ABOUT LIBRARY The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) library was established in 1970. It is a research library specializing in the area of Indian Languages, Linguistics and related areas. The main objective of the Library is to provide information support to the staff of the Institute in their academic and research pursuits. It caters to the needs of linguists and language specialists of the institute and also scholars from various parts of the country and abroad. The resource collection includes books, journals, non-book materials, unpublished and electronic sources. It has a book collection of 63,000 volumes representing linguistics, Indian languages, Literature, Social Sciences etc., and receiving 250 professional journals and periodicals. An extensive collection of non-book materials include Microfilms, Microfiche, Cassette tapes, Film strips, Maps and Charts. This year (2001) the library was subscribed to Electronic journals, thro' EBSCO information services group, New Delhi, which provides access to its data bases namely 'Academic Search Premier' and 'Academic search Elite'. This enable the users to access the full text articles for 2,800 journals and abstracts and index for 2,647 scholarly journals in the area of Humanities, Social sciences, Education etc. The digitization work has been taken up in a phased manner using the WINISIS package development by UNESCO. The library has computer facility: Two Compaq computers with LAN connection Compac Deskpro, Pentium-3/866 MHZ, 64MB RAM, 20 GB HD, 1.44 MPFD, 2 serial, one parallel, 2USP and one game post with multimedia, One HCL computer: HCL celeron/466 MHZ, 8GB HD,1.44 MBFD, 2 serial, one parallel, 2USB ports,48xCD drive, on board sound card. Fifteen terminals are being installed exclusively for accessing E-journals. It also has a photocopying machine to help the users. The future endeavor is: 1. To create natioal data base for linguistics of Indian languages. 2. To develop libery as national information centre for linguistics of Indian languages.