Books
Books are a major source of documented information. All books available in the library are further divided in different groups as per scope of the contents they are possessing. LRC users have different privileges to borrow these books. Learning Resource Center has tried to build a strong collection of books in the area of science, technology, engineering, humanities, social sciences, management, generalia etc. The collection has been divided in four sections namely Textbook Section, Reference Section, Reserve Section, General Section and Hindi Section.
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LRC has following types of information materials in the library.
Text books: These are the books which are recommended or available for reading as per the curriculum.
Reference books: These books are of research purpose and faculty and research scholars may generally use these. Most of these books are rarely being used and of high cost hence purchasing more number of copies may lead to wastage of funds. Hence, LRC possess 1-3 copies of these books and keep them in reference section. A few copies of highly used books are also being kept in the reference section.
Reserve books: Handbooks, reports, theses, etc are the documents which are of rare category and LRC has only once copy of these documents. No book from this section issued to anyone.
General books: LRC is maintaining books on motivation, biographies, short stories and fiction in this section.
The Subject-wise detail of Book collections is given in below attached table.
Department |
Titles |
Copies |
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics |
3488 |
6237 |
Civil Engineering |
2778 |
5974 |
Computer Science & Engineering |
4913 |
10891 |
Electronics & Communication Engineering |
3567 |
7310 |
Humanities & Social Sciences |
2524 |
4116 |
Mathematics |
1991 |
3743 |
Physics and Materials Science |
1137 |
2654 |
Other General Collections |
1848 |
2504 |
TOTAL |
22246 |
43429 |
Section Wise Collections |
Section |
Copies |
Text Books |
33550 |
|
Reference Books |
8350 |
|
General Books |
1529 |