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Vishwa Yuvak Kendra Library Library Site http://www.vykonline.org City     New Delhi Province/State     New Delhi Country     India Library Type     Special Description     Vishwa Yuvak Kendra is a pioneering organisation in the field of youth development. It was established with the active support of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and was inaugurated in 1968 by the then President of India, Dr. Zakir Hussain. The Kendra has set up a ‘National Resource Centre on Youth (NRCY)’ to facilitate and support its research and training activities. NRCY is actively supporting the organisation from its very inception. It is at all times alert to the changing needs of the organization and its partners and is being developed as a specialized resource centre on youth. It has an impressive collection of more than 9000 books in English and 1000 books in Hindi on various aspects of youth and social work. The same is being updated with new books of relevance from time to time. Besides subscribing to important journals / magazines on relevant issues, it also receives over one hundred complimentary publications e.g. newsletters, annual reports and conference proceedings of various ministries, NGOs and international organizations. It is fully computerized making for quick and easy retrieval of information. It has linkages with other libraries in Delhi and has a resource sharing and Inter-library loan facility through Developing Library Network (DELNET), a Delhi-based network of libraries for promoting resource-sharing activities among Indian libraries. This helps research scholars an easy and quick access to the required information available in other libraries. Its Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is accessible through DELNET. Those organizations that are member of DELNET can search the library database online. A computerized database of articles of journals, magazines and clippings of newspapers is being developed and the information is being disseminated through its quarterly publication ‘InfoShare : Publication of National Resource Centre on Youth’ to various academic and research institutions across the country. The information contained in this publication is nascent and very much of interest to social scientists and scholars working on development issues i.e. Youth, Children, Women, Elderly, Education, Health, Labor, Poverty, Rural/Tribal Development, Urban Development, Population and Family Planning, Panchayati Raj, NGOs, Environment, Dalit, Castes, Communalism, Terrorism, Corruption, Human Rights, Drug Abuse, Social Science Research, Social Work, Society and Culture, Disaster Management, Globalization, etc. The Centre is open to all visitors, students, research scholars and volunteers. It provides a variety of specialized services to individuals and organizations involved in research and training on youth.   Web libdex.com Bookstore Links abebooks Alibris Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble BookCloseOuts Booksamillion.com Chapters Canada Questia More Bookstores