About Library
The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Waymade members and to sustain and preserve the collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
Waymade library houses more than 7000 resources which include books, journals, dissertation/theses, audio/video materials etc. The library collection covers educational subjects like Education, Psychology, Philosophy, Educational Management, commerce, ICT, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Fictions, Poetry, Reference etc.
28 periodicals/magazines are subscribed to keep the users updated with the trends in the field.
User-friendly library software called SOUL (Software University Libraries) has been adopted at the Library. This is popular software facilitates automated circulation (issue & return) of the books and speedy access to bibliographies, locations and availability information of the books stocked in the library. Bar-coding on books and the automated issue and return facility of books reduce the waiting time.
Library has their own institutional repository with the help of DSpace software (an Open Source Software), which is having more than 80 online dissertation/theses during the campus.
Also library having database of content based search engine, which is having contents of Journals/Periodical. By this search engine students/faculty can save the time for search the content for the same.