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Welcome to Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library

Resource Centre

An advisory committee is hereby formed for library and the resource centre. The members of the committee are:

1. Professor Ranabir Samaddar, Convener, Professor and Chair on Migration and Forced Migration Studies. Expert on Political Theory; social sciences; migration studies, labour and political economy.

2. Dr. Purna Banerjee: Associate Professor, Presidency University, Expert in Cultural Studies, post-colonial theories, and gender studies

3. Shri Rajat Roy, Eminent Journalist with knowledge on media archive.

The advisory body will be responsible for giving advice on holdings. They will also create proposals related to expansion of the library and archives; creation, preservation and dissemination of knowledge on archival holdings, digitization, preservation of documents etc.

Registration

If anyone wants to access the catalogue of the holdings, he/she have to register.

The registration fee for the Library and Resource Centre will be Rs 50/- per day, for six months – Rs 300/-, and annually – Rs 500/-
The Archive consisting of primary documents collected under various research projects of CRG, is a separate part of the CRG library. A separate registration will be required to access the archive. The Registration will be Rs 1000/- for a month

Process

Click on to go to the webpage of the library.

Click on Registration (in the right corner of the library webpage). After registration one will receive a verification e-mail in his/her respective e-mail id. After confirmation of registration fees he/she will be able to log in (with their respective login id and password). Kindly note that the whole process will take at least 24 hours from the time of registration.

In case of any difficulty regarding registration and accessing catalogues, please contact us at mcrg@mcrg.ac.in

How to Search Catalogue?

1. Click on Basic Search – Enter Search Item- Any word from the title of a book/document/Subject. [e.g to access documents on Forced Migration, type- “Forced Migration”] , or by the first or last name of an Author.

2. Click on Advanced Search –

To view collection of journals/conference papers/books/: click on the “catalogue type” denoting the same. [e.g.: catalogue type – Conference Papers; to check the collection of conference papers].
To view any specific conference paper on a particular subject : click on catalogue type [e.g.: Conference papers], click on subject [e.g.: Forced Migration]
For more specific search on any subject, you can also use keywords in the specific space provided. [e.g.: Catalogue type- Conference Papers, Subject – Forced Migration, Keyword - IDPs]. Or [e.g: just put IDPs as the keyword] Or for a more narrowed and specific search put + between two words without space as keywords [e.g.: keyword- IDPs+Women].

3. Please go through the FAQ section after registration/login for further assistance. For queries please contact our library in charges.

Books are available only in hard copies in CRG library.

How to know the nature of the resource?

For Books : Call number starts with BK. For instance - BK/A/MCRG/000
For Documents [Journals, Reports etc] : Call number starts with DC. For instance - DC/FM/MCRG/00
For Audio/Video/Data CDs : Call number starts with CD. For instance - CD/MCRG/000

Books and CDs are only available in hard copies in our library.