French Institute of Puducherry, Pondicherry Infrastructure: Library, Labs, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

A Laboratory of Applied Informatics and Geomatics, which applies its expertise in the following areas: digital mapping, utilization of satellite imagery, geographic information systems and modeling, multimedia promotion. It also deploys its computer resources and information technologies within the Institute. Its documentary collection consists of 3 000 maps and several databases.

Documentary resources, comprising of 3 resource sections:

• The Library: The computerized collection comprises in particular: 60 000 books; 800 journals, of which 250 are regularly subscribed

• The Manuscript Collection: 8 187 palm-leaf manuscripts (the largest collection of texts on Saivasiddhanta in the world and registered as such in the "Memory of the World" register of the UNESCO, with the IFP being regarded as a "Manuscript Resource Centre" by the National Mission for Manuscripts of the Government of India); 1 144 transcripts
• The Photo Archives: a collection of 160 000 photographs, of temples and edifices in South India notably.