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Central Library (Bipin Chandra Memorial Library)

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.

 

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