on Labour Information (NRDRCLI) is one of the most reputed library cum documentation Centre in the area of labour studies in the country. The Centre was renamed in memory of late (Shri) Nitish R. De, the founder Dean of the Institute on July 01, 1999 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Institute. The Centre is fully computerized and offers the following services and products to its users. The Institute has been registered with National Library Network and has become Institutional Member of DELNET (Developing Library Network), New Delhi.

Physical Achievements
Books – The library has 65683 books / reports / bound volume of journals / slides / CDs / photographs / posters / banners / audio visual, etc till June 2024.
Journals – The library regularly subscribed to 108 professional journals, magazines and newspapers in printed and electronic forms.

Services
The library is constitutionally maintaining the following services to users populations

Article Alert Service
Lending Service
Inter-Library Loan service
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
Current Awareness Service
Bibliographical Service
On-line Search
Newspaper Article clippings
Micro-fiche search and printing
Reprographic Service
CD-ROM Search
Audio/Visual Service
Current Content Service
JSTOR Search

Products
The library provides following products in printed forms to users populations:

Article Alert Service – Weekly publication providing bibliographical information of important articles appeared in the subscribed journals / magazines and also hosted on the Institute’s web site for public access.
e-Newspaper Clipping Service – Weekly service of scan copy of all major news pertaining to labour & related subjects with index .
Guide to Periodical Literature – Quarterly in-house publication providing bibliographical information of articles from over 175 selected journals / magazine
Current Awareness Bulletin – Quarterly in-house publication providing bibliographical information on acquisition in NRDRCLI,
Current Content Service - Monthly publications. It is the compilation of content pages of subscribed journals.

Maintenance of specialize resource centres
The following two specialized resource centre have been created and maintained for reference purpose;