Library

Guru Nanak Dev Library of the College was established in 1926. During the partition of the country, much of the library material remained in Lyallpur, however some of the books could be brought to Jalandhar (where the college was reestablished) with the special efforts of the staff. The library today provides comprehensive access to text and reference books, journals, magazine, audio/videos, CD-ROMs, data analysis software and much more. This rich collection covers diverse disciplines of Information Technology, Health Sciences and Science, Humanities and related fields. The two storied library building has open shelf system with seating arrangement for students and staff. The books have been arranged according to DDC-23rd edition.

The fully computerized Internet equipped library has a collection of over 92000 books with subscription of Magazines and Journals and newspapers in English, Hindi and Punjabi. The Rare books Section contains special writings and publications and rare Urdu and Punjabi books. The Library also has book bank facility for the needy students.

  • 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.
Departments BOOK

BANK

PG+UG

MAIN BOOKS

Total
Agriculture 64 129 193
Architecture 15 15
Astronomy & Allied Science 104 104
Biography 150 150
Biotech 1074 1074
Botany 305 42 347
Building 7 7
Chemistry 299 967 1266
Christian Moral 17 17
Commerce 588 400 988
Computer 7 3861 3868
Custom, Etiquette 69 69
Dictionaries 3 3
Drawing 7 7
Economics 156 3219 3375
Education 87 87
Engineering 401 401
English 8585 7128 15713
Epstemology 11 11
Ethics 21 21
General Biography 191 191
General Collection 19 19
General Encyclopedia 46 46
General Serial Publication 1 9 10
Generalities 521 521
Geography 99 388 487
History 147 3824 3971
Home Economics 5 5
Journalism 44 44
Language 10 10
Law 820 820
Library Science 110 110
Linguistics 6 6
Literature 474 474
Management 2097 2097
Math 187 2755 2942
Modern West Philosphy 47 47
Music 107 107
Other Language 30 30
Performing Arts 243 243
Philosophy & Related Disciplines 68 68
Philosophy 45 45
Photography 14 14
Physics 268 1349 1617
Physiotherapy 820 820
Political Science 2225 2225
Psychology 164 164
Public Admin 334 334
Reference 2593 2593
Science of Earth & Other Worlds 214 214
Social Problems 87 87
Social Science 368 368
Stat 195 195
Technology 16 16
The Arts 47 47
Tourism 11 11
Zoology 257 257
TOTAL BOOKS 10706 39456 50162
Punjabi 7724 21534 29258
Hindi 2427 7007 9434
Urdu 532 532
Donation 3246 3246
TOTAL BOOKS 20857 71775 92632



LIST OF JOURNAL (SESSION 2019) SUBJECTWISE
S.NO JOURNAL
HISTORY
1 ABSTRACTS OF SIKH STUDIES
ECONOMICS
2 ARTHSHASTRA INDIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH
3 YOJANA
4 KURUKSHETRA
ENGLISH
5 ASIAN QUARTLY
6 LITTCRIT
7 THE QUEST
PHYSICS
8 BULLETIN OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
9 INDIAN JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICS
10 JOURNAL OF ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
11 PRAMANA JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
12 SCIENCE REPORTER
MATH
13 BULLETIN OF THE CALCUTTA MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
14 PROCEEDINGS MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
CHEMISTRY
15 CURRENT SCIENCE
16 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES
17 RESONANCE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
COMPUTER
18 INDIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
19 SADHNA ACADEMY OF PROCEEDINGS IN ENGINEERING SCIENCES
COMMERCE
20 INDIAN JOURNAL OF FINANCE
21 INDIAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING
22 INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CAPITAL MARKETS
23 PRABANDHAN INDIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
24 DALAL STREET
BIOSCIENCES
25 JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES
BIOTECHNOLOGY
27 JOURNAL OF GENETICS
28 RESEARCH AND REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOSCIENCES
29 INDIAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
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S.NO MAGAZINE NAME
BUSINESS CATEGORY
1 BANKING SERVICE CHRONICLE
2 BUSINESS TODAY
3 BUSINESS WORLD
4 OUTLOOK BUSINESS
COMPETITION CATEGORY
5 BIOLOGY TODAY
6 CHEMISTRY TODAY
7 COMPETITION IN FOCUS
8 COMPETITION REFRESHER
9 COMPETITION SUCCESS REVIEW
10 COMPETITION WIZARD
11 JUNIOR SCIENCE REFRESHER
12 MATHEMATICS TODAY
13 PHYSICS FOR YOU
14 PRATIYOGITA DARPAN
CURRENT AFFAIRS CATEGORY
15 CHRONICLE
16 FRONTLINE
17 G.K.
18 INDIA TODAY
19 OUTLOOK
20 READER DIGEST
ELECTRONIC CATEGORY
21 DIGIT
22 ELECTRONIC FOR YOU
23 OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU
SPORTS CATEGORY
24 SPORTS STAR
SOCIAL SCIENCE CATEGORY
25 WOMAN’S ERA
S.NO NEWSPAPER NAME
ENGLISH
1 THE TRIBUNE
2 INDIAN EXPRESS
3 HINDUSTAN TIMES
4 THE ECONOMIC TIMES
5 THE HINDU
6 BUSINESS STANDARD
7 BUSINESS LINE
8 TIMES OF INDIA
9 EMPLOYMENT NEWSPAPER
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  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/)

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