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The Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College Library (Central Library: Jagadish Bhattacharyya Pathagarh) is housed in a spacious room on the Ground Floor having an area of 2700 sq.ft. Consisting of Display Section, Circulation Desk, Reading Room, Stack Room, Processing Room and Reading Room for faculty members with sitting accommodation for 80 readers at a time. Apart from the Central Library, the College has 08 departmental libraries under the faculties of Commerce and Arts. The stock of both text and reference books in the library has undergone considerable expansion and an exhaustive collection of more than 36000 books adequately meet the varied requirement of all students and teachers. There is a regular annual addition to the stock of books. Besides, students are encouraged to read newspapers, journals, e-books and e-journals (which are regularly supplied) to keep abreast of the times. Care is taken to maintain an atmosphere of calm and quiet study inside the library. The users are mostly students of our college studying UG Courses in various disciplines, teaching and non-teaching staff members of the institution.

Books: The total number of books has gone more than 36,513 (as on 31.03.2020) on various subjects of Commerce and Arts streams. A good number of textbooks and reference books are available in the library. The library maintains books under different heads. There is a collection of conventional Reference Books like Dictionary, Encyclopaedia, Handbook, Yearbook etc. for ready reference and general information.

Department/Subject wise books in the Library as on 31-03-2020:

The Collection of Conventional Reference Books and others:-

Journals: Journals are the primary source of information in the present age. Though at present, the library does not subscribe to any e- journal or e-database, we inform our users about the accessibility of e-journals via the Internet through N-LIST: Inflibnet. At present, the library houses the following newspapers and titles on different subjects:

Addition of books to the library for the last 5 years:-

The brief profile gives an overall view of the library facilities available at the College. With the long tradition of collective efforts of the staff members of the library, we have been striving hard to meet the present-day demands of our users by rendering various services. We seek to do in a personalized and hospitable environment in spite of some infrastructural limitations. The library at present provides services mostly through a manual system. However, keeping in mind the present-day requirements, we have started the process of automating the services. An INTERNET facility is available to the users. We are progressing towards fuller automation, but not definitely without human touch.

• Silence should be maintained in the library.
• User must bring their library membership cards to use the library.
• Library resources should be used with care.
• In case loss or damage documents fine will be calculated or not allowed for library uses.
• User use reading room for reading and submit documents on the particular counter, they should not go on the library racks.
• Library cards are non – transferable.
• Loss of library cards reported immediately.
• Librarian may recall any book at any time from any member.
• Cell phones should be put on silence inside the library.
• The library monitored through CCTV.
• Library is your Property, keep it properly.

Borrowing Rules:

U.G. (Honours) ---> 3 books for 15th days / each book.

U.G (General) 2 books for 15th days/book.

***Fine Rupees 1 / Day/ Book.

Full Time Professor ---> 20 books for 6 months / each book.

SACT 10 books for 6 months / each book. *** Fine will be calculated as per rules.

1. National Digital Library
2. SWAYAM Online Courses
3. National Knowledge Network
4. E-Kalpa
5. NCERT Text Books
6. Directory of Open Access Books
7. Directory of Open Access Journals
8. Open Knowledge Repository — World Bank
9. UG/PG MOOCs
10. e-PG Pathshala
11. e-Content courseware in UG subjects
12. SWAYAMPRABHA
13. e-Shodh Sindhu
14. CSIR-NISCAIR :
15. SNLTR
16. Oxford University Press
17. Cambridge University Press
18. Science Direct Open Access Content
19. Springer Open Journals
20. Taylor & Francis Open Access
21. Open Access Thesis & Dissertations
22. Project Gutenberg
23. High Wire
24. LibriVox — Audio Books
25. Wiley Open Access
26. Shodhganga-a reservoir of Indian theses
27. British Council Library of India
28. NPTEL
29. National Library of India
30. JSTOR
31. NLIST
32. IRINS
33. Project Gutenberg