Library

IIPM Library plays a vital role in meeting the present and anticipated future needs of its engineering community by selecting, acquiring and disseminating appropriate engineering, technical and managerial information.
Objectives of IIPM Library
To act as a reference centre for technical information in production management, condition based maintenance (CBM), maintenance engineering and management and allied subjects for members, students and participants of IIPM.
To collect, process, store and disseminate information in the field of production management, condition based maintenance (CBM), manufacturing and maintenance engineering management for interested users within the institute.
To participate in the integrated development of Global information system in this rapidly developing technical field.
Services Provided
Current Awareness Services (CAS) - Current Awareness Services is provided to the members to keep themselves up-to-date about the library collection. IIPM Library is fulfilling this services by displaying names of new addition.
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) - This service is provided to an individual or a group, providing information specific to his/their topic of interest.
Information Retrieval System (IRS) - IIPM Library maintains computerized database for faster access of bibliographical information of books, videocassettes and CD-ROMs. To serve its users effectively and efficiently, considering various factor like budget, space, time, manpower etc, the library has a collection of both print and non-print media.
Print media - IIPM has a well stocked library with a wide range of books, periodicals, journals and magazines relevant to the field.
Non-Print media - The library has a collection of more than 250 Videocassettes and offers facility of in-house viewing of the videocassettes and also continually expanding collection of CD-ROMs, which is closed to about more than 300 numbers.
Reprographic Service - The institute equipped with heavy duty photocopying machine. Photocopying service is provided to the staff members free of charges but nominal fee is charged for student/participants.
Referral - In this service the users are guided to the services and collections of other libraries to satisfy their specific query.
Article Indexing - IIPM library is maintaining a database of bibliographic information of each article relevant to the field from our subscribed national/international journals.
Reference Services through Internet - By the virtue of connecting 24 hours broadband Internet connectivity, IIPM Library is providing reference services to its staff members.