Services

Services

Shirakole Mahavidyalaya

Circulations:Starting at the circulation counter, the library provides front desk services. In order for newly accepted students to use the library, they must first register. It is the library that issues the library cards members can get following resources.

Category Entitlement Retention
Student (Hons) 2 Books 7 Days
Student (General) 1 Book 7 Days
Marginal Student* 4 Books 15 Days
Full Time Teachers 10 Books 30 Days
SACT 5 Books 30 Days
NTS 5 Books 30 days

   *Students having monthly family income Rs. 10,000 or less

  1. E Resources

The Library is 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+ ejournals and 1,00,000+ ebooks. Besides it subscribes to Sage ejournals and Oxford University Press ebooks. To have access to these resources, user can mail their interest to smv.library2007@gmail.com mentioning name, department and phone number. After registration, the respective member will get an activation link. After activating the account will be activated.

  1. Newspaper Desk:Library subscribes to 2 leading newspapers Anandabazar Patrika and Telegraph in Bengali and English languages and career related newspaper like karmokhetro  and Employment News.
  2. Journals & Magazines:Library subscribes 2 academic journals and 1 print magazine and 6500+ ejournals for its academic fraternity. Back volumes of print journals are also available in the bound.  
  3. Question Paper: The library archive contains question sets from the last five years. And circulate in both online and offline modes.
  4. Career Corner:In the career Corner, library provides relevant news paper, books and magazines for the competitive examination for government and non-government positions. Library subscribes and career related newspaper like karmokhetro and  Employment News. The corner is a support service to the students of Career Advancement subcommittee of the College.
  5. Orientation, Reference & BibliographicServices:The library hosts a regular orientation event for new College students at the start of each semester. Additionally, it offers teachers bibliographic and need-based reference services.

 

 Library Regulations:

  • Each student has to be the member for using the Library.
  • The college library remains open from 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. from Monday to Friday; 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. on Saturday. But circulation suspended one hour before of the closing time.
  • The Students may borrow 2 books for 7 days and may renew the same for additional 7 days. Full time teachers may borrow 10 books for 30 days where SACT teachers may borrow 5 books for 30 days.
  • Marginal Students (having family income less than 10,000 per month) are allowed to borrow 4 books for 15 days.
  • The Library is under CCTV Surveillance.
  • Retaining books for more than the stipulated period is liable for a fine of Rs 1 /day/book.
  • The members have open access to the library. So members have to keep their bags (excluding purse & mobile) in the baggage counter.
  • No student is allowed to take additional copy of same title at a time.
  • Members will be allowed to use reading room for reading purposes after submission of their reading cards.
  • Noise, disturbance or disobedient behavior is forbidden in any part of Library.
  • Disregard of library rules, indiscipline and misbehavior will render students liable to be denied access to the library.

 

Catalogue:

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-List):