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Ajit Gulabchand Central Library


A New state of art Library worth 4,680 sq.mt. Constructed is a generous donation received from “Walchand Hirachand Memorial Trust” Mumbai and renamed as “Ajit Gulabchand Central Library”. The spacious library of the college holds the total collection of reading material 107859 including 56383 Books, 13064 Bound Volumes of Technical / Non-Technical Journals, Magazines, 38412 Book Bank Books accumulated over last six decades. It subscribes to 90 Technical, 8 Science and 7 General Journal / Magazines. This library is member of INDEST under which we receive 36390  Online journals including IEEE(464), IEEE Conference(19407),  ASCE(36), ASME (30), Science Direct(275) and  nlist.inflibnet.ac.in (6000) and 2325 e-books and nlist.inflibnet.ac.in (3135000).

Library is having Membership of DELNET, New Delhi for Inter Library Loan, Reference facility and document delivery services. Library is also participate N-LIST Inflibnet program through membership for e-journal and e-books.

RFID Technology based Library Automation with Koha: Library Management System:
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) provides for “sightless” or no line of sight identification of items. It includes the ability to facilitate circulation, re-shelving, and theft detection, and it has several other important advantages. It can either replace or supplement existing library bar codes.
RFID in Library RFID has the potential to speed up library services and streamline time consuming operations such as check in – check out, sorting, stock management and inventory

RFID Technology provides number of advantages for a library kind of environment.

RFID products are used in A.G.C. Libraries:
1. Staff Station for Circulation Desk: is used for issue return of library materials, entry of new material to the LMS etc.
2. RFID Handheld Reader: is mainly used in stock verification of books which can be done in hours instead of days with handheld reader system. It can also be used in searching a particular book by taking the reader to library racks.
3. Security Gate Antenna System with two pedestals: are placed at exit gate of the library to keep check on unauthorized books going outside. It will have a read range Up to 1m.
4. Smart Card Registration Reader: is a small reader for registration of Smart Card or can be used at the time of Tagging/Registering of books.
5. RFID Enabled Self Check-In – Check-Out Kiosk: is an independent touch screen based kiosk for borrowers to perform issue-return functions on their own
6. Middleware Software: It is a customized application to interface data from various RFID hardware products to the existing library management system
7. RFID Book Return Intelligent Trolley / Smart Book Shelves: are used for returning of books while books are to be placed on shelves with RFID antenna.
8. RFID Tags: (For books, journals, magazines, CD’s etc), Smart Cards: is to be applied on each and every book. They are available in various form Factors
9. Mifare Cards for ID: Pre-Printed Mifare cards for ID cards, these can be used at self-check in check out station to issue books independent of any human Intervention CD Tags CD tags are RFID tags to be applied on CD’s, these are specially designed in circular form factors.

Book Bank Facility:
Library issue 1200 to 1300 book sets under book bank schemes. Free Book Bank Scheme is available for students & Books of book banks can borrow according to the merit of the students.

Reading Hall Facility:
Reading Hall facility is available round the clock for full year and provides study room facility during normal and extended hours.

ISTE Library Award 2019 :
ISTE Library Award 2019 is conferred upon walchand college of engineering, Sangli on 5th January 2019 in recognition of creation of Excellent Library Infrastructure.

Name of the I/c Librarian :   Mr. S. B. Agawane
Library holdings :

1

Total Area of Library

4680 sq.mt.

2

Library Staff

7

3

Total Number of Readers

3471

4

Total Number of Books

56383

5

Total Book Bank Books

38412

6

Total Number of Titles

43143

7

Total Bound Volumes of Periodicals

13064

8

Proceedings

322

9

Total No. of M.E. Dissertations

3013

10

Educational Video Cassettes

77

11

CD

3412

12

DVD

577

13

Floppies

419

14

Total No. of Transparencies

130

15

Microfiches

1700

16

E-books

2325

Equipments  

1

Personal Computers with internet connectivity

60

2

Printers

3

3

Xerox Machines

2

4

Scanner

2

5

Micro Film Reader

1

6

Multimedia Center/ Discussion Room with LCD Facility +TV,VCE,DVD player etc

1

Facilities :
1. Ajit Gulabchand Central Library is RFID enabled/fully automated with KOHA LMS.
2. Open Access to All Users.
3. The Teaching Faculty can borrow 10 books for 180 days.
4. All Post Graduate Students  can borrow 4 Books  for 15 days.
5. All Graduate  Students can borrow 2 Books  for 15 days.
6. All  Polytechnic Students  can borrow 3 Book for 15 days.
7. Online Public Access Catalogue Facility (OPAC) Camp wide connectivity on Intranet.
8. Book Bank Facility to More than 1200 Students.
9. Free Book Bank Facility is available to Students.
10. Information Retrieval Lab (Internet) facility to all Readers.
11. Reference Service, Current Awareness Service.
12. E-Journal & E-Books facility to all readers on Intranet.
13. Audio/Video Facility available in the library.
14. Inter-Library Loan Facility through DELNET.
15. DELNET Membership for Document Delivery Facility
16. N-List Inflibnet membership for e-journal & e-books
   


Library ISTE Award 2019
 

Circulation Section

Books Stack Section

   

Reading Hall

Discussion Room