Mission
Within the scope of its resources and those of which it has access through formal &/or informal cooperative agreements, the mission of the Indian Statistical Institute Library is to meet the information requirements of its users and visitors of the Institute. To be a Library with valuable resources that provides efficient, effective and quality services to support the Institute as a centre of excellence in teaching, learning, research and consultancy that contribute towards the advancement of knowledge and progress of the country
Background
The Library occupies a unique place in academic and research activities of the Institute. It is perhaps the most important central facility provided by the Institute. The Library moved to its present location in 1978. It occupies 4 floors (64000 sq.ft) of a ten-storied building at Calcutta with a network of branch libraries at other locations of the Institute.
The Library seeks to:
- Meet the informational, educational, recreational, and cultural interests and needs of the user community by providing free and timely access to print and non-print resources appropriate to those needs.
- Encourage and facilitate reading, literacy and lifelong learning by supplying resources in a variety of formats designed to interest, inform, and enlighten.
- Protect the public's right to know by resisting censorship and providing equal access to information needed for informed and effective daily living, decision making, problem solving and thoughtful participation in civic/community affairs.
- Provide the highest quality service and to organize and display the collection for easy, open access by all.
- Maintains publication exchange programme of the Institute with regional, international, national, and foreign institutions and organizations.
The ISI Library, Calcutta has also been functioning as the Eastern Regional Library of the National Board of Higher Mathematics [NBHM], Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India since 1989. Over the years, the ISI Library has attained the distinction of being one of the richest libraries in India in the areas of mathematics, statistics, economics, theoretical computer science and related areas.