V.K.R.V. Rao Library
The V.K.R.V. Rao Library at ISEC has an impressive collection of two lakh titles, 400 microfiche copies of periodicals, official and non-official documents and back volumes of professional journals and periodicals. ISEC also subscribes to about 350 professional foreign and Indian journals, and nine newspapers. The V.K.R.V. Rao Library is considered as one of the best reference libraries in social sciences in south India, and the World Bank and several other international organisations have recognised it as a depository library. The collections of valuable books received as bequests from Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visveswaraya, Prof. V.K.R.V. Rao and Prof. P.R. Brahmananda are treasured possessions of the library and have added great value to it.
Recently, with a grant from Government of Karnataka ISEC has started a digital library and a large number of rare books and reports in social sciences have been digitised. Additionally, some books published by ISEC students and other ISEC publications have been digitised and all of these are available online to users. ISEC has entered into agreements with Mythic Society, Mysore University and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics to take ahead the process of digitisation.
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