The Government Degree
College Paloncha College Library & Information Centre aims to serve the
needs of Faculty and Students. The College Library & Information Centre
established in 1991 along with college itself. The primary objective of our
library is to provide information and knowledge to its students & staff
through its document collection. Our library has been acquiring different types
of documents and organizing them for the efficient usage.
Services of the Library:
Library orientation:
In order to familiarize our students with the
library layout; we display a Floor Plan of the library, illustrating the
arrangement of book shelves according to subject area. This helps the students
in identifying their required materials easily and quickly. We also
individually meet the students visiting the library and guiding them in
selecting their requisite documents.
Reference Service:
The library holds a good collection of
reference books and text books on various subjects. A maximum of 3 (three)
books are issued at a time to a student for reading purposes. We provide
personal services to obtain the required information from various reference
sources available in the library or to satisfy any other queries as
requested.
Lending Service:
The students may borrow 1 (one) book at a
time for home use for a period of two weeks and can renew the same for another
week.
Question papers of
previous examinations:
To acquaint the students with the demands made by various
university examinations, we keep the question papers of the affiliating
university for the users’ study. The questions of previous examinations are
very important for study and teaching.
Information Service:
To sensitize our users about the current and
latest information in respect of various academic courses, ensuing dates of
various competitive examinations, admission procedures of important
institutions of higher learning, we display the Newspaper clippings of
important announcements, information brochures of various academic institutes
and other source materials. Information about the forthcoming
seminars/workshops organized by the college is also brought to the notice of
the students for their participation.
Latest arrivals:
To inform the users about our new arrivals, we
display the list of new additions along with the jacket of books (if
available). Lists of books of renowned and important publishers are kept with
us for consultation.
Periodical and
Newspaper Service:
We also issue periodicals and newspapers to
the users for use in the library and common room.
Internet
Service:
We have internet connectivity in the library and if
required, we help the users to search various
information sources available in the net. We have the practice of preparing a
list of web addresses of important institutes and organizations and bringing it
to the notice of the users. The list is updated periodically.
Automation and Networking
We have started to convert the records
of our resources in machine-readable form in SOUL software, designed and
developed by INFLIBNET Centre, a statutory body of UGC. The
bibliographic information of the books purchased on and from 2016 is
directly entered in the SOUL database. We have more or less completed the
process of making master database of our faculty and run the automated
circulation system on trial basis.
Special Activities:
· Career Guidance section :
It is our common experience that most of the students are of
hardly aware of various academic courses, different competitive examinations or
other information pertaining to their progression in life. To serve our
students in a better way, we have planned to procure books, documents, question
papers of various competitive examinations and preserve them separately for use
in the library. Our ex students may also be allowed to use these resources for
their study. We may also guide our students in selecting the appropriate course
by experts in this area through counseling.
· Digital library :
Last but not least, we are
hopeful of getting a limited number of on-line subscription of e-journals build
our own digital library.
Best Practices
To
enhance the academic information environment and usefulness of the library, to
create a center of attention of the potential human resources of our college
towards library, we try to observe the following practices :
➤Computerization of the library with standard digital
software
➤Displaying newspaper clippings on the notice board
periodically
➤Career/Employment information service
➤Internet facilities to different user groups
➤Displaying new arrivals
➤College News letter prepared by Dept. of Library
Science