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About Library

Library is an essential part of every institution which helps staff and students to enhance the knowledge through various resources such as books, Newspapers, Journals, Magazines. The SreeSiddaganga First Grade College Library & Information Centre is established in the year 1984-85. Library is fully automated with all its subsystems like LAN connectivity. The collection is15380 Booksincluding SC/ST books. The seating capacity of the Library is 50. There are 02 staff members to look after the library work. The library has been automated by using ‘e-Lib’ Library software to have easy and speedy access to the library collection & services of its users. It has adopted open access system and maintains Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) to provide easy access to the stacks. The library subscribes more than 12 periodicals. Our library provides Home Lending, Reference services&Wi-Fi, facilities.

Vision & Mission

Vision :

Knowledge base to empower the learning community.

Mission :

To provide information, access services, and library instruction. The Library staff provides key guidance in the use and retrieval of information as per the needs of the students. The Library seeks to Build and maintain a quality collection in co-ordination with the college Community.

 

Objectives

  • Acquire and also conserve knowledge for the posterity.
  • Provide opportunities to all users to develop healthy interest in the fields of Arts & Commerce.
  • Provide necessary information resources to promote teaching and learning.
  • Provide access to information to all types of users to pursue reading habits.

Library Advisory Committee (LAC)

The function of the Library Advisory Committee is to support the functioning of the library so that it can facilitate the library development plans by advocating the library development activities with the management. It acts as a channel of communication and dialogue between the Library System and its users. Its main objective is to establish a bridge between Library, Academic Fraternity, Student Community and the institute.

 

LAC Members

  • K N. Amarendra, Principal (Chairman)
  • Mallikarjuna Gouda Patil, (Co-Convener)
  • H.S. Prakasha, Convener
  • G. Gangaraju, Member
  • Vijaya Duggappa, Member
  • H. P. Manukumar, Member
  • R. Vanajakshi, Member
  • G. M. Manjunath, Member
  • Ramesh Babu B.K, Member
  • Suresha M, Library Assistant

E-News Papers

Open Access Resources

Open Access Free E-Books/ E- Journals/Databases/Links

Dictionaries

Sl. No

Name

URL

1.

Photonics Dictionary

http://www.photonics.com/

2.

International Legal Dictionary

http://www.wwlia.org/diction.htm

3.

Language Dictionaries & Translators -
Includes free translation services,
glossary & many more.

http://rivendel.com/~ric/resources/dictionary.html

4.

Dictionary.com -Definitions from Webster's and more

http://dictionary.reference.com/

5.

Acronym Dictionary

http://acronyms.silmaril.ie/acro.html

6.

Imagine the Universe : Astrophysics Dictionary

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/dictionary.html

7.

Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (Imperial College, London)

http://foldoc.org/

8.

American Heritage -- Fourth edition has 90,000+

http://www.bartleby.com/

9.

Merriam-Webster -Familiar, fast and easy dictionary.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict.htm



Encyclopaedias

Sl. No

Name

URL

1.

Encyclopaedia

http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm

2.

Britannica Concise

http://www.britannica.com/

3.

Open-site Encyclopaedia

http://open-site.org/

4.

Columbia Encyclopaedia

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/

5.

Bartleby (Great Books Online)

http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html

6.

High Bea Encyclopaedia

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

7.

Encyclopaedia of Laser Physics and Technology

http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html

8.

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

9.

Symbols.com (Online encyclopaedia of western sign and ideograms)

http://www.symbols.com/

10.

Free and Open General Encyclopaedia

http://www.wikipedia.org/

11.

Encyclopaedia of the Orient

http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm

 

 

Thesaurus

Sl. No

Name

URL

1.

NASA Thesaurus

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm

2.

Roget's Thesaurus

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/

3.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon)

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

4.

Controlling your language - links to metadata vocabularies

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/controlling-your-language- links-to-metadata-vocabularies/

5.

www Webster Thesaurus (Merriam Webster)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus.htm

6.

Infoplease thesaurus

http://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus

7.

Word Net Vocabulary -Provides homonyms, synonyms, and coordinate terms. Helper

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn

8.

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary - Use for rhymes, to spell check, to find synonyms

http://www.rhymezone.com/

Journals & Magazines

Journals

Sl. No

Name of the Journal

 

1

Indian Journal of Finance

Monthly

2

Indian Journal of Management

Monthly

3

Indian Journal of Marketing

Monthly

4

Indian Journal of Economics and Research

Quarterly

 

Magazines

Sl. No

Name of the Magazine

 

1

Competition success review

Monthly

2

General knowledge today

Monthly

3

Competition vision

Monthly

4

Spardha spoorthi

Monthly

5

New India Samachar

Monthly

6

Yojana

Monthly

7

Sidda Ganga

Monthly

8

Sudha

Weekly

9

Taranga

Weekly

 

News Papers

Sl. No

Kannada

Sl. No

English

1

Prajavani

1

Hindu

2

Udayavani

2

Deccan Herald

3

Vijayavani

3

The Times of India

4

Vijaya Karnataka

4

The Indian Express

5

Kannada Prabha

 

 

6

Samyukta Karnataka

 

 

7

Praja Pragathi

 

 

8

Hosa Digantha

 

 

 

Library Services

  • Reference Services
  • Library automation
  • Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
  • User Orientation Programs
  • Lending Books Services
  • Current Awareness Service (CAS)
  • Previous year question papers

Library Membership

All the enrolled Students, Appointed Faculty Members & Visiting Faculty Members of College are entitled to become the members of the library.

A Bar-coded ID card will be provided to each student and staff. It is to be used for all library services and also as college Identity card.

Rules & Regulations

Re-Issue & Recall of Books:

  • Books shall be re-issued to the same borrower once only. The Librarian can recall books at any time, if need arises.

 

Condition of Loan:

  • The borrower shall be held responsible for any damage or mutilation noticed at the time of returning the book.
  • All the books shall be returned on or before the due date mentioned.

 

Loss of ID card:

  • Members shall be held responsible for the loss & misuse of ID card. First one has to write a letter to the Principal to get permission for the duplicate ID card & the same is to be submitted to the librarian. Duplicate ID card will be issued at the cost of Rs.100.00.

 

Loss of Books, CDs & DVDs, etc.:

  • A material lost by the Member shall be replaced either with latest edition or pay Triple the price of the material.
  • If a volume of a Multi-volume publication is lost, one has to bear the complete set price if the lost volume is not available in the market.

 

Things 'to Do' & 'Not to do':

  • Only registered members of the college are allowed to use the Library.
  • You will not be entertained without the valid I.D. card, and it is Non-Transferable.
  • Borrowers Ticket will be issued to the users, while showing the fees receipt of admission.
  • Users are required to write their name while entry in the library
  • Entry in the Book Stacking Section with Bag, books and other materials is strictly prohibited.
  • Using of Mobile Phone and other gazettes in the Library is strictly prohibited.
  • Reference books and Periodicals are not issued outside the library premises.
  • Maintain Silence in the Library especially in the Reading Hall.
  • Eating, chewing, and smoking is strictly prohibited.
  • Borrowers must satisfy themselves with the physical condition of books before borrowing.
  • Members are responsible for books issued against their lost tickets.
  • Using computers of Library for emails, chatting & Preparing PPT is prohibited.
  • Readers’ should not write in, mark or otherwise disfigure/damage books, furniture, etc.

 

Library Best User Award

To motivate the students to make the efficient use of the library and its services, the ‘Best Library User Award’ has been started from 2012-2013. Two students are selected on the basis of the statistical data, accession of books, reading aptitude of the student, utilization of library resources, discipline and the review of the Library Advisory committee. Every year this Award conferred on the occasion of Annual Recognition Day.

National Librarian’s day celebration

Birth anniversary of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan is celebrated on August 12 every year. He is considered a Father of Library and Information Science in India and his contributions to the field are his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system.

Library Timings:

  • Library Timings: 09.30 am – 05.00 pm on all working days.
  • Exam Time : 9.00 am -- 5.00PM

Staff Profile

Sl. No Name of the Faculty Designation Photograph
1
Mallikarjuna Gouda Patil
 Librarian      
  2
Sri. Suresha M
CLib, BLISc, MLISC.
 Library Assistant
3
Smt. Pushpalatha K. S
 Attender      

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