The American Information Resource Center (AIRC) is an integral part of the Public Affairs Section of the American Embassy, which carries out a variety of activities designed to promote a better understanding of the policies, values, institutions, and culture of the United States. Among the many activities are media services for newspapers, radio and television; lectures and seminars; film showings, exhibits and cultural presentations. Academic counseling services are provided by the United States Educational Foundations in India.

The American Information Resource Center in New Delhi provides the residents of North India with a wide variety of services through its Information USA system. Information USA is a network of information resources on U.S. Political, economic, historical, social, and cultural issues as well as business and management practices. The AIRC is equipped to provide the latest and most accurate information from its print and electronic media. The AIRC collection of over 20,000 volumes, 150 print periodicals and over 1,200 full-text and full-image journals on CD-ROMs explores both the sustaining ideas of the American past and the generative drive of the present. Immediate contact is maintained by subscribing to legal, business, and social science online databases and by sub-scribing to leading, American newspapers as well as by receiving all magazines and CD-ROMs by air. The AIRC also maintains backfiles of periodicals and The New York Times from 1947 to date on microfilm.