Important Information

The library has three-storeyed premises of its own.The total area is 45,000 sq. ft.The Librarians' desks, the stack areas of all the subjects excluding Economics and Commerce, the Reference Collection like the dictionaries, encyclopaedias and the like, the staff area, the information display unit, the server of the LMS, Koha, the information retrieval terminals for the users, are all housed on the first floor. The library has a spacious, well-ventilated and well-lighted reading hall with  thirty six seating capacity on the second floor. The other physical amenities include four toilets and a water-purifier. Besides this, the stack areas of Economics, Commerce, the RUSA Collection, the Special Collection and the Periodicals Collection are all located on the second floor. The provision of CCTV surveillance is available with three cameras on the first floor and one on the second floor in the reading hall.

The library has a rich collection of over 42,000 books which includes both the text and the reference books. The collection has been uploaded in the database of Koha, the Library Management Software (LMS). The Koha which is an open-source software has been upgraded to 21.05 version from its earlier version of 15.11. Both the students and the faculties can retrieve their required books by searching the Online Public Acess Catalogue (OPAC) of Koha.

The Barcode Technology is used for generating the accession numbers for the books and the card numbers of the patrons.

The library subscribes various journals, magazines and newspapers. The college is a member of NLIST project which is a college component  of e-ShodhSindhu through which 6000+ e-journals and 1,99,500+ e-books and 6,00,000 e-books of National Digital Libray (NDL) can be accessed.

 

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