The IDOL Library is established to develop appropriate collection in various disciplines to satisfy the needs of the different reading communities of the institution. The IDOL Library is one of the important central facilities of the institution, currently having nearly 6500 volumes, including textbooks, reference books and non-book material such as Dissertations, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, etc. For house keeping operations IDOL Library uses SOUL (Software for University Libraries) software provided by INFLIBNET Centre, an IUC of University Grants Commission (UGC).

Gauhati University being a member of UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/index.php) which provides current as well as archival access to more than 5000 core and peer-reviewed journals and nine bibliographic databases from 23 publishers and aggregators in different disciplines. Users of IDOL Library can access the e-resources of UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium from the IDOL campus. IDOL Library also promotes Open Access e-resources. Our success lies on its use by the academic community of Instituteof Distanceand Open Learning.

Following sections describe the features of the library-

Working hours

10.00 am to 5.00 pm in all working days

Membership

The following persons are eligible to become members of the library-

•         The administrative staff,
•         The teaching staff
•         The students, &
•         The employees of the institution

Services

The library provides the following services-

•      Lending service which is restricted to teachers only,
•      Readingroom service,
•      Reference & information service, &
•      Reprography (Xerox)
•      Free Internet Browsing