About SIRC

SIRC Services

1.Daily display of Journals/Preprints/Reprints/Newsletters/Annual Reports received at NCRA/GMRT SIRC.
2. Books/journals not available in the NCRA library are made available to users, on request, by procuring them on loan from other libraries in the country.
3. Photocopied articles from other libraries are also provided if requested. If none of the libraries in India are able to provide the required article then we also approach INSDOC and procure the document for the users
4. Library has access to various astronomical databases around the world such as NED, RGO, ADS etc.
5. SIRC displays the newly acquired books for ten days before releasing them for issue. The list of these books are sent to GMRT(Khodad), RAC(Ooty), IUCAA(Pune), RRI (Bangalore) and IIA (Bangalore) libraries
6.The NCRA Library has an institutional membership with the British Library, Pune. NCRA Library users
can borrow books/journals from the British Library
7.The permanent staff members of NCRA can borrow books/journals from the IUCAA library at any time and vice versa.
8.The IAU and MPEC Circulars are regularly received and displayed by the Library.

SIRC Timings

NCRA SIRC =9.30 am to 6.00 pm ( Closed on all Sundays and other public holidays )
GMRT SIRC =9.00am to 5.30 pm ( Closed on all Sundays and other public holidays )