BOOK SEARCH
INTRODUCTION
Information is an essential input to national development. The
modern library has great responsibility in harnessing and utilization of
information. The library and information centers strive for high quality of
library services which emphasis the actual delivery of information rather than
actual delivery of documents for meeting their generic as well as specific needs
of the users The Central Library is based on the objectives of the parent
institution of VRSEC.
Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College established in the year
1977 encourages every student to use the library that has been carefully built
up since the inception of the college. At present this library has a stock of
57,000 volumes of books and about 5000 back volumes of scientific and technical
periodicals. The library also subscribed to over 271specialized journals, of
which 21 journals are from overseas countries. The VRSEC library follows the
open access system, encouraging the user to brose freely in the stock area.
Standard text books and books by authors of repute in all fields taught at the
college are stocked. The college follows a policy of buying multiple copies of
many of these books to make them available to a large number of students. There
is no question of budget approval when it comes to the buying of books. Thus
students are not likely to be handicapped for want of reference materials at any
time.
LIBRARY COLLECTION:
Total Collection
of the Library as on March 2004
Total No. of Books :
66,600
Total No. of Titles : 15,000
Back Volumes :
5,000
JOURNALS/PERIODICALS:
Indian
Journals
: 148
International
Journals : 52 Hard Copies
E-Journals
: AICTE -INDEST Consortium
MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE
CD-ROM’S :
415
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS:
Classification System : Dewey DecimalClassification
Cataloguing Systems : AACR II Rules
CIRCULATION DETAILS:
Books Issued : 350 / per day
Books Returned : 300 / per day
LIBRARY SERVICES:
VRSEC Central Library is kept open for its users on all working days i.e.,
Monday – Friday
: 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Saturday : 8
A.M. to 4 P.M.
Sunday : 10 A.M. to 1 P.M ( For Reference Only)
Services Provided : Amount Charged
Reference Services : Free
Circulation Service : Free
Reprographic Service : Rs.1/- per each copy
Inter Library Loan Service : Free
Internet Access : Free
DELNET Service : Free
Media Resource Service : Free
User
Services:
“Books are for
use and not for preservation”. With this dictum Siddhartha Engineering College
Library functions. Hence the Open Access System is followed.
Issuing Mechanism:
Our library issuing
mechanism is fully computerized. All the books are issued and returned through
the library software with supported by bar code technology.
SC/ST
Book Bank:
Book Bank with a
collection of 20, 000 books is functioning fro the SC/ST students.
New Arrivals Display:
All new books are
displayed in the Reference Section. The list of these books is also displayed in
the Library Notice Board.
STAFF
DETAILS:
LIBRARY AUTOMATION:
Our library is subjected to full automation. We are maintaining
two library software packages namely, CDS/ISIS and LIBSYS (Own package developed
by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering). CDS/ISI is used for
cataloguing purpose i.e., searching the books and LIBSYS is used for house
keeping operations i.e., book issues and returns. All the systems are connected
through LAN to access the databases.
The usage of 5 systems in library is as follows:
Data Server : 1
OPAC : 2
Issue System :
1
Return System : 1
Internet using : 5
Digital Library : 13
DELNET – Library Network:
Our institutional library is a member
of DELNET. The library can access five hundred fifteen libraries of
bibliographical databases of books and periodicals through the online throughout
the nation and some of the SAARC countries also. DELNET is very much useful to
students, researchers and faculty members fro providing the resource sharing
using the inter library loan and document delivery facilities at the national
and international level.
AP-SONET DIGITAL LIBRARY:
Digital
Library provides full text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines,
conference proceedings, ASME, ASCE, and ACM on line
journals through AP-SONET
RULES AND
REGULATIONS:
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Strict and absolute silence shall
be observed in the Library
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Bags, Big hand bags and files are
strictly prohibited inside the library
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No reader shall take any printed
materials inside the library. The readers are requested to keep their
belongings at the entrance of the library counter.
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Borrowed library materials are
strictly prohibited to take the same again inside the library.
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The counter shall be closed 30
minutes before the closing of the library.
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If the due date falls on a
holiday for the library, the next working day will be taken as the due date.
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Books will be issued to the
students only after surrendering the students borrower tickets.
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If any book is lost or damaged
beyond repair, the person responsible shall replace it with a new copy or
pay double the cost of the book.
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Books will be issued subject to
availability
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Any kind of marking, underlying,
clipping of books is absolutely for bidden. Readers shall be held
responsible for any damage done to the book belonging to the library and
shall be required to replace such book or pay the value thereof.
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Absence from the college will not
be allowed as an excuse for the delay in the return of books.
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Under special circumstances, the
librarian may refuse the issue of books or recall the books already issued
from any member without assigning any reason thereof.
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A fine of Rs. 10/- will be
charged for each ticket that is lost.
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The borrower will be responsible
for any loss or non-return of any book issued against his/her original or
duplicate library borrowers ticket.
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Reference books,
Newspapers and Magazines/journals should not be
taken
out.
