Collection 

KRC/Library has more than 1,50,000 books and bound volumes of journals, including major reference books. KRC subscribes to around 250 journals, which are mainly in electronic format.  Chemical abstract is available in KRC/Library since its inception i.e. from 1907.  KRC/Library also has digitized documents of Annalen der Chemie (1832-1918), Chemische Berichte (1868-1916). The library also holds a print collection of BIOS, FIAT, CIOS, SRI  reports.

Services

Document Delivery Services (Journals articles, Patents, Translation of scientific/technical literature - from Japanese/Chinese/European languages to English), Online search of International databases, Electronic access to a number of databases hosted on NCL Intranet for the scientists and students of CSIR-NCL.

Membership

The membership of the library is available to postgraduate students, staff from academic institutions, Govt. R&D laboratories and industry. Only print resources are available for consultation /reference against library membership.

Timings

9.00 am to 5.30 pm on all working days.