THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
Motto of Central Library –
“Right Document to the Right Reader at the Right
Time”
1. INTRODUCTION:
The
Central library of Raja Peary Mohan College has a very unique and rich
collection of books, periodicals and reports as well as multimedia resources
built over nearly one hundred years. This includes some of the rarest materials
along with thousands of important documents and journals.
The
Central Library of Raja Peary Mohan College is situated in the Ground Floor of
the new building. The Library was established way back in the year 1927 with
about 1000 books, mostly obtained through donations from the founder members.
For several years, the library was located in one of the small classrooms of
the earlier hostel building. However, with the passage of time, as the number
of books increased, the library had to be shifted to a larger hall in Room No.
101. In 1963 there was a separate library on the 3rd floor. In the year 2018
The Central Library had to be shifted to Ground floor became functional in
fulfilling the long-standing academic hunger of all categories of our users. Central library is spread over three levels, It has 6
special sections, (i) Textbook; (ii) General Books; (iii) Reference Tools and
Rare section; (iv) Remedial; (v) Periodicals; and (vi) Braille Books. The Library has
been upgraded with the pace of time with KOHA software for extending facilities
of automated search and online access respectively. Automated
barcode system is being used to make the circulation system effectively
modernized. The Library has provide digital resource service through
Institutional repository software DSpace .
Presently,
the total number of books in the Library is more than 29,000 and every year
there is a fresh purchase of books from the RUSA grants UGC grants and College
fund.
Raja
Peary Mohan College Library is a proud member of NLIST, (INFLIBNET [http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in])
National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content
which is part of UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium, JSTOR to extend
e-resources to colleges.
An
initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under the NME-ICT
now funded by UGC, as college component under UGC-INFONET Digital Library
Consortium, it gives us access to over:
6000+
e-journals and
97000+
e-books
2.
Our moto:
The primary mission of the library is to
support the educational and research programs of the college by providing
access to rich physical and digital repositories of learning resources. With
its rare archives and the most current databases, the College library is
designed to cater to the College's current and future teaching and research interest
3. Library sub committee
Dr. Sudip Kumar Chakraborty
(Principal)
Dr. Sonali Dapsi (Librarian,
Convener)
Mrs. Shraboni Das (Librarian,
Convener)
Dr. Samir Roy (Bursar)
Dr. Pallab Gayen (TCS)
Prof. Susanta Kumar Biswas
Dr. Apurbo Kumar Dey
Dr. Sanjukta Bhattacharyya
Dr. Pinaki De
Dr. Abu Saleh
Dr. Maitry Bose Biswas
Prof. Debasish Naskar
Ms. Souvik Mondal (Library
staff)
Ms. Anupam Jana
Mr. Samir Purkait
G.S., Student Union
Girls’ representative of students
4.
Rules and regulations
4.1. INTRODUCTION
Services
of the Library are provided primarily to Students, Research Scholars, Faculty,
Officers and Non-Teaching Staff of the Institution. The library collections of
the Central Library are subject to special protection for being a library of
near about 100 years old. Considering this, these rules are designed to ensure
that all members may obtain the maximum benefits from library facilities
without affecting the library resources.
4.2. LIBRARY
HOURS : Library
hours are subject to change and the changes if any, will be notified on the
Library Notice Board from time to time.
all
week days: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Book
requisition hours: 10.30 A. M to 1.00P.M.
Book
issue: 2.00 P. M to 4:30 P.M.
Book
return: 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
Ø Library visiting hours for
External members –
4.3. RIGHT
OF ENTRY (TO THE LIBRARY): The right of entry to the Library is reserved to
bonafide students, teachers, and staff of the College. Students are required to
keep their Library Cards with them for inspection. All users of the library
must sign the visitor’s register at the time of entry.
4.4. MEMBERSHIP:
Students,
teachers and staff of the College are entitled to become members of the
library. Library card will be issued to each member.
Ø
Memberships are not transferable. A borrower shall not in any case sub lend any
book borrowed from the Central Library. Every member of the Library shall be
responsible for the safe custody of the Library book borrowed by him/her for
study in the Reading Room or for use at home.
Members
should keep the Library informed of changes of address, telephone no., class or
subject of study etc. during the period of their membership. Following persons
can enlist him/herself as a member in anyone of the following capacity.
4.5.
PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS: The various categories of members mentioned below
shall be entitled to borrow the specified number of volumes from the library
for the period noted against each category.
A.
Faculty Members will be eligible to borrow to the maximum limit of 5 books for
30 days. Reissue 1 time.
B.
students will be eligible to borrow to the maximum limit of 3 books for hons.
Students and 2 books for general students.
C.
Nonteaching stuff will be eligible to borrow to the maximum limit of 2 books
for 30 days during their fellowship.
5.
Library services
5.A.
Library basic services:
1. Home
lending of library resources
2. In
house use of library resources
3. Book
reservations facility
4. Reprographic
service
5. Internet
facility
6. Reference
service
7. Referral
service
8. Library
Induction & orientation programs
9. Newspaper
clipping service
10. Reading
room provision
11. Inter
library loan
12. Question
paper archive
13. Selective SDI service
14. Library
OPAC
15. Digital
library service
16. CAS
(Current Awareness Service)
17. Carrell
service
18. Document
Delivery Service (DDS) :
19. External
membership services
5.B. Guidance and counseling
20. Reading
skill and information literacy
21. Referencing
and style manual
22. Training
on NLIST, JSTOR & NDL program
23. Training
on open resources
24. Training
programs on Library computerization (OPAC)
6.
Library section
A. Property
counter
B. Circulation
section
C. Periodicals
section
D. Stack
rooms
E. Reading
room
F. Digital
library section
G. Reference
section
H. Rare
section
I. Remedial
section
J. Librarian’s
desk
K. OPAC
zone
7.
Library collection
A. Books
·
General collection
·
Career guidance
collection
·
Rare collection
·
Reference collection
·
Remedial collection
B. Journals
·
Indian Chemical Society
·
The Economist
·
The Management accountant
·
The Chartered accountant
·
Economic and Political
Weekly
C. Magazine
D. Newspaper
·
Anandabazar
·
Eisomoy
·
The times of India
·
Kormokhetro
·
Employment news
E. Digital
collection
E.1 CDs/DVDs, Penrdrive
E.2 Digitization of library resources
v Previous
year Question paper
E.3 Born Digital resources
v Syllabus
F. NDL (Digital Library)
G. INFLIBNET-NLIST program
H. JSTOR (Digital
library)
8.
Institutional
repository (Dspace)
9.
Important links
A. Library
web OPAC
B. Institutional
repository (Dspace)
C. NLIST
e resources
D. National
Digital library
E. JSTOR
F. Calcutta
university
G. UGC
H. SWAYAM
10.Contact
us :
Address :
Central
library
Raja
Peary Mohan College
1,
Acharya Dhruba Pal Road, Koutrung ,
Uttarpara, Hooghly, West Bengal,India,
pin-712258
Ground
Floore
Phone
number: 033 2663 0881
Librarian
Dr.
Sonali Dapsi
Mrs.
Shraboni Das
11.
Suggestions /Feedback:
https://forms.gle/quefMEgpkN5rV5UN7
Please
give your suggestions. The central
library welcomes all suggestions and encourages. All library users can put
their valuable suggestions at any time.al
library welcomes all suggestions and encourages. All library users can put
their valuable suggestions at any time.
