Central Library Sections:

• Textbooks
• General books
• Reference tools
• Newspapers & Periodicals
• Rare books
• e-Library OPAC Kiosk
• Electronic and Wooden Displays for new arrivals of Books and Journals
• Spacious Reading room with Audio-visual facility
• Desktop PCs with High-Speed Internet
• Special Provisions for Visually Impaired Students
• Career Guidance Section

Working Hours:

• Weekdays: 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
• Saturday: 10 A.M. to 2:30 P.M.

Features:

• Open Access
• Special provisions for Visually Impaired Students
• Fully automated with cloud-based ILMS 'Koha'
• Barcoding Technology
• Digital Library Card with RFID technology
• Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
• D-space Library
• INFLIBNET- NLIST
• DELNET

Special Provisions for Visually Impaired Students:

• Accessible Reading Materials-
• Availability of Braille books and audio books
• Electronic formats of texts and reference materials
• Assistive Technologies-
• Adaptive computer equipment
• Braile Software
• Screen readers and magnification software (NVIDIA)
• Dedicated Support-
• Personal assistance from library staff

Security:

• CCTV
• Air-conditioned stack for rare books and manuscripts

Seminar Libraries:

• Departmental seminar library

Special Access:

• Ex-students, alumni, and former teachers

Services:

• Lending Service
• Reference Service with books, journals, other documents and newspapers.
• Reprographic service
• Documentation Service for teachers on demand.
• Internet surfing facility under wi-fi environment.
• Quick and personal services to Divyangjan users (1 computer specially assigned for visually
• impaired users, using Braille software ‘NVIDIA’).

Area

• Reading Room-800 sq.ft.
• Stack Room-4500 sq.ft.
• Library Office-650 sq.ft.
• Total Area-5950 sq.ft.

Financing

The library’s primary financial sources are grants from the Government of West Bengal and the University Grants Commission (UGC). These funds are proportionately distributed to each department of the College for book purchases.

Facilities:

• Library front Office room.
• Circulation area with automated ‘RFID’ based circulation system to the users, with ‘Self-touch
• kiosk’, ‘Book-drop box’ and ‘Anti-theft gate’.
• Automated Attendance System’ to keep the records of foot-falls in the library.
• Stack Rooms
• Reading Room cum browsing centre / Creativity and Innovative hub.
• Teacher's Cabin inside the Creativity and Innovative Hub.
• ‘Electronic Display unit’ for ‘books on new arrival’.
• Journal Display Units
• ‘Web-OPAC KIOSK’
• ICT Room
• Fumigation chamber
• Archival Section with separate area of ‘Manuscripts’ (maintained / preserved with the financial
• assistance of West Bengal State Archive, Kolkata).
• Institutional Repository
• ‘Institutional membership’ with ‘American Centre Library’ and ‘British Council Library’,
• offering access to their educational resources for lending, online searching, downloading, and
• printing.
• Personalized career counseling and guidance, as when required and demanded.
• Quality measurement through ‘Feed-back’ form from students.

The library now holds over 100,000 volumes of books, purchased with grants from the Government of West Bengal and the UGC. Additionally, it includes books donated by Fort William College and the erstwhile Presidency College, as well as those acquired by the W.B.C.S. Coaching Centre and Pre-Exam Training Centre using UGC-CPE and DST grants.

Librarian

Sri Nayyer Jamal

Qualification: M.Sc. (Chem), M.Lib.Sc. (AMU), Certificate in Care and Conservation of Books, Manuscripts and Archives.
Designation:Librarian (Selection Grade)/WBES
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Library Staff

• Sri Pradip Kr. Das (Library Bearer)
• Sri Tapan Gayen (Library Farrash)
• Smt. Razia Sultana (Library Peon)

Library Advisory Sub-Committee:

• Sri Nayyer Jamal (Librarian & Joint Convener), Mobile: 9804184309
• Dr. Susanta Roy Karmakar (Assoc. Prof. of Zoology & Joint Convener)
• Sri Shahnawaz Shibli (Asst. Prof. of Urdu)
• Dr. Onkar Nath Pathak (Assoc. Prof. of Urdu)
• Dr. Santanu Chattopadhyay (Assoc. Prof. of Bengali)
• Sri Anjan Saha (Asst. Prof. of History)
• Sri S.M.M.J.S. Alquadri (Asst. Prof. of Arabic)
• Sri Ayan Banerjee (Asst. Prof. of History)

In Semester 1 and Semester 2 of the UG course, the Librarian is solely responsible for managing project assignments, including setting and printing question papers, conducting examinations, evaluating, and tabulating results, and uploading the marks to the University website.

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The library’s primary financial sources are grants from the Government of West Bengal and the University Grants Commission (UGC). These funds are proportionately distributed to each department of the College for book purchases.