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 :
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1000+ Students
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15 Permanent Faculty and 10 Contractual faculty
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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:
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Year
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Books
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Journals
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Newspaper
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Binding
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Total
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2011-2012
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64542
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10088
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10878
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85508
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2012-2013
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142712
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29305
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3870
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175887
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2013-2014
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58686
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35677
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1670
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96033
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2014-2015
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76153
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31590
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13651
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3100
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124494
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2015-2016
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91983
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3800
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18356
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7090
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121229
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2016-2017
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37362
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37345
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20427
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3600
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98734
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Books 7527
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Serials 45
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Dailies 18
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CD ROM 82
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Audio Cassettes 15
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Audio book 01
Privileges of Members:
Categor:
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Student 8 Days
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Permanent Faculty one Academic year
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Contractual Faculty Term-wise
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Institute Officials Occasionally
Library Facilities:
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Reading room facility Yes
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Loan of books Home Lending
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Periodical services Display / Reading facilities
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Reference services Yes
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News Paper Section Yes
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Working hours of Library 8 Hours
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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:
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Assistance to poor and deserving students
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User orientation & Information Literacy to students
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Career & Employment Information
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Suggestion box and timely response
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Displaying new arrivals
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Organization of Book exhibition.
Future Plan of the Library:
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Updating library database of books in new iT Software
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Making the circulation of books fully automated through Barcode system
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Resource sharing
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To extend Internet based services
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Implementation of staffing pattern in the library
