BGSCE Library was established in the year 2007 with the collection of 2085 books, now it has reached more than 8142 books and other resources pertinent to the B.Ed. Programme and Education disciplines to support curriculum needs of the students, Research scholars, and faculty members. The Library collection includes books, periodicals (National and International Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers), and other resource materials in a variety of formats.
The Library is fully automated with an Integrated Library Management Software –KOHA. Barcode technology has been incorporated for quick transaction of books. All books and borrower cards are labeled with barcodes. All the documents in the library have been classified as per Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Barcode contains both accession number as well as call number for quick transactions and relocation the books to the book racks. The library is monitored by Librarian and Library committee. Books are issued using barcode system. Lost books are replaced by the borrower. The books damaged by the users are re-bounded during the semester vacations. Barcode scanners are maintained in the library to keep track of library users on daily basis. The library stock verification is done as a part of regular procedure. Reprographic facility is also provided to the library users to take photocopy of journal articles and book chapters. The College Library is easily accessible to all the users in the College Library Total Space (all Kinds) 1148.80 (in sq.m).
WORKING HOURS : The library is kept open for readers from 09.00 AM to 5.30 PM on all working days with the transactions at the circulation counter except Sundays and holidays.
SERVICES : Besides, books lending service, reference service and reprography service. The library follows open access system in all the wings of the library.
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In addition to the E-resources under e-Shodhsindhu programme, there are innumerable e- resources available on the internet on various subjects. These resources could be websites, archives of working papers, journal articles, e-books etc. The links have been established to have access to such e-resources and these are as follows
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Vision Statement
The library of ACU is the indispensable hub of discovery, learning, and Creativity at Adichunchanagiri University.
Objectives
This Library functions as an integral part of the university. The objectives of the University Library are
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2018-19 |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
2021-22 |
2022-23 |
2023-24 |
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No of Books |
212 |
1010 |
874 |
257 |
243 |
01 |
2597 |
8142 |
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No of Titles |
55 |
672 |
663 |
152 |
136 |
01 |
1679 |
4543 |
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Donated Books |
46 |
1000 |
732 |
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169 |
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1947 |
2283 |
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SC/ST book Bank |
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161 |
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161 |
497 |
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No. of encyclopedias |
25 |
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01 |
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26 |
41 |
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No of Journals |
04 |
04 |
04 |
06 |
03 |
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21 |
12 |
07 |
No of Reference books |
25 |
01 |
137 |
15 |
03 |
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182 |
518 |
08 |
No of Magazines |
04 |
1 |
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09 |
09 |
No of News paper |
0 |
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4 |
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08 |
8 |
10 |
No of CD/DVD |
2 |
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0 |
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84 |
11 |
Computers |
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35 |
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44 |
12 |
Thesis/ dissertations |
0 |
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0 |
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4 |
13 |
No of back volumes |
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120 |
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120 |
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Volumes |
Titles |
2018-19 |
5757 |
2919 |
2019-20 |
6767 |
3591 |
2020-21 |
7641 |
4254 |
2021-22 |
7898 |
4406 |
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8141 |
4542 |
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8142 |
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Our library services include –
The Students/users is eligible to borrow up to 4 Books i.e. 2 from the book bank (Students, who belong to OBC and General Categories, can borrow two books and four for SC, ST, and C-I) against identity card for a period of 7 days. Faculty members can borrow up to 6 books. The books are kept in the reference section and the periodicals normally will not be issued. However, under certain conditions, the reference textbooks are issued to the faculty and Research Scholars for overnight reference and return. Those who fail to return/renew the books within a specified due date will be levied an overdue charge of Rs. one per book per day.
The greatest advantage that a Library can offer to its readers is its open access or open shelf system. This system enables the users to have direct and easy access to the book collection providing good opportunities and freedom to examine and browse the books. It encourages the users to develop a closer acquaintance with the diversity of information sources available in the Library. Keeping this in mind, the Library is practicing Open Access System.
Newly acquired (New arrivals) Books, journals, magazines, and Latest Issues will be displayed as and when received.
The books of our library will be sent to various institute libraries of ACU campus on Inter-Library Loan as per the request from our institute Libraries. The library also used to get some books Inter Library Loan basis from other institute libraries as a request by our users. The DELNET's (https://delnet.in/ ) (http://164.100.247.26/ ) database on the Internet is used for the location of the university library where the book in demand is available.
The Library provides reprographic service to the users on a priced basis within the Library premises. This saves the time of the users to a great extent.
It is one of the most widely used databases of the library and is accessible 24×7 via the library web page. Besides listing all the documents available in the library, it allows online renewal and reservation, circulation, fine collection, and indicates the status of a particular book. The OPAC is searchable & allows users to search by any combination of author, title, subject/keywords, accession number, subject, and several other fields of methods. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) facility has been provided for the benefit of the users to access databases of books, theses, dissertations, and serials of our university collection. Proper training is also provided to the students, about the use of the OPAC system (http://103.42.87.12:8004/ ) at the beginning of the academic year.
DSpace is an open-source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content (http://103.42.87.14:8080/jspui/ )..
Nowadays Library Automations is considered as a powerful tool for any type of library to make its services very easy and relatively reliable to access the resources. The Library Automation of different kinds with powerful features is available in the market; which can also be used in an academic library in order to promote library activities and services for the benefit of academic fraternity and research output BGSCE Library is successfully automated by using the Koha software.
Questions banks for each course of the B.Ed program are available in the library (Both soft and hard copy). It contains objective-type questions including multiple choices, Short answers, and easy-type questions as per university examination question paper pattern. Library also preserves Question papers of previous years' semester examinations/test papers to benefits the users’ copies and will be provided to users to take photocopies on request and also available on ACU JNANAKHANAJA (http://103.42.87.14:8080/jspui/ ).
The College library of ACU facilitates/provides plagiarism check services to Research scholars, Faculty members, and Students using the “DrillBit plagiarism detection software” (https://www.drillbitplagiarism.com/ ) & “URKUND” plagiarism checker software to get the percentage of similar contents already published in various online information sources.
The Institution has set up Tech Focus Digital Library with 43 computers having adequate internet connectivity for navigating. The objective of this facility is to support self-learning activities. The Library has adopted open access system for stockholders to browse freely the books, e-books/e-journals through a Wi-Fi facility across the library and campus.
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