Library

Library Services & Facilities

  1. Circulation – Library rendering the circulation services to students, teaching and non-teaching staff.
  2. Open access – In order to offer easy access and hands on experience on books, open access is provided to the entire library collection. Students are allowed to browse through the shelves and issue the desired book.
  3. Book Bank Scheme – Central library of college follows the Mumbai University Backward class Book Bank Scheme from 2017-2018 for undergraduate students whose belonging from SC, ST & VJ, NT gives him the text book set as availability of books.
  4. Current Awareness Service – This service is provided through library display board. Newspaper Clippings on current events are displayed in the Library for the users. The faculty & staff are updated about the new facilities and acquisitions of the library through regular notices which are displayed on the Notice Boards.
  5. Reference Service – Library has a good collection of reference sources such as subject textbooks, reference books, ebooks, dictionaries, rare books, Atlases etc. Students can refer these information resources in order to have detail information about the subject of their interest. Reference services provided by the Library to students and staff time to time.
  6. Reprography Service – Photocopying facility is available to the faculty and students.
  7. Printing Service – The Library offers Printing Facility to faculty & students.
  8. Newspaper Clipping Service – Newspaper Clipping on Higher Education, Current affairs, Environmental Issues, Career Guidance, MPSC/ Examination, etc are Provides current information about day to day happenings to the staff and students.
  9. Inter Library Loan – A service whereby resource sharing facility provided to the staff and students of the college. Through the inter library borrowing of the library resources from other colleges.
  10. Question paper repository/Syllabus copy – Previous years question papers sets and Syllabus copies are available for students and staff in printed as well as scanned form.

Library Activity

  1. Library Orientation – Library orientation program was carried out by the library at the beginning of the academic year for all the first year students. Further students were oriented in small groups to the use of the library collection and library catalogue.
  2. Events Celebrations – Throughout the year different days were observed by the library. Such as, Reading inspiration Day (Birth Anniversary of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam), Vachan prerna din and Marathi Bhasha Divas Relevant books were displayed during the celebrations of these days, in order to inculcate values and importance of these themes among the students.
  3. Birth-Anniversary celebrations – Every year library celebrate the birth anniversary of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan as librarian day also on this occassion library organizes ‘Book Exhibition’ and also organize poster competition, essay competition etc .