LIBRARY

INTRO

About Us:

The library was established in 2008 the same year when college Established. College Library serves an internal role for providing academic knowledge and information services to the students and faculty as well. The library not only provides facility for reading to the students and faculty but also facilitates in projects and research work. We have institutional membership of American Center Library where in at a time 20 books, 10 back issues of periodicals and 5 DVDs borrowed by us for the benefit of our students and faculties for additional information resources useful to them in their activities.

Mission:

To provide comprehensive resources and services in support of research, teaching, and learning needs of the academic community. Putting technology to use innovatively for the flexible delivery of services and resources to users regardless of location within the campus.

Vision:

The Library will strive for excellence in support for the Teaching-Learning Process and research as per the vision of the Institute providing Student-Centered learning environment and services to its users. To augment and maintain collections in support of the academic pursuits of the College.

Library Rules

  1. All the students and faculty of this college can make use of the library services.
  2. All students must present their college ID before borrowing any library materials.
  3. Students should produce their ID cards at the entrance of the Library.
  4. No student will be allowed to avail library facility without valid ID card.
  5. Readers should observe strict silence in the library premises and should not disturb other readers in the library otherwise library facility will be withdrawn.
  6. Unauthorized removal of books or damaging the property of library or misbehavior with library staff shall be considered as an act of indiscipline, which will call for strict action and or fine.
  7. Reference books and Periodicals are not issued out.
  8. Dissertations/Theses are to be consulted within the library premises only.
  9. Borrowers must satisfy themselves with the physical condition of books before borrowing.
  10. Students should take care of cleanliness of the library.
  11. Students should not disturb the arrangements of the library furniture.
  12. No photograph of the Library shall be taken without the prior permission of the Librarian.
  13. Beverages and Eatables are not allowed inside the library.
  14. All users are requested to keep their mobiles in silent mode. Readers are prohibited to attend calls in the library premises. A fine of Rs. 50 will be levied.
  15. Outsiders are not allowed in the library without the permission of the authority concerned.

TEAM & HOURS

Mrs. Niriksha Sompura – Librarian
B.B.I., B.Lib. & Inf. Sc., M.Lib. & Inf. Sc.
MH-SET and NET in Library and Information Science
Publications: 1
Contact – 022-24059024

Mrs. Satya Shetty – Assistant Librarian
MSc, M.Lib. & Inf. Sc.

Library Attendant

  • Ravindra Jamkhandi
  • Parshuram Gadekar

Circulation Guidelines

  1. Students can issue 1 book at a time per student, for a period of 7 days.
  2. Students are responsible for books issued against their ID.
  3. Books must be return on or before the due date otherwise the fine of Rs. 5 will be charged per day/book.
  4. Absence & illness are not acceptable excuses for exemption from paying overdue charges.
  5. Readers should not deface, mark, cut, mutilate or damage library resources in any way. If anyone is found doing so, he will be charged the full replacement cost of the resource.
  6. If the due date falls on holidays, return can be done on the following working day without fine.
  7. Lost books must be reported to the librarian immediately and replaced or paid for within a week.
  8. Lost library books that are recovered, must be handed to the librarian as they remain the property of the college library
  9. Library can recall any issued book even before the due date.

Facilities

Home Lending
Students can borrow the books against their identity card. Books can be reissued in case of no further demand for the said book. Students can refer to more books and periodicals against their Identity Cards in the library premises only.
Books will be issued only for 7 days.
Library Fine of Rs. 5/day will be charged from due date.

Reference Service
The library staff, especially the librarian and the assistant librarian helps the readers in finding out their queries. Readers are also provided with relevant documents in print and electronic form.

New Arrivals
Newly added books are displayed for a week on the New Arrivals display shelf in library.

Bibliographic Service
Students and faculty can avail this on-demand facility of obtaining an exhaustive bibliography on the subject of their interest.

Reprography
A reprography (xerox) service is available at the entrance to the library on payment basis. While photocopying library material, members should not infringe copyright laws.

OPAC
A search is available through author, title, subject, publisher, ISBN and Boolean logic queries. Also, users can claim and reserve books and check the transaction history using their login Ids.

Current Awareness Service
Intimation about select articles published in the print periodicals subscribed is communicated to faculty members through email.

Activities

Library Orientation program
Every year the library conducts Library Orientation program for new comers in order to make them aware of the library facilities available for them.

Book Exhibition
Every year the college library holds the book exhibition cum sale event to have a glance at recent publications and to facilitate bulk purchase of books to enrich library collection.

Library Week Celebration
Every year library week is celebrated in the month of August. Many games and, quizzes are organized by the library staff to motivate the users to visit the library.

Book Displays
Library arranges Display of books on various themes such as Women’s Day, Marathi Bhasha Din, subject wise display of books etc.

Collection & Database

  • Text Books- 8536
  • Reference Books-1110
  • Fiction-62
  • Periodicals/Journals- 15
  • E-books/E-Journals-Access to full N-List Collection
  • Periodicals

Journals/Magazines are collections of information that you can use to find inf for your assignments/projects. One can find scholarly and research articles in these journals on his/her topic.

N-List

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India.

Note: Students shall visit college library to get their User_Id and Password for N-List.

Resources

DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to innumerable high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Click Here

The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository is visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB.
The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

National Digital Library of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library (NDL) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources.Click Here

Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centers set up by the University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the use of powerful medium of Television along with the appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT).
Realizing the potential and power of television to act as means of Educational Knowledge dissemination, UGC started the Countrywide Classroom Programmes in the year 1984. For production of such programmes Media Centres were set up at 6 Universities. Subsequently CEC emerged in 1993 as a nodal agency to coordinate, guide & facilitate such Educational production at the National level. Today 21 Media Centres are working towards achieving this goal under the umbrella of CEC.
The Digital Media Library at CEC is a Central Repository of all the Educational Video Programmes produced by the Educational Multimedia Research Centres set up by UGC in the Universities and Institutions of Higher Education across the country. The Media Library houses all the Masters Tapes of the educational video programmes, e-Contents and LOR’s produced on various subjects and is a storehouse of a wealth of knowledge. Click Here