Central Library
Bir Lachit Borphukan College
Bir Lachit Borphukan College is one of the premier higher educational institutions of the state Assam. The college is located at Sivasagar District Headquater, which is about 1Km. from historic Shiv Temple and Tank, 1 Km. from Sivasagar Railway Station and 56 Km. from Jorhat Airport .
The college affiliated to Dibrugarh University; was established in 1981 with a view to promoting higher education. The college came under provincialisation Act 2005 in 2013. The college has left no stone unturned to provide quality education to the students since its establishment. Though at the very beginning of the college, there was no separate library room, after some years, a separate hall was provided by the donor Mr. Pradip Bordoloi and his family members in the memories of their Late Punyaprabha Bordoloi and Loknath Bordoloi , which was opened for service on 23.08.2012. Initially the College Library was started with the gratis books. Some books were also procured every year with student’s fee.
The library is automated with SOUL 3.0 Version developed by INFLIBNET Centre (An Inter University Centre) Ahmedabad. The College Library is globally connected through Internet connectivity. . The Digital Library and Institutional Repository is started with DSpace. The library has DELNET ,NDLI and N-LIST membership ( “National Library and Information Services infrastructure for Scholarly Content) through which the users can access freely worlds authentic scholarly journals and e-books.
LIBRARY AT A GLANCE
LIBRARY HOUR : 9 AM to 4PM
TOTAL NUMBER OF BOOKS (As on 01.01.2023) : 10694
TOTAL NUMBER OF PERIODICALS : 12
TOTAL NUMBER OF NEWSPAPERS : 5
TOTAL NUMBER OF MANUSCRIPTS (Softcopy) : 15
NUMBER OF COMPUTER : 10
LIBRARY SOFTWARE : SOUL 3.0 and DSPACE
E- RESOURCE CONSORTIUM : NLIST and DELNET
LIBRARY STAFF : 3