Baruipur College

Baruipur College

Recognized by UGC under 2(f) & 12(B)
Affiliated to University of Calcutta

About the Library

The college is proud of its library which comprises with Central Library and Seminar Libraries for honours departments. The library is now spread over 2500 sq. feet and decorated with spacious shelving area, two reading rooms (one for students and one for teachers), one e-library section and two rooms allotted for Seminar Libraries. The sitting capacity of students’ reading room is 60 readers and teachers’ reading room is 10 readers. The library is “open access” for the students and teachers. The whole library is secured with the CCTV surveillance.

Our library has as many as 16820 books including 111 reference books and 34 brail books. It provides the opportunity to access journals, CD/DVDs, magazines and newspapers.Our library subscribes N-List e-resources by INFLIBNET.  Apart from that, there is “Shyamal Banerjee Memorial Collection” containing 70 books and “Rakhal Chandra Ghosh Smriti Collection” containing 150 books.

Our library is partially automated using Integrated Library Management System (ILMS), Koha, and version20.11 on Ubuntu 20.04. As of now the Online Catalogue (OPAC) is available to the users. The library will soon implement computerized acquisition and circulation system.

VISION OF THE LIBRARY:

  1. To protect the users right of Information.
  2. To accelerate reading habits among the readers.
  3. To create the best citizen for nation building.
  4. To act as a students’ workshop.

Library Faculty:

Dr. Swapan Kumar Bera (Gold Medalist)
Designation: Librarian
Qualification: MLISc., M.Phil., Ph.D, UGC-NET,
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