The inception of the CCRH Library and Information Centre dates back to 1979 when a small library was set up with a small collection of about five hundred publications to start with. The library then, was set up to primarily to meet the information needs of the Research Staff of the Council. With the passage of time, the library developed at a fast pace, and, in order to cater to the ever-increasing R&D information needs of the professionals, it systematically and gradually grew as a collection of specialized reading materials such as books, periodicals, reference works, serials in the areas of Homoeopathic Research and Drugs & Pharmaceuticals.
The Library has developed a Union Catalogue that contains bibliographic records of books which are available in various libraries of CCRH & its Institutes/Units. Union catalogue lists holdings of more than 20 libraries under CCRH.
This system has been developed with an aim to help research scholars, students, and staff to check the information of available resources in any of these libraries as books, theses, reference material including encyclopedias, dictionaries, Pharmacopeias, etc. The catalogue contains bibliographic information of library collections including title, author(s)/ editor(s), subject(s), imprint, etc. This union database will save the researcher's valuable time by not only searching for specific library type but also item type at one place. In a single click user can search the bibliographic records using different parameters i.e. Title, Author, Subject, Publisher, Place, Year etc.