Library

The NITIE Library holds one of the richest collection in books journals and online databases in the field of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Organizational Behaviour, Financial Management, Training & Information Technology. It has an excellent collection of reference books, like Subject, Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks and Workbooks . Efforts are made to purchase national and international conference proceedings etc. As the Institute has its own residential campus, library also caters to the information needs of our staff, officers, and their children.

We subscribe to nearly 220 Foreign & Indian Technical Journals in print format. We have a rich coverage of newspapers, in Hindi Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telegu and English.

The library collection as on 31st March 2007 are:

• Technical books 50776

• Light Reading books P7756

• Bound Journals J9361

• Hindi books H2161

• Marathi books M714

• Complimentary + Free books 740

Over the last 3 years we are one of the CORE members of INDEST alongwith the IIT’s, IIM’s and NIT’s.

Through INDEST we get the following database of online journals, case studies etc:

ABI / Inform Complete

ACM Digital Library

IEL Online

J-Gate Custom Content for Consortia

We also subscribe to the following online databases to cater to the needs of our faculty:

1. EBSCO (Business Source Premier)

2. Emerald Full Text

3. Science direct –

i) Business Management & Accounts

ii) Decision Science

iii) Computer Science

4. Economic Intelligence Service (EIS)

5. PROWESS

PROWESS and EIS are databases of Indian Corporate Information and Financials.

The library provides the above resources on its campus wide net work. The library catalogue OPAC is also provided throughout the campus. The library uses the LIBSYS software package for library management.

The library is managed by a team of six professionals and 10 semi professional staff. We operate from 9.00 a.m to 12 midnight all days of the week.

The important library activities are Collection Development, Collection Maintenance, Circulation, Reference and Information Service. We are supported by the Library Committee consisting of faculty from various disciplines in our purchase function. We enjoy a budget of nearly Rs.1 crore:

Currently we operate from an area of about 4500 sq.ft.Future plans of the library is to move to a new premises.

Sr Librarian and Head LIS

NITIE Mumbai 400 087

ph: 28573371 extn 337