An important feature of the Foundation is its Library. The current collection of the Foundation covers some 10,000 books, reports, working papers, dissertations, back issues of journals and other documents and publications. These publications are housed mainly in a recently constructed library wing of premises located in Thrissur, Kerala. At the core of the collection is a gift to the Foundation of about 5,000 books and other  publications by Yoshifumi Usami, retired Professor of Economics at the University of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

The collection of books covers the Indian economy and agriculture, including agronomy, agricultural economics (including price policy, agricultural wages, the green revolution, and food policy) and demography. This part of the collection also includes related official serial publications, such as the Farm Management Studies (a complete set), Rural Labour Enquiry Reports, reports from the series titled Agricultural Wages in India, Agricultural Price Commission Reports, National Sample Survey Reports, and publications of the Census of India.

There are also miscellaneous reports on agriculture- and rural development-related topics issued by the Government of India, State Governments, and other official agencies.

Economic history is a major area of Professor Usami’s interest and research, and various Commission Reports, statistical publications, and other Government documents of the colonial period, including Famine Commission Reports, and reports of the Royal Irrigation Commission, Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee, Royal Commission on Agriculture, some Land Revenue Settlement Reports, Provincial and District Gazetteers, and publications of the Board of Economic Enquiry, Punjab, are also part of the collection. There is a subsection of books on the history of Punjab, and further books on the Partition of Punjab and the urban development of Delhi are being shipped in a year.

Books and publications in the Usami collection cover the period from the late nineteenth century to about 2010.

The Library has received a bequest of more than 200 books in the field of agrarian studies from the family of the late Jayati Gupta, Reader in Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. In addition, the Library has a few thousand books in the areas of agrarian studies, development economics, and related social sciences.

The collection is unique, and a valuable resource for scholars working in the field of agrarian studies and rural development, and, more generally, in related social sciences.