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The college library is a sprawling space with reading and lending arrangements. In addition to the central hall, which is the chief repository of books, prescribed in the curriculum or otherwise, the library has a mezzanine floor that accommodates a large number of journals and heritage books. The library has currently undergone a revamping process and is still undergoing a lot of modifications for a further face lift.

Our Library supports teaching and learning to the College students, faculty and the staff. We provide resources, facilities and the services to enrich our users becoming more informed.

Objective: the objectives of the City College of Commerce & Business Administration Library are:

• To act as the knowledge resource centre of the institution.

• To provide current library materials and services that support the academic curriculum of the students.

• To help the faculties in promoting academic, professional and research related activities with the college.

Mission: The mission of the Library is to maintain all resources, to facilitate access to those collections and to provide necessary services to meet the academic, professional and personal information needs of the students, faculty and other employees of the college.

Technical part: The library uses Dewey Decimal Classification for classification and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) for cataloguing purposes. All library resources are properly managed for use.

Access: The library has an impressive collection and the Reading Room being spacious it has room enough to accommodate a sizable number of readers. Though the open access method is not fully adopted here, the library is partially open to students, who have the opportunity to survey the shelves for the books they are in search of. Hence for the present partially open access facilities are available for the students.

Reading & Lending Facilities : The Reading Room of the library is easily accessible to the students. The working hours of the library being stretched beyond the regular college hours, both teachers and students have equal scope to avail of the facilities available which include reading, surfing the internet for study and research work, borrowing books and journals and so forth. Lending facilities are extended to teachers and students alike though in case of students such facilities are currently limited only to text books. Reference materials are utilized for reading purposes.

There is a mezzanine floor of the Reading Room which hosts books and journals which can be reckoned heritage property and thus are preserved as materials of historical interest. The same floor has the teachers’ enclosure with internet facilities for the teachers to pursue academic and research-oriented activities. Complete with fire-fighting devices, the mezzanine chamber serves a complementary function to the Reading Room.

Automation: The library is using the software SOUL 2.0 college version for current use. The readers are provided OPAC and Web OPAC facilities, Bar-coding contrivances are at work and the library has a newly constructed institutional repository to preserve academic works of the faculty. The library is not yet automated fully, but plans are afoot to run a fully automated system.

Internet and Networking :The library has a number of computers at the disposal of the users, complete with LAN and internet facilities. Work is on to expand the range of such facilities in the coming months.