About Us
From Librarian's Desk
"Information is Power" as it is the basis of all planning, indeed of all activities, everywhere and for everybody. It has now become the base of modernisation which, in turn, implies the application of new technologies for advancement in all spheres of human activities. And today, technology applications emerge the most important task for libraries and information centers to collect, sift, process and finally disseminate pin-pointed information to its users. The information provided shall be exhaustive, timely, errorless and economical.
We are planning and trying to be the best among all college libraries in Maharashtra and for that, we expect a good response and co-operation from our library users.
If everything goes right and as per plan, we are confident enough that our library will touch the new heights in the coming years.
With regards,
Dr. Ajay M. Kamble.
Librarian
About Library
The College library was established with the establishment of college in 1971. The first librarian of the college library was Mr. C K Panase succeeded by Mrs. Sahastrabuddhe, Ms. Joshi, Ms. Yogita Mathure, Ms. Sampada Gamare. Now Dr. Ajay M. Kamble is the Librarian from 2004. Earlier, College library was on the Third floor of the main building of the college. Then it was transferred to ground floor due to increasing space demand. The total area of the library was 4000 sq. ft.
The present library is situated at the 4th and 5th floor of new building of the college since 2009 and the area of library is 16000 sq. ft. Separate Newspaper and Periodicals Section, Property Counter, Reference Room, AV Hall, Internet Room, Digital Library Room, Processing Section, Book Bank Section, Teachers Reading Room, Bound Periodicals Section, Boys Reading Hall and Girls Reading Hall are the main features of the new library. More than 300 Readers can sit and read in the library at a time. All the library functions has been automated with SOUL software. Two separate computer systems has been provided for Online Public Access Catalogue, so that students can get fast access to books.
Students can issue the books for home reading… Students can also issue separate books for reading in the reading room and can read there for the whole day. Some Important Books which are regularly demanded by students are kept in the reading room with open access. 42 Periodicals are subscribed and are kept on display racks accompanying old issues of that periodicals so that they can be easily accessed by users. 11 Leading Newspapers have been made available in the ‘Newspapers and Periodicals Section’. The Main collection is kept in the Stacking Hall with books arranged according to Dewey Decimal Classification System. Proper guidelines have been displayed on the Stacks to guide the users to search books. Webopac is made available on the library website. Also, the Institutional Repository is developed in Dspace and old exam question papers are uploaded on it. It is also available online and the link is given on the website.
Recently, 8th version of mobile app has been developed for android smart phone users and now the users can search books and journals, download old exam question papers, access e-books and e-journals directly through this app from their data enabled mobiles.