A reading floor at the centre of the institute.

About the library

The Library & Information Centre is housed in the Administrative Block & having three floors including ground floor with a two mezzanine floors, measuring an area of 2661 sq.m. There are 9 staff members including qualified Librarian working in the library, having 600 seating capacity. To cater to the needs of the staff/ students, to have easy and speedy access to the library collection, the house keeping operations of library have been automated using EasyLib software package. It has adopted open access system and maintains Online Public Access catalogue (OPAC) to provide easy access to the stacks. The library subscribes to 139 print journals and subscribing e-journals through VTU-Consortium. It has also has a collection of nearly 4485 back volumes of periodicals.

Library is an essential part of every institution which helps staff and students to enhance the knowledge through various resources such as books, Newspapers, Journals, Magazines and Electronic Library. Our institution library provides Borrowing, Book Bank, OPAC, Reference services, digital library with high speed internet facilities , Reprographic, Wi-Fi etc,.

In addition to the general library, the Engineering departments have exclusive department libraries also for quick and easy access of books by staff and students

Working hours

Collection

Presently Library is equipped with 150401 volumes of Books, Covering all Branches of Engineering, Basic science & General readings. The Library Resources comprises mainly with books, theses, project reports, current journals, back volumes, ISI Codes, Doctoral Thesis & Proceedings of conferences etc

Layout

What sits on each level of the library.

Membership & borrowing

Digital ID card will be provided to each students and staffs. It is to be used for borrowing library books and also as college Identity Card. The Detailed information and Digital ID Card Application forms are available at Library Office.

Services

Students can borrow two books at a time and can retain them for a fortnight. The books have to be returned before due date failing which overdue charges are levied. Teaching Faculty are given 05 books.

Book Bank facility for SC/ST students is being provided for the benefit of deserving candidates with the assistance of social welfare Department, Government of Karnataka. The concerned students can keep these books for one semester.

The Reference section is well equipped and having the facility for 600 readers to make reference at a time. It consists of UG Section, PG section, Digital Library and self reading Room.

Internet facility is provided in Library with 15 systems connectivity.

In additional to all general services, the Central Library provides various value added services including

• Access to E-Resources
• Book Bank Service
• Career Information
• CD-ROM Service
• Circulation Service
• Current Awareness Service
• Current Content Service
• High speed internet service
• New Arrivals display
• Newspaper Clipping Service
• Newspapers & General Magazines
• NPTEL service
• OPAC - Online Public Access Catalogue
• Periodical Service
• Photocopying
• Previous Years VTU Question papers Service
• Reading Facility
• Reading Hall facility
• Reference Service
• SC/ST Book Bank facility
• User Awareness Programme: Library facilities and services orientation programme is given for the new students at the beginning of the academic year
• Wi-Fi service

Rules & charges

1. All the readers provided with an ID card will use the same card for library access.
2. All readers need to show their card at the entry point of library for using the library facility while check in and checkout of library.
3. Readers are not permitted to take their personal belongings inside the library. However loose sheets are permitted for rough work.
4. Usage of mobiles, carrying water bottle, eatables are not permitted inside the library premises.
5. All readers need to strictly adhere to library rules and maintain silence in the library. No group discussions are permitted in the library.
6. If any reader found taking away library documents without the permission of the library staff, the reader will be charged accordingly and the library facilities will be withdrawn.
7. Suggestions for purchasing books for library and improving library facilities are appreciable.
8. The borrowed books must be returned to the library within stipulated period of 15 days to avoid paying fine.
9. All books must be returned on before the due date.
10. Books are required to be presented physically at the Counter for return.
11. Students are requested to confirm the generation of receipt for the overdue paid.
12. Members must replace the book if lost with latest edition along with overdue charges.
13. Students are required to verify the books before borrowing. Any discrepancies like missing pages etc., shall be brought to the notice of the Library staff. Otherwise books will be verified when they are returned to the library and any discrepancies found will be fined accordingly.
14. The ID card is not transferable and must be produced whenever demanded by teacher, staff or any other college authority.
15. In case the card is lost, kindly report immediately to the Principal / Librarian of the college in writing mentioning the details of ID Card .Members are responsible for any borrowings made against this card.
16. Produce ID card whenever no due certificate is to be collected from the library.

Charges

In the reading hall

E-resources

Open-access databases, e-journals, newspapers and course platforms the library points readers to. Links are the institute's own and open on the publisher's site.

Staff & committee

Dr.K.V.Manjunatha, M.Sc, Ph.D.

Librarian

kvmdvg@gmail.com9844949956

Smt.Shakunthala G.S, M.Sc,M.Phil,

Assistant Librarian

shakuntalags@rediffmail.com9964434648

GK

G.K.Prasanna Kumar, M.L.I.Sc

Library Assistant

9945523118

Nagaraja A

Attender

Channabasappa

Peon

Kenchappa

Attender

Govindraj

Attender

Smt. Pushpa

Attender

Nirmala K P

Peon

Library committee

Principal

Chairman

H B Aravind

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All Heads of the Department

Member

Librarian

Ex-Office Secretary

K V Manjunatha

Library user manual