Established in 1963, the IDEP Library has been at the forefront of providing quality information and documentation services to a large and diversified audience the Institute’s trainees, research and teaching staff involved in various institutional programmes, visiting fellows, government officials, university academics, postgraduate students, and the general reading public. The library is home to the most original collection of development documents concerning postcolonial Africa. For example, most original copies of all the development plans elaborated by African countries since independence are available in the library. The library is also home to the biggest collection of dissertations produced by the senior African development planners and policy analysts who have passed through the Institute’s master’s degree programme. Read more