Library

The college library operation has been fully automated since the session 2017-2018 using the Integrated Library Management System. Up until the session 2018-2019, the library had the ILMS 2.0 version but since 2019-2020, it has upgraded to version 3.0. The fully automated nature of the ILMS software excludes RFID technology. The college library is also being upgraded to KOHA. Koha is the open source ‘software library automation package’ available in multiple languages and is used all over the world for its comprehensive functionality in libraries.

Being an indispensable abode of information for the institution, the college library is a house for books on humanities, sciences, social sciences, commerce, psychology, literature, and preparatory books for competitive exams etc. The college library has an extensive collection of over twenty-five thousand books expanded over three sections- General Section, Text-Book Section, and Periodical Section.

The General section of the college library proudly owns an exclusive Shri Guru Nanak Study Centre along with other common books. In the Shri Guru Nanak Study Centre, one can find books related to the Sikh religion and also books containing information related to other religions. The Textbook section of the library was established with the help of the UGC grant and it provides textbooks of a variety of subjects to the outstanding and needy students of the college. In the Periodical section, there are magazines and various newspapers in English, Hindi and Punjabi language allowing students and staff members to read the content of their choice in the language they prefer.

The library also has a reading room which hosts a corner for career and vocational guidance. In the latest session, the library received an average footfall of around eighty users per day. The basic inventory of the library is available online which offers to perform searches based on the author of the book, title of the book, and other keywords to precisely locate the book. The students and the faculty have easy access to the computer system and the online library catalogue to fulfil this function and locate the book of their need or choice.

The most recent details of the library usage include the issuing of books to around twenty-three hundred users including students and faculty of the college. Along with this, the college library also provides its users the arrangements for using the Photostat services. The college library also has an annual subscription to the N-List. “National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content” or N-List is the project being executed conjointly by e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and INDEST-AICTE Consortium of IIT, Delhi. The subscription to this project allows the students and faculty from the college to access e-resources available on the project’s website with their individual login IDs and also download articles.

The students and faculty enjoy a varied collection of online journals, books, and other publications. Apart from this central library, some departments of the college also have respective departmental libraries to offer additional academic assistance to the students.

Departmental Library: In addition to the main Library, the respective departments have their own departmental libraries to provide additional support system in academics to the students concerned.

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