The Central Library, Radhamadhab College is a developing library with
the lone objective to provide better collection and services to
support the academic requirements of the parent body. The library
building under UGC VIllth Plan on the first floor of the Central
Block of the college, is housed with 16000 books and 30 periodicals,
along with a number of leading National and local dailies. The
library has created an online Database of its total collection using
SOUL 2.0 and is fully automated with computerized processing and
circulation services. An Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) has
been created by the library, through which books can be searched
(with keywords) through 'computer easily, giving exact location of
the book in the library. The library provides various modern
facilities like Internet, Reprography, Inter-library Loan, Online
Searching, E- Resources, Consortium-based Services etc. The library
has also the facility of Departmental Library for each department,
having a separate collection on each subject. The library has got
the facility to access the electronic resources of INFLIBNET Centre,
UGC, by registering through the N-LIST Programme (National Library
and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) of
UGC, including electronic journals, electronic books and
bibliographic databases. These resources include more than 2100
e-journals and 51,000 e-books which can now be accessed by launching
through Internet Browser with the Username and Password of the
college.
It is also to be mentioned 'that the Central Library
has established association with the British Council (Library and
Information Services), Kolkata, to avail various facilities like
accessing Books and Periodicals, DVDs and CDs, using the English
Language Learning Zone, assistance through the Information Support
Services, Online Resources, Document Delivery Service, etc. of the
British Council, through the Institutional Membership Cards and
Login ID and Password of the college.
A spacious reading room has been provided for the
students, with access to newspapers and journals. They are also
enabled with free Internet facility for their learning purpose. The
library also provides Career Information Service to the students
with access to competitive magazines and Employment News in the
library and also displaying various career-oriented information on
the Notice Board of the library. It is also to be mentioned here
that the library acts as a centre providing in-house training to the
students of DLIS (Diploma in Library and Information Science) course
run under the Research and Programme of Studies Cell of the college.
A Library Orientation Programme is conducted every year to train the
students about use of library and library resources, and also as to
how to access the electronic resources available in the library .The
library has a Book Bank for the financially challenged students,
where students can avail the facility of borrowing books for the
whole session. Besides this, the library has separate collections on
'Ready Reference' and 'North- East' and a 'Special Repository Centre
for Barak Valley' , to collect documents related to the history
,culture and literary heritage of the region.
The library plans to introduce the sophisticated
technology of Bar-Code System, V -Sat, Digital Library Software for
which proposals are already in process. The application of these
modern tools will help to develop the library further with modern
facilities and services in the near future. The library is open from
10.00a.m to 4.30 p.m. on all working days. Students will be issued
Library Card from the library at the beginning of the session. They
are instructed to attend the training programme in library use, the
date and time of which shall be notified in due course.