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      Upon creation of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education in 1986 and subsequently its acquiring of autonomy in 1991, the then Central Library of Forest Research Institute and Colleges was rightly rechristened National Forest Library and Information Centre (NFLIC).

    The NFLIC is housed in a modern functional building having a plinth area of 7,266 square metre, and is richest in document collection on forestry and allied sciences in South and South-east Asia, having about 1.65 lakh books and other documents, more than 7,000 ledger files containing research articles, etc. on different forest species and subjects, and almost all Indian and foreign journals on forestry and allied sciences.

 

      
The NFLIC has the following objectives and functions, which are geared to the objectives and functions of the ICFRE:

OBJECTIVES

 

1.  to support research, teaching and extension programmes of the ICFRE;

2.  to serve as a repository of knowledge on forestry and allied sciences;

3.  to act a clearing-house of information on forestry and allied sciences.
FUNCTIONS

The function of the NFLIC is to provide the resources, services and facilities necessary to achieve its objectives and make
         suitable changes, if necessary, in the light of new developments in these areas.  The main functions of the NFLIC are
         given below :

 1. to  acquire reading materials, according to the requirements of the objectives of the NFLIC;

 2. to take suitable action for their maintenance, preservation and protection;

         3. to organise the reading material for effective use by classifying, cataloguing, indexing, etc.;

         4. to arrange the material in one or more sequences most convenient to use by readers;

         5. to provide adequate space for reading materials, equipment and readers;

         6. to provide readers services;

         7. to maintain sufficient and competent library staff to handle the reading material, equipment
              and readers’ services;

         8. to use adequate means to attract readers into the library and to promote reading habit;

         9. to actively disseminate information about the NFLIC and its programme;

        10. to adopt means for integration with the research and educational policies of the ICFRE;

        11. to continuously weed out outdated and unused materials;

        12. to identify the information resources available in other parts of the world that are relevant to 
               the interest of the Council.
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