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About IIM Ahmedabad

 

The decade following independence in 1947 was witness to a surge of innovative ideas to build a fledgling independent nation into a model democratic state committed to growth with equity. The establishment of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) was the outcome of one such innovative initiative.
Led by space scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and an eminent industrialist and philanthropist Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai, and proactively supported by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Dr. Jivraj Mehta, a group of enlightened individuals set up IIMA in 1961.
IIMA was set up as an institution that would be managed by a Society, the IIMA Society, created under the Societies Act. The Institute was to be run by a Board of Governors, constituted by the IIMA Society; the Board would have representation from all the relevant constituencies so as to reflect the multifarious needs of a developing nation.
IIMA has been consistently ranked as the premier management school in the country by several national agencies. IIMA programmes are also ranked highly in several international rankings. In 2008, IIMA became the first management school in the country to be awarded EQUIS (European Quality

Improvement System) accreditation by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development).

Academic Programmes

• Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
• Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP)
• Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agri-business Management (PGP- FABM)
• Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX)
• Faculty Development Programme (FDP)
• Armed Forces Programme (AFP)
• ePost Graduate Programme (ePGP)
• Executive Education Programmes (EEP
  

  Vikram Sarabhai Library

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  The Vikram Sarabhai Library (VSL) is named after Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, world renowned physicist and founding Director of IIMA. It was set up in 1962 and is one of the best management libraries in Asia.

  The library is open 24×7. Our mission is to facilitate convenient and user- friendly access to current, global and relevant information by identifying, acquiring, organizing and retrieving information in various formats (print & non print) to serve the information needs of the academic fraternity of IIMA to meet their teaching, research, consulting, training and learning requirements.

  The strength of the library is its digital collection of number of databases, accessible from any networked computer within the campus, which provides scholarly, company and industry information.

  The library provides specialized tools like EBSCO Discovery, journal title search (A to Z), remote login (restricted to internal users) and institutional repository searching. Recently the Library has introduced Kindle E-Book Readers Borrowing Service and it is in great demand among the library users.

  Vision / Mission of VSL

  To facilitate the teaching /learning, research, training and consulting needs of the faculty, students and staff of IIMA.

  Library Timings

   

  Day	Issue/Return Hours	Library Hours
  Monday- Friday	9.00 a.m. – 10.00 p.m.	24*7
  Weekends and Public holiday	9.00 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.

   

  Library Resources

   

  Books		1,99,086
  Bound Volumes		53,189
  News Papers		25
  Working Papers		3821
  Thesis		364
  Project Reports		2282
  CDs		2596
  Videos		128
  Online Journals		29,485
  Print Journals		147
  Kindle e-book Reader		20