Gurukul Institute of Teacher's Training and Research Suratgarh

LIBRARY

The College Library has large area and accommodates about 200 students for reference work at any time. The Library has number of volumes of books and maintains open access facility for students and staff members, which include Books, Magazines, Periodicals and Scientific Journals (National / International). The Library has a reprographic section to meet the requirements of students and staff. The college provides high speed leased line (2 Mpbs) internet facility with wi-fi connection.

The college library also provides
Internet Facility
Audio visual facility
E- Journals

Library working hours 09:00 hrs to 18.00 hrs week day

A Library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services. In this repository of knowledge, the information is acquired, processed, arranged and disseminated. The main objective of any Library is to cater to the academic needs of the users.

COLLECTION

The Library of AGC is pretty rich in its collection of books catering to most of the branches of knowledge especially in engineering, management studies and computer application. There is a collection of more than 12000 books (Text, References and General) in the Library. The periodical section enjoys the subscription of 90 journals and 30 magazines (technical and general) along with the prominent dailies.

READING AREA

It has a sitting capacity of about 200 students at a time. The reading area has been divided into two sections. One is with the storage area in the basement and other is a reading hall on the ground floor.

CIRCULATION

Library strictly follows the management principle i.e. the spirit of personal and independent studies for the enrichment of intellectual faculties. Therefore, library services are available from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm for the issue and return of the books. Library follows the "Browne Charging System" for the circulation.

ARRANGEMENT

Library has open shelf system keeping in mind the objective of easy access to the documents. All the books have been arranged subject-wise.

DIGITAL LIBRARY

Gurukul Institute of Teacher's Training and Research Suratgarh We are living in an age of information explosion where it has become almost impossible for any library or information centre to acquire and store all the literature even in a single field. Keeping the same thing in mind the College authorities have decided to set up a Digital Library and has got the membership of DELNET. A Digital Library is a library where reading material is kept in the form of CDs, DVDs, and Databases and in other microforms. And the same is accessed with the help of computers.

Our Digital Library has 21 well equipped computer system and more than 250 CDs covering various subjects. Central Library has set up a cell for Digital Library with its premises. It will work in two parts i.e. E-learning and DELNET. E-Learning is an on-line education program where the students can access various presentations, seminars, lectures etc. on the other hand; DELNET is Developing Library Network which is highly helpful for resource sharing.
To access the DELNET services go to www.delnet.nic.in through Internet explorer or Netscape. To log in one needs username and password. And the same can be obtained from the in charge of Digital Library.