Library & Learning Resource Center at Sree Saraswathi College

Library-Learning Resource Center

The Learning Resource Centre of Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College is committed to fostering the sustained development of its resources by extending a professional support service and to create a culture of learning and reading among the students and staff by providing the required quality learning resources.

STC has two libraries, one in the Main Building and another in the VSV Advanced Learning Centre building with 5450 sq. ft. It has huge volumes of books over 43,372, articles, journals and magazines, multilingual dailies, reference books, back volumes of books and e-resources to support teaching, research and extension programmes of the college and provides efficient service to all the members of the institution.

Features

Computerized and Bar-coded Library is automated using an Integrated Library Management system (ILMS) with a library software database namely Modern Lib
Variety of collections of Books, Journals and Magazines
Access the entire Library Database through OPAC - OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog
Library books are arranged in the form of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
In Library premises, a Wi-Fi facility is available with an internet bandwidth of 100 and50 Mbps
Digital Library consists of 25 desktops with internet bandwidth of 100 and 50 Mbps for students and faculty members
E-resources like DELNET, INFLIBNET (N-LIST), and NDLI are available in our Digital library- The DELNET provides 38,184 E-journals, plenty of E-books on various subjects & statistical database for researchers, and 11,24,250 articles which help the members to find their references
Autonomous end-semester question banks and syllabi are available in the OPAC system
Reprography facility available
New Arrivals are displayed on racks/through online catalogs
Notice board displays all the information about the utilization of library resources and any relevant library information
Students and Faculty members visit to the library using a barcode entry card
Scribes’ books are available
The library is under CCTV Surveillance System
The reading room is well furnished and provides a conductive environment for study

Library Initiatives

In our library, regularly “Thinam oru Kural” and currency values are displayed on the white board.
To encourage and motivate learning culture, students who have secured 80% and above(CGPA of 8.0) in the end semester examinations are entitled to borrow one additional book along with their regular entitlement for every semester.
Suggestion box is available and every Friday, it is opened and taken into action for any suggestion offered by the students and faculty members.

Details of Librarian

Dr. A. Thendral, M.Com., MLIS., M.Phil., PGDLAN, Ph.D - Librarian
Mr. P. Natarajan, B.Sc., MLIS - Deputy Librarian
Dr. K. Balasubramanian, B.Sc., MLIS., M.Phil., DOA., Ph.D - Asst.librarian
Ms. S. Meena, M.Com., MLIS., - Library Assistant
Ms. M. Nagajothi, B.Sc., BLIS., - Library Assistant
Ms. R. Kalaiselvi - Library Assistant

Services

Reference and Research
Current Awareness
Book Circulation service
Online Access to e-Resources
OPAC
Reprographic Service
News Paper clipping Service
Inter-Library Loan and Document delivery service (DELNET)
Open Access
Digital Service
Divyangjan friendly

Library Timings

Resources

Library Books Collection

LIBRARY BOOKS COLLECTION (Department wise)	No. of Volumes
CHEMISTRY	282
COMMERCE AND MANAGEMENT	16,195
COMPUTER SCIENCE	14,261
ENGLISH	2,472
GENERAL	2,276
HINDI & MALAYALAM	91
MATHEMATICS	3,420
PHYSICAL EDUCATION	126
PHYSICS	322
PSYCHOLOGY	421
SOCIAL WORK	828
TAMIL	4,694
TOTAL	45,388

Resources

E-Resources

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