The IIMA Archives is open to visitors on all working days from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The Communication Department brings IIMA's executive education programme participants for a tour of the 'Brick by Brick' exhibition (545 visitors during the last three months). In addition, the Archives received more than 500 other visitors.

Archives are essential for preserving historical records and making them accessible to research scholars. In the last quarter, there have been more than 190 requests for archival records from research scholars. Here is an interesting note from one of the users:
"I completed my Ph.D. in History in 2020. My dissertation studied the intersections of business, state, and developmentalist practices in Ahmedabad and its surrounding rural and agrarian regions in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Since the completion of my doctoral work, I have been expanding the scope of my research by focusing on the historical lineages of rural and agricultural management, and how they were developed as educational concerns as well as professional disciplines during the 1960s and 1970s. At the IIMA Archives, I have been reading about the formation of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Group which was later modified and renamed as the Centre for Management in Agriculture. Eventually, I also intend to focus on the formation of IRMA in the neighbouring region of Anand and its connections with IIMA. Broadly, my project studies the ways in which the Ahmedabad-based global network of developmental and management expertise--associated with the formation of IIM--engaged with the agrarian question in post-independence India, especially within the larger context of the Green Revolution. In probing this question, I also hope to critically examine the peculiar 'managerialist' reflections that were produced by these experts on the social constitution of the rural society. The documents at the IIM Ahmedabad Archives have been immensely helpful for pursuing this research. These documents include conference proceedings, catalogues, AMA issues, speeches, details regarding faculty recruitment and student placements, and some letters and correspondences involving the formation of the institute. I am also very grateful to the Archivists for sending most of the documents I needed as scanned copies by email." Prof. Kena Wani, Assistant Professor of History School of International Affairs, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.