Library Profile
Introduction
A library is the heart of an educational institution and the library of K.C.Das Commerce College is no less. It is the hub of academic activities of the college--- a trinity of the library staff, reading materials and the readers.
K. C. Das Commerce College Library is one of the best College libraries in Assam in providing efficient service to the readers. It is a place of attraction for the students. The library has been aiming to supplement the knowledge of the students, which they acquire from their teachers.
The library building has two floors, the ground floor consisting of the Stack room, Circulation Desk, Reference reading table, OPAC (On Line Public Access Catalogue), Property shelf, Librarian's Room and Internet section. The first floor of the library consists of the reading room with a seating capacity of 115 nos, where current journals, bound volumes of periodicals and magazines are available.
Nature And Development Of The Library
The following sections describe the nature and development of the Library
1. General |
Name of the Library |
K.C.Das Commerce College Library |
System of the Library |
Open Access System |
Address of the Library |
K.C.Das Commerce College, Chatribari, Guwahati- 781008
E-mail:dekapk@gmail.com.
URL: http://www.kcdccollege.com |
Year of Establishment |
1983 |
Working Days |
6 days a week. But we are trying to keep the library open during holidays also. |
Working Hours |
10.00 AM. to 04.30 PM. |
Area of the Library |
Reading Room : 2706 sq feet |
Stack Processing Area : 3626 sq feet |
2. Staff |
The present structure of the Library staff is as given below. There are presently 4 (four) Library staff. The names and positions are given below: |
Sl. No |
Name |
Qualification |
Designation |
1 |
Dr. Prasanta Kumar Deka |
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B.Sc (Bot), MLISc, PhD |
Librarian |
2 |
Mr. Sankar Sarkar |
MLISc |
Asst. Librarian |
3 |
Mr. Rajesh Rajbongshi |
H.S |
Library Bearer |
4 |
Mr. Ratul Medhi |
H.S |
Library Bearers |
3. Library Committee |
The Library Committee consists of the following members: |
Sl. No |
Name |
Role |
1 |
Principal |
Chairman |
2 |
Dr. Prasanta Kumar Deka, Librarian |
Convener |
3 |
Coordinator, IQAC |
Member |
4 |
Dr. Swapna Smriti Mahanta, Dept. of Assamese |
Member |
5 |
Mrs. Archana Bora, Dept of English |
Member |
6 |
Dr. Shrabani Bhadra, Dept. of Bengali |
Member |
7 |
Dr. Ananta Pegu, Dept. of Economics |
Member |
4. Library Collection |
(a) Books |
The Yearly Growth of books (Text & Ref) Shown in the Annexure I
|
(b) Journal/ Magazine |
The list of Journal/Magazine are shown in the Annexure II |
(c) News Paper |
List of subscribed News papers shown in theAnnexure III |
(d) Educational CD |
500 |
(e) Map |
3 |
(f) Globe |
1 |
(g) Back Volumes |
400 |
(h) Dissertation |
415 |
Year |
Acc Nos |
Total |
2010-11 |
13792-15,132 |
1,340 |
2011-12 |
15,133- 17,473 |
2,340 |
2012-13 |
17,474-19,570 |
2,098 |
2013-14 |
19,571-21,028 |
1,457 |
2014-15 |
21,029- 21,828 |
799 |
2015-16 |
21,829- 22,036 |
208 |
2016-17 |
22,037- 23,109 |
1,072 |
2017-18 |
23,110- 24,687 |
1,578 |
SL. No |
Title of the Journal |
Lang |
Freq. |
1 |
Business Today |
Eng |
Monthly |
2 |
Business World |
Eng |
Monthly |
3 |
Careers 360 |
Eng |
Monthly |
4 |
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) |
Eng |
Weekly |
5 |
India Today |
Eng |
Weekly |
6 |
Day After |
Eng |
Monthly |
7 |
Competition Refresher |
Eng |
Monthly |
8 |
The week |
Eng |
Weekly |
9 |
University News |
Eng |
Weekly |
10 |
Yojana |
Eng |
Monthly |
11 |
Kurukhetra |
Eng |
Monthly |
12 |
DESIDOC Bulletin |
Eng |
Monthly |
13 |
Competition Success Review |
Eng |
Monthly |
14 |
Digit (ITBulletin) |
Eng |
Monthly |
15 |
Prantik |
Ass |
Monthly |
16 |
Business Economics |
Eng |
Monthly |
17 |
Dalal Street |
Eng |
Bi-Monthly |
18 |
The Vedanta Kesari |
Eng |
Monthly |
19 |
MBA Review |
Eng |
Monthly |
20 |
Reader Digest |
Eng |
Monthly |
21 |
Money Today |
Eng |
Monthly |
22 |
Outlook |
Eng |
Weekly |
23 |
Outlook Business |
Eng |
Fortnightly |
24 |
Outlook Money |
Eng |
Monthly |
25 |
Outlook Traveler |
Eng |
Monthly |
26 |
Sportstar |
Eng |
Weekly |
27 |
The Chartered Accountant |
Eng |
Monthly |
28 |
Management Accountant |
Eng |
Monthly |
SL. No |
Title of the Newspapers |
Lang |
Freq. |
1 |
Amar Asom |
Assamese |
Daily |
2 |
Asomiya Pratidin |
Assamese |
Daily |
3 |
The Assam Tribune |
English |
Daily |
4 |
Sentinel |
Hindi |
Daily |
5 |
The Telegraph |
English |
Daily |
6 |
The Times of India |
English |
Daily |
7 |
Purbanchal Prahari |
Hindi |
Daily |
8 |
Dainik Janambhumi |
Assamese |
Daily |
9 |
Asomiya Khabar |
Assamese |
Daily |
10 |
Dainik Asom |
Assamese |
Daily |
11 |
Niyamiya Barta |
Assamese |
Daily |
12 |
Employment News |
English |
Weekly |
13 |
Dainik Jugasankha |
Bengali |
Daily |
14 |
The Hindu |
English |
Daily |
5. Library Members |
(a) Students |
Students get membership at the time when they take admission into the college. But the students have to apply separately to obtain library cards.
Sl. No |
Course |
Total No |
1 |
Higher Secondary |
315 |
2 |
B.Com. |
650 |
3 |
BBA |
55 |
4 |
BCA |
45 |
5 |
M.Com. |
75 |
|
(b) Teaching & Other Staff |
Library cards are also issued against all the members of the college family. The present volume of the teaching and other staff is given below.
Sl. No |
Staff |
Total No |
1 |
Principal |
1 |
2 |
Teacher |
56 |
3 |
Staff |
11 |
|
Library rules:
- Library card and College uniform are must while visiting and using the library
- Library users have to keep their belongings to the property counter while entering the library except the valuable things like mobile phones, ornaments…etc
- Books are issued to students for a period of 15 (fifteen) days. They may be reissued for another 2 term (15 days each).
- An overdue charge of Rs. 1.00 only per day is levied if a book is kept beyond the due date.
- Members should satisfy themselves about the physical condition of the books they wish to borrow before getting them issued; otherwise they will be held responsible for any damage or mutilation noticed at the time of return.
- Reference books are restricted to issue on loan.
- Using Mobile Phones are strictly prohibited within the library.
- Users are allowed to check the availability of books in the computer through OPAC
- Users must maintain silence in the library.
Sections of the library:
1. Stack Area
All the processed books (Text and Ref.) have been kept in 112 book shelves. These books are arranged in a classified order according to the Class Numbers. Class Number guide is displayed prominently to guide the users. The book stacks have been placed in such a way that it is conducive to quiet study.
2. Technical Section
The books and other reading materials are being classified using DDC 24th Edition (Dewey decimal classification) and AACR-II (Anglo American Cataloguing Rules II Edition) for cataloguing purposes through SOUL2.0 (Library Management Software).
3. Reference Section
Reference Books have been separated from the textbooks. The Reference books are kept on the right side of the stack room in 40 book shelves.
4. Journal & Newspaper Section
Journals and Newspapers have been organized separately on the stacks near the Reading Table. A list of Journals and Newspapers currently subscribed to by the college library have been compiled in order to keep the teachers, students and staff informed as to which journals and newspapers are available in the library. (Annexure – II & III)
5. Book Bank Section
There are total 3,460 no books for book bank and these books are issued to backward class students and economically poor students.
6. Back Volume Section
The old loose issues of the journals got bound total no 400 and kept in a reading room in a classified order.
7. Circulation System
For circulation we use SOUL 2.0 software package, (Developed by INFLIBNET Center , Ahmedabad). Each cardholder student member can take two copies of books for 15 days whereas a faculty member can take 12 copies of books. A book can be re-issued provided the book in question is not in demand by any other member.
8. New Arrival Display
Newly processed books are kept at a prominent place in two revolving bookstand for one week or more to attract and to bring these to the notice of the users.
Library services:
SL. No |
Services |
1. |
Circulations |
2. |
Reading Room Service |
3. |
Periodical Service |
4. |
Reprographic Service |
5. |
OPAC Service |
6. |
Newspaper Indexing |
7. |
Book Bank service |
8. |
E-mail Service |
9. |
Internet Service |
10. |
E-Resource Service |
11. |
Reference & Information Service |
12. |
Current Awareness Service (CAS) |
13. |
Institutional Repository (IR) |
14. |
Social Media (Whatsapp & Facebook) |
Library Automation:
(a) Computerization
Computerization has been introduced in the library activities towards the end of 2002 using SOUL (Software for University Library) developed by INFLIBNET and the automation process of library started phase wise. After that automated circulation system has been introduced since 2005 for better circulation system. In 2009 the SOUL College Version package was upgraded to SOUL Version 2.0. The library has introduced Web-OPAC facility extended to computers throughout the entire college campus.
(b) Barcode Technology
To organize the disseminate flow of information in a systematic way we have introduced the Barcode technology in circulation system. It is a method of automated identification and data collection. For this purpose we have installed P-touch Editor ver.4.1 software, one printer Brother (QL-550) and two gun type scanners.
E-resource facility
(a) CD/DVD
A Digital Collection has been created with the CD’s & DVD’s which were received free of cost with books and journals. There are more than 100 CDs on various subjects. Most of the CDs/DVDs contain important software, encyclopedias, directory, and tutorials and so on. Students and teachers are allowed to use the CDs/DVDs for reference.
(b) N-LIST (National Library And Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content)
The College library has access to e-resources through N-List (National Library And Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) funded by the Ministry of Human Resources development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through ICT. Under this programme the college library members enjoys access to more than 6,000+ e-journals and 31,35,000+ e-books (including current issues with 5-10 years back files).
(c) Institutional Repository (IR)
From the current year library has been introduced Institutional Repository (IR) using D-Space digital library software to provide digital resources where library members can access Institutional publications including College Magazine, Academic Calendar, teacher’s research publications, Question papers and Rare books etc..
Library orientation programme:
Library has organized orientation programme every year for both teachers and students are made aware about the library services and rules for better using the library.
Best reader award:
Criteria for Best Reader Award
- He/She must be a bonafide student of K.C.Das Commerce College .
- He/She must agree to abide by the Library Rules.
- He/She must agree to abide by the sincere and disciplined while using the library.
- He/She must use the library to the maximum extent.
- He/She must legibly write details in the reading room register kept for the purpose at the entrance while visiting the library.
To inculcate the reading habit among the students an award known as “Best Reader Award” are distributed among the library members, for this purpose every year two library members are selected for this award.
Future Plan:
We have planned to expand digital library section in fulfillment with the demands of the users. The Library also plans to subscribe to more e-journals and E-Books for the readers. Library Orientation Programme will be extended further and emphasis will be given to create more regular users of the library.