ACHARYA GIRISH CHANDRA BOSE COLLEGE LIBRARY (Central Library: Jagadish Bhattacharyya Pathagarh)

About Library:-
The Acharya Girish Chandra Bose College Library (Central Library: Jagadish Bhattacharyya Pathagarh) is housed in a spacious room on the Ground Floor having an area of 2700 sq.ft. Consisting of Display Section, Circulation Desk, Reading Room, Stack Room, Processing Room and Reading Room for faculty members with sitting accommodation for 80 readers at a time. Apart from the Central Library, the College has 08 departmental libraries under the faculties of Commerce and Arts. The stock of both text and reference books in the library has undergone considerable expansion and an exhaustive collection of more than 36000 books adequately meet the varied requirement of all students and teachers. There is a regular annual addition to the stock of books. Besides, students are encouraged to read newspapers, journals, e-books and e-journals (which are regularly supplied) to keep abreast of the times. Care is taken to maintain an atmosphere of calm and quiet study inside the library. The users are mostly students of our college studying UG Courses in various disciplines, teaching and non-teaching staff members of the institution.

The Library Services:-
The brief profile gives an overall view of the library facilities available at the College. With the long tradition of collective efforts of the staff members of the library, we have been striving hard to meet the present day demands of our users by rendering various services. We seek to do in a personalized and hospitable environment in spite of some infrastructural limitations. The library at present provides services mostly through a manual system. However, keeping in mind the present day requirements, we have started the process of automating the services. An INTERNET facility is available to the users. We are progressing towards fuller automation, but not definitely without human touch.

Library Services	Library Timings	Institutional Membership
1. Lending Service 2. Reading Service 3. Reference & Information Service 4. Departmental Seminar Library 5. Current Awareness Service 6. Document Delivery Service 7. Reprography Service 8. Career Guidance Service Note: The Library remains closed on all Sundays and Public Holidays	Library Hours: 10.30 am – 5.30 pm 10.30am –2.00pm(Saturday) Reference & Reading: 10.45 am – 5.00 pm 10.45am –2.00pm(Saturday) Circulation: 10.45 am – 5.00 pm 10.45am –2.00pm(Saturday)	INFLIBNET N-LIST
LIBRARY OFFICIALS
Name	Designation	Ph. No. /Email Id.
Manju Roychoudhuri, M.Sc., MLIS	Librarian
Pratima Saha, M.Com., MLIS, M.Phil	Librarian
Shantanu Kumar Dutt	Library Clerk(PT)
Rabi Karmakar	Library Peon(PT)

Collection:-
Books : The total numbers of books has gone more than 36,513 (as on 31.03.2020) on various subjects of  Commerce and Arts streams. A good number of text books and reference books are available in the library. The library maintains books under different heads. There is a collection of conventional Reference Books like Dictionary, Encyclopaedia, Handbook, Year book etc. for ready reference and general information.
Department/Subject wise books in the Library as on 31-03-2020:

Journals : Journals are the primary source of information and in the present age. Though at present, the library does not subscribe to any e- journal or e-database, we inform our users about the accessibility of e-journals via Internet through N-LIST: Inflibnet. At present, the library houses the following newspapers and titles on different subject :
Addition of books to the library for the last 5 years :-

Departmental Seminar Library
To supplement the services provided by the Central Library, we have 08 Departmental libraries accessible to students and teachers alike. The students can take books from the departmental library also.
Other Services of the Library
Library orientation : In order to familiarize our students with the library layout; we display a illustrating the arrangement of book shelves according to subject area. This helps the students in identifying their required materials easily and quickly. We also individually meet the students visiting the library and guiding them in selecting their requisite documents.
Reference Service : The library holds a good collection of reference books and text books on various subjects. A maximum of 3 (three) books are issued at a time to a student for reading purposes. We provide personal services to obtain the required information from various reference sources available in the library or to satisfy any other queries as requested.
Lending Service : The students may borrow 1 (one) book at a time for home use for a period of two weeks and can renew the same for another week.
Lending Service to the outgoing students : The students appearing at the Final  University Examination may borrow books for use at home through special library card system and keep the book till the completion of the examination. The students have to return the same within one week after the completion of the examination.
Borrowing privileges

Category	Entitlement	Duration of Borrowing
Students (Hons.)	2 Books	15 Days
Students (General)	2 Books	15 Days
Whole time Professor	10 Books	30 Days
Part-time Professor	5 Books	30 Days
Full-time contractual Professor	5 Books	30 Days
Guest Professor	2 Books	30 Days
Non-Teaching Staff	5 Books	30 Days
Non-Teaching Staff (Casual )	2 Books	15 Days

• Syllabi of different subjects : In the present day, the syllabi of all subjects have been modified in recent times, in some cases substantially. To serve our readers in a better and fruitful way, we keep the syllabi of different subjects (as followed by our affiliating university).
• Question papers of previous Examinations : To acquaint the students with the demands made by university examinations, we keep the question papers of the affiliating university for the users’ study. The questions of previous examinations are very important for study and teaching.
• New arrivals : To inform the users about our new arrivals, we display the list of new additions along with the jacket of books (if available). Lists of books of renowned and important publishers are kept with us for consultation.
• Internet Service : We have internet connectivity in the library and we help the users to search various information sources available in the net. We are also entrusted with the job of making liaison (through e-mail) with other institutes and personnel on behalf of the college. We have the practice of preparing a list of web addresses of important institutes and organizations and bringing it to the notice of the users.
• Career Guidance section : It is our common experience that most of the students are of hardly aware of various academic courses, different competitive examinations or other information pertaining to their progression in life. To serve our students in a better way, we have planned to procure books, documents, question papers of various competitive examinations and preserve them separately for use in the libraryWe may also guide our students in selecting the appropriate course by experts in this area through counselling.

Bibliographic Database of Special Collection
It is our constant endeavour to identify the rare and valuable documents and preserve them separately. We are preparing the bibliographic records of those valuable wealth of the library and making an effort to make people aware of these treasure resources. The bibliographic records of the rare books are being entered in the KOHA database.