St.
Joseph’s college for women (A) – LIBRARY
St. Joseph’s college Library is one
of the oldest private govt. aided autonomous degree college library in
Visakhapatnam. It spreads in an area of 3806 sq ft. The library is located in a
separate two storied building with mezzanine flooring situated very close to
the main block.
The collection includes more than 30479 books, 58 journals, 26 magazines, 437 CD's, 5211 back volumes of the periodicals. The collection of books include documents
covering a wide range of subjects from English literature, pure sciences, arts,
history and social sciences, languages etc. The library is fully automated, and
has a spacious reading hall and reference section with five air conditioners.
It caters to the needs of more than one hundred users at any point of time.
Tripod turnstile is placed at the entrance of the library to Control and detect only authorized users one at a time and also helps in
tracking the attendance of the members.
The library is automated with
integrated library management software SOUL 2.0 (Software for University
Libraries) of INFLIBNET. The various housekeeping activities of the library
such as data entry, issue and return of books, member logins etc are done
through the software. OPAC (Online public access catalogue) service is also
provided where the users can search the collection of books by title, author,
publisher etc. Barcode technology is implemented at the circulation counter.
Barcode labels are in process for the books. The Open Access system
which we are following in our library facilitate for quick and better usage of
Library. The books are classified according to Dewey decimal
classification.
Apart from the printed books the
library is having access to e resources for colleges that is N LIST (National library Information
services and Infrastructure for scholarly content) of INFLIBNET and also our institution
has registered for National Digital Library where the students can have access
to e books, e journals, databases etc.
Apart from Circulation service which
is issue and return of books, back volumes, reprographic service, and CD/DVD
and internet service with ------ mbps is provided.
Library
Vision , Mission and Objectives
Vision
- The vision of St. Joseph’s college
library is to provide with the required Knowledge and information resources and
make use of the latest technology for providing better services.
Mission: In order to fulfill the mission
the following steps are taken
- The mission is to understand and
provide a comprehensive resources and services to support teaching, learning
and research of the user community.
- To develop, organize, and maintain the collection to meet the needs of the user community.
- Participating in or responding quickly and creatively to the development of relevant technologies and standards.
Objectives:
- Provide significant books and other printed materials and other electronic resources for teaching, learning and research.
- Access to knowledge, promote scholarly communication and provide information to academic community to support teaching, learning and research activity.
- Organize materials to acquire, manage, and disseminate and make use of library.
- Provide guidance and aid to the people in their use of the library's resources.
- To work with faculty in integrating information skills, knowledge of information sources, and the use of technology in accessing information needed to strengthen their instruction, research and extension programs.
- To provide an appropriate and comfortable environment and facilities for the use of library services
