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About The Library
Ganpat University Library is like user-focused, innovative, and excellence driven. The library has always benefited from the institutes’ culture, is pioneer in adopting new technology, and is far ahead than many libraries in the country. Library manages knowledge, both in print and digital formats, ensures seamless discovery and access to these scholarly resources, and provides faculty, students, and staff with professional support to find, evaluate, manage, and use such resources. It provides high-quality ambiance for both reflective and collaborative work and study.
Vision:
The University Libraries are engaged in learning and discovery as essential participants in the educational community. We develop, organize, provide access to and preserve materials to meet the needs of present and future generations of students and scholars. We explore and implement innovative technologies and services to deliver information and scholarly resources conveniently to users anytime/anyplace. We also provide well-equipped and functional physical spaces where students can pursue independent learning and discovery outside the classroom. The University Libraries support scholarship and research productivity and foster their vitality.
Mission:
The University Libraries strengthen and enhance the teaching, research and service of the University. The Libraries promote intellectual growth and creativity by developing collections, facilitating access to information resources, teaching the effective use of information resources and critical evaluation skills and offering research assistance.
Values:
- Access
- Service
- Life-long learning
- Intellectual and academic freedom
- Collaboration
- Mutual respect and civility
- Users as our primary focus.
- Users as our primary focus.
- Defend intellectual freedom.
Goals:
- Provide library services and resources in multiple formats that meet our users’ needs.
- Reimaging the physical space of the library to better meet the demands of our students and faculty in the future.
- Educate users about the library’s services and resources.
- Increase collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and the community.
- Optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of library services to our users.
- Develop and effectively utilize two-way communication to inform and gather input from faculty as appropriate.
- Provide instruction, online resources and facilities for our primary users.
- Explore new technology and utilize as appropriate to provide user- friendly access or service and/or improve staff efficiency.
- Develop, manage, and maintain the collection -- both virtual and real.
- Develop and maintain collection development policies that reflect the current research and instruction interests of our faculty and students and the current financial situation of the library.
- Hire, develop and retain highly skilled staff.
- Improve the physical environment for users and staff.
Library Council
| Members | Designation |
| Honorable Director General | Chairman |
| Deans of All Institutes | Members |
| Principles of All Institutes | Members |
| HODs of PG Departments | Members |
| One Student Representative each from Post Graduate Programmers’ Members | Members |
| Chief Librarian | Member Secretary |
Functions of the library committee:
- To formulate various policies related to library like, collection development, purchase, space etc.
- To propose library budget for the Institutes and department
- To propose library activities, Programmes and services
- To propose library vision, strategy documen
- To propose library and information literacy in the institute
- To formulate knowledge and information archiving and management policy at the institute.
The significant initiative has been taken by the library committee are:
- Building and Maintaining Knowledge (Institutional) Repository using D-Space software for preserving and archiving ETDs, faculty publications and institutional publications.
- Library membership has been extended to Corporate Houses, Organizations and alumni students.
- Remote Log-in Facility for accessing online resources is being provided to all faculty members and students of Ganpat University thus making online resources available 24X7 to the users.
- Open Source web based Library Management System SOUL3.0 is being implemented in all libraries of Ganpat University.
- Implementing Library policies – Library Material Purchase Policy, Book Bank Policy, Electronic Resource Access Policy, Remote Login Usage Policy, Weeding Out Policy.
- Library Book Loan limit is increased for UG and PG Students.
- Library is extended (added Bound Volume section)
Working Hours of the Library:
- Monday to Friday 08:30 am to 07:00 pm
- Saturday 10:00 am to 05:00 pm
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