Library

INTRODUCTION

                       

1. K.PARANTHAMAN                       2.D.UMA                                      
       LIBRARIAN                       LIBRARY ASSISTANT                     

Library is the Heart of an educational Institution. Library is an Institution that exists to serve the information to the people. College library stimulates the students to obtain, evaluate and recognize knowledge and to familiarize oneself with the trends of knowledge for further education and learning new disciplines. The college provides ample scope and opportunity to the students to read and learn a lot from a wide variety of Newspapers and Magazines are available in the Reading room.

The library is well equipped with reading rooms, books, E-Resources, Periodicals and newspapers. The Library is totally Air-Conditioned with seating capacity of 75 students, the library houses 11,600 books, Back Volumes, Theses, Magazines and Journals. There are five computers installed in the reading room ability, using which the students can access.

“Reading is to the mind, what Exercise is to the body?”

“One best book is Equal to hundred Good friends”

  • Our Library is a well equipped one
  • Many of the important journals are bound and preserved
  • Issue, Return and Renewal of books are all computerized
  • The facility of Open Access System is adopted in the library
  • Library Department is situated in the first floor
  • The Total area of the Library is 4700 sq.ft

LAY OUT OF LIBRARY

  • READING ROOM
  • DISPLAY OF NEW ARRIVALS
  • LOGIN/ LOGOUT FOR STUDENTS/FACULTY
  • DRINKING WATER
  • XEROX MACHINE
  • RETURN COUNTER
  • PERIODICALS SECTION

(JOURNALS/ MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER)

  • PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTION PAPERS
  • BACK VOLUMES OF JOURNALS
  • THESIS
  • INTERNET CENTRE FOR STUDENTS & FACULTY
  • COMPUTERISED CIRCULATION COUNTER
  • TEXT BOOKS
  • REFERENCE BOOKS
  • REFERENCE SECTION
  • CD/DVD’S

LIBRARY SERVICES AND FACILITIES

LIBRARY COMMITTEE

Library Advisory committee is formed at the beginning of every academic year by the Director and principal in consultation with the staff members. In the decisions pertaining to the library are taken by the library committee. The committee meets twice in an academic year.

  • Plan to purchase of books to the library
  • To analyze the students requirements
  • To take remedies for the feedback of the users
  • Plan to conduct User Awareness Program

MEMBERS OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE

  1. 1. Dr.D.Gajapathy, M.Sc. Ph.D., D.H.Ed., Director – Chairman
  2. Dr.M.Jayasri Rani, M.Sc. Ph.D., Principal – Secretary
  3. Prof.M.Megharajan Vice Principal, Head Economics, Dept – Member
  4. 4. Prof. R.Maheswari Head Biochemistry, Dept             – Member
  5. Prof. P.Daniel Sundarraj Head Comp. Sc, Dept – Member
  6. Mr.K.Paranthaman Librarian  – Ex Officio Member

MISSION

  • Be a catalyst to knowledge and thought through dissemination, documentation and communication of knowledge with a blend of rigor and practical relevance.

VISION

  • To protect the users right to information
  • To work in partnership with individuals and institutions for promoting research interest and enhancing research portfolios for the development of readers
  • To enable students, faculty and researchers work in context with designing and documentary research activities by allowing diversity of views
  • To create the best citizen for Nation Building

OBJECTIVES OF THE LIBRARY

  • To promote the reading habits
  • Extensive use of reading material
  • To acquire organize and update the library collection to support Teaching Learning Process(TLP)
  • To encourage students to read beyond the requirements of the curriculum
  • To provide instruction and assistance in the effective use of learning resources/services
  • Library is a growing organism

STAFF DETAILS

S.NO NAME DESIGNATION
 

1.

  

K.PARAMTHAMAN

  

LIBRARIAN
 

2.

  

D.UMA

  

LIBRARY ASSISTANT
 

3.

  

M.THILAGAVATHY

  

TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

 COLLECTIONS IN THE LIBRARY

S.NO. PARTICULARS TOTAL
1. Book Format 11515
2. No of Titles 5056
3. No of journals 35
4. No of Magazines 30
5. Electronic Format(CD/DVD) 591
6. Back Volumes of Journals 913
7. Dissertation/Thesis 160
8. News Papers 10
9. Previous year question papers 5 Years
10. E-Books(download) 308
11 E-journals(download) 28

LIBRARY ORIENTATION PROGRAM

New students may have no idea about how to access data bases, search for books. Students are more likely to remember how to use the library resources if they are shown now and then allowed to “Practice” searching the database and book collections. A “hand on” activity should include:

  • A visit with your class to the library
  • A librarian demonstrating how to access data bases and search for books
  • Opportunity for the students to search for a professional journal, article and a book pertaining to the career they will be pursuing during their library visit
  • Instruction during class about citations and the bibliography page.

ONLINE DATABASE

INFLIBNET (Information and Library Networks)

  • Subscribed to INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Through N-LIST (National Library and information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) Program.
  •    College faculties & Students can access E-Books (1, 25,000) & E-Journals (More than 6000) through the following Website.
  • http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

OPAC FACILITY

  • Student Accessing Internet and OPAC facilities in Network resource centre.

N-LIST