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. This library is the member of "National Library and Information Services 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.

Dr. 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 software namely “KOHA” 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 services 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 6 days (Monday to Saturday) lending opportunity in a week rotationally.

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

 

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: 5

Total number of printers for public access: 1

Internet bandwidth/speed: 100mbps/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: 10:1

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