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A.D.P.College Library is one of the best
college libraries in Assam in providing efficient service
to the readers. It is a place of attraction for the
students. The library has been aiming to supplement the
knowledge of the students, which they acquire from their
teachers. Presently the library is under the control of
full-fledged library staff.
The library is in the main building. It is
well stocked with more than 32,568 texts and reference
books, more than a dozen of local and national newspapers,
journals and other information sources like maps, globes,
floppy discs, CD.ROMs etc. The library has a reading room
for students and an space is kept exclusively to teachers.
A.D.P. College follows open Access
System reducing the barriers between the books and
readers. Students are allowed to go to the stacks of books
and have direct access to the best thoughts of the world
preserved for centuries in books.
The library remains open from 10.00 a.m. to 04.30 p.m. the
library is expending its access to electronic and digital
resources.
B. NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY:
Following sections describe the nature and
development of the Library:
1. General:
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Name of the Library :
A.D.P. College Library
System of the Library : Open Access System
Working Days : 6 days a week .
Working Hours of the Library : 10.00 a.m. to
04.30 p.m.
Area of the Library: 2350 sq. ft. (77 ft. /
32 ft.)
a. Reading Room: 33 ft. / 32 ft.
b. Stack & Processing Area: 44 ft. / 32 ft. |
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2. Present Library Staff :
There are presently 4(Four) Library staff.
The names and positions are shown below:
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Librarian |
Mr. Hrishikesh
Bhuyan |
BSc, MLISc
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2. |
Library Asstt. |
Mr. Lila Baruah |
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3. |
Library Bearer |
Mr. Pranab Mudoi |
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4. |
Library Bearer |
Mr. Manik Bordoloi
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3. Collection:
Books:
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Total Nos. of Books
: 32568 |
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Journal / Magazine:
Total Nos. of Current Journal / Magazine subscribed to
during the year 2006/2007 :23
Newspapers:
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Total No. of
Newspapers subscribed to during the year
2006/2007 : 8 |
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Others :
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CD-ROMs
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15 |
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Floppy Discs |
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Maps |
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Globes
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Back Volumes
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52 |
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4. Library Members:
Students get membership at the time when
they take admission in to the college. But the students
have to apply separately to obtain library cards.
5. Library Visit:
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Maximum number of
Library Visit in one day by the: |
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Students
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232 |
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Teachers |
17 |
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6. Fund Allocation:
Funds are allocated to Different
Departments in each session .
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C. SECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY: |
1. Stack Area:
All the processed books have been kept in 61
wooden almirahs, 1 book case, 8 steel racks
and 2 wide wooden book case. The books are
arranged in a classified order according to
the Class Numbers. Subject guide is displayed
in prominent place to guide the users. |
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2. Technical
Section:
The books and other reading materials are
being classified using DDC 19th (Dewey Decimal
Classification 20th Edition ) and AACR-II
(Anglo American Cataloguing Rules 2nd Edition)
for cataloguing purposes. 80% of the books had
to be re-classified and re-catalogued. Duties
of the Library Staff have been specified in a
staff manual to speed up the work flow of the
library. |
3. Reference Section:
Reference Books have been separated from the
textbooks which were mixed up previously.
Reference books are kept near the librarian's
working table so as to make readily available
any specific information required by the
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4. Journal & Newspaper Section:
Journals and Newspapers have been organized
separately on the stacks near the Teachers'
Reading Table. A list of Journals and
Newspapers currently subscribed to by the
college library have been compiled in order to
keep the teachers, students and staff informed
as to which journals and newspapers are
available in the library. |
5. Book Bank Section:
There are total 11216 books for book bank and
these books are issued to Backward class
students and economically poor students. |
6.Back Volume Section:
The old loose issues of the journals got bound
and kept in a separate place in a classified
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7.Circulation Section:
For Circulation Control of reading materials
Browne System is followed. Readers Tickets
with the "Library Rules" are issued to the
students at the time of Admission in to the
college. Readers may get complete information
about the library through this publication.
Days are fixed for circulation control for
different category of users.
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8.New Arrival Display:
Newly processed books are kept at a prominent
place for one week or more to attract and to
bring these to the notice of the users.
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D. SERVICES:
The Library Provides different types of
services:
1. Reading Room Service
2. Reference and Information Service
3. Photocopy of Document Service
4. INTERNET Service
5. E-mail Service
6. Database Search Service
7. CD-ROM Search Service
8. Current Awareness Service
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RE-DESIGNING OF THE LIBRARY: |
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Computerisation:
Computer has been introduced in
the library activities in 2004 and automation of
library started phase wise. A Celeron - D computer was
purchased in 2004 for computerizing the Library
activities. Cataloguing was done using Adroit Systems
& Solutions developed library software package
BOOKSHELF PLUS. Library has INTERNET facility also.
In the meantime, college took the
opportunity to get the network version of the library
software named SOUL developed by INFLLBNET absolutely
free of cost under UGC sponsored scheme 2005.
For the installation of this
software, College has purchased one more computer for
the library.and successfully the process of SOUL
installation
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