LIBRARY SERVICE AND FACILITIES

1. LENDING (Circulation) The front desk service of the library begins from the Circulation Desk. The new admitted students are required to be registered themselves to be the library members. The library cards are issued from the library. In the circulation section, members can get following no. of resources:

Category	Entitlement	Retention
Students	02	15 days
Regular UGC Teacher & SACT	20	90 days
Honorary/Guest Teachers	05	30 days
Non-Teaching Staff	03	90 days

The issue, return, reissue are served from this section. The entire process is automatic, computerized through Bar code scanner and powered by open source software Koha.

2. READING

There are many text books of different subjects taught in the College in the Reading Section. It can accommodate about 40 students at a time.

3. REFERENCE

The Reference section includes reference books such as encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesaurus, almanacs, travel guides, directories etc.

4. REPROGRAPHY

The students can make photocopies of the documents maintaining the fair use doctrine from the copyrighted materials. Print out, Scanning of documents etc. are also provided from the library.

5. Web-OPAC (Online Catalogue)

Web-OPAC is web accessible Online Public Access Catalogue of the library resources. It can be accessible 24X7 remotely from the OPAC link in Library tab of the College website.

6. REPOSITORY

The college repository (NBM Digital Library) is a large collection of syllabus, previous year question papers of University of Calcutta & College, Study materials, College publication (Books & Departmental Journals), rare text books, and many more.

7. E-RESOURCES

The Central Library is the member of N - LIST (National Library and Information Services infrastructure for Scholarly Content) consortium of INFLIBNET through which the members of the library can access 6500+ e-journals and 2,00,000+ e-books. Besides it subscribes to Sage e-Vidya collection e-books and Oxford University Press ebooks. To have access to these resources, user can mail their interest to nbmvlib@gmail.com mentioning name, department and phone number. After registration, the respective member will get an activation link.

8. INTERNET ACCESS

In the campus, there is an internet access facility in the library. There are seven dedicated PCs for the users. Besides, the entire library is covered with Wi-Fi facility, users can access e-resources from their mobiles/tabs also.

9. NEWSPAPER

One Bengali and one English newspaper are subscribed by the Library and many leading newspapers in Bengali, English and Hindi languages of the electronic version is indexed in the Central Library & Knowledge Resource Centre webpage.

10. CAREER GUIDANCE

In the career Corner, library provides relevant books and magazines for the competitive examination like UPSC, PSC, GATE, UGC NET, CSIR NET etc for government and non-government positions. The corner is a support service to the students of Career & Placement Cell of the College. Library provides career news digest to the uses in electronic/digital version through NBM Information Library (Whatsapp Group).

11. RARE BOOKS

The library possesses some rare, antique and valuable books. Some of which are digitized and uploaded in the NBM Digital Library.

12. ORIENTATION, REFERENCE & BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES


Library organizes regular orientation programme at the beginning of the new session for the new students of the College. It also provides need based reference and bibliographic services to the students and teachers also.

13. NEW ARRIVAL DISPLAY

The newly arrived books are displayed in the New Arrival display section for the users’ perusal in the Knowledge Resource Centre remotely at 24x7.

14. CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE

The Library provides such services in the form of displaying book jackets, newspaper clippings, brochure display, leaflets etc. in the Library Notice Board.

15. ONLINE DATABASE SEARCH

The College subscribes an online database through N-LIST that provides full text access to almost 200000+ ebooks and 6500+ Journals for the faculties and students of the college.

16. RESEARCH SUPPORT

There are many documents on different subjects to support research project. Librarian is always very eager to support any researcher in the following manners:
• Help to conduct literature search on a topic.
• Literature search and related work to the faculties for their research projects
• Building references by following International guidelines
• Finding primary documents on research topics.
• Collecting related documents to a research.

17. WIFI SERVICE

• High speed internet is available in the library. Library provides internet connected desktop computers to all the users for study purposes. It also provides Wi-Fi services in and around the library from 9:30 A.M. to 8 P.M. in all working days. Users are required to obtain Wi-Fi password from the library to use this services. The Wi-Fi is totally free of any charge.

18. INTERNET RESOURCE CENTRE

• The Library has a setup for providing internet browsing. Printing and scanning facilities are there. Users can viewed, browsed and download all the documents available in the Knowledge Resource Centre. Users are requested to take permission from the the Librarians. Printing and scanning facilities are also permissible by the Librarian or Principal.

19. COOPERATION TO DEPARTMENTS

• Loan and daily issue of books and other reading materials.
• Help to prepare of various reports, technical notes, writings etc.
• Help in research activities carried out by the faculties.
• Procurement of documents on their immediate demand by consultation with the Principal.
• Arranging special lecture in the Conference Room.
• Help in organising seminar, workshop or exhibition and so on.
• Help in activities regarding marks upload in the CU Exam./evaluation portal
• Help to print service of the departmental academic documents

20. EXTERNAL STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS

The pass out students of this college and students, teachers & researchers of nearby Colleges & Universities can be an external members of the library and can avail the reading and photocopy facilities of the library for one year which is renewable for the subsequent years too by the permission of Librarian and/or Principal.