• All Students, faculty and other staff shall be the members of the library.
• The library shall remain open from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. on all working days and
  in summer and winter vacations.
• Books will be issued only on presentation of the Identity Card of the student.
• Students will not be allowed to carry their bags inside the library.
• Books from Book Bank will be issued to the needy and deserving students only
  on the recommendation of the head of the department..
• Strict silence shall be maintained in the reading halls of the library.
• Scholars not the students of the college will be allowed to use the library only with the special permission of the Principal.

Working Hours

• Workdays: 8.30 am. to 4.00 pm.
• Library remains closed on Sundays and holidays but remains open with usual timings during summer and winter vacations.

Computerization

• Library is computerized books issue-return and record keeping services are
  computerized.

Bar Coding Facility

• Book issue and return services are managed with barcode technology. This result in speedy working.

OPAC

• Online Book Search has been facilitated in the library with two touch screen systems besides traditional offline (paper) PAC

Web OPAC

• Through Online Public Access Catalogue hosted on college website book search facility has been provided to remote users.

Reference Services

• Reference Section: Located on the first floor the section has a rich collection of over 2500 books dealing with diverse streams.
• Research Journal Section: the section provides users access to research journals of different disciplines in addition to back volumes of journals.

Rare Books

The college has a practice of preserving information resources particularly rare books, special books and reports, back volumes etc. for the benefit of its students, faculty or research scholars from other institutions. The readers are allowed to consult these books during library hours however borrowing of these books is not allowed for their rare nature. These rare books are used by special categories of users or by those with special purpose and they include books not in publication now, old books, Imperial Gazetteer Of India, government reports and yearbooks and Who’s Whos, rare translations, Reference Annuals, Census Reports of India, Service Rules Books , encyclopedias and manuscripts.

E- Resource Centre

• An e- resource centre with six computer systems has been installed for exploring and using e- resources.

Open Shelf System

• Open Shelf System is in practice for student facility.

XEROX

• Xerox facility is available in the library.



1. DELNET  ( http://www.delnet.in/ )

The Library is a member of DELNET through which it is connected to 6845 libraries and offers access to millions of library records for reference and borrowing purposes. The details are:

• Union Catalog of Books: (2, 79, 30, 550)
• Union List of Current Periodicals: (20235)
• Union List of Video Recording: (6000)
• Union Catalog of Sound Recording: (1025)
• Full text e-journals:
  • Education
  • Arts, Commerce, Science
  • Medical Science
  • Dental
  • Engineering
  • Agricultural Science
  • Management
  • Hotel Management
  • Law
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy

2. N-LIST ( https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in:2443/login )

Through N-LIST the institution provides access to over 6237 electronic journals and databases and 3135809 books.

3. E-PGPATHSHALA ( https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ )

4. Institutional LMS ( https://lkc.ac.in/software/student/)

Important Links

1. National Digital Library ( https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ )
2. Open Library( https://openlibrary.org/ )
3. PubMed Central ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/)

Search Books

Follow : https://lkc.ac.in/library/books.php