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Maulana Azad College
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Central Library
Contact Info: central.library@maulanaazadcollegekolkata.ac.in
About Central Library
Maulana Azad College Central Library was founded in 1926, alongside the establishment of Islamia College, by Sri A.K. Fazlul Haq, (the Bengal Government's education minister at that time). The Central Library is one of West Bengal's oldest and largest, catering to the diverse needs of students, faculty, and researchers. It houses around 100,000 books, including many rare volumes, and is recognized as a top college library in the state. With state-of-the-art technology, it offers extensive print and digital resources, including e-books, journals, magazines, theses, videos, language tools, and newspapers, all accessible anytime, anywhere.
The library is fully automated by Koha Integrated Library Management Software (Version : 22.05.04.000). The books are RFID-tagged and Book Drop Box is available for users to submit books even after Library hours. Additionally, users can use the Self Check-in Check-out Kiosk to borrow and return books and peruse the catalog via the OPAC kiosk. Divyangjan Cubicle, NVIDIA Software, and other amenities are available to users with special needs at the library. In addition to the Central Library, a number of departments have their own seminar libraries in an effort to give students access to additional volumes.
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 JamalQualification: 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.