The library and Documentation centre of the National Institute has been acting as a resource and learning centre to meet the information needs of its clientele, including faculty/staff members, Ph.D. scholars, MEAD students of the NIEPA, research scholars from India and abroad, and participants of various national/ international training/diploma programmes organized by the National Institute, and other visiting faculty and users.
It is no exaggeration to state that the NIEPA library is one of the best and finest education libraries in the world due to its collection, and resources. The library is equipped with modern teaching and learning aids, computer facilities and electronic facilities such as Wi-Fi. All in-house activities in the library, including Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation and Serials Control are fully computerized using LMS e-Granthalaya developed by NIC.

The library remains open from Monday to Saturday. The service hours of the library are as follows:

NIEPA library is located within the main building of the institute. The library consists of three floors along with DC:

• First Floor: Reference desk, Membership desk, Circulation desk, Librarian's office, WEB OPAC, INFLIBNET Research Corner, IKS Books Corner, Reading Hall, Books stacks, and Current periodicals display racks. The library has its entrance from the first floor.


• Ground Floor: Reading Hall, bound periodical stacks, books stacks, Light reading magazines display rack, Processing sections, Photocopying section.


• Second Floor: Reading Hall, Theses and Dissertations Corner, and Reference books stacks.

NIEPA Faculty, MAED students/Ph.D. scholars, and participants of various national/international programmes organized by the institute as registered members are allowed to use the library. The library generates library membership ID for user using LMS e-Granthalaya.

The collection development is a core activity of the library. It has undergone remarkable changes in the last decade due to increasing demands of users for e- Resources. NIEPA library has also changed its collection development strategy. The library currently subscribes to over 95% of its journals in both print and online formats. However, the books are still preferred in print only.

The NIEPA library has a rich collection of books, journals, and e-resources on educational planning and management. Besides, Library also has a good and unique country collection of books in the areas of education and its allied disciplines. The library also subscribes to many light reading magazines along with daily newspapers in Hindi and English. It caters to the needs of enrolled students, faculty members, alumni, staff and retired employees of the institute. The new arrivals are displayed and publications of the institute are also displayed separately.

The Documentation Centre also has very important national and international reports and surveys on education which are needed for educational research and policy – making. The centre holds a rich collection of theses, and dissertations of NIEPA’s M.Phil. and Ph.D. Programmes and other universities, dissertations of Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration (PGDEPA) and International Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration (IDEPA).

All e-Resources are subscribed by the NIEPA library for academic purpose only and exclusively restricted to the authorized users of the Institute. It can be searched, browsed and material may be downloaded and printed as single copies of articles as is done in the case of printed library material.

NIEPA Library provides a Remote Access facility of subscribed e- Resources through VPN. All faculty members, researchers, and students can access to the library e-resources from outside the campus, anywhere, anytime from the library web page.

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