DEPARTMENTAL PROFILE of LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

DEPARTMENTAL PROFILE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE P. V. K. N. Govt. College, Chittoor Brief History n The department of Library was started in the year 1961 with 800 books and 5 periodicals, and a Lecturer was kept in charge of the library. Later six qualified librarians have served and retired in this department. At present there are 56323 Under Graduate documents and 1687 Post Graduate Books 350 CDs/DVDs and 31 periodicals with one qualified librarian, three record assistants, and two attenders are serving the students as well as faculty. The library is centrally located in the college in order to provide easy access to the Users.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES Ø Ø To provide Books, Journals and Information services to the students and staff members. To pursue knowledge coupled with skills by reading Books & Journals. To develop personality, character and selfdiscipline by providing with good books and periodicals. To inculcate research aptitude and to cultivate scientific outlook

BUILTUP AREA OF THE DEPARTMENT : 350 Squire Meters. n Book section sq. meters. Consisting of Arts, : 276 Commerce, Sciences, Languages and reference books with Reading Tables and Chairs. n Periodical section: meters. Consisting of 74 sq. News papers, Magazines, Journals & Year wise bound University old question papers with Reading Tables and chairs accommodating 40 persons at a time.

MEMBERSHIP v All the Under Graduate, Post Graduate Students & All Teaching and Non-Teaching staff are Members of our Library.

FACULTY PROFILE – ADEQUACY AND COMPETENCY OF FACULTY S. No Names Designation Qualification Teaching experience 1 P. Ravi Librarian MLISC. , PGDLAN 21 years 2 VACANT Librarian 3 V. Ananda Naidu Recored Assistant B. A 18 years 4 Smt. S. Sarala Kumari Recorad Assistant B. A 14 years 6 C. Lakshmi Attender 7 G. Vasu Attender 7 years B. A 7 years

LEARNING RESOURCES OFTHE DEPARTMENT S. No Details Number 1 Total books in the library 56323 2 Systems 06 3 Network facility LAN 01 4 Dailies 10 5 Weeklies/Monthlies 15 6 Journals 16 7 CDs/DVD 350 8 Databases 20 9 Audio visual resources 03 10 Book bank 7311 11 NAAC publications 02 12 Copies from central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore 70 13 Central Hindi Directorate Books 920 14 Gift Books 620 15 Back Volume 155

SUBJECT WISE BOOKS S. No SUBJECT NO. OF BOOKS 1 TELUGU 6230 2 HINDI 1813 3 SANSKRIT 739 4 ENGLISH 5016 5 URDU 962 6 TAMIL 2134 7 COMMERCE 6640 8 ADVT. & SALAES MANAGEMENT 9 TAXATION 10 HISTORY 2010 11 ECONOMICS 2460 12 STATISTICS 1129 13 POLITICAL SCIENCE 1802 14 POST GRADUATE BOOKS 1687 120 88

SUBJECT WISE BOOKS 15 HINDI SAHITYA ACADEMY BOOKS 712 16 GENARAL KNOLOGE AND REFERENCE 4829 17 GIFT BOOKS 1040 18 COMPUTER SCIENCE 1647 19 MICROBIOLOGY 316 20 BIOCHEMISTRY 201 21 PHYSICS 3144 22 MATHEMATICS 2705 23 CHEMISTRY 2630 24 BOTANY 3185 25 ZOOLOGY 2776 26 BIO TECHNOLOGKY 308 TOTAL 56323

LIST OF PERIODICALS SUBCRIBED NEWS PAPERS n ENGLISH 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. n TAMIL n n THE HINDU THE HANS INDIA DECCAN CHRONICLE BUSINESS LINE BUSINESS STANDARD DINAMALAR TELUGU n n n ANDHRA JYOTHI EENADU SAKSHI VAARTHA PRAJASHAKTHI

MAGAZINES WEEKLIES/FORTNIGHTLIES/MONTHLIES n n n n THE WEEK EMPLOYMENT NEWS UNIVERISITY NEWS TELUGU VIDHARTHI READERS DIGEST SPORTS STAR INDIA TODAY (ENGLISH) INDIA TODAY (TELUGU) CAREER AND COMPETIOTION CHRONICL FRONTLINE ANDHRA PRADESH COMPETITION SUCCESS REVIEW UDYOGA SOPANAM PRATIYOGITA KIRAN

JOURNALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY THE VEDANTHA KESARI DIGIT(COMPUTER JOURNAL) INDIAN JOURNAL OF FINANCE INDIAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING INDIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT BUSINESS VISION (MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS JOURNAL) BUSINESS TODAY CURENT SCIENCE PRAMANA (A JOURNAL OF PAHYSICS) YOJANA (ENGLISH) n n n SRI RAMAKRISHA PRABHA COMPUTER ERA ANDARIKE AYURVEDHAM VIJETHA COMPETITION CAREERS 360

AMOUNT SPENT ON BOOKS AND PERIODICALS DURING THE PERIOD OF 2004 -11 TOTAL AMOUNT: - 6, 498 Year Amount spent on books Rs Amount spent on Grand Total periodical Rs Rs 2003 -04 1, 01, 140 15, 771 1, 16, 911 2004 -05 33, 701 29, 065 62, 766 2005 -06 23, 071 11, 866 34, 937 2006 -07 1, 52, 878 12, 725 1, 75, 603 2007 -08 1, 56, 660 13, 007 1, 69, 667 2008 -09 20, 659 17, 609 38, 268 2009 -10 4, 60, 911 15101 476012 2010 -11 10084 27431 37, 515

WORKING HOURS Of THE DEPARTMENT v 9 AM. To 5 PM. On all working days

LIBRARY ACCESSIBILITY v OPEN ACCESS SYSTEM is being followed. Books are kept on open shelves. This makes possible for a reader to approach the needed book directly and handle personally without barrier. A user can browse amongst the world of books in the Open access system. Readers have better chances of choosing the right book than merely consulting a catalogue.

TIME TABLE FOR ISSUE AND RETURN OF BOOKS TO STUDENTS DAYS ISSUES RETURENS MONDAY III BA, BCom. , B. Sc, M. Com, M. Sc, MA ALL STUEDENTS TUESDAY II BA, B. Com& B. Sc ALL STUEDENTS WEDNESDAY I BA, B. Com& B. Sc ALL STUEDENTS THURSDAY III BA, B. Com, B. Sc & MA. , M. Com. , M. Sc. Students ALL STUEDENTS FRIDAY II BA, B. Com& B. Sc ALL STUEDENTS SATURDAY I BA, B. Com& B. Sc ALL STUEDENTS

ISSUE & RETURN OF BOOKS/JOURNALS TO STAFF Ø On all Working Days to All Members

LIBRARY USERS STATISTICS 1 2 3 Average No. of faculty visiting the library / day (average for the last five years) 30 Average No. of students visiting the library / day (average for the last five years ) 700 Average No. of issue & returns to students & Faculty / day average for the last five years 300

SCHEME OF CLASSIFICATION n n n Usually classification determines the right place of a book on shelf. Classification brings an order out of chaos. All the books in the library are classified and arranged in a systematic order by following Dewy Decimal Classification 18 th Edition. THE 10 MAIN CLASSES OF D. D. C. 000 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 GENERALITIES PHILOSOPHY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES RELIGION THE SOCIAL SCIENCES LANGUAGES PURE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY (APPLIED SCIENCES) THE ARTS LITERATURE GENERAL GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY

SHELF LISTING F Subject wise and Class wise separate shelf lists are prepared and maintained in order to facilitate easy identification and location of books on shelves

CATALOGUING Ø “OPAC” On Line Public Access Catalogue is made available to the users. It is user – friendly and enables the user to search the bibliographic details with ease and speed. It allows searching by Author Title, Subject, Call number, Keywords and Boolean search, besides in case of power failure we are also maintaining card catalogue cabinet for the benefit of library

LIBRARY SERVICES n n n Information Service library is offering the information service to : The the users using the printed and electronic resources and equipment Access of E-Journals is also available to users through the U. G. C. INFLIBNET center. Internet facility library is offering Internet browsing facility for : The E – Learning and for referring free E- Journals to the users. Current awareness services information or published literature : Latest on particular subject of internet is provided for the library users. Latest issues of periodicals are kept for the reference purpose. Costly and important articles from journals are downloaded through internet and kept for the use of our readers. Reprographic Services: Copies of the books which can not be lent out, articles from the periodicals and information down loaded from the internet are supplied to the needed users through Xerox copies. Reference services is helping the users in finding simple facts : Library like whether a particular book, CD/DVD, information is available or not in this library.

LIBRARY SERVICES n Career guidance Guidance service is also provided in the library for : Career our students as well as other students who are approaching our library through News Paper Clippings, Internet downloading and displaying the same on the Notice Boards. n Library Automation Library is partially Automated. LAN limited area : The net work is created among all the departments of the college. One can know the information regarding the collection of library books and journals from any corner of the college. SOUL Software for University libraries developed by INFNET Center is installed. Six computer systems are installed for Server client set up. Desk Top Ink Jet Printer and Dot Matrix Printer are provided for giving printouts, of the information needed by the students. Internet with Broadband connection is kept for library users. n Databases of library books, periodicals students and staff are created and updated on regular basis. n Books are circulated through computers based on the SOUL software.

EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE n There are sufficient Book stacks, Reading Tables, Chairs, Lights, Fans and Exhaust Fans in the book section as well as in the periodical section for comfortable sitting and Reading. Six computers are available with LAN connectivity for providing Library Automation services (with SOUL operation) and for Internet facility for Elearning to the Users

RECORDS MAINTAINED Departmental Profile Individual Profiles Library Staff Attendance Registers Students visitors Registers Staff Visitors Registers Library Advisory committee Resolutions Register 16. 7. Central Accession Registers Volume – I – V 8. Book Bank Accession Register Gift Books Accession Register Subject wise Catalogue Registers Subject Wise Shelf Lists of all subjects Departmental Stock Registers Periodicals Accession Register Periodicals Issue & Returns Registers for Issue and Return of Books to Students 22. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Registers for Issue and Return of books To Faculty Reference service Registers UGC. Bills Registers Govt. Bills Registers Book Bank Bills Registers Special Fee Bills Registers Furniture Registers Dispatch Register Consumable Articles Registers Students defaulters Registers Cost Recovered Books Register Students No Dues issue Register Book Binding Register Career guidance Material Register for the outgoing students who secured jobs

FILES MAINTANED 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Library charge handing over and taking over files Circular files Binding files Book bank Grants files Govt. Grants files UGC. Grants files Special. Fee Grants files Periodicals subscription files Condemnation files Defaulters files Stationary files Inspection files both A. G. & Govt. Library Administration files Paper clippings Students& staff Nominal role files

Participation of teachers in academic and personal counseling of students n The department has downloaded the SV University UG / PG syllabus for the academic use of students & faculty. The department has bound the University old question papers and kept in the library for the academic benefit of students & faculty. n Details of Faculty Development Programmers and Teachers who have been benefited during the past five years: n Sri P. Ravi Librarian has attended a UGC granted 32 nd Orientation course conducted at UGC Administrative staff college in JNTU Hyderabad from 18 -3 -2013 to 18 -04 -2013.

Participation/ contribution of Teachers to the academic activities including teaching, Consultancy and research n n n The Library Advisory Committee is constituted comprising the Head of the Institution as Chair Person, librarian as Convener, six senior faculty members as members and two student representatives. The Library Advisory Committee is an advisory body and approves the budget allocation for the purchase of books and journals for various departments, it places purchase orders after obtaining price quotations and after the approval of comparative statement by the principal. The Library follows the Open Access System to all students and faculty. All books in the library were classified and catalogued. The library is partially automated With SOUL Software designed by INFLIBNET and supplied by the CCE. AP. Hyd. During 2010 -2014 a sum of Rs. 8, 25, 229/- was spent towards purchase of text books, reference books, journals / periodicals and books useful to the students for appearing for academic and competitive examinations.

Collaboration with other departments / institutions at the State, National and International levels, and their outcome during the past two Years n The department of Library and Information Science is in constant touch with the department, S. V University Library Tirupati & INFLIB NET Centre at Ahemedabad for implementing Library Automation.

Priority areas for Research and details of the ongoing projects, important and noteworthy publications of the faculty, during the past two years. n The department has assisted some of the staff members of this college and other colleges who have done their M. Phil. & Ph. D and UGC Minor Research projects by providing reference books, journals, Internet downloaded information and reprographic services

Placement, record of the past students and the contribution of the department to aid student placements n The Department has collected the career guidance material and notifications of competitive examinations from news papers and magazines, displayed and kept in the library for the benefit of students.

Plan of action of the department for the next five years The department proposed to: n n Subscribe more number of e-journals. Establishment of digital library. Trials for construction of separate library building. Introduce a certificate course in Library and Information science