Information Services / Technology

The Library offers Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), Current Awareness Service (CAS), Reference Service, and Inter-library loan. It brings out an article alert list every month. Newspaper clippings on various topics of scientific interest are regularly displayed and circulated. It brings out a list of additions every month and a cumulative list annually. It provides information regarding forthcoming conferences, seminars, and symposia. It also helps the scientists in planning and carrying out an online search of scientific information. The Library compiles bibliographies on various subjects, review articles, and a cumulative subject index of articles. An up-to-date bibliographical list of MACS-ARI research papers, published since 1946, has been compiled and published by the Library.

The main objective of the Library and Information Centre is to strengthen its documentation and information dissemination services with the help of computers. The use of computers in the library started in the year 1991 with the aim of developing various bibliographic databases useful to scientists. The email service was set up in the year 1995 to facilitate and expedite scientific communication. Subsequently, the Internet facility was set up in the year 1999 to provide access to scientific literature available on the Internet. The website of the Institute (www.aripune.org) was developed and launched in the same year. It is maintained by the library. A broadband connection of 1 Mbps bandwidth was set up in the year 2006 to provide faster access to the Internet. Computer systems are installed in the reading hall of the library to provide a broadband internet facility.

The computerization of the library started in the year 1991. Presently, there are dedicated computers to carry out each function of the Library separately. All the computers in the Library are connected to form an internal library network, which is also a part of the main LAN of the institute. A Windows version of the library software is available to provide a web-based platform.