Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru Campus Facilities

The IIHS Bengaluru City Campus is equipped with multiple teaching and learning spaces including classrooms, seminar and studios. Each of these is equipped with technological aids ranging from digital projection and visual displays to advanced video-conferencing capabilities that enable remote audio-visual sessions.

IIHS is a vibrant hub of research, teaching and training programmes as well as multiple academic, cultural and interactive public events. IIHS regularly plays host to a diverse range of academics, practitioners, activists, artists, writers and government officials who frequently visit as part of the many curated events at IIHS.

These include talks and seminars, conferences and workshops, exhibitions and screenings. Recent events at IIHS are the Urban Policy Dialogues (IIHS’ annual policy convening), Urban ARC (the annual IIHS research conference), the annual IIHS PhD workshop, City Scripts (IIHS’ annual literature festival), Urban Lens (IIHS’ annual film festival), IIHS Publics, and various Master Classes.

Through its various activities and events, IIHS offers a unique opportunity to interact with urbanists from across the world working on diverse disciplinary and practice domains – including visiting scholars, interns, researchers, filmmakers, artists, writers, government officials, businesses, civil society, activists, and citizens.

Library

The IIHS Library was established in December 2008 and has since been adding books and journals to create a plethora of inter-disciplinary materials.  Presently housed in the Bangalore City Campus it has over 24,000 books, 1,220 CDs and DVDs, 630 maps, 78 print journals and magazines, 52 case studies, and 698 bound volumes of journals, in addition to on and off-campus access to over 6,480 e-journals.

The Library offers extensive access to the latest academic work through wide ranging and inter-disciplinary journal subscriptions as well as a Data Library that accesses and archives the most current macro data available in India.

The Library subscribes to IndiaStat, CapEx, EPW Research Foundation-India Time Series, EBSCO’s EconLit with Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text and Urban Studies Abstracts, Urban, Rural and Regional Development module at OECD iLibrary and Manupatra databases for Social Science literature and Legal information.

It is also a participating institute with JSTOR. Equipped with public computers and teaching aids such as EndNote, Mendeley, STATA, and Turnitin, the library supports learners through circulation, reference and information services. For more information on accessing public library catalogue and other resources click here.