The College has a well-maintained library, named Chakreswar Saikia Central Library with a good variety and range of collections. which provides about 29,175 Nos. books on different subjects, 05 journals, 10 periodicals, and 4 newspapers in Assamese and English. Moreover, it has a good collection of Encyclopedias relating to different subjects. The library has a reading room facility with a capacity of 100 person seating arrangement at a time. For the benefit of library users, a Xerox machine is also installed inside the library premises The operating system of the library has been computerized. A photocopy facility is available in the library at a nominal rate for the students. Besides, it also has spacious and separate reading rooms for the students and the faculty members of the college. The construction of an e-library section has reached the stage of near completion. C.S Library is automated with SOUL 2.0.0.1.4 Library software. Data entry of all books is almost ready. For providing effective infrastructure, 8 computers have been installed in the Library.
Library Team
Librarian: Dr. Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain, MLISc, MPhil, Ph.D (Profile)
Library Assistant: Mr. P.N. Mahanta, B.A.
Library Bearer: Mr. Loken Das
National Digital Library of India
Former Librarian: Tahera Choudhury, MA, BLISc. (w.e.f. 22.05.1985 to 28.02.2015)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Name of the Library : Chakreswar Saikia Central Library
System of the Library : Open Access System
Address of the Library : Nanda Nath Saikia Collge, Titabar Jorhat, Titabar
Assam-785630
Year of Establishment : 1959
Working days : 6 days a Week, Closed on Sundays and Holidays
Working Hours : 09 AM to 4.00 PM
Library automation system:
C.S Library follows open access system which reduces the gap between user and books and also saves the time of the user as well as library staff. The library used SOUL 2.0.0.1.4 ( Software for Universities libraries initiated by INFLIBNET Centre) software to digitally automate the library service.
Library Software:
- SOUL 2.0.0.1.4
- P-touch Editor 5.0
Library holding as on 28/05/2022:
Total no of books: 28984
Total no of periodicals and journals: 15 Total no of newspapers: 5
Total no of thesis and research papers: 13
Accession Register:
- The library has 07 number of Accession Registers for textbooks and Reference books.
- The library has 1 no of Accession register for Thesis and research
- The library has 3 numbers registered for Periodical and Newspaper.
Gate Register :
The user of the library is allowed to enter and access the library resource using the library attendance system maintained through the member login interface of SOUL 2.0 which is kept in the main entry. The Library has separate register maintained for visitors.
Different Library Services:
- Reference services
- Reprography services
- Internet service
- Lending Services
Different sections of the library:
- Acquisition Section
- Cataloguing Section
- Circulation section
- Journal and periodical section
- Reference section
- Newspaper section
Library rules :
- Library will remain open from 09:00 AM to 4.00 PM on all College working
- Library cards are issued to all the
- Book may be borrowed by students for a period of 10 days There is no provision of re – issue of the same book
- Each final year student must return his/ her library books along with the library card before getting the admit Card of the final
- If the borrowed book is lost or damaged by any student the same must be replaced by new books by the concerned student, students found mutilating library books or periodicals or magazines will be subjected to Disciplinary action.
- Mobile phones should be switched off in the
- An overdue charge of 1.00 for each book per day shall be levied on a member if a book is kept beyond the loan period.
- A member must produce his/her identity card & Reader’s ticket at the time of borrowing.
Policy for Students:
- Students are allowed to issue 4 books per H.S and PGDCA students are allowed 2 books to issue.
- Books are issued for 10 days.
- Student's library card is issued for the whole academic They have to bring the library card to issue their books.
- Loss of books should be replaced by the user with a new one.
- Reference books are allowed to use in the reading space, not for issue.
- Users need to put their name 1st in the library gate register
- Library believes in “every book to its user” ‘ and “ every reader his or her book” (two popular quotations of S. R Ranganathan, father of Library science in India )
Policy for Faculty members:
- Faculty members are allowed to issue a maximum of 6 books for 15 days.
- They have to bring library cards to issue their books.
- Journals, Periodicals, Newspapers, Reference books, and rare books are restricted for the issue. They are allowed to issue mentioned library resources to use or read in the library.
