INTRODUCTION

National Documentation Centre (NDC) was established in the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW) in 1977 by merging two existing libraries at National Institute of Health Administration and Education (NIHAE) and National Institute of Family Planning (NIFP).The National Documentation Centre is located in its own building in the premises of National Institute of Health and Family Welfare near Jawaharlal Nehru University, South Delhi.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The National Documentation Centre of NIHFW endeavors to acquire, process, organize and disseminate global information to fulfill the information needs of the administrators, planners, policy makers, researchers, teachers, trainers, programme personnel and public concerned with health, population and family welfare throughout the country.  The library facilities available at NDC are probably one of the best inIndia in this field.  Over a period of two decades  NDC has developed a well balanced and up to date collection of over approx.70,000 documents including books, periodicals, technical reports, annual reports, statistical reports, conference proceedings, modules, non-book materials etc. in the field of health, population and family welfare and allied areas carrying world wide information.

NDC has been well furnished with floor carpeting, furniture and fixture.  The portraits of eminent scientists and sceneries add more beauty in NDC.  Display system of journals and arrival of new publications are very well arranged on the wooden racks.  Books and current journals are placed on the ground floor and the bound journals, census of India and special publications (UN, WHO, etc.) are arranged on the first floor of NDC.  Sitting arrangement of users has been classified according to display of different types of literatures – books, journals, newspapers, respectively.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Conference Hall- NDC has got adjacent conference hall having 70 seating capacity equipped with state of the audio-visual facilities.

Book Section-Books are well arranged on the iron stacks subject wise according to IPPF scheme.

Open access- NDC provides open access facility to the users. It has two big stack rooms. One room is at ground floor for books and other is on first floor for bound journals and WHO publications.

Reading Rooms- Reading room is fully air-conditioned with computer facility, printer and internet facilities.

Circulation – Circulation desk is fully automated with facilities like computer, barcode scanner, printer, intercom etc.

Local Area Network- LAN has been installed in NDC with one Pentium IV and several nodes. One node each for circulation section, acquisition section, serial section and Documentation sect