Library Services:
The library has a key role in supporting the academic activities of the institutions by establishing, maintaining and promoting library and information services, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The library offers a wide range of services from reference to electronic information services. College libraries may answer the following basic questions for ensuring appropriate services to the academic community.
Document Delivery: To fulfill the information needs of the end user through information/document supply is a document delivery service.
Book bank: The scheme is initiated by the Social Welfare Department for SC/ST students which assist such students to avail books for whole semester. The student is supposed to return the same on his/her completion of term.
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI): SDI service is a model service which ensures that the periodicals and journals subscribed by the library are effectively read by all users.
Current Awareness Service (CAS): CAS enables the students and faculties to become aware of the new arrivals in the library are it books, CDs, periodicals, journals. The bibliographic information of the new items in the library in a particular month is listed and circulated to all users to make them aware of the new arrivals in the library.
Display of News
Display of New arrivals
Display of Xerox copies of articles published online.
Information Alert Services: COP library offered following current awareness services to alert users about the latest information of their interest:
List of Additions, New arrivals
List-you-miss
News items display
Useful articles display
Display of book Reviews
Current Contents: The Current contents service is useful to many students and faculties who are short of time and wish to know at a glance about the new articles published in the journals & periodicals. The contents page of important subject specific journals & periodicals is scanned and emailed to all users to enable them to understand the topics under discussion for the month in various journals & periodicals. This service can be said to save the time of the users.
Inter library loan: The library offers inter library loan service to its patrons for the books and docs not available in the library by procuring them from the other libraries within the reach.
Reference service: The library upholds a separate collection like encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, atlases etc. Readers may approach to the Librarian’s desk for any of such services.
Photocopying: The library has a separate photocopy machine within its ambiance to serve better.
Library Timings: The library remains open from 7.00 a m to 6.00 pm throughout the year except Sundays &; University holidays. During Examination period library will open from 7.00am to 8.00pm.