Libarary
Library is the soul of our educational institution. The Degree and Management College Library has been an integral part of academic endeavor in college. Keeping in view intensive and extensive use, the library is being constantly enriched by the acquisition of latest books and journals keeping in pace with changing times, to further the advancement of the University's academic activities.
The Central Library caters to the information needs of the institute's faculty, students, staff, research institutions & industries. Institute library will have around 35,000 books covering all disciplines of engineering, technology, and management. The collection in the library comprises printed documents such as books; reports, thesis, standards, atlases, patents and journal back volumes. The non-book collections include material like micro fiche/film, audio/video cassettes, and CDROM discs. It also has a separate collection of prescribed textbooks under 'Book Bank' for the exclusive use of students.
Almost all major journals and magazines are available here. There are Slide Projector and other allied equipments in the Audio - Visual library. Under the web consortium, the library provides on-line access to a large number of full-text journal databases from various publishers. These e-journals are accessible on intranet to campus users only.
The library provides various services for its members such as - Lending of books and journal back volumes, reservation of books, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, DTP & offset printing, CDROM and Internet services & video screening. All the library activities are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals for searching books in the library.
The Library is equipped with modern facilities like Interactive CD-ROM, Videos, Computer-based learning Packages and Internet which help the institute in achieving the target. The library network is connected to the institute intranet so the library members can browse the library from their respective departments.
A comfortable and spacious seating arrangement provides a complete academic atmosphere in each library where students can sit and concentrate. The catalogue of books helps students to identify their needs and quick reference. It is updated regularly as the new books are added. A Display Board has also been provided in the Library where students can view interesting articles and news-clippings directly.
Digital Library Facility
Full access is provided on campus via the institute's Intranet. Selective access provided through the Internet tour Digital Library. Also provides streaming audio and video Lectures. Digital Library, houses a galaxy of video lectures, e-books, e-journals, content pages of the books, reports and other electronic information resources. All classroom lectures, seminars, invited lectures of the Institute are digitized and made available through the online digital library using advanced SMIL multimedia technologies. Users can view the multimedia lectures along with the corresponding Power Point slides during the sequence of the lecture.
Future Plans for the Library
Institute would be fellows Corporate Members of British Council, CMTI (NICMAO), Library of IEEE/ACM full portal ASME, (ELSIVIEAR) science direct, DELNET Library, and BITES (E-Brary) Online Access to E-Books enabling students and staff to refer to the other member libraries for additional information for their research / projects.