BEST PRACTICES

LIBRARY IS A GROWING ORGANISM

GOALS

The vision of the Department of Library of D.R.K. College of Commerce, Kolhapur is, “To advance an agenda of excellence in the quest to empower students with the knowledge, values and skills to be continuous learners and practitioners who can, in turn, provide visionary leadership addressing current and future challenges in the various fields, both nationally and internationally.

In support of the college mission, the Department of Library provides Education or Information to develop leaders, who collect, organizes, preserve, manages and disseminate information in all formats. We do this by instilling values and beliefs in services to our communities in a Global Society.

Accordingly the goal of our Library is, to train students for use of library with advanced Information Technology Applications in Library.

CONTEXT

Our College Library worked according to Five Laws of Library Science developed by S. R. Ranganathan, father of Library Science.

1.         Books are for Use

2.         Every Reader his/her Book

3.         Every Book his/her Reader

4.         Save the Time of the Reader

5.         Library is a Growing Organism

Our library staff provides efficient services to the users with advance information processing techniques. We encourage research students and produce professionally qualified persons to the various fields.

PRACTICES

          In order to accomplish the objective our library staff performs following practices/activities

-           Organized Book Exhibition

-           Display of New Books/ New Arrivals

-           Display of New Journals/New arrivals of Journals

-           Maintained separate registers for good library administration such as separate Reference Section, Journals Bound Volume Section and section of the competitive exams

-           Maintain soft copy of the old question papers to the Students and Staff also.  

Evidence of Success

            The commitment and involvement of our library staff has enabled the students, researchers and teachers to acquire knowledge skills by participating in the various activities conducted in the Department of Library of our college. These activities are   

-     Availability of Book Bank Scheme for economically poor students        and Special Library Scheme for the merit Students

-    Organization of One Day Workshop on “Problems of Library Management” under the Lead College activity of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur

-     Implementation of Library Automation (Partially) and Use of Barcode for students as well as Books

-     Availability of e-books and e-journals to the staff, researchers and students through N-LIST

-     Provision of Electronic Barcode Barrower Card to Teaching and Non-teaching staff regarding Book transaction in the library 

-           Guidance to the regular and ex-students regarding competitive examination and NET/SET examination also

A special lecture has been delivered by our Librarian under the Ratna-Manch on the topic on “Impact of ICT on Libraries” to the teaching staff