To serve the diverse needs of EDI faculty, staff, students and participants of various short & long term programmes, EDI Library and Information Centre (EDILIC) was set up way back in 1983. Enriched with updated information resources on Entrepreneurship and related subjects, it is an information resource centre of national and international repute.

An air-conditioned and Wi-Fi enabled library is situated in a separate building of the Institute. It consists of basement and ground floor. The reading materials (books, current journals, etc.) are placed in the ground floor while basement contains back-volumes of journals.

Three Pentium machines equipped with DVD/CD-ROM drive, printer, Internet and in-house audio-video facilities constitute important part of library infrastructure.

• Monday to Friday        – 0800 hours to 2300 hours
  
• Saturday and Sunday – 0930 hours to 1730 hours

EDILIC has been fully automated through LibSys Software. All the library holdings are accessible through Institute’s Intranet facility. EDILIC uses Bar Code Technology for its house keeping and lending service.

A Library Advisory Committee consisting of Librarian and three faculty members nominated by Director assists in the growth and development of EDI Library and Information Centre.

Members

• Prof. Sunil Shukla
• Prof. K K Shaw
• Prof. Manoj Mishra
• Mr. B. Ganapathi

A professional Librarian supported by four professional colleagues heads the Library.

• Mr. B. Ganapathi, Librarian (ganapathi@ediindia.org)
• Mr. Umesh Mehta
• Ms. Hema Rawal (hema@ediindia.org)
• Mr. Ashok Madnani (ashok@ediindia.org)
• Mr. Mahendra Damor (mahendra_damor@ymail.com)

EDILIC spends thirty six lakhs per year for the purchase of books, subscription of journals, periodicals & magazines, newspapers, videocassettes, CD-ROMs, etc.

EDI’s fast growing library is equipped with a large number of text and reference books on entrepreneurship and related subjects. The EDILIC endeavours to support the teaching, research and academic needs of the faculty, students and participants of the programmes, through books, journals and other reading material. The EDILIC caters to the needs of faculty & staff members, PG Students, participants of various short term & long term programmes conducted by EDI and also external members. The total collection of EDILIC is more than 18000 which includes books, CDs, back volumes and other materials, selected after carefully scrutiny by the Library Advisory Committee.

• Text Books
• Reference Books
• Research Reports
• Handbooks
• Directories
• Serial Publications
• Encyclopaedias
• Dictionaries
• Working Papers
• Economic and Industrial Surveys
• Newspaper Clippings
• Biographies of Entrepreneurs
• Project profiles on products
• Business Opportunities

EDILIC is subscribing 120 national and international journals in the field of entrepreneurship and related subjects (See list). EDILIC also subscribes to 20 Newspapers published from Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai.

EDILIC has a collection of 200 videocassettes and more than 1200 CDs/VCDs. The EDILIC has in-house viewing facility for videocassettes and CDs.

• kompass.com is the world’s leading Business-to-Business information in 76 countries. It helps to identify suppliers of products and services, potential partners, research competitors and analyse market sectors for potential opportunities.
• Indiastat.com provides an oceanic depth of India-specific socio-economic statistical facts and figures.
• Prowess database (provided by Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy) contains a highly normalized database on over 17000 companies. The database is complemented with powerful analytical software tools to enable extensive querying and research.

• Lending Service – Books will be issued to all library members.
• Article Database – Article database contains information on selected articles from core journals subscribed by EDILIC.
• Reference Service – All EDILIC members are helped in getting their information instantly.
• Product Information Database – This database contains information on about 8000 product profiles published by various organisations.
• Industrial Information Service – From various specialized information sources of EDILIC, specific information such as, product profiles, feasibility study reports, industrial and economic statistics, trade statistics, directory information on manufacturers and industrial organizations will be provided to all the members.
• Information and Documentation Services – EDILIC provides information services to its users such as Current Awareness Services (CAS) and Selective Dissemination Services (SDI)
• Press Clippings Service – Latest news items relevant to ones area of interest are scanned from 20 leading daily newspapers and distributed to the users.
• Referral Services – EDILIC users are directed to other libraries and information centres to get information.
• Photocopying Service – EDILIC provides photocopying services to its users at nominal charges.
• Inter-Library Loan Service – Through this service, EDILIC borrows books from other libraries on request by users. Also EDILIC issues books to other libraries on mutual interest.

EDILIC is an institutional member of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, Indian Library Association (ILA), Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Management Libraries Network (MANLIBNET) and The British Library, Ahmedabad. Apart from this, EDILIC is regularly using services of Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET) and Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET).

EDILIC membership is primarily given to the entire faculty, staff members, students and programme participants of EDI. In order to fulfill the demands, raised by several institutions and individuals, the EDILIC pleased to extend membership to external users such as EDI Alumni, Institutional Membership for Academic Institutions, Membership for NGOs, Entrepreneurship Development Cells of Educational Institutions, Individual Membership for outside faculty / entrepreneurs / corporate executives / students and OLPE Alumni on payment basis. External members may download membership form (which includes membership fee structure and rules & regulations) and apply for external membership.