About Library

The Library and Information Centre of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, has been in existence since the establishment of the Institute on 9th August 1965. The centre is housed in a four-storeyed building with an area of 24000 square metre. The ground floor houses the Book Section, Back Volumes of Journals, and a browsing center, the first floor houses a section for display of new books, Current Journals and Reference books, thesis, dissertations, independent projects and research projects, the second floor houses the digital library workstation and two spacious reading halls and the 3rd floor houses the computer browsing center. The building and the furniture are specially designed to meet functional, as well as the aesthetic requirements. The building is surrounded by beautiful lush green lawn and well-maintained rose garden and ornamental plants.

The library is well equipped with conventional resources, as well as technology based information services. The AIISH library and information center is a specialist documentation center for the rehabilitation professionals in general and professionals in the area of communication disorders, in particular. The center has received more than eleven hundred books and journals on speech and hearing on gratis from Wendell Johnson library, Iowa, USA. The Library also got support through Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (VRA) project started at the institute in 1967 The library has been using the Book Magic an Integrated Library Management software package with all the modules of library housekeeping operations. All the holdings of the library have automated access and users can search the library database by using OPAC.