Documentation Centre on Women and Children

DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN

The Institute has a library and Documentation Centre on Women and Children which is a store house of books, periodicals, journals, documents, reports and other material from various fields related to women and children. Documentation Centre for Women and Children (DCWC), which was set up in 1989. DCWC is a specialized information centre on children, women and other vulnerable groups. The information in DCWC is collected and disseminated both at national and international levels.

The Documentation centre of the Institute is being used for reference work not only by the faculty of the Institute but also by academicians, scholars and students from various other colleges. DCWC provides reference services where in a user can access information in the form of reports, documents, research abstracts, statistics etc in a user friendly manner

The Institute also has a full-fledged Library which has a wide collection of books that are being referred by the faculty as well as the staff of the Institute along with students of Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Counselling.

Collection

DCWC has a collection of over 28,000 books in English & Hindi, and many unpublished documents. It subscribes to 18 newspapers, 36 journals out of which 12 are international and 24 are national.

Functions

Collection of research and evaluation studies on women and children
Identification of information sources
Collection, classification, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information
Creation of a database of bibliographic references of documents
Creation of a database of voluntary and other organisations
Creation of a database of resource persons
Creation of a database of statistics on women
Networking with academic and professional institutions
Creating awareness and publicity about information resources in DCWC
Providing support to programme divisions of the Institute

The Areas of Coverage

The areas on which information is collected are Statistics, Policy documents related to children, women, youth and social issues, Health - reproductive and child health, Nutrition, Human development - psychosocial development, Education, preschool education, Recreation, Social welfare, including welfare of children, women, youth and family, Child abuse and neglect (deprived child, juveniles, child labour, children of prisoners, terrorist violence, victims of trafficking, children in difficult circumstances, street children, etc.), Differently abled persons, Scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward classes, and minorities, ICDS, Rural development, Social legislation, Social security, Funding for social programmes, Communication, Management, Environment protection and Documentation centres.

Services Provided

DCWC provides references services to internal faculty members and students of Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Counselling. Along with this faculty, research scholars and students from Universities across the country also access information from the centre.

Regular Publications of DCWC

DCWC Newsclips (monthly)
DCWC Research Bulletin (quarterly)
DCWC New Additions (quarterly)
DCWC Contents Update (quarterly)

Publications/ Compilations

Children in Difficult Circumstances: Summaries of Research (2000)
Annotated Bibliography on Women
The Indian Child : A Profile (2002)
Programmes of Department of Women and Child Development in States and Government of India (2003)
Fact sheet on Women in India (2005)
Women in Difficult Circumstances : Summaries of Research (2006)
Statistics on Women in India (2007)
Research on ICDS : An Overview : 1986-1995: Volume 2 (2009)
Research on ICDS : An Overview : 1996-2008: Volume 3 (2009)
Directories
- Health
- Child Welfare
- Nutrition
- Social Welfare
- Women Welfare
- Destitute Children, Adoption and Street Children

RESEARCH BULLETIN

NEWSCLIP

CONTENTS

Vol.XII
- Issue 4 : October-December 2015
Vol.XI
- Issue 4 : July-September 2015
- Issue 3 : April-June 2015
- Issue 2 : January-March 2015
- Issue 1 : October-December 2014
Vol.X
- Issue 4 : July-September 2014
- Issue 3 : April-June 2014
- Issue 2 : January-March 2014
- Issue 1 : October-December 2013
Vol.IX
- Issue 3&4 : April-September 2013
- Issue 3 : January-March 2013
- Issue 2 : October-December 2012
Vol.VIII
- Issue 4 : July-september 2012
- Issue 3 : April-June 2012
- Issue 2 : January-March 2012
- Issue 1 : October-December 2011
Vol.VII
- Issue 4 : July-September 2011
- Issue 3 : April-June 2011
- Issue 2 : January-March 2011

DIRECTORIES

Resource Persons in Social Sciences and Health

Voluntary Organisations

Organisations

PUBLICATIONS/COMPILATIONS (1985-99)

Compendium of Research Tools in Social Science Research :
- Vol. I (A+B):Interview Schedules and Questionnaires
- Vol. II : Observation Schedules and Case Studies
- Vol. III : Psychological Tools
A Report on Child Guidance Clinics in India
Research Abstracts on ICDS
Drug Abuse in India : Research Abstracts
Inventory of research studies :
- Pre-school education
- Child welfare including welfare of the handicapped
- Recreation
- Psycho-social development
- Infant feeding
- Immunisation
- Integrated Child Development Services
- Nutritional and health status of pre-school children in India
Bibliographies :
- Child health
- Psycho-social development
- Child recreation
- Pre-school education
- Food and nutrition
- Infant feeding
- Hindi books on child welfare/ development
- Child abuse and neglect : a select bibliography
Research on ICDS: An Overview 1976-1985 : Volume 1
Policies, Programmes, Schemes, Legislation and Statistics on Women
Policies, Programmes, Schemes, Legislation and Statistics on Children
Nutrition Trends in India: Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
Voluntary Organisations Working for Children and Women : Some Profiles
Growth Monitoring : An Annotated Bibliography
Research on ICDS : A Classified Bibliography (1976-92)