CED Library
CED's centres in Mumbai and Bangalore host a large collection of books, non-book materials, videos, CD, electronic files. Particularly attractive are the old archives of clippings, and reports which are unique to CED and hold a complete history of contemporary issues.
Though we now rely on internet and email technology, CED still processes very selectively 7 newspapers 5 magazines, 24 Journals and 17 newsletters.
CED’s documentation is also available in Electronic form. To provide easy accessibility, we have build up the following databases, which are used to search the databases and retrieve the full documents both online and offline, in physical and in electronic form:
Electronic Documentation System (ELDOC) This is a database of electronic documents selectively sourced from different developmental sites. And this database also has documents from our more than 25 year old archives. This database has over 160000 records and can be accessed through our website .
Master Catalogue System (MCS) It is the database containing index of all the books, reports, journal articles, films, etc. available at CED. This has over 45000 records. This database is on line and the visitors to our website – www.doccentre.net can access these. The users can do field based search and make bibliographies, as well as ask for the books , AV materials and articles.
Video Documentation
The main aim of the Video documentation is to capture the experiences and knowledge of local people and those in civil society, and make them available in different forms. Apart from these we have a collection of over 1000 VHS/CD/DVDs which includes documentary films, talks, presentations etc...
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