Thursday, 21 February 2013

Bharathidasan Library services


Virtual Tour

Librarian's Chamber

Periodicals Section

It maintains 223 subscribed periodicals of which 148 are national and 75 are international which covers of all domains of research knowledge. Apart from these more than 8000 e-journals can be accessed on-line through INFLIBNET e resource consortium (UGC- INFONET).
Acquisition & Technical Section

Compilation of requirements from the departments, ordering of books, Accessioning, Classification, Indexing and processing of books are the responsibilities of this unit. It also develops bibliographic database of books and other resources.
Reference Section

The reference section contains general reference like Dictionaries, Encyclopedia’s, Year Books, Directories, Gazetteers, Handbooks, Manuals etc., and Subject reference books. Books on Competitive, Civil Services, Entrance Exams, Career development, personality development and CD/DVD resources are also part of the reference collection. The books are mainly meant for in-house academic reference. The reference section compiles and disseminates the current academic and research information
Circulation Section

Registration of membership, Issue of bar-code ID cards, Issue and Return of books to the members, Reservation of documents, Over due reminders, No Dues, Due charges if any will be taken care by this unit. Circulation process is fully automated with barcode technology and web enabled OPAC.
Stack Room

The Library Stack room is located in the right side at ground floor that facilitates lending of books to the users. The stack has been well organized, maintained and arranged using Dewey Decimal Classification for easy retrieval.
Book Bank

A collection of recent text books are available for circulation to the SC/ST students to meet their examination needs. The books will be issued based on the recommendation of the Heads of the Departments for a semester. Students who fail to clear their examination even after two attempts are not eligible for book bank scheme.
Thesis Section

A collection of 5000 theses are organized and the access is made avail to the users. List of Theses with subject classification is available for reference. Theses are only for in-house reference.
Digital Library

Digital Library is being developed using GSDL by harvesting current open e-books on different subjects, links to the scholarly journal publications, theses and dissertations and other e-resources. Efforts are being made to subscribe subject specific e-books, e-journal databases. Institutional Repository using DSpace also will be developed as part of Digital Library. e-journal consortia, springer e-books and EBSCO collections enable campus wide access of 8000+ journals and 10000 e-books.
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