Library Profile
The central library is spread over 400 sq.Ft. The central library provides books, journals , E- Journals , E– Books & internet facility to the teaching staff & students. The library came into existence in the year 1967. The library is divided in different sections like Reference book section, Stack area, Digital library with internet, periodical section, Reading room. The library has 36877 books, 09 Journals and 12 magazines. The library also provides Location of Information, Indexing, Current Awareness services, Selective Dissemination Information, Photo copy & Print copy services, for the staff & students. The library aims to be fully automated in due course of time. We try and provide the best of the services to our ability for proper and smooth functioning of the college.
To inculcate student interest in reading.
To provide a student friendly atmosphere.
To obtain best & latest reference for students & staff
To upgrade and develop a digital libraries.
To associate with other libraries Like Govt Degree College for Men, Kurnool to Provide best resources to our students.
LIBRARY LEARNING RESOURCES
- No. of Books- 36877
- Reference Books- 2000
- No. of Journals- 9
- No of magazines: 12
- Educational CDs: 300
- E-Resources: N-List
Objectives
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To enrich College Library academically and help it to become a world
class institution in teaching and research in Sciences, Humanities,
Commerce and other areas of general intellectual interest.
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To provide access to various learning resources of all formats-books,
periodicals, e–resources and other media needed for the scholarly
community to remain updated in their area of specialization.
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To further utilize digital technology and networked resources for the
benefit of the users.
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To ensure optimum satisfaction for all the users of the
Library–students, staff, faculty and general public
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User orientation programs
- For better use of facilities.
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National Library week
- We Celebrate NLW to inculcate book reading habits.
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Book exhibitions-
Organized to bring awareness among faculty and students regarding. The
Various types of Documents available in our libraries.
Sections
Textbook Section
Textbooks prescribed in the syllabus are kept here for the benefit of the users. Depending on demand, number of copies is increased. Previous year question papers are also kept here and users can take photocopies of the same.
Reference Section
The reference collection comprises of reference books prescribed in the syllabus, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, maps, atlases, costly and rare books. A separate reference section arranging with 40 seating capacity.
Current Periodicals Section
The library subscribes to 09 Journals and 12 magazines both national and international, which are displayed on separate racks. The latest issue is displayed on the racks and back volumes are kept beneath the desk of the rack, College is also buying six Daily News papers.
Arrangement of books
The Library has adopted open access system which facilitates the readers to go to the bookshelves directly and select books of their choice freely, which is seen as the greatest advantage to the users. The books are arranged in classes. These are:
- General collection
- Reference collection
- Textbook collection
- Back volumes of periodicals
- The books acquired are accessioned, classified and catalogued. After processing, the books are sent to the shelves concerned.
Services
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Textbook
: Students and staff can borrow the books prescribed in the syllabus as
text books are kept here for Issue.
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Lending
: All the books and user ID cards are bar coded which helps to save the
time of library personnel as well as borrowers.
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Reference
: The College Libraries have a large collection of reference books on
advanced disciplines that are aimed at developing students beyond their
curriculum. The library has many motivational books for general
reading. for quick reference like encyclopedias, directories,
handbooks, dictionaries, yearbooks, almanacs and competitive
examination books like JRF, CSIR, NET, SLET etc. are available.
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Current awareness service
: We provide this service to draw attention to recent additions ,List
of content pages of the Periodicals/Magazines is given to the readers
frequently, through email to teaching staff members .
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News paper clippings
: a Display Board devoted to an archival of editorial clippings and
important articles compiled on various interesting subjects.
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Question papers
: The Library provides the soft copies as well as Printed form of
question papers for the benefit of the user community.
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Syllabus Copies
: We Preserve Syllabus copies of Current and Previous for consultation.
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Photocopying
: The library possesses a rich collection of reference and rare books
that cannot be loaned out for home reading. Readers can get a part of
those documents photocopied at a nominal charge.
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Library working hours
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Monday to Saturday: 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM
E-Resources
American Institute of Physics ( 18 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
Annual Reviews (33 titles and 10 years rolling backfiles access)
Cambridge University Press (224 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
Cambridge Core (224 tiles with 10 yrs backfiles)
Institute of Physics (46 titles and access from Vol 1)
Oxford University Press (206 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
Royal Society of Chemistry (29 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
Economic and Political Weekly (1 title and acces form 1966)
Indian Journals (250+ titles and access from 2007)
JSTOR (2500+ titles)
EBSCOHOST(H W Wilson and NetLibrary)(2800+and 936 titles )
Ebook Central SSO
Cambridge Books Online (1800 titles)
Oxford Scholarship-ebooks (1400+ titles)
MyiLibrary-McGraw Hill-ebooks (1124 titles)
Hiindustan Books Agency -ebooks (65 titles)
Institute of South East Asian Studies(ISEAS) Books (382+ titles)
Springer eBooks (2005-2011) (2300 titles)
Sage Knowledge ebooks (1000 titles)
Taylor and Francis -ebooks (1800 titles)-new platform
World ebooks Library (33 lakhs titles)
South Asia Archive
Ebrary-ebooks ( 125000+ titles)
World -ebooks Library 30000000+ titles)
