The Ratan Tata Library, located in the Delhi School of Economics, is one of the best equipped libraries in sociology and other social sciences. The total collection at present is about 1,50,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals. Current periodicals, with complete holdings of back files for most of them, are received in the library. In addition, a large number of periodicals in the field of sociology and social anthropology are received in the Central library of the University.