One of India's finest and most coveted research libraries, the Indian Council of World Affairs' Library is located in the heart of New Delhi. It is well equipped on international affairs and allied streams including political history and developments in India.
The Library is a treasure trove of more than 65,000 volumes
of books, some of them rare, bound periodicals, rare maps,
microfiches and about 7 lac clippings with special reference
to international relations, international law and international
economy. It offers a congenial atmosphere with a reader-
cultured approach in a serene and calm environment to
more than 150 readers at any given time of the day. It
subscribes to about 384 research journals of repute from
National and International leading journal publications
and houses 28 thousand periodicals in bound form. Newspaper
files of the Hindu (Madras) from 1933 to 1979,
the Times of India (Bombay) from 1945 to1975 and
the Times of India (New Delhi) from 1969 to 2004
are also preserved beside stray volumes of The Asian
Age, The Economic Times,The Financial Times (London),
The International Herald Tribune, The Nation (Lahore),
The Pakistan Times and The Japan Times (Tokyo) News.
UNITED NATIONS & EUROPEAN UNION SECTION
The ICWA Library is a repository for the United Nations and European Union documents, periodicals and its other publications. The library has almost all the UN documents since 1945. Important among them are Security Council and General Assembly debates and their Resolutions. The access to these documents is free of charge. Similarly, the Library has almost all the publications of the European Union documents under a repository scheme.
PERIODICALS INDEXING SERVICE
The Library also provides bibliographical support to the readers. It indexes 202 journals as part of Current Awareness Services to research scholars working on international affairs, India and Indian politics. Indexing services are available from 1956 onwards.
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