(An Autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of India, New Delhi)

Dindigul

Tamil Nadu

An autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of India, New Delhi

Dindigul

Tamil Nadu

Library & Information Center

The GIRH Institution of education has the main responsibilities of equipping Students, Researchers, and Faculty. In particular library undertakes many responsibilities and performs varied functions and it plays a vital role to our education and research by providing invaluable resource for knowledge and services.

Library & Information Center

Mission of the Library:

  • To provide quality services, facilitating access to comprehensive and relevant resources, and fostering good learning environment through the collection of physical and electronic documents from various sources and disseminate to patron.
  • A special library for Public Health, Community Medicine and Family Planning.

Library Timings:

Monday – Saturday 9.30am – 5.15pm
  • 2nd & 4th Saturday’s are holidays.
  • All Sunday’s are holidays.
  • And all Govt holidays, the library will be closed.

Library Facilities:

  • More number of seats are available for all library users.
  • Library has good ventilation and lighting facilities.
  • A good environment for reading the resources.
  • Wi-Fi connectivity available in the library campus.

Library Holdings:

Books
Public Health
Demography
Family Welfare
RCH
Communication
Sociology
Environmental Sanitation
Nursing and Midwifery
Behavioral Sciences
Health Education
Mass Communication
Training & Development
Psychology
Social Psychology
Research Methodology
Anthropology
Management
Statistics
Nutrition
Medicine

Journals:

Library has regular subscription of National & international journals for the past 30 years. The subscription has been including the following subject headings:
  • Clinical Research
  • Demography
  • Family Welfare
  • Health
  • Medical Research
  • Nursing
  • Public Health
  • Social Work
In addition, library has Magazines, News Letters & News Papers

Back Volumes:

Library has very good collection of back volumes in some journals. Most of the back volumes focused on Demography, Economic and Political Weekly, Epidemiology, Family Planning, Health Sciences, Medical Research, Nursing, Nutrition, Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

Services:

Institute library has been providing some services to the entire users of GIRH. It includes Current Awareness Service (CAS), Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), and News articles from different Journals, Magazine and News papers. The Information covered on community health, preventive medicine, nursing management and allied subjects. All the information has been forwarding to all the users via their email IDs. CAS service is monthly based and SDI and News articles are daily based.

Librarian has been providing the user education for the new users including students from various courses, trainees and others coming to our institute regularly. From this orientation user can identify the available resources (Print and Electronic) for easy access.

Currently library has an electronic catalogue with the help of library software called CDS/ISIS and through this eCatalogue librarian able to inform the users their needs.

For the digital library, the librarian recently is starting the digital platform with the help of Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) Software. Through this software all the electronic resources gathering and build the collection for library users. After the completion of these work users easy to access all the electronic resources including Journal articles, eBooks, and etc in all formats (PDF, WORD, PPT, and EXCEL).

Librarian is a member of Association of Vision Science Librarian (AVSL) and its consist of more than 200 librarians in world wide. Often librarian has collecting more number of articles, data and other literature from AVSL for institute faculty and the students.

Library & Information Center