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LIBRARY AS A LEARNING RESOURCE

             An Academic Library is a dynamic and indispensable hub of knowledge, learning, and intellectual exploration within educational institutions. It is a repository of scholarly resources, carefully curated to support the diverse academic pursuits of students, faculty, and researchers.

                     The central library of Govt. Arts & Science College, Kozhikode is the heart of the college and has a special place in the world of higher learning and research. The library established in 1964, tries to prove itself to be the most dynamic library in providing professional assistance to students and faculty in their academic activities. The library occupies total area of about 8937 m2 with spacious stack room for language, humanities, commerce and science subjects with reference and reading rooms. The library has ICT facilities with INFLIBNET. The college library is fully automated with KOHA software from 2016 onwards and having Wi-Fi with 50 Mbps download band width. The library functions from 9.30 AM to 4.30PM on all working days and extended hours on special occasions. The library has an efficient advisory committee. The committee has taken initiatives in major library renovation work and also extends assistance in all other library related activities.

A collection of over 83380 Books makes the college Central Library as a rich source of academic information it includes rare books, print journals, doctoral thesis, career guidance related documents, newspapers and periodicals, previous years question papers and back volumes of journals. Beyond traditional print materials, central library have evolved to incorporate electronic databases, 195800+ E-books, 6200+ E-journals through N LIST and DELNET.

In order to make the library management system more meaningful and effective separate sections such as circulation, stack, student reading area, staff reading area ,  reference, acquisition, reprographic Section have been provided. The library has a good research area which provides separate reading space for researchers. The reference section includes general reference books like encyclopedias, Dictionaries, manuals, yearbooks, gazetteers. The Central Library has 10 computers with broadband connection, 2 printers with scanners and a photocopier to facilitate day-to-day operations of the library and access electronic resources. Library provides alerting services like renewal notice, overdue notice and check in check out alert to the students and staff. OPAC service enable to the library visitors to check the availability of library resources. Books issue and return facility, Referral service, Reprographic Service and Reservation of Books is also very efficient in the library. User orientation programme, reading week, Book exhibitions activities are conducted every year.