Library

Mission : Library serves as a resource centre and aims to develop a comprehensive collection of books and journals useful for students and faculty of the college and provides an efficient dissemination of knowledge.Library also supports students for  carer development and Employment.

Population served :

• 1000+ Students
• 15 Permanent Faculty and 10 Contractual faculty
• 10 Non teaching staff

The Library promotes student success through the development of critical thinking and independent learning skills and advances teaching and learning by supporting learning material. NSPM’s Late Bindu Ramrao Deshmukh Art’s & Commerce Mahila Mahavidyalay Library provide services, collections and facilities to support the educational goals of students, Teachers and non-teaching staff. The library select materials in variety of formats to support courses and programmes as well as material which are more general in nature and which support the educational goals of the women’s college. The library also collects material relating to the competitive examination and career development opportunities. Library has study areas, library circulation and reference services. Library subscribes periodicals, journals, weeklies, monthlies and 16 newspapers in Marathi, English and Hindi language. For competitive examination (MPSC) now a day there is a huge demand for the material of State Open University that our library posses.

Students are provided identity cards with library membership on producing admission receipt. Library enables them to take one textbook on their account for 8 days and one more general book of her interest for 8 days. Every student has two transaction opportunities in a week. She can borrow / return books. Apart from this students are seeking reference services

Library Hours:  10 A.M. to 6.00 P.M.

Statistics & Activities:

                                                                                                                Library Expenditure for Last five years

• Books                            7527
• Serials                           45
• Dailies                           18
• CD ROM                      82
• Audio Cassettes           15
• Audio book                  01

Privileges of Members:

Categor:

• Student                                                             8 Days
• Permanent Faculty                                           one Academic year
• Contractual Faculty                                         Term-wise
• Institute Officials                                             Occasionally

Library Facilities:

• Reading room facility                                       Yes
• Loan of books                                                   Home Lending
• Periodical services                                            Display / Reading facilities
• Reference services                                            Yes
• News Paper Section                                          Yes
• Working hours of Library                                  8 Hours
• Working days of the library                               280 Days

Reading Room facility:

The reading room of the library provides reference material for 2 to 6 hours by depositing student identity card temporarily. Where they can consult textbooks, reference books, journals, magazines, News papers and PG dissertations.  Library remains open during summer vacation and Diwali vacation excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays

NEWS PAPERS:

1. The Financial Express       6    Sakal Agrovan                   11.    Divya Marathi                  16.    Loksatta

2. The Indian Express            7.   Lokmat                              12.    Deshdoot                          17.   Maharashtra Times

3. The Hindu                          8.   Tarun Bharat                      13     Nav Bharat Times            18.    Sakal

4. The Economic Times         9.   Lokmat Times                    14.    Punya Nagari

5.The Times of India              10. Samana                              15.    Pudhari

General Library services:

Library as a resourceful organization provides general reading room services, lending facilities, Internet surfing, literature retrieval services through Current Awareness Services and Selective Dissemination of Information services in a regular way. Sometimes special assistance is being provided to the college administrator with required inputs for preparing reports, manual and related documents.

User Awareness programme:   

     1.   Orientation lecture for first year students 

     2.  Book exhibition / Book display  (Vachan Prerna Din)

Library Utilization:

Average numbers of walk- ins                                               55 -65

Average numbers of books issued/ returned                       50 -62

Average number of books added during last five Years     3352

Number of e resources/Databases downloaded                  10

Stock Verification: Physical verification of stock of books is carried out during summer vacation. The physical verification of books on all subject have been done.

Other activities of the Library:

Library extends its facility beyond the premises through What’s Up connectivity to users.

Library extends its clipping facility with the help of What’s Up among Teaching / Non-teaching staff members.

Best practices of the library:

1. Assistance to poor and deserving students
2. User orientation & Information Literacy to students
3. Career & Employment Information
4. Suggestion box and timely response
5. Displaying new arrivals
6. Organization of Book exhibition.

Future Plan of the Library:

• Updating library database of books in new iT Software
• Making the circulation of books fully automated through Barcode system
• Resource sharing                 
• To extend Internet based services
• Implementation of staffing pattern in the library