The library of National College has a vibrant and long history. It started functioning on a modest scale in a Class Room, with just 470 books during the inception of the college in 1919.
Today, the nearly a century old library boasts of a vast collection of books on a wide range of subjects. The massive collection of about 1,25,000 volumes including very rare texts is the pride of National College. In addition, the library provides access to 105 national as well as international journals in print as well as online. In tune with the changing times and technology, the library automation programme was initiated in2010 and networking with the Bharatidasan University Library has been completed.
In addition to the conventional sections such as Stacks, Reference, Circulation, Periodicals, Technical Section Thesis and Dissertation, the building houses a large Audio Visual Theatre, spacious Conference Hall, E-Library, Librarian Chamber and Office. In short, library is a communication centre backed by technology.
The A&T section takes care of the systematic compilation of requirements from the departments, Ordering of Books, Accessioning, Classification, Indexing and processing of books .It also develops bibliographic database of books and other resources.
Registration of membership, Issue of bar coded ID cards, Issue and Receipt of books, Collection of dues, and No dues certification are handled by this section. Circulation process is fully automated with barcode technology and web enabled OPAC.
The reference section contains general reference like Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Year books, Directories, Gazetteers, Handbooks, Manuals etc., and subject reference books, books for competitive exams, Career development and personality development. The books are mainly meant for in-house academic reference. A separate collection of research oriented books and books for civil services examinations are also maintained.
It maintains 105 subscribed periodicals, of which 100 are national and 5 are international. The current research information can be accessed through these resources and apart from this; more than 5000 e-journals can be accessed on-line through UGC – NLIST.
A collection of 607 Ph.D. Thesis, 2800 M.Phil. Dissertation and 3740 PG Projects are organized and made accessible to the research scholars. Subject wise List of thesis is readily available with the section in-charge for reference.
The Stack room located at the ground floor facilitates safe custody of valuable books. The stack has been well organized, maintained and arranged using latest edition of Dewey decimal classification for easy retrieval.
The library functions between 6.00 a.m to 8.00 p.m on all working days of the college
Staff and students can borrow and return the library books using their bar coded identity cards. Books will be issued only on presentation of the Identity card bearing the name, number and signature of the student. In case the card is lost, the Librarian should be informed of the fact at once, failing which the owner of the card will be held responsible for the books issued on presentation of that card. A lost card may be replaced with a duplicate.
A student requiring a book for home reading should fill in an application form to be obtained from the Library Assistant and submit it before 9.40 a.m. The Assistant will ordinarily issue the books, if available, between 2.20 p.m and 5.00 p.m.
Readers must, on receiving a book, examine it, and repost to the library assistant any damage found therein. If they fail to do so, they will be held responsible for any damage that may be detected later.
The book should be returned on or before the due date which is marked on the last page of all library books. Failure to return the books in time will entail a fine of Rs.1/- per book per day.
Students are allowed to take two books for U.G and P.G., three books for M.Phil. and five books for Ph.D.
Books can be returned to the library on any day between 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
All books must be returned on or before the last date of the academic year or the last date of the examination of the student whichever is later.
Students can make use of the Photocopying facility available in the general library.
An exclusive Audio-Visual facility with internet connectivity is available in the library the students are exhorted to make the best use of the library.
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The main objectives of DELNET are to promote resource sharing among the member libraries by collecting, storing and disseminating information and provide networked services to researchers and scholars to supplement their research activity.
DELNET has been actively engaged with the compilation of various Union Catalogues of the resources available in member-libraries.It has created the Union Catalogue of Books, Union List of Current Periodicals, Union Catalogue of Periodicals, CD-ROM Database, Database of Indian Specialists, Database of Periodical Articles, Union List of Video Recordings, Urdu Manuscripts' Database, Database of Theses and Dissertations, sample databases of language publications using GIST technology and several other databases.
DELNET at present has 6958 libraries as its members, of which 291 libraries are in Delhi, 6667 outside Delhi in 33 States and Union Territories and 25 in overseas countries.
National College (Autonomous) is an institutional member of DELNET. DELNET is offering Inter-Library Loan & Document Delivery Services to its member libraries
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A citation index is a kind of Bibliographic index, an index of citation between publications allowing the user to easily establish which later document cite which earlier document
An impact is the average number of citations received for each published articles in that particular year. Impact factor determines the ranking of a journal in the specific category which can be found in the journal citation reports.
The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.
Indian Citation Index is an abstracts and citation database, with multidisciplinary objective information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine basically to perform search and evaluation for researchers, policy makers, decision .
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The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.
Note: From Year 2014, N-LIST programme is subsumed under e-ShodhSindhu Consortium as college component. The colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing) in India are eligible to get access e-resources under N-LIST programme.
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| Digital Libraries | |
|---|---|
| World Digital Libraries | https://www.wdl.org/en/ |
| eGyanKosh (IGNOU) | http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/ |
| Directory of Open Access Repositories | http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/ |
| Open Access Library | https://www.oalib.com/ |
| Internet Achieve | https://archive.org/ |
| The Universal Digital Library Million Book Collection | https://www.panopto.com/ |
| Infoport | https://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Virtual Library | http://vlib.org/ |
| Hathi Trust Digital Library | https://www.hathitrust.org/ |
| WorldWideScience.org | https://worldwidescience.org/ |
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| Total Library Users (Students) | 17880 |
| Total Library Users(Others) | 1704 |
| Sl.No | Months | Number of Students | Number of Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov | 1975 | 210 |
| 2 | Dec | 3671 | 282 |
| 3 | Jan | 2735 | 337 |
| 4 | Feb | 4100 | 484 |
| 5 | Mar | 4499 | 496 |
| 6 | Apr | 1315 | 192 |
| Total | 18295 | 2001 | |
| Sl.No | Category | Books Added in the Academic Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | 2018-19 | ||
| 1 | UGC-UG | 387 | 971 |
| 2 | Special Fees | 90 | 177 |
| 3 | TC Books | 379 | 332 |
| 4 | GT (Gift Books) | 114 | 331 |
| 5 | UGC-PG | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 970 | 1811 | |
| Sl.No | Services | No. of UsersUtilized |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reference Services | 8415 |
| 2 | Circulation services | 10802 |
| 3 | E- Library Services | 316 |
| 4 | Movie Screening | 568 |
| 5 | Over Night Reference | 773 |
| 6 | Theses Reference Services | 79 |
| 7 | Plagiarism Services | 5 |
| 8 | Xerox Facilities | 312 |
| 9 | News Paper and Magazines | 9015 |
| Sl.No | Months | Number of Students | Number of Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun | 4211 | 216 |
| 2 | Jul | 6252 | 271 |
| 3 | Aug | 8918 | 339 |
| 4 | Sep | 8283 | 461 |
| 5 | Oct | 5377 | 435 |
| 6 | Nov | 3819 | 112 |
| Total | 36860 | 1834 | |
| Sl.No | Months | No. of Reference Section Users | No. of Books Issue/Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun | 710 | 890 |
| 2 | Jul | 1822 | 1712 |
| 3 | Aug | 1355 | 1913 |
| 4 | Sep | 1412 | 1738 |
| 5 | Oct | 1788 | 2053 |
| 6 | Nov | 709 | 1801 |
| 7796 | 10107 | ||
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| Sl.No | Services | No. of Users |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Books Circulation | 10107 |
| 2 | Reference Services | 7796 |
| 3 | AV Theatre Services | 512 |
| 4 | Digital Library Services | 434 |
| 5 | Plagiarism Services | 14 |
| 6 | Over Night Books Issues | 384 |
| 7 | Journals Users | 510 |
| 8 | TNPSC Examination Classes | 73 |
| 9 | Xerox Facility | 862 |
| 10 | News Papers and Magazines | 16256 |
| Sl.No | Months | Number of Students | Number of Staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct | 1910 | 110 |
| 2 | Nov | 2138 | 252 |
| 3 | Dec | 7640 | 317 |
| 4 | Jan | 4358 | 484 |
| 5 | Feb | 5910 | 496 |
| 6 | Mar | 4810 | 192 |
| Total | 26766 | 1851 | |
| Sl.No | Category | Books Added in the Academic Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 2019-20 | ||
| 1 | UGC-UG | 971 | 807 |
| 2 | Special Fees | 177 | 108 |
| 3 | TC Books | 332 | 23 |
| 4 | GT (Gift Books) | 331 | 582 |
| 5 | UGC-PG | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1811 | 1520 | |
| Sl.No | Services | No. of Users Utilized |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reference Services | 9415 |
| 2 | Circulation services | 9824 |
| 3 | E- Library Services | 1325 |
| 4 | Movie Screening | 573 |
| 5 | Over Night Reference | 782 |
| 6 | Theses Reference Services | 123 |
| 7 | Plagiarism Services | 7 |
| 8 | Xerox Facilities | 9015 |
| 9 | Typewriting Institute | 62 |
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Dr.T.Sureshkumar., M.Sc., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., PGDCA., Ph.D.,
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National College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirappalli-620 001.
Mobile: 94438 36015, 79044 55158
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