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The Library began its existence in 1957. Since then, it
has grown in size and content along with the Department
of Electronics and Communication to take the present
shape. All these years, it has been the life-line for
the academic activity of the department. At present, it
stands as a modern library with a lot of facilities and
as the largest of the various departments of the
university in terms of the number of books and journals.
The library serves the academic needs of about 200 UG
and PG students and research scholars, nearly 20 faculty
members and about 30 technical, administrative and
medical staff of our institute. Besides its services are
extended to a number of other organizations also.
The Library resources stand at about 75,000 volumes
including books, back- volumes of periodicals, micro
forms, video forms, theses, patents and standards. The
journal subscription goes beyond 100. While all journal
subscriptions are available in the present form, some
are available in CD ROM form also.
The Library collection also includes a large section
of expensive reference books, a large number of text
book collection meant to cater for the courses running
in the institute and a collection of books ear-marked
for SC / ST students.
The Library has been catering to the needs of the
undergraduates, postgraduate research scholars, faculty
and staff members of the department and other
departments of the university. The book collection has
been supporting the teaching, research, development and
other professional activities of these departments. The
demands of the ever-growing research areas multiple
disciplines is being catered with the help of latest
volumes, in almost all fields Engineering, Science,
Technology and general areas.
Collection and Resources
The Library collection consists of over 75,000
volumes (as on 1st July,2006), 1000 Current Periodical
subscriptions including periodicals on Electronic media
and around 50 Gifted periodicals. The collection consists of books, reports, conference
proceedings, back volumes of periodicals, standards,
theses, Microforms, CD-ROMs, Floppies and AV materials.
Books
The Books are arranged according to Dewey Decimal
classification. Each row of the racks has been labeled
with the range of class numbers in the corresponding
row.
Current Periodicals
The current periodicals are arranged subject wise in
alphabetical order. Titles of periodicals are kept in
the east portion of the Building. Current Periodicals are added daily to the Display
area.
Reference Collection
The reference collection consists of Encyclopedias,
Dictionaries, Handbooks etc., and is housed in east
portion of the room. The brochures, pamphlets, University calendars,
Newsletters, Gifted periodicals, Annual reports, Faculty
collection including Institute publications are kept
adjacent to the Reference Section.
Non-Book section
The non-book collection consists of standards,
Institute theses, Foreign theses, reprints, patents and
microforms and housed in the north portion of the hall.
Electronic Library
The collection consists of CD-ROMs, Floppies and AV
materials including a collection of video courses.
LIBRARY STAFF
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