GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR MEN
KURNOOL

Central Library

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MISSION OF LIBRARY :

“ WE WANT THAT EDUCATION BY WHICH CHARACTER IS FORMED STRENGTH OF MIND IS INCREASED THE INTELLECT IS EPANDED AND BY WHICH ONE CAN STAND ON ONES OWN FEET”

VISION OF THE LIBRARY:

 EXCELLENCE IS NOT AN ACT BUT A HABIT. BE EXCELLENT!

MOTTO:

* IF YOU CANNOT HAVE THE BEST MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT YOU HAVE*

The central library is spread over 2200sq.Ft. & Is located in the Ground floor. 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 1971. . The library is divided in different sections like Reference book section, Stack room, Digital library with internet, Journal and Back volume section, Reading hall Teaching staff section and Librarian cabin. The library has 32782 books, 06 Journals and 10 magazines 85 back volumes journal. 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. ü
• To provide a student friendly atmosphere. ü
• To obtain best & latest reference for students & staff ü
• To upgrade and develop a digital libraries.
• To associate with other libraries Like Silver jubilee Govt Degree college, Osamania Degree college, K.V.R Women Degree College  to Provide best resources to our students.

LIBRARY LEARNING RESOURCES

ØLibrary no of Books         : 32782

ØReference Books            : 8138

ØDept. Library Books        : 1047

ØNo. of Journals               : 6

ØNo of magazines            : 10

ØEducational CDs            : 218

ØJournal Back Volumes   : 85

ØE-resources                   : INFLIBNET NLIST

 

SUBJECTWISE LIBRARY BOOKS
S.No	Name of the Subject	No of copies
1	English Literature	2547
2	Telugu Literature	2000
3	Hindi Literature	103
4	Computer Science	1250
5	Mathematics	936
6	Statistics	589
7	Physics	692
8	Chemistry	850
9	Botany	845
10	Zoology	725
11	Microbiology	292
12	Commerce	385
13	Economics	930
14	Hitory	1256
15	Political Science	1050
16	Psychology and Management	1114
17	Journalism	211
18	Reference	8138
19	Environmental Studies	823
20	personality development books	504
21	Sc/ST Book Bank Scheme	7552
	TOTAL	32782

 

LIST OF JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

s.no	Name of the Journal/Magazine
1	RESONANCE
2	VIJETHA COMPELITION
3	EMPIOYMENT NEWs
4	COMPETITION SUCCESS REVIew
5	INDIAN  LETERATURE
6	READERS  DIGEST
7	ECONOMIC AND  POLILICAL WEEKLY
8	YOJANA (English)
9	UNIVERSITY NEWS
10	Shine India
11	Vivek
12	Yojana (Telugu)

 

objectives

• To enrich College Library academically and help it to become a reputed class institution in teaching and research in Sciences, Business Management and other areas of general intellectual interest.
• 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.
• To further utilize digital technology and networked resources for the benefit of the users.
• To ensure optimum satisfaction for all the users of the centre–students, staff and  faculty .

 

Academic Activities

·         Best Library User Award: The College management  has Instituted the “Best Library User Award” for Two students and Two faculty members , to promote reading habit among students and research culture among the faculty.

·         User orientation programs - For better use of facilities.

 

·         National Library week-  We Celebrate NLW to inculcate book reading habits.

·         Book exhibitions- Organized to bring awareness among faculty and students regarding The Various types of Documents available in our libraries.

 

LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The Library Committee plays a vital role in enhancing and developing the library services, making suitable policies that will help the library to render its best. The committee holds some meetings every year. If required more meetings are also held.

Sl. No.	Name	Last Name	Role
1	Dr.M.Indira Shanthi	Principal	Chairperson
2	Sri P.Markandeya Achari	Librarian	Co-Ordinator
3	Dr. K.Sippi Isaac	Lecturer in  Botany	Member
4	Dr. J.Masthani	Lecturer in Commerce	Member
5	Dr. S.Somasekhar	Lecturer in botany	Member

 

Library Staff Members

P.MARKANDEYA ACHARI M.A.M.LISC

LIBRARIAN

 

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 or they can take CD of the previous question papers.

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 is provided for UG, PG & MBA with seating capacity of 40, 24 & 60 respectively.

Current Periodicals Section

The library subscribes to 07 Journals &11 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 Eight Daily News papers.

Locating the documents

Books are arranged according to call numbers followed by book number on the shelves. OPAC facility has been provided to assist the users in locating the material. The users can access the database through author, title, classified order, subject, key words in title and combinational search. Well trained library staff members are always available in identifying and locating the required documents.

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

• Textbook: Students and staff can borrow the books prescribed in the syllabus as text books are kept here for Issue.  
• Lending: All the books and user ID cards are bar coded which helps to save the time of library personnel as well as borrowers.
• 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.  Back volumes of the Journals since 2006 are also available.
• 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 .
• News paper clippings: a Display Board devoted to an archival of editorial clippings and important articles compiled on various interesting subjects.
• Content page service for hard copies of
• Question papers: The Library provides the soft copies as well as Printed form of question papers for the benefit of the user community.
• Subject Bibliographies: We update Subject catalogues continually for the benefit of users.
• Syllabus Copies: We Preserve Syllabus copies of Current and Previous for consultation.
• 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

·         Monday to Friday: 9.30 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)

 

Computerisation

The Library is fully automated by using SOUL   library software system by inflibnet On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is provided to search for information through Author, Subject, Title, ISBN, Call No, Keywords etc to know the status or availability of the book. 

N-List:

The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.

Through the N-List Project, the Library provides access to e-resource to students, researchers and faculty members. The authorised users of the library can access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website. The college library has access to selected electronic resources including electronic journals, electronic books and bibliographic databases. These resources include more than6,237e-journals, 1,35,809e-books . Details of e-resources accessible through the INFLIBNET's proxy server http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in.

World e-books Library (30,00,000 titles)	http://community.ebooklibrary.org/?AffiliateKey=WEL-NDL
South Asia Archive (though NDL)	http://www.southasiaarchive.com