Library

Mission : Library serves as a resource center and aims to develop a comprehensive collection of books and journals useful for students and faculty of the college and provides an efficient dissemination of knowledge. Library also supports students for  career development and Employment.

Population served :

•  + Students
• 16 faculty
• 04 Non-teaching staff

The library promotes student success through the development of critical thinking and independent learning skills and advances teaching and learning by supporting learning material. NSPM’s Arts and Commerce Mahavidyalay, Igatpuri. Library provide services, collections and facilities to support the educational goals of students, Teachers and non-teaching staff. The library selects materials in variety of formats to support courses and programs as well as material which are more general in nature and which support the educational goals of the college. The library also collects material relating to the competitive examination and career development opportunities. Library has study areas, library circulation and reference services. Library subscribes periodicals, journals, weeklies, monthlies and 03 newspapers in Marathi and English language. For competitive examination (MPSC) now a day there is a huge demand for the material of State Open University that our library possess.

Students are provided identity cards with library membership on producing admission receipt. Library enables them to take one textbook on their account for 8 days and one more general book of her interest for 8 days. Every student has two transaction opportunities in a week. She can borrow / return books. Apart from this student are seeking reference services

Library Hours:  10.30 A.M. to 5.30 P.M.

Faculty:

Statistics & Activities:

Library Expenditure for Last five years

• Books                            2190                       
• CD ROM                      2

Privileges of Members:

Category

• Student                                                             8 Days
• Contractual Faculty                                         Term-wise
• Institute Officials                                             Occasionally

Library Facilities:

• Reading room facility                                       Yes
• Loan of books                                                   Home Lending
• Periodical services                                            Display / Reading facilities
• Reference services                                            Yes
• News Paper Section                                          Yes
• Working hours of Library                                  8 Hours
• Working days of the library                               280 Days

Reading Room facility:

The reading room of the library provides reference material for 2 to 6 hours by depositing student identity card temporarily. Where they can consult textbooks, reference books, journals, magazines, News papers.  Library remains open during summer vacation and Diwali vacation excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays

NEWS PAPERS:

1. Times of India                          2.  Loksatta

3. Sakal                                       4 .  Maharashtra Times

5 .Divya Marathi                          6.   Punya Nagari 

7. Tarun Bharat          

Library Advisory Committee:

General Library services:

Library as a resourceful organization provides general reading room services, lending facilities, Internet surfing, literature retrieval services through Current Awareness Services and Selective Dissemination of Information services in a regular way. Sometimes special assistance is being provided to the college administrator with required inputs for preparing reports, manual and related documents.

User Awareness programme:   

     1.  Orientation lecture for first year students 

     2.  Book exhibition / Book display (Vachan Prerna Din)

     3. Vachan Prakalp : https://brlibrary.unipune.ac.in/

Library Utilization:

Average numbers of walk- ins                                               15-25

Average numbers of books issued/ returned                       15 -25

Average number of books added during last five Years     2190

Stock Verification: Physical verification of stock of books is carried out during summer vacation. The physical verification of books on all subject have been done.

Other activities of the library:

Library extends its facility beyond the premises through What’s Up connectivity to users.

Library extends its clipping facility with the help of What’s Up among Teaching / Non-teaching staff members.

Best practices of the library:

1. Assistance to poor and deserving students
2. User orientation & Information Literacy to students
3. Career & Employment Information
4. Suggestion box and timely response
5. Displaying new arrivals
6. Organization of Book exhibition.

Future Plan of the Library:

• Updating library database of books in new iT Software
• Making the circulation of books fully automated through Barcode system
• Resource sharing                 
• To extend Internet based services
• Implementation of staffing pattern in the library