St. Philomena College Library came into existence in 1946 with the establishment of the college and began functioning with a modest collection of a few hundred books. The Library was situated on the first floor of the Science Building upto 1983 and was shifted to a separate Library building. At present it is situated on the first floor of the Library building and has a total plinth area of around 5,000 SQ FT.
The important Sections in the Library are Reference Section, Stack Section, Special Grants collection Section, Periodical/Journals section, Unused(old) Books Section, News Paper Section and UGC-Network Resource Centre.
A Separate Pre- University College Library was set up in the year 2005 after bifurcating from the Degree College. There is separate PG Library with the plinth area of around 2,000 SQ FT. All the services rendered in the main library including on line services are available in the PG Library.
At present the library has in its Stock more than 42,000 books, 850 back volumes, 250 Educational CD’s /DVD’s, covering a wide variety of subjects.The Library Subscribes to 12 Newspapers ,90 Journals/Periodicals (25 arts, 33 Science, 19 Commerce and Management and 03 International) and 13 Magazines.
Membership:
Membership of library is open to the students and staff of the college. The Library provides each student two Borrowers' Cards to UG student and two Borrowers' cards to PG students to borrow books. The Cards cannot be transferred to others. Apart from this every student needs show their ID cards for any kind of service from the Library. Also Alumni are permitted to use the library during working hours except borrowing facilities
Rules and Regulations:
- The students are required to comply with the library rules and regulations which are highlighted in the College Calendar. Disciplinary action will be taken against such student who does not comply with the rules and regulations.
- The College Library functions on all working days except Sundays and Government Holidays from 8.30 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. and on Saturday 8.30 A.M. to 4.30 P.M Books must be returned on or before the prescribed due date noted in the due date slip.
- A book can be borrowed for a period of 07 days. It can be renewed for another week provided that book is not demanded by any other member. Books must be returned on or before the prescribed due date noted in the due date slip. If the book is not returned within the due date, a fine of Rs.1.00 per day will be collected as overdue charges.
- Books borrowed from the library should not be lent to other persons.
- Books of the reference section and those marked “for Reference only” as well Periodicals will not be lent out. But they may be consulted within Library premises
- If a book or periodicals is damaged or lost by a student, he must replace it or pay the cost of it including postage, etc., within the time fixed by the Librarian.
- To obtain a book or a periodicals for reference, the students has to fill in the Prescribed REFERENCE SLIP which can be obtained from the circulation Counter of Library. The book and the periodicals thus given out have to be returned after reference
LIBRARY TIMINGS: 8. 30 A.M TO 5. 30 PM ON WORKING DAYS 8. 30 A.M TO 4.30 P.M ON SATURDAYS
Library Automation:
The Library is computerized and Library database is created using Integrated Library Management Software “EASYLIB”. The issues and returns of books are done using this software. OPAC/WEBOPAC facility is available and which allows the readers searching the books & journals though Author, Title, Publisher, Accession Number, subject, Class No., Keywords etc and helps them to know the status of availability in the library and reserve them if they are lent out.
The other unique features of the library are:
- Fully computerized library services
- OPAC/ WEBOPAC facility
- Free Broad Band Internet facility for the students
- Access to largest e-journal Gateway/Journal Finder https://jgateplus.com/search/
- Access to EBSCO Management Collection with eBooks on Business https://search.ebscohost.com/
- J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles, theses,book series,Conference proceedings, Audio/Video content, etc. ( For username and password please mail to [email protected] or contact Central Library)
- Access to Competitive Exam Preparation Portal (http://upscfever.com/)
- Access to National Digital Library of India (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
- Special Grants Collections for deserving users.
- Photocopy/Scanning service including Old question papers/syllabus
- Digital Library service
- Click here to ACCESS LIBRARY WEBOPAC ( Only On Campus Network)
- Access to 97000+ e-Books and 6000+ e-Journals through INFLIBNET- N-LIST programme. ( http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/)