A.D.B.FIRST GRADE COLLEGE, HARAPANAHALLI

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER

ABOUT DEPARTMENT:

       A.D.B College Library establishment of the 15-7-1972  College Library Carpet Area 2184  Seating Capacity 100  Total volumes 23,971 Total Number Title 8,789  Reference books7,500 Issue Books 16471 DVDs100 Internet 6 Computer Use.  Supports the main objective of the institute to become an institution of its repute in the integration of teaching and research motivating entry of bright students and faculty into the institute.

           Library plays an important role in supporting the academic programmer of the institute. It identifies, evaluates, procures, processes and then makes these learning resources available to the faculty and students for their teaching and research.

          Library has always been striving hard to meet the expectations of its users however; there has been a long felt need to bring clarity and uniformity in procedure and practices of the library to improve its efficiency, utility and services. Institute authority has advised that Library must have an operational manual where in all the rules, regulations, procedures are clearly spelt out.  Library staff met to discuss thoroughly and prepare a draft of the “Library Manual” This preliminary exercise Help Library staff in identifying several factors that has to be included in the draft.

          The manual touches upon all important functional modules of the library and delineates a clear policy as to how the activities of the library, like collection development, provision of information services, and management of other academic support facilities are performed.

This "Library Manual" is for Library staff so that Library staff may better understand the Library's mission and their role in its service plan. It is the purpose of the Library to serve the community with books and other media in a manner that is cordial, efficient, and equitable. It also strives to provide the academic community with quality library services and programs through its collections of books and other media delivered by library staff members.

          Library manual is a source of information, a constitution which list out all departments, sections and their functions, procedures and policies within the library. It is a source that library staff will consult whenever there is any confusion about any function or procedure.  Lot of efforts were put into the preparation of the manual. Hence, this Manual goes through a validation process before it finally accepted as a policy document.