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During the pandemic and the period of lockdown, procuring the available ones and provided access
the second big challenge was upkeeping of the remotely. Now, we have also begun on migrating
physical library and its resources from dust, library servers to new ones to make these systems
insects, and humidity. We took off this journey and robust for future use. We were able to do all this
with the help of Estate department could get the with the support of authorities library committee
library cleaned and pest controlled on a periodic members and staff of all the departments and

basis initially and from August 2020 on a regular support teams.
basis, so that the library can be put for immediate
use as soon the institute reopens. During these In the post-Covid era, we perceive, libraries are
challenging times with the limited on campus staff going to be resilient and regain their momentum.
support, we continued to acquire new resources, However, as it happened after the emergence of
conducted library committee meetings and events, the Internet, there will be some amount of shift in

renewed subscriptions to both print and online users’ behavior regarding the use of the physical
journals, handling of day-today administration, library and its resources, but they will continue to
contributing metadata of IGIDR working papers to use print resources for reasons of non-availability
RePEc, bringing out monthly ‘ÉconBuzz’ in e-formats and secondly, the libraries will not be
newsletter on a regular basis and sharing useful able to procure the e-versions owing to enormous
information through email and library Twitter cost, which is usually ten times higher than the
handle ‘@igidrlib’. Among the new resources, printed books. In addition, the licensing issues and

procurement of course specific e-books, was subscription mode of procurement will also
challenging as many of these were not available in prevent this from happening especially in the case
e-formats, however, we put in our efforts in of e-books.

We believe, in the future, IGIDR library users would
adore the physical library, as much as they like to
read resources from their personal devices and
comforts of their homes/hostel rooms. We will thrive
hard and change ourselves to changing times as
change is always constant, which will help us see the

things as seen by our users. Also, try our best to save
our users from ‘infodemic’.

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