Web OPAC (Search Library Catalogue): The entire Library collection including books, journals, etc. can be searched through the web enabled Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). Users can access the OPAC to find out the real-time availability of library materials from their own computer terminals. Faculty and students can reserve items, which are on loan. Faculty is also encouraged to send request for new acquisitions in the Library though the OPAC.

Lending service: Lending service is available to faculty, students, administrative, research and other staff members of IIMI community.

Inter Library Loan/Resource Sharing: Library has co-operative arrangements with other IIMs to get documents, which are not available in the IIMI Library. Faculty and researchers can avail this facility.

Proactive Information Services: Library provides specific information services such as alert on upcoming conferences, CAS, SDI, etc. to the academic community.

Reference and Research Services: Library staff support the faculty and researchers in various ways like conducting extensive literature surveys, preparation of subject bibliographies on any given topic, reading lists, database searches, etc. Staff also help the students with information resources in doing their projects as part of the course work, conducting case studies, etc.

Reprographic service: On request, photocopy/ies of the document/s available in the library may be provided subject to copyright restrictions. The Institute will determine the fee for this service from time to time.

Children Section: A special section for children has been organized in the library.

Ask the Librarian: Users are encouraged to contact the Library staff via email if they have a query. We will reply usually within 24 hours. If the question involves in-depth research assistance, the user is encouraged to speak to one of our library staff.

External Membership Services: External members from business/industrial and government setups as well as from the academics are granted membership under certain specified conditions.

Information services: Most of the information services are available through the Digital Library accessible through the Institute’s LAN. Other major services include inter-library loan, book exhibitions and reference services. Three Dell workstations were installed to provide online and offline access to library resources to the users visiting the library.

Other Activities: IIMI Library is actively engaged in organizing workshops, seminars & consulting activities. The details of the activities can be found in the following blogs. These blogs contains reports, photographs & newspaper clippings.

http://sicilibnet.blogspot.com/
http://iimindorelibrary.blogspot.com/
http://indorepubliclibrary.blogspot.com/
http://indolibnet.blogspot.com/
http://sis2008conference.blogspot.com/