Reading Room Facility
Reading Room facility is available to students, faculty and staff of NID. The members from other institutions with a KMC membership can also avail this facility. Normally, the reading room is open on all working days from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9.00 am to 6.00 p.m.

Borrowing of materials
The registered members can borrow material depending upon its availability and borrowing status as per the membership category. Rare and Reference books are not issuable. The books marked RES are also to be referred in the KMC, however in exceptional cases these can be issued for over night reading.

Reference Services
The NID Community will not be charged for reference services. However, there will be charges for reference related queries from non members especially from organizations, institutions, and individuals depending on the complexity, subject coverage, and availability of resources, etc.

Current Awareness Service
The content pages of selected periodicals from the KMC can be provided on a regular basis on special request. For this service there will be a special charge which is mentioned in the rate card at the Information Counter.

Bibliographic Information
On demand, bibliographic listings on design related topics could be provided. The requests with subject headings and key words can be given to the Information Counter for processing. There will be special charges for this service, which will be available at the Information
Counter.

Indexing and Abstracting Service
In order to help the students, faculty and other design professionals in their information search, the KMC have started an Indexing and Abstracting Service from major design journals, books and other resource materials. These indexes and abstracts are expected to be the major resource collection related to design and its allied fields. The KMC intends to bring periodic bulletins on the topics of Design Indexes, which will be available in print as well as an online service.

Membership
The regular students and staff of NID are entitled to membership of the Knowledge Management Centre for borrowing books, and other reading materials on the recommendation of the concerned Activity Chairman/Discipline Coordinator/Heads of Departments. NID staff on probation or on temporary project appointment will have to pay either a member ship fee or a deposit amount or get a guarantor from any of the confirmed staff/faculty members.

From August 16, 2002, institutional membership is being introduced. Institutions wishing to enroll to the KMC membership is requested to fill in the enclosed membership form and submit it to the Chief Coordinator along with a bank draft for Rs.10,000, payable to the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, AHMEDABAD. The KMC membership will soon be opened to NID graduates, alumni, design professionals and corporate bodies.

Inter Library Loan
The KMC have Inter Library Loan facility with other institutions. Those students and faculty need to use this facility will have to get an authorisation letter from the Chief Coordinator, KMC as and when required.

Print Services
Since the KMC has many documents in digital formats, taking print out from these documents in either laser or Inkjet is possible. Prior permission from the authorised person will have to be obtained before any such requests. The rates for this service are available at the Information Counter.

Reprography Services
Reprography facilities such as Xeroxing, scanning, digital photography are being set up in the KMC. Presently the Xeroxing facility is being handled by an external arrangement near the KMC under the supervision of the Institute. The rates for this facility are available at the Information Counter. However, students and faculty are requested to restrain from Xeroxing practice unless it is absolutely necessary as part of their project work. This is to protect the physical condition of book, as well as to protect the copyright and the intellectual property act. In any case the KMC will allow Reprography only on a written declaration from the concerned person. Necessary forms are available at the Information Counter.

Photo coping from any of NID's Archival Documents (diploma projects, craft documentation, project reports and other copyright materials) needs special permission from the Executive Director or the Chairman, KMC. There will, of course be, a special charge for the same, if approved.