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| P. Vijay Kumar, Librarian |
" College Library : A Brief Profile" gives an overall view of the library facilities available
at Government Degree College Paloncha. With the long tradition of collective
efforts of the staff members of the library, we have been striving hard to meet
the present day demands of our users by rendering various services. We seek to
do in a personalized and hospitable environment in spite of some
infrastructural limitations.
The library at present provides services mostly through a manual system. However, keeping in mind the present day requirements, we have started the process of automating the services. An INTERNET facility is available to the users. We are progressing towards fuller automation, but not definitely without human touch.
The library at present provides services mostly through a manual system. However, keeping in mind the present day requirements, we have started the process of automating the services. An INTERNET facility is available to the users. We are progressing towards fuller automation, but not definitely without human touch.
The Library
The Central Library is an integral part of the institution.
The library supports the aims of the college towards imparting education and
providing the latest information to the students for developing their quest for
knowledge and self reliance .It is located in the second floor having an area
of 1430 sq.ft. consisting of Information Display Section, Circulation Desk,
Reading Room, Stack Room, Apart from the Central Library, departmental
libraries under the faculties of Arts, Science and Commerce. The users are
mostly students of our college studying degree courses in various disciplines
and teaching and non-teaching staff members of the institution.
Library Hours
The Library remains open on all working days as follows: 9:30
A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Members
The membership of the library is open to the lecturers
students and non-teaching staff members of the college. The outgoing students
can keep books up to university examination. The reading facilities are
provided to the ex-students of the college.
Collection
Books : The total numbers of books has gone up to 7800 (as on
31.03.2019) on various subjects of Arts, Commerce and Science streams. A good number
of text books and reference books and competitive books are available in the
library. There is a collection of conventional Reference Books like Dictionary,
Encyclopedia, Handbook, Year book etc. for ready reference and general
information.
Subject wise breakup of the books :
Arts
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No.
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Science
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No.
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Commerce
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No.
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Reference
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No.
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English
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4838
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Mathematics
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2831
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Commerce
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3805
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Reference
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1780
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Telugu
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6150
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Physics
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2877
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Competitive
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Hindi
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171
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Chemistry
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3015
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History
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105
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Botany
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2174
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Economics
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2307
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Zoology
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1911
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Political
Science
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2450
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Computers
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Public
Administration
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2962
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Geography
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29
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20621
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18413
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3805
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1780
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Grand Total : 44,619
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Journals : Journals are the primary source of information and in the present age of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based system; electronic journals play a major role in providing users with nascent information in the least possible time. We subscribe NLIST for e-journals it’s about 6000 journals and 100000 e-books through nlist.
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Daily
Newspapers :
Title
|
Language
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The
Hindu
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English
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Enadu
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Telugu
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Sakshi
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Telugu
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Namaste
telangana
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Telugu
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Andhra
Jyothi
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Telugu
|
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Periodicals
:
Title
|
Language
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Frequency
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Employment
News
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English
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Weekly
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Vivek
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Yojana
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Vijetha
Competitions
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Telangana
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Computer
for You
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Dharma
Deepam
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Musi
|
Telugu
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Monthly
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Shine
India
|
Telugu
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Monthly
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Telugu
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Monthly
|
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Telugu
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Monthly
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Addition
of books to the library for the last 5 years.
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Year
1st April – 31st March |
No.
of books
added |
Amount
spent
(Rupees) |
2001-2002
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218
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100129.30
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2002-2003
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56
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17708.50
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2003-2004
|
514
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100466.75
|
2004-2005
|
331
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86558.25
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2005-2006
|
98
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15397.25
|
Fund
|
Number
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College Fund including occasional
grant from Govt. of W.B.
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28941
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U.G.C. Grant
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8287
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P. C. Roy Text Book Library
(16.02.1988)
|
4162
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U.G.C. Text Book Library
(27.08.1968)
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720
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Book Bank (31.03.1990)
|
2509
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Total
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44619
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Weeding out of old, torn out books : As a library is a growing organization, in order to make room for new additions, weeding out of old, torn out books of little contemporary relevance or historical value is vital. This is particularly important for an institution like ours. To begin with the task, we have earmarked and made a list of 1000 books for weeding out and are keeping them separately. We hope to begin the process of weeding out very soon.
Weeding out of old, torn out books : As a library is a growing organization, in order to make room for new additions, weeding out of old, torn out books of little contemporary relevance or historical value is vital. This is particularly important for an institution like ours. To begin with the task, we have earmarked and made a list of 1000 books for weeding out and are keeping them separately. We hope to begin the process of weeding out very soon.
Manpower
·
Librarian
: P. Vijay Kumar. M.Com. M.LI.Sc., B.Ed.
(Ph.D).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Periodical
and Newspaper Service : We also
issue periodicals and newspapers to the users for use in the library and common
room.
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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.
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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
