Sri Venkateswara College Library University of Delhi Report for NAAC

Library Report For
National Accreditation and Assessment Council
(NAAC)
Abhishek Singh Rajput
Professional Assistant Sri Venkateswara College
(University of Delhi)
“Learning is a life long process and library is the best source to acquire knowledge”

About SVC Library
The college has a Main Library and 17
Departmental Libraries that collectively
support the teaching, research and extension
programs of the college. The library is fully
automated and functioning with an objective
of providing library services to its members in
order to promote an educational excellence in
Sri Venkateswara College.
July 4, 2016 Library Report For NAAC

About SVC Library
Library facilitates and promotes effective and
interactive access to Information resources for
its users. In the area of physical facilities, the
library offers safe, comfortable, well lighted,
clean space, with suitable seating arrangement
to ensure effective use of reading materials
including digital resources. It also considered
the study space needs for persons with
disabilities (VI), while rendering the services
and arranging facilities for them.

Layout and Floor Plans
Ground Floor
 Property Counter, Check Point, Drinking Water Facilities (RO with
water cooler) and Washrooms (both for boys and girls)
 Librarian Room
 Acquisition and Technical Processing Section
 Circulation Section and Reading Hall, Faculty Reading Room
 Facilities for Visually Impaired (ICT enabled)
 Reference Section
 OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
 Books Stack Area:
* Sciences (Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Physics and Electronics)
* Commerce and Economics
* Mathematics and Statistics

Layout and Floor Plans
First Floor (Stack Area)
 Arts (History, Sociology, Tourism, Law, Political
Science and Public Administration)
 Languages and Literature (English, Hindi, Sanskrit,
Tamil and Telugu)
 Religion and Yoga
 Philosophy

Ground Floor

Functional Units
 Acquisition Section
 Circulation section
 Stack Area
 ICT (Library Networking, Automation, CCTV Surveillance,
Access to E-Resources, Facilities for Visually impaired,
WebOPAC, Wi-Fi, Library portal, Digital Library
Management, CMS and Social Networking etc.)
 Technical Processing Section (Classifying, Cataloguing,
Assigning Subject Headings)
 Reference Section
 Transcript and Reprographic section
 Check Point
 Faculty Reading Room (Air-conditioned)July 4, 2016 Library Report For NAAC

 Acquisitions Section - Purchases books and
other information resources by processing
requests, Physical Verification, Duplication
check, Price Proof check, Ordering, accessioning
and Receiving documents, processing the bills
for payment.
 Circulation Section - It comprises the activities
like membership registrations, renewals,
cancellations, generating barcode IDs, Check-in
/ Check out, Binding works, Issue of No-dues,
Assisting students in OPAC, over due collection,
Weeding out, Maintaining and updatng records
of the Dept.
 Stack Area - where books and other literary
documents are kept for borrowing or reference
and these are arranged according Dewey
Decimal Classification.
Functional Units

 Computer Applications Division (ICT) – All sections
has been connected thru LAN. Users may contact for
any computerized services, like OPAC, CD ROMs and
access to Electronic resources, printing of barcode
labels, spine labels, scanning and printing for VI and
faculty membe.rs
 Reference Service - Readers may approach the
Reference Desk for information or any assistance in
the use of the Library Collections and Services. The
library consists of various encyclopaedias, dictionaries,
year books, biographies, best sellers, noble laurites and
other reference books.
 Check Point - A person desirous of using the Library
shall enter his/her ID Number, name, time in, and put
signature in the register kept at the Check Point. The
library materials taken out by any student / staff from
the library are checked at this point.
Functional Units

 Transcript and Reprographic Section - Readers may
approach for Transcript service, Photocopy of
syllabus and previous year question papers,
Recommendation of Membership to other libraries
like CSL, South Campus Library, DPL, TML, British
Council Library and American Library. Arranged
Laptops and assistive devices for Visually Impaired.
 Periodicals Section – Subscribing, receiving,
maintaining and renewing of journals, magazines
and newspaper can taken care by this section. A
journal, on completion of its volume will be
processed for binding. After the binding is over, the
volume will be accessioned and added to the Back-
Volume shelf. Necessary reading tables and chairs
are provided for reading and reference.
 Faculty Reading Room & Display of Faculty
Publications
Functional Units

 Reading Room – The library has a
well ventilated reading room with
natural day light, wifi connectivity,
good air, elegant atmosphere to
concentrate and focus more on
studies, accommodating 90 students
approximately. The students and
faculty can have access to all the
reference books like encyclopedias,
dictionaries and current periodicals
and newspapers in the same hall.
Functional Units

Membership Category and Loan Period
Categories No. of Books
issued
Duration of
Issue
No. of
journals
Duration of
Issue
Students - UG 04 14 Days 2 Photocopying
only
Students - PG 06 14 Days - -
Faculty 10 1 Month 2 1 week
Non-Teaching
Staff
06 14 days 2 1 week

Service Hours
 The library remains open on all working days i.e.
Monday-Friday + Saturdays.
 9.00 A.M to 5.30 P.M on all working days round the
year.
 Issue and Return of Books: 9.15 AM-4.30 PM

.
Library Membership (2012 to 2016)
Categories No. of
Members
(2012-13)
No. of
Members
(2013-14)
No. of
Members
(2014-15)
No. of
Members
(2015-16)
Students – UG 3,636 3,455 3,891 3,647
Students - PG 229 236 250 303
Teaching staff
187 195 214 238
Non-Teaching
Staff
169 173 180 183
Total 4,221 4,059 4,535 4,381

Staff Strength
Designation No. of staff
Librarian 01
Professional Assistants 01
Semi-Professional Assistants 02
Junior Library and Information
Assistants
-
Library Attendants 07
Total 11

 Acquisition of Information resources, processing, storing, organizing
and disseminating
 User Orientation and Awareness Programme
 Circulation Service (Membership Registrations, Renewals, Books Issue /
Returns, Recommendation to other libraries etc.)
 Reference Service and Referral Service
 Transcript service
 Compellation of short bibliographies on request
 Literature search service from online debases
 Access to E-Resources (E-Journals, electronic databases and e-books)
 Facilities for Visually Impaired
 News Paper Clipping (DU and other Education News)
 OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) and web OPAC
 Reprographic and scanning service
Information Services for Users

The Library uses LSEase (Libsys), an
integrated multi-user library in house
management system which It consists of
modules on acquisition, cataloguing,
circulation, serials control, article indexing.
WEB-OPAC - Bibliographic information of
all the library holdings available in the
library can be accessed through the WEB-
OPAC.
Library Automation

Barcode Technology:
The library using barcoding technology for its books which is a
predefined format of dark bars and white spaces. The
advantages are accuracy, time saving, reduced cost of
transaction, operation efficiency.
Smart Card System :
Smart cards are made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but sometimes
polyethylene terephthalate based polyesters, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
or polycarbonate. Since April 2009, a Japanese company has manufactured
reusable financial smart cards made from paper.
Technology used in circulation section

Library Committee
Members
Dr. P. Hemalatha Reddy, Principal
Dr. Ratna Raman, Dept. of English - Convenor
Mr. O. Sivasankar Prasad (Librarian)
Dr. Padma Suresh, Dept. of Economics
Dr. Geeta Jayaram Sondhi, Dept. of Sociology
Dr. Anant Pandey, Dept. of Physics
Dr. Shukla Saluja, Dept. of Botany
Dr. Kanwar Singh, Dept. of Sanskrit
All TIC

Significant Initiatives by the Library Committee
 Well Stocked Library with Open Access System.
 Fully Automated Library using LIBSYS with of Barcode technology
and Smart Card for check in / check out. . Installation of New
Linux Server.
 Faculty Reading Room with air- conditioning.
 Wi-Fi internet connectivity with high speed broad bandwidth.
 CCTV surveillance with Digital Voice Recording.
 Touch Screen Kiosk for visually challenged with JAWS enabled.
 Laptops / Notebooks and Angel voice reorders to all the visually
impaired students and EOC in library.

Significant Initiatives by the Library Committee
 Daisy format resources and braille materials for
Visually Impaired.
 Installation of Fire extinguishers.
 10 KV Power Backup (Online UPS).
 Access to E-Resources by UGC- INFONET Digital
Library Consortium & N-List.
 Free distribution of weeded out books to students
and staff.
 R.O. drinking water facility to all the library visitors.
 Fully secured baggage counters.July 4, 2016 Library Report For NAAC

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OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
Students can access bibliographic information
of all the books of library. They can search the
library's holdings by Author, Title, Class no.
Acc. No., ISBN, Subject and Keywords or
Combination search (Boolean search). They can
also check their personal account details such
as no. of books issued, due date, over due
amount, reservation of books etc. The Jaws is
enabled for touch screen kiosk of OPAC in
order to use by visually impaired students.

Facilities for Visually Impaired
 The Library delivers special services to the visually impaired students by
providing an assistive technologies with support of Equal Opportunity Cell of
College as well as DULS.
 The library has two desktops and 2 notebooks installed with JAWS (screen
reading softwares), Kurzweil 1000 (OCR software) and computer headphones. In
addition, to this two flat bed scanners and 01 Lexcam scanner is provided.
Library has issued Angle Daisy Player (Digital Voice recorder) to each student to
record their classroom lectures.
 Providing reading materials in braille Script.
 The library provides awareness to access to 12,000 books in 10 different
languages in a user-friendly format developed by NIVH under Ministry of Social
Justice and Empowerment. http://www.oblindia.org/en/login

Assistive Technoloiges and Softwares
A variety of assistive technologies and softwares are available at the
Library for persons with disabilities, including:
 JAWS Pro Talking software
 Kurzweil 1000
 Magic Magnification Software Pro
 Lex Air (Magnify, read, re-format, import, export, save,
bookmark….dyslexia companion)
 Angel Talking Digital Pocket Daisy Player
 Daisy format, Audio books and E- Texts

Library Budget
Budget is prepared with support of library committee following the
criteria established for such purpose. The library uses budget for
purchase of books, periodicals subscription, binding of books and
maintenance etc.
Library Budget Allocation Criteria
No. of students (Hons)
No. of students (Programme)
No. of papers thought by the department
No. of lab papers
No. of shared papers
No. of courses

Library Budget for the Period from 2012-16
Financial Year Budget Amount
(Rs.)
2015-2016 33,30,300.00
2014-2015 36,15,687.00
2013-2014 31,23,260.00
s2012-2013 32,24,850.00

Purchase Policy

Source of Information (Printed)
Primary
Source
Secondary Source Tertiary Source
• Periodicals
• Reports
• Conference Proceedings
• Theses
• Official Publications
• News paper articles
• Bibliographies
• Geographical sources
• Monographs
• Statistical sources
• Manuals
• Reference Books
*Dictionaries
*Encyclopaedia
• Yearbooks
• Directories
• Bibliography of
bibliographies

Library holdings
Document type No. of Documents
Books (incl. bound volumes) 1,42,028
E-Books 14,386
Journals and Periodicals 45
Thesis 06
CDs & DVDs 576
Question Papers 282
News Papers 15
Braille Collection (Braille books) 59
Syllabus 71

Reference Sources
Type of Reference Sources No. of Books
Dictionary 363
Year Books 51
Encyclopedias 176
World Development Report 13
Indian Development
Report
11
World Economic
Development Report
09
Guinness World Record 18
Limca Book of Records 08

• 1. Aaha Zindagi
 2. Aajkal
 3. Akhand Jyoti
 4. Better Photography
 5. Business India
 6. Careers 360
 7. Chankya Civil Services Today
 8. Competition Affairs
 9. Competition Success review
 10.Consumer Voice
 11.Culturama
 12.Discover India (English)
 13.Down to earth
 14.Economics and
 Political Weekly (J)
 15.Economist
 16.Electronics For You Plus
 17.Employment News
 18.Femina
 19.Frontline
 20.G. K. Today
 21.India Today (English)
 22.India Today (Hindi)
• 23.Kadambini
• 24.Kalki
• 25.Mainstream
• 26.Mathematics Today
• 27.Navneet
• 28.Naya Gyanodaya
• 29.Outlook
• 30.Pratyogita Kiran (E)
• 31.Ramakrishna Prabha
• 32.Reader’s digest
• 33.Sakhi
• 34.Saptagiri (English)
• 35.Saptagiri (Hindi)
• 36.Saptagiri (Tamil)
• 37.Saptagiri (Telugu)
• 38.Sarita
• 39.Seminar
• 40.Social scientist (J)
• 41.Swati
• 42.The Chartered accountant
• 43.Time
• 44.World Affairs
• 45.Yojana
Journals & Magazines Subscribed

Newspapers :
1. The Asian Age
2. Hindustan Times
3. The Times of India
4. The Indian Express
5. The Hindu
6. The Pioneer
7. The Economic Times
8. Mail Today
9. Navbharat Times (Hindi)
10. Dainik Jagran (Hindi)
11. Hindustan (Hindi)
12. Jansatta (Hindi)
13. Saakshi (Telugu)
14. Eenadu (Telugu)
15. Dinamani (Tamil)

E-Resources
The library has an access to electronic information resources
subscribed by Delhi University Library System (DULS) and
UGC Infonet in order to facilitate scholarly content to the
faculty and students.
Types of E-Resources
 Online Databases (Full Text / Bibliographic / Citation Index /
Abstract)
 Electronic Journals
 E-Books (N-List)
 Statistical Sources

We
UGC-Infonet Awareness Seminar @ SVC on 22 March 2005

Organized a one day seminar for principals of Delhi University Colleges
on UGC – Infonet Awareness Programme at the Sri Venketeswara College.
Principal of Sri Venketeswara College, Padmashree Dr A.Sankara Reddy
welcomed the fellow principals and participants of the programme. Prof
V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chairman, UGC was the Guest of Honour.
The programme was inaugurated by Dr V.K. Gupta, Director, NISCAIR. Prof
J L Sardana delivered the keynote address. Inaugural was followed by a
technical sessions by Dr S Majumdar, Librarian, DULS on Accessing Open
Access Journals. Sh Manoj Kumar K and Sh. Prem Chand, INFLIBNET, Dr
Suresh Jindal and Dr AP Singh, DU took various sessions. The publishers of
e-resources gave demonstrations of features and availabilities of their
resources.

Access to E-Books through N-LIST

Access to E-books through N-LIST
E-Journals (Fulltext)
• American Institute of Physics (18 titles) http://journals.aip.org/
• American Physical Society (10 titles) http://publish.aps.org/browse.html
• Annual Reviews (33 titles) http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
• Cambridge University Press (224 titles) http://journals.cambridge.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://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
• H. W. Wilson (3000+ titles) http://search.ebscohost.com
E-Books
• Cambridge Books Online (1800 titles) http://ebooks.cambridge.org
• E-brary (125000+ titles) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/inflibnet
• 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) http://www.tandfebooks.com.
• Myilibrary-McGraw Hill (1124 titles) http://lib.myilibrary.com/

Access to E-Resources / Online Databases
Type of Database No.
E-Books 14386
Statistical database 08
Citation Analysis database 02
Bibliographic database 07
Common Search Engines 02
E-Reference database 12
E-Doctoral Thesis database 01
Full Text database 117

Access to E-Resources / Online Databases

Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
Hardware:
Servers - 01
Desktop Computers - 10
Touch screen computer - 01
Laptops for Visually Impaired) - 38
Laptops to facilitate E-Resources Access - 12
Laser Printers - 03
HP Scanners - 05
Handheld Barcode Scanner - 06
CCTV Color Cameras - 15
Digital Voice Recorder - 01
Angel voice recorders - 12
Lex Air book scanner - 01
Network switches - 02
Softwares:
Red Hat Linux Enterprise version
LS-Ease 4.1 (Libsys college version) and MS-Office
Jaws & Kurtzweil 1000 & Screen Magnifier etc.

 Online access to e-resources
 Special section for VI students
 Integration of multimedia
resources
 Free Distribution of books
 Book Exhibitions
 CAS / SDI
 Access to in house digitized
documents
 Publications of the institution
 New Additions List
 Library location maps
 News clippings
 EDD / Email Service
 WIFI connectivity
 Orientation Programme for
individual departments
 WebOPAC
 Transcription service
Services

Book Exhibitions
We organize books exhibition for the staff and students of the college for creating
awareness about newly available information and technology enhanced resources.
Procedure followed:
 Take the approval from principal for book exhibition event,
 Make a list of interested vendors to be called / invited,
 Arrange a meeting with Library committee and make a plan/policy what to do
and how to do, how much to charge as registration fee (from vendors and
publishers only), lists of invitees etc.,
 Invitation with terms and conditions related to exhibition will be sent to
vendor.
 A book recommendation form, give to all the publishers/vendors to take/collect
the recommendation of teachers on same form (to maintain to uniformity),
 After that order is placed for recommended books through acquisition section.
Finally will submit a report to the college principal.

Book Exhibitions

Periodical Section

Baggage Area

CCTV & Check Gate

Stack Area

Reading Room

Circulation Desk

OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
We take efforts to increase the students interest in reading and research, improve the
collection with good reads and best sellers, acquire new technologies and broaden
the access to information resources through the following:
 Constriction of Mezzanine floor for further expansion of seating and stack area
 Creating Separate portal for library with Open Source Content Management System
(Drupal)
 Implementation of security solution thorough RFID / EM
 Air Condition reading Room for student s
 Developing Digital library / Institute Repository for internal resources (syllabus, question
papers, faculty publications, college magazine and other permissible resources) of the
college
 EDDC (Electronic Document Delivery Service) and TOC alerts
 Automatic Censor door
 Remote Access to e-resources and web-scale discovery
 Integrating social networking (Library 2.0) for LIS services
 Application of Mobile technologies (apps) for users
 To organize author workshops / orientation programmes on use of E-resources
 To take membership of DELNET

“What is now proved was once only
imagined.”
― William Blake

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