The library at CSIR-NBRI was established by Prof. K N Kaul, the founder Director of the Institute, on April 13, 1953, with a small collection of publications. In keeping with the vision and mission of the Institute, the library has been continuouly developed to serve as a centre for knowledge resources. The library, therefore, acts as the main knowledge resource centre of the Institute and provides services and facilities to meet the S & T knowledge requirements of the Institute’s R & D activities. The library operates with the following objectives:

• To support the learning process of the research students through provision of knowledge/information.
• To meet knowledge/information needs of the scientists and research students to support their research activities.
• To respond effectively, where possible, to the knowledge/information needs of the Institute’s client systems.
The library is centrally located in the KN KAUL Block of the Institute. It is spread over three floors. The entrance of the library is from the first floor. It has reading areas on all the floors. Library remains open from 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM on all working days. The Library is fully automated with Libsys software. It provides fully automated circulation services to the users throughout working hours of the institute. Check out; check in, reservation of documents, overdue notices, enrolment of membership, no dues etc. are done in minimum possible time.CSIR-NBRI library holds following collections:

I.    Books - 28159
II.   Periodicals (Bound Volume) – 30000; [Currently subscribed periodicals (Indian + Foreign) print only 200, Print +

       online periodicals 34, online periodicals 18 ( subscribed) 51 ( complementary) ]
III.  On line/CD-ROM Databases:-
IV.  OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
V.   Biological Abstracts on CD ROM from 1995 to 2005
VI.  ASTM standards on CD ROM
VII. ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE

A Botanical Archive, was inaugurated by Dr. PV Sane, the then Director of NBRI, on August 16, 1991. It is housed on the ground floor of the library. It contains rare and hand-written manuscripts in Persian and Arabic, illustrations of plants dating back to 18th century, besides a host of other botanical literature of original value. Inter Library Loan is the service in which books and journals are made available to the users of NBRI which are not available in CSIR-NBRI Library. The users may give an application to In-charge; Library to get the books borrowed from the libraries of Lucknow based research laboratories. Inter Library Loan facility is provided to share the resources of libraries, for their maximum use.CSIR-NBRI Library provides Document Delivery Services by sending documents through online / by posts against Document Delivery Requests (DDR) received from various laboratories of CSIR and DST through JCCC-CSIR database.
Contact:
             Dr. R.K. Srivastava
             Sr.Principal Scientist
             Ph. 0522- 2297838

             E-Mail: r.k.srivastava[at]nbri.res.in
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