Library

About the Library

The library-like all vibrant and productive organizations strive to keep pace with a global, dynamic, and technology-enabled information environment to meet the expectations of its users. Central Library during the year continued to march to its mission of facilitating the creation of new knowledge through the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of library materials. It offered a range of services including reference and consultation, membership and circulation, document delivery, resource sharing, information alert service, book bank for needy students, user awareness programmes. It extended the help and support to establish a library at the college.

In the beginning, the college library was housed in one small room. The college received a grant from UGC towards the construction of the present new building. The new building was designed and opened from 1991 to stack 100000 volumes and 100 readers at a time.

The name of library Late S.R.Tambe given in the year 1981-1982. The Late S.R.Tambe was a social leader in the Pune District. Late S.R.Tambe was born on 22 Sept.1928. A Great person in Otur lived a great life who was Sarpanch of Otur for 18 years. Besides this, he was also a Chairman of Gram Vikas Mandal, Otur. He was elected as a member of Pune Zilla Parishad in 1962. He was also elected the first Chairman of Junnar Taluka Panchayat. In 1970; he was MLA of Junnar Taluka.

The collection Comprised of subjects areas from the faculty of arts, mental moral, Social science, Commerce, Education, Science etc. The Collection has been systematically developed covering all branches of knowledge

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Library Area

Library Committee

Library Staff

Library Collection

Total Collection (up to 31, March,2023)

Non Book Material Collection

Membership

News Paper List

e Newspaper
☛ Online Newspapers

Journals / Periodicals

NLIST e Database

E-Resources @N-LIST

Subscribed e-Journals and e-Books
The Consortium subscribes to the following resources for the colleges. All electronic resources subscribed under N-LIST Programme are available from the publisher's website.

• E-Journals (Fulltext)
  • ☛ American Institute of Physics [18 titles]
  • ☛ Annual Reviews [33 titles]
  • ☛ Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) [1 title]
  • ☛ Indian Journals [180+ titles]
  • ☛ Institute of Physics [46 titles]
  • ☛ JSTOR [2500+ titles]
  • ☛ Oxford University Press [262 titles]
  • ☛ Royal Society of Chemistry [29 titles]
  • ☛ H. W. Wilson [3000+ titles]
  • ☛ Cambridge University Press [224 titles] (2010-2016)
• E-Books
  • ☛ Cambridge Books Online [1800 titles]
  • ☛ E-brary [150000+ titles]
  • ☛ EBSCoHost-Net Library [936 titles]
  • ☛ Hindustan Book Agency [65+ titles]
  • ☛ Institute of South East Asian Studies(ISEAS) Books [382+ titles]
  • ☛ Oxford Scholarship [1402+ titles]
  • ☛ Springer eBooks [2300 titles]
  • ☛ Sage Publication eBooks [1000 titles]
  • ☛ Taylor Francis eBooks [1800 titles]
  • ☛ Myilibrary-McGraw Hill [1124 titles]
  • ☛ South Asia Archive [through NDL]
  • ☛ World e-Books Library [Now available through NDLI

Library Services & Facilities

1. Reference, Consultation & Circulation

Reference service helps users to make full use of library resources and services. It provides necessary assistance to users in locating information or document of their choice. In addition to members including students, research scholars, teaching and non- teaching members from different departments used the library. It is open from 0900 to 1700 hrs on all working days.

2. Membership

The membership of the library for different categories of users stands as mentioned below:
Students: 1635 Staff : 89 Others: 00 Visiting Faculty: 00 Total : 1724

3. Book Bank

The library maintains a book bank to help students belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and economically weaker sections of the society. The bank mainly consists of the prescribed textbooks for undergraduate courses and loans textbooks to these students for a full semester.
Junior College: - Students 684 Books Distributed 3943
Senior College: - Students 675 Books Distributed 6033

4. Sidhivinayak Book Bank scheme

As per the requirement of college, Sidhivinayak trust provides text books donation. This books are free of cost circulated to the sudents. The College has received 9957 text books of rupees 13,36,999.00 (Rs Thirteen Lakhs Thirty six Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Nine till 2019-20.

5 .Users Education, Conferences, Seminars & Competitions.

6 .Competitive Study Center

This center is created for the student, those who are interested in Competitive Exams. All subscribed magazine, journals are kept in the hall for reading. Video clips of UPSC & MPSC Toppers are shown every Monday to the 30 Students.

7 .Newspaper Reading Center Center

Eleven Newspaper are kept for reading in the hall. This is free service to the Students.

8 .Magzine Reding Center

Fourty Five Magazines are kept for reading in the hall. This is free service to the Students.

9 .OPAC

Two Computers are kept for OPAC Service. This is free service to the Students.

Best practices

1. Book Exhibition
2. Book Display
3. Displaying new arrivals
4. I card Generation
5. Library Orientation Programme
6. User Education /Information literacy programme
7. Career/ Employment information services
8. Open Access
9. Free text books

Library Membership

1. Necessary Documents for Teachers & Students: -
   • For Teachers: Appointment Order, Passport size Photo.
   • For Students: Admission Receipt, Passport size Photo.

Library Rules

Issue/Return

1. Books/Periodicals or any other library material can be issued only after showing a valid I-Card.
2. Every Student entering the Library premises should have a valid college identity card. It should be produced as and when demanded.
3. Identity card and Library card are non-transferable.
4. Every student is expected to read and strictly follow the instructions given on the reverse side of the Library Card.
5. Books will be issued for a period of 7 days only.
6. Re-issue of the books will depend upon the demand for the same.
7. If the Book is lost or damaged, the students must replace the book with new copy of latest edition.
8. Reference Books/Journals will be issued Under Graduate students in the library premises only and Reprography service will be made available, if necessary.
9. Students must handle books, periodicals, etc. with great care, any attempt to damage books or Periodicals, by defacing or tearing the pages will treated as serious misconduct and strictly dealt with.
10. If the Original identity card or Library card is lost a duplicate will be issued on payment of Rs.50/- each.

Reading Hall

1. A complete silence and strict discipline should be maintained in the library and Reading room.
2. News papers and Magazine must be read only in the Library and should not be taken outside.
3. Use of Mobile Phone in the Library is strictly prohibited.
4. If any reference book is required in the reading hall, student should approach the Library staff.
5. All cases of disregard of these rules will be reported to the principal for appropriate action.

Research Support

1. Library provides research support for all researchers in the college by various ways like helping them in finding related study material from different resources.
2. Library Portal: Library has created a portal of all open access scholarly databases including Shodhganga & Shodhgangotri, Digital Libraries available online for their patrons and researchers. Researchers can search their material for their resources by accessing portal.
3. Consortia: Subscribed UGC N-LIST consortia through which patrons can access paid e-books and e-journals.
4. Book & Journals Facility: Library provides books and subscribed journals for all researchers on all working days and hours.
5. Reference Service
6. Established separate Digital Library for accessing e-resources.
7. Information Literacy Programme PG students & Researchers.

Library Hours

Issuing Hours

• Monday to Friday : 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
• Saturdays : 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
• The Library remains closed on Sundays and on college Holidays.

Library Working Hours

• Monday to Friday : 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
• Saturdays : 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

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