Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library
Introduction | Services & Facilities | Collection Development | Infrastructure and Developmental Activities |
Welcome to Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library. Being a major service centre of the Institute, Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library provides library and information services to support teaching, learning, research activities by creating state-of-the-art facilities and offering innovative services. The library is a window to world of latest information in sciences, engineering, technology, humanities & social sciences with a fast growing collection of books, journals, magazines both in print and digital format. It is housed on a four-storey building having a floor area of about 7500 sq. meter and can accommodate a large number of readers at a time. In-house services of the library are fully computerized and wi-fi facility is provided within library building for connecting to internet and accessing Institute’s electronic resources. The Library of the Institute was named after the renowned and much revered literary figure Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa on 5th December, 2014.
Services and Facilities:
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Library remains open from 8.00 am to 02.00 am (next day) throughout the year and 24 hours during mid/end semester examination, to provide reading facility to Institute’s academic community.
- To facilitate the users, a digital repository of theses, submitted by Ph. D. scholars of the Institute, has been created and made accessible to the academic community via http://gyan.iitg.ac.in.
- Circulation system is being upgraded with RFID based technology for faster transactions. One RFID based Book Drop Kiosk and two Self- Check-Out Kiosk have been installed in the first floor of library for self issue/re-issue/return of library books beyond regular working hours. Another RFID based 24x7 Book Drop kiosk has been installed in the basement of the Library building for uninterrupted supports to the library users.
- For safekeeping of personal belongings of library users, token-based property counter has been made available throughout library operation hours.
- To facilitate and enable the academic community to access paid online contents from their own residences beyond Institute campus due to pandemic, Library arranged to provide remote access to e-resources via Shibboleth in association with INDIAN Access Management Federation (INFED) at INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad.
- The database for the entire collection of Library is available through web-based On-Line Public Access Catalogue (WebOPAC) and Library’s website.
Collection Development
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The library has a fast growing collection of books, journals, magazines both in print and digital format. To make awareness about the regional culture and to generate interest about vernacular literature, Library has developed a reasonably good collection on Assamese and Hindi language and on literary works of Sahityarthi Lakshminath Bezbaroa. Library has also developed a good number of collection on Braille Books and a special literary collection on Mahatma Gandhi.
Infrastructure and Developmental Activities
- Library has taken several initiatives for the safety of the library visitors during this COVID-19 pandemic.
- For enabling better delivery of circulation facility, the library management software has been upgraded to web-based version. This helped to provide better browsing of library collection, instant email and SMS generation for individual library transactions.
- A large format display monitor has been installed for intimating the users about recent developments and facilities of library.
- Interior of entire Library building has been renovated with modern illumination system for creating appropriate ambiance for readers.
- North East Regional Centre of National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has been setup in the premise of Lakshminath Bezbaroa Central Library and providing training & support to build digital repositories to the institutes of North East India.