Vision
'To become world class learning resource centre in the area of science education and research and to help its parent organization to achieve its aim of becoming a science university of highest caliber with state of the art research and high quality education'.

Mission
'To provide high quality information resources in all forms to IISER-P community and achieve excellence in service'.

Objective
'To select, collect, create, organize, preserve, manage and provide access to information sources in print, non-print and digital forms, regardless of physical location, to support scholarly pursuit, learning, teaching and research in the Institute'.

Present Collection Statistics
Print Books - 13000
e-Books - 5601
Print Journals / Magazines - 50
e-Journals - 3000
Full-Text Databases - 10
Bibliographic Databases - 6

Service Hours
Opening Hours: 8am - 11pm on all days.
Issue and Return Hours (Circulation Desk): 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm on all working days.
No issue / return transactions on Saturday, Sunday and Holidays.

Membership
All students, faculty members and staff of the institute are entitled to register as members of the library and to use the facilities & services offered for the purpose of their academic, research and administrative work. Use of library facilities and services implies acceptance of its rules and procedures.

Borrowing of reading materials facility is available to the faculty, researchers, students and staff of the Institute. The registration to use the library facility and services is automatic for the faculty and staff on joining the institute and for students on registration for the courses.

Library serves primarily the IISER Pune community. However, visitor or guest member from other academic or research institute is allowed to use the library only for a short period with the prior permission from the Deputy Librarian. Guest member is required to produce proof of identification. No barrowing facility is available to the visitors.

Borrowing Privileges
Students - 3 books for 15 days
Ph.D students - 5 books for 30 days
Faculty - 25 books for 365 days
Visiting faculty - 5 books for 90 days
Adjunct faculty - 5 books for 90 days
All other staff - 3 books for 30 days

Late Fee for all category of users
Rs.1/- per day per book for 7 days after due date.
Rs.2/- per day per book from 8-14 days after due date.
Rs.5/ per day per book after 14 days from the due date.

Photocopy and Printing Facility
Students can avail photocopy and printing facility @ 50 paisa per page.

Computers in Library
Computers are placed in the library for using OPAC and accessing the resources for academic and research work. Using library computers for emailing is strictly prohibited.

Library Communication Policy
Library normally communicates with members via Institute email address. Communications from the library includes announcements, notices, information about overdue books, reservations, recall of issued items etc. Members are therefore requested to check their emails regularly.

Library Team
Dr.Umeshareddy Kacherki (Deputy Librarian & Library In-Charge)
E-Mail: ureddy@iiserpune.ac.in Phone: 91+ 20 25908004

Ms.Anuradha Shedbalkar (Library and Information Assistant)
E-Mail: ashedbalkar@iiserpune.ac.in Phone: 91+ 20 25908019

Mr.Wajeed Khan (Library Trainee)