About Library

R.S. Mundle Dharampeth Arts & Commerce College Library was established in the year 1960 , Mr Ramdasji Joshi was the founder librarian of this library. From 1960 till date library collection has been developed as per the academic and research needs of the students and faculty. Every year a duly constituted Library committee is established under the chairmanship of Hon Principal for book selection and policy decision making about the library.

Library Timing

Taking into consideration the academic and research needs of the students and staff library services are available to the users from 09.00 am to 05.30pm from Mon to Sat (2nd & 4th Saturday are Off). Library runs in two different shifts so as to provide uninterrupted service to the users.

Library Facilities-

•  Newspaper Clippings  Service 

• G.K and Current Affairs Quiz service 

• Current Awareness services 

• Information Literacy Services 

• Reference and Referral service 

Reading Room

Reading Room of the library is open for serious study by the students and teachers from 08.30 am to 05.30 pm.We subscribe to 23 Journals and periodicals in the library of academic research and even general interest of students and teachers.We subscribe to 12 Newspapers in the library.  

Circulation

As per the time table of students issue hours of the library are as follows

Text books as well as books of general interest are issued to the students form library.

Internet

We provide web enabled services to the students in the library. Internet based services are available to the students for their academic purpose. Online browsing and Download of Journals is also available in the library through Internet.

Research Facilities

We welcome research queries from our faculty as well as faculty from other institutes. We put all our efforts to provide pinpointed exhaustive and expeditious service to the research students through our reference collection as well as through Internet.

Reprographic Services

Recently we have purchased a new Photocopying machine in the library and Photocopying facility is made available to the students at nominal charges.

Departmental Libraries

In order to provide research attitude among students, Departmental Libraries have also been established for individual departments. These libraries are under the control of respective HOD’s where students can get personal guidance from faculty for their academic pursuit and guidance for their projects and assignments.

Automation-

We are in a process of complete automation of library services; we have purchased a new library software package LIBMAN for automation of library. Library is fully computerised. Circulation of books is done through fully computerised system. Barcoding of library books is also completed Database of books up to Acc No 47000 is already entered in to the system. New books purchased are entered in to the LMS  system. Student’s database has also been created in to the system and from next academic session we are planning to distribute Digital Library Cards to the students.