The document outlines the mission and goals of JSS Mahavidyapeeta's library, emphasizing the importance of accessible information resources for students and faculty. It details library operations, services, a wide range of materials available, and the roles of key staff and advisory committees. Future plans include establishing a digital library and enhancing research facilities while keeping pace with technological advancements.

1. His Holiness Jagadguru Dr. SRI SRI SHIVARATHRI RAJENDRA MAHASWAMIGALAVARU,
Founder of JSS MAHAVIDYAPEETA

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Dr. S. R. RANGANATHA
Father of Library & Information Science
OUR AIM:
Laws of Library Science
1. Books are for use.
2. For every reader, his or her book
3. For every book, its reader
4. Save the time of the reader
5. A library is a growing organism

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Goals
 Promote intellectual growth and creativity by developing
collections, facilitating access to information resources
 Teaching the effective use of information resources
 Develop, Organize, provide Access to and preserve both physical
and virtual library resources to meet the needs of students and
faculty.
 Explore and implement innovative technologies and services to
deliver information resources

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“KNOWLEDGE IS FREE AT OUR LIBRARY, JUST BRING YOUR OWN CONTAINER”
 To provide faculty and students with materials that enrich and support the
curriculum and meet the needs of the students and faculty served
 To support the institution's curricular needs
 Recognize the library’s role in providing for the specialized research needs of
student and faculty conducting independent and advanced research
 Assist librarians and faculty who are making decisions about resources
including the library’s print collection, digital resources, and databases
 Provides a balanced collection with diverse and differing points of view or
intellectual thought
 Service users are: UG / PG students, Research Scholars, Alumni and backlog
students, students preparing for competitive examinations and visiting
students & staff of peer institutions
Objectives

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Communicati
ng changes in
the Library
system
Conveying the
value of
information
resources to
users
Keeping pace
with changing
technological
world
Understandin
g research
trends & the
librarian’s role
in the
research cycle
Continuous
transformatio
n from ‘Print’
to a ‘digital-
based’ system
Framework

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Advisory Committee
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Names Designation Role
1 M. Mahadevappa Principal Chairperson
2 S.P. Udayashankar Selection Grade Librarian Member
3 S.C. Shobha Librarian Member
4 B.K. Kendagannaswamy Professor Member
5 M. Ananya Lecturer Member
6 M. Shivakumar Lecturer Member

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Key Staff
# Name Designation Qualification
1 S.P. Udyashankar Selection Grade Librarian M.A, M.LISc
2 S.C. Shobha Librarian B.Sc, M.LISc
3 M.C. Manjunath Library Assistant M.A., M. LISc
4 Geetha Murthy Library Assistant B.A., M. LISc.
5 Dinagaran Attender B.A., B. LISc.
6 Dharanendrababu Attender PUC

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Working Days
8:00 AM to
8:00 PM
General Holidays
10:00 AM to 1:00
PM
During Vacation
10:00 AM to 5:30
PM
Working Hours

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Circulation Counter
Property Counter
Reference Section
Journal Section
(Ground Floor, Plinth area 7,200 Sq. feet with seating capacity of 100)
OPAC Section
Reference Book
Notice Boards Section
Suggestion Box
Key Areas in Library
Infrastructure
Reading Room
General Magazine Section News Paper Section
(First Floor, Plinth area 4,800 Sq. feet Seating Capacity 200 Students)

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Printed Documents Periodicals Non-book Materials
 Text books
 Reference
 General knowledge
 Competitive Exam
Books
 Rare Books
 General Collections
 Dictionaries and
Encyclopaedias
 Subject Journals
 General
Magazines
 News Papers
 Back-Volumes
 E-Journals
 Open Access
Journals
 Dissertations
 Project reports
 Audio / Video
Materials
 Old Question Papers
 News Paper Clippings
 JSS publications
 Databases
Types of Resources

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Access to
Printed
Documents
and
E
Documents
Automated
Cataloguing
Services
CAS and SDI
Services
Reprographi
c services
(Access to
Rare Book
Collection)
UGC Info-net
Consortium
Services
INFLIBNET
N-List
project
Journals
Services
User Study Programs
Career Guidance Awareness
Book Exhibition [Collection
Development]
Access to JSS publications
Access to special collection (Competitive Exam
Resources)

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 E-Books & E-Journals : N-List INFLIBNET
 Internet facilities to the users
 Access to Audio / Video materials
 Providing OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
Digital Services

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 Book Bank facility
 Inter-Library Loan
 Question Papers
 Career Guidance council
 Collection of JSS Publications
 Photocopying services
 Soft copying services
 Reprographic services
 Competitive Exam Books
Value Added Services

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 Dedicated media center is established within the library area
and available for access during the library working hours
 Media Center has access to following in audio visual form. Some
of the topics include
 Nano Biotechnology
 Business Research Methodology
 Research Articles by Staff
 Karnatakadalli Gandhi (Documentary film )
 Manorama Year Book
 Lecture Capture Systems (LCS) can also be accessed (both
curriculum and non-curriculum) in the media center
 Access to virtual class room sessions and seminars organized by
various Indian universities, AICTE, UGC, IITs, etc. are also being
pursued upon
Media Center

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76,168
47,066
132
17
52
9,000
75,000
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1915
422
519
# Asset Name Quantity
1 Books 76,562
2 Titles 47,148
3 Journals 143
4 News Papers 17
5 General Magazines 54
6 E-Journals 90,000
7 E-Books 75,000
8 Back Volumes 1,915
9 Audio / Video Materials 422
10 Dissertation and Projects 972
Statistics

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Establish
ment of
Digital
Library
Enhancement
of facilities
for Research
Scholars
Resource
sharing :
National and
International
Union
cataloguing
Conducting
seminars
regarding the
usage of the
Information
Services
Introduction
of Webinars
Future Plans

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American Institute of Physics (18 titles) http://journals.aip.org/
Annual Reviews (33 titles) http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) (1 titles) http://www.epw.in/
Indian Journals (180+ titles) http://www.indianjournals.com/
Institute of Physics (46 titles) http://iopscience.iop.org/
JSTOR (2500+ titles) http://www.jstor.org/
Oxford University Press (206 titles) http://www.oxfordjournals.org
Royal Society of Chemistry (29 titles) http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals?key=title&value=current
H. W. Wilson (3000+ titles) http://search.ebscohost.com
Cambridge University Press (224 titles) [2010-2016] http://journals.cambridge.org/
URLs

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Cambridge Books Online (1800 titles) http://ebooks.cambridge.org
E-brary (125000+ titles) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks
EBSCoHost-Net Library (936 titles) http://search.ebscohost.com
Hindustan Book Agency (65+ titles) http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary
Institute of South East Asian Studies(ISEAS)
Books (382+ titles)
http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary
Oxford Scholarship (1402+ titles) http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/
Springer eBooks (2300 titles) http://link.springer.com.
Sage Publication eBooks (1000 titles) http://knowledge.sagepub.com.
Taylor Francis eBooks (1800 titles) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
Myilibrary-McGraw Hill (1124 titles) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks
E-Books

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# Description URL’S
1 e-PG Pathshala: e-content for PG Courses A Gateway for all
post graduate courses
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
2 National Digital Library https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
3 e-Shodh Sindhu: Consortium for
Higher Education Electronic Resources
Centrally Funded Technical Institutions in INDIA.
https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/
4 A reservoir of Indian Theses
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for
research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and
dissertations.
https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/
5 Public Library of India
Public Resource
This collection is maintained by Public Resource and
contains resources pertaining to India
Kannada 5,500
https://archive.org/details/digitallibr
aryindia?&and[]=languageSorter%3
A%22Kannada%22
Useful Links [PG]

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# Description URL’S
1 Open j-Gate 4805 Open Access Journals
2 Open Access Journals Search Engine http://www.oajse.com/
3 49 Full Open Access Journals http://www.hindawi.com/journals/
4 Digital Learning http://www.digitallearning.eletsonline.com/
5 Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/
6 Nano Technology Open Access Journals http://jgateplus.com
7 List of Online Free/Open Access E-Journals
Subjects of Business, Management, Economics
and commerce
https://www.amu.ac.in/pdf/amulib/drc_comm
erce.pdf
8 Omics; Open Access Journals https://www.omicsonline.org/chemistry-journa
ls-india/
9 JustFreeBooks searches the content of more than
700 websites that offer books without charge,
including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and
archive.org
http://www.justfreebooks.info/index.php
Useful Links [Journals]

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Library Genesis or LibGen ,a search engine for articles and books on
various topics, allows free access to its database with more than 2.7
million books, 58 million science magazines (as on 5th
Jun.18)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
Useful Link [Search engine]

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Useful Links

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# Description URL’S
1 One look Dictionary http://www.onelook.com/
2 Encyclopaedia http://www.encyclopedia.com
3 Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com
4 Merriam Webster Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com
5 Free-e book http://www.free-ebooks.net
http://www.bookfordownload.com/
6
Epigraphia carnatica. By B. Lewis Rice,
Director of Archaeological Researches in
Mysore
https://archive.org/details/epigraphiacarnat09myso
/page/
7
Science Citation Index
https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-scien
ce/databases/
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scien
ce/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index/
8 Free book http://physicsdhttp://physicsdatabase.com/free
9 Rare Book Society https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org
rarebooksocietyofindia.or
Useful Links [Dictionary/Encyclopedia/Database…]

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Useful Links [PG]

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Useful Links

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Useful Links [PG]

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https://archive.org/details/jou https://archive.org/details/journals?and[]=year%3A
%222017%22 rnals?&sort=-downloads&page=2
Useful Links [Journal back volumes]

28. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but
not every man’s greed”. Mahatma Gandhi
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