The Library:

 

The college has a rich central library of an area of 6000 square feet stocked with books, reference books, and journals and periodic. Another library has been set up in the new building for the PG students of the Departments of Bengali, Education and Commerce. There are also Departmental Libraries for each department with all necessary facilities. The library is member of “National Library and Information Service Infrastructure for scholarly Content (N-LIST)” and all our faculties including students can access 6000+ e-journals and 1,99,500 e-books and 600,000 e-books through NDL.

 


Librarian:


Sl. No.

Name

Qualification

Designation

Specialization

1.

Sri Samiran Naskar

M. Com., MBA (Fin.), MLISC, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Librarian

Public Library Automation Information Sources

2.

Dr. Nilima Paul

MLISC, Ph.D.

Librarian

Information Sources


Support Staff:


Sl. No.

Name

Designation

1.

Smt. Moumita Sengupta

Library Clerk

2.

Sri Tarak Kar

Library Peon

3.

Sri Aloke Routh

Library Peon


Fetchers and Benefits:


A well organized digitized updated library catalogue is maintained.

 There is sufficient space for seating both for students and teachers.

 Students can avail computers with internet facility in the library.

 Questions papers of the university as well as college are preserved scientifically.

 Career guidance books, employment weeklies and dailies are procured in the library.

 Journals are procured and latest publications by teachers are displayed to motivate the students.

 Teachers and students get 24X7 digital reference serivices by becoming a library whatsapp group member (Librarymdm@digitalref20)

 

The library remains open from 11.00 am to 5.00 pm.

The students of each get 3 days lending opportunity in a week.

The students can lend 3 books at a time for a fortnight and they can renew twice.

Failing to obey the lending rules, the students have to pay fine in the stipulated norm.

 


ICT AND OTHER TOOLS DEPLOYED TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTION


The institution has subscription for the following e-resources

1. e-journals – N-list through 6000+ journals

2. e-Shodh Sindhu – 7,200 cr +peer reviewed journals and no. of bibliography

3. Shodhganga Membership

4. e-books - 1,99,500

5. Databases – Automatic (47 active members N-List)

6. Remote access toe-resources – Not available

Options: A. Any 4 or more of the above B. Any 3 of the above C. Any 2 of the above D. Any 1 of the

above E. None of the above Data requirement for year: (As per Data Template)

Details of membership: 47 (enclosed data)

 

 

OPAC, Electronic Resource Management package for e-journals, Federated searching tools to search articles in multiple databases, Library Website, In-house/remote access to e-publication

Total number of computers for public access: 3

Total number of printers for public access: 1

Internet bandwidth/speed: 2mbps/10mbps/1gb:256kbps

Average number of walk-ins: 60 (teachers + students)/day

Average number of books/journals issued/returned: 120/day

Ratio of library books to students enrolled: 13:1

Average number of books added during last three years: 800/annum