HOOGHLY WOMEN’S COLLEGE
CENTRAL LIBRARY
Introduction:
Hooghly
Women’s College Library was started along with establishment of the college in
1949.
Hooghly
Women’s College is a glorious milestone in the history of education of women
not only in Hooghly district but also in the state of West Bengal. It is the
sixth academic institution in the district and is the first Women College of Burdwan University. Some local educationists and social
reformists made an active endeavor to set up Hooghly Women’s College to cater
education for women. After a long journey, now the college library is ready to
expose its resources with modern equipments to its user community for their
academic development.
The objective
of the library is to establish itself in such a way that it cannot work as a building stacked with books. It is also a repository and source of
information and ideas, a place for learning and enquiry, and for the generation
of thought and the creation of new knowledge. Therefore library is a learning
resource center of the institution. It is a storehouse of universal knowledge
and laboratory of modern theory and ideas.
The college maintains a resourceful
well equipped library with a well furnished and specious reading room. The
college library system comprises of the Central Library of about 335 sq. mts. And 17 departmental libraries of varying sizes. The
Central Library is housed in a two-storied building in the campus. The main
users of the Central Library are faculty members, students and staffs. At
present Central Library has over 30633 volumes of books and 5 employment
related news and magazines and 20 journals/periodicals. Now our college library
is a member of N-LIST programme under INFLIBNET
centre. This membership facility provides remote access of E-resources (6000+
e-journals and 199500+ e-books) to our users. The library also creates a
bibliographical database in KOHA software. It is integrated Library Management
software, which provides the facilities of computerized library management and
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). Photocopying, printing and internet
facilities are also available in our Central Library. Scan facilities of
relevant portion of the books and journals are available in the library.
Library at a Glance:
·
One
Central Library in the heart of the institution.
·
17
Seminar Libraries for honours departments only.
·
Physical
area of the central library is 335 sq. mts.
·
Separate
Reading rooms for Teachers and Students.
·
IT
& periodical zone for the users.
·
Three
computers are dedicated to students and faculty members and three for internal
use.
·
Total
number of books 30633.
·
Open
access reading room for teachers and students.
·
KOHA Integrated Library Management Software is used for library automation.
·
OPAC is available to search bibliographic
database.
·
Regular
subscription of 20 periodicals including 05 career guidance periodicals.
·
Regular
subscription of 01 daily newspaper.
·
The
library has access to E-resources from N-LIST.
·
Reference
and referral services.
·
Printing
and photocopying service on demand.
·
Scan
facilities of relevant portion of the books and journals are available in the
library.
·
CCTV
is there for monitoring.
·
Pure
drinking water (Aqua guard) is available in the library.
·
Cleanliness
is maintained through regular housekeeping.
·
There
is annual maintenance contract for preservation and conservation.
·
There
is a library advisory committee to provide valuable suggestions.
·
User
survey is conducted regularly.
·
Power
backup system (generator) is available in the library.
·
A
complain/suggestions box for users.
Library Staff Profile:
|
SL
NO. |
Name |
Designation |
Qualification |
Experience/ Date of joining |
NET/SET/ M.Phil/Ph.D. |
|
|
1. |
Ashok
Kumar Jana |
Librarian |
B.Sc(Math); MLIS |
11
Years (01.04.2010) |
SET;
M.Phil |
|
|
2. |
Arpita Saha |
Librarian |
B.Sc.(Zoology); MLIS |
4
Years (03.01.2017) |
UGC
NET |
|
|
4. |
Urmila Ghosh Paul Chowdhury |
Library
Attendant (
Contractual) |
B.Sc. |
07
Year (01.12.2014) |
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|
Library
hour: Library remains
open on all working days from 10.30A.M. to 4.30 P.M.
Library Committee:
The
Committee frames the library rules and regulations. The Library Advisory
Committee is providing guidance and required support towards the sustainable
development of the college library. Significant initiatives that have been
implemented by the committee are given in the various sections. The Purchase
Policy for books and periodicals involves the decision making both by the
Principal and Library Advisory Committee for the State Government Grants as
well as UGC Grants
Members
of the Library Advisory Committee:
01. Dr. Sima Banerjee, Principal
02. Sri Ashok Kumar Jana, Librarian,
Convener, Library Sub-committee
03. Ms. Arpita
Saha, Librarian, Jt. Convener
04. All H.O.D. in concern
departments.
05. Sri Sattyajit
Biswas, Bursar
06. Sri Jayanta
Kumar Das, Head Clerk (In-charge)
Library Staff Profile:
|
SL
NO. |
Name |
Designation |
Qualification |
Experience/ Date of joining |
NET/SET/ M.Phil/Ph.D. |
|
|
1. |
Ashok
Kumar Jana |
Librarian |
B.Sc(Math); MLIS |
11
Years (01.04.2010) |
SET;
M.Phil |
|
|
2. |
Arpita Saha |
Librarian |
B.Sc.(Zoology); MLIS |
4
Years (03.01.2017) |
UGC
NET |
|
|
4. |
Urmila Ghosh Paul Chowdhury |
Library
Attendant (
Contractual) |
B.Sc. |
07
Year (01.12.2014) |
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|
.
Collection development:
Book Selection & Acquisition: Head of each
department prepares a list of books in consultation with the other faculty
members of the department and places requisition to library. After submitting
those lists in the library, library sub-committee allocates budget for each
department. After taking decision in the library sub-committee, orders are
placed to selected book suppliers. Hence the teachers take active part in
collection of books.
The library has a rich collection of
text books and reference. Following table shows the collection development of
books in the library till date.
Library
collection of books according to accession registers:
|
Sl.
No. |
Types
of books |
No.
of books |
|
1. |
Purchased books |
25431 |
|
2. |
Gift books |
1558 |
|
3. |
MRP books |
426 |
|
4. |
Text books |
2204 |
|
5. |
Book Bank |
1014 |
|
Total |
30633 |
|
Books strength in different
subjects:
|
Sl. No. |
Subjects |
Total |
|
1. |
Bengali |
4540 |
|
2. |
English |
2863 |
|
3. |
Sanskrit |
2265 |
|
4. |
Philosophy |
2275 |
|
5. |
Political
Science |
1550 |
|
6. |
Education |
733 |
|
7. |
Music |
552 |
|
8. |
History |
2143 |
|
9. |
Geography |
1717 |
|
10. |
Economics |
1351 |
|
11. |
Physics |
1839 |
|
12. |
Chemistry |
1156 |
|
13. |
Mathematics |
2070 |
|
14. |
Zoology |
307 |
|
15. |
Botany |
160 |
|
16. |
Micro
Biology |
137 |
|
17. |
Nutrition |
227 |
|
18. |
Women
Cell |
109 |
|
19. |
Miscellaneous |
1078 |
Periodicals:
The library subscribes 25
periodicals and 01 newspaper. Now
our college library is a member of N-LIST programme
under INFLIBNET centre. This membership facility provides remote access of
E-resources (6000+ e-journals and 199500+ e-books) to our users.
Employment Related News and magazines
1. Competition
Success Review
2. Career 360
3. Employment News
4. Karmakshetra
5. Karmasangsthaan
Journals / Periodicals
1. Current Science
2. CSIR News
3. Down To Earth
4. Desh
5. Economic & Political Weekly
6. Everymans Science
7. International
Journal Of English Research
8. International
Journal Of Sanskrit Research
9. Indian Historical
Review
10. International
Journal Of Applied Mathematics
11. Indian Journal of
Chemical Technology
12. Prabuddha Bharat
13. Readers Digest
14. Resonance – Journal of
science education
15. University News
16. Vedanta Keshari
17. Annals of Library
& Information Studies
18. Science Reporter
19. E Juger Kishor
Biganee
20. Janabigyaner Istahar
Daily Newspaper:
1. Ajkal
Library Services:
Library
Membership
In each and every new academic year
library issues students lending and students reading card. Library issues two
lending cards and one reading card for each 1st semester students,
five lending cards for 3rd semester and 5th semester Honours students if needed. Library card renewal process is
also a regular process for 3rd semester and 5th semester
students otherwise students are not entertained in the library.
Reading room: There are 20 periodicals, 05
employment related news and magazines and one daily newspaper available in open
access for reading room use. Students and faculty members are also use the any
books in reading room (open access).
Seats capacity: 40
Circulation: Lending facility of documents (books)
is available to all members but periodicals are not lent out to the members. It
should be noted here that library does not issue any book to the students after
form fill-up. Teachers and other non-teaching staff get lending facilities of
books throughout the year.
Reference :
Reference service is
provided as and when required by the library staff and the librarian.
Reprography: Reprography and printing service
provided
Internet : Internet access is available in the
library
Seminar Library: Departmental seminar libraries are also
the part of central library. These are mainly maintained by different
departments of the college. Generally, head of the departments, on behalf of
their departments borrow some books from the central library for their seminar
library. The seminar library book strength is given below:
Seminar Library Books Strength
|
SL.
NO. |
Name
of the department |
Total
no. of books |
|
1. |
English |
326 |
|
2. |
Bengali |
119 |
|
3. |
Sanskrit |
196 |
|
4. |
Philosophy |
135 |
|
5. |
Music |
107 |
|
6. |
Economics |
296 |
|
7. |
Education |
45 |
|
8. |
Physics |
124 |
|
9. |
Chemistry |
133 |
|
10. |
Mathematics |
379 |
|
11. |
Micro-biology |
30 |
|
12. |
History |
262 |
|
13. |
Geography |
366 |
|
14. |
Women Cell |
93 |
|
15. |
Zoology |
9 |
|
16. |
Botany |
21 |
Conservation and Preservation of
Library Documents
Conservation has two
aspects: preservation and restoration. Both of them are complimentary to each
other. Preservation is a wider perspective and includes such activities as
storage, handling, disinfecting etc. In a nutshell, preservation is any action
taken to prevent or retard deterioration. Restoration is any surgical operation
requiring repairing and strengthening of the documents. Under the process of
restoration, library used only book binding process to strengthen its
materials.
Pest Control: Library started pest control from time to time to prevent library
document from further damage with the help of professionals (Pest Control
Management Service) in regular way.