Brief History

• The Department of Library was started in the year 1961 with 800 books and 5 periodicals, and a Lecturer was kept in charge of the library. Later six qualified librarians have served and retired in this department. At present, there are 56323 Under Graduate documents and 1687 Post Graduate  Books 350 CDs/DVDs and 31 periodicals with one qualified librarian, three record assistants, and two attendees are serving the students as well as faculty.  The library is centrally located in the college in order to provide easy access to the Users.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

• To provide Books, Journals, and Information services to the students and staff members.
• To pursue knowledge coupled with skills by reading Books & Journals.
• To develop personality, character, and self-discipline by providing with good books and periodicals.
• To inculcate research aptitude and to cultivate a scientific outlook
• Book section: 276 sq. meters. Consisting of Arts, Commerce, Sciences, Languages and reference books with Reading Tables and Chairs.
• Periodical section: 74 sq. meters. Consisting of Newspapers, Magazines, Journals & Year wise bound University old question papers with Reading Tables and chairs accommodating 40 persons at a time.

MEMBERSHIP

• All the under Graduate, Post Graduate Students & All Teaching and Non-Teaching staff are Members of our Library

FACULTY PROFILE – ADEQUACY AND COMPETENCY OF FACULTY

S.No	Names	Designation	Qualification
1	P. Ravi	Librarian	MLISC., PGDLAN
2	Smt. S. Sarala Kumari	Recorad Assistant	B.A
3	C. Lakshmi	Attender
4	G. Vasu	Attender	B.A

 

LEARNING RESOURCES OF THE DEPARTMENT

 

S. No	Details	Number
1	Total books in the library	56323
2	Systems	06
3	Network facility LAN	01
4	Dailies	10
5	Weeklies/Monthlies	15
6	Journals	16
7	CDs/DVD	350
8	Databases	20
9	Audiovisual resources	03
10	Book bank	7311
11	NAAC publications	02
12	Copies from Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore	70
13	Central Hindi Directorate Books	920
14	Gift Books	620
15	Back Volume	155

 

SUBJECT WISE BOOKS

S.No	SUBJECT	NO. OF BOOKS
1	TELUGU	6230
2	HINDI	1813
3	SANSKRIT	739
4	ENGLISH	5016
5	URDU	962
6	TAMIL	2134
7	COMMERCE	6640
8	ADVT. & SALES MANAGEMENT	120
9	TAXATION	88
10	HISTORY	2010
11	ECONOMICS	2460
12	STATISTICS	1129
13	POLITICAL SCIENCE	1802
14	POST GRADUATE BOOKS	1687
15	HINDI SAHITYA ACADEMY BOOKS	712
16	GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND REFERENCE	4829
17	GIFT BOOKS	1040
18	COMPUTER SCIENCE	1647
19	MICROBIOLOGY	316
20	BIOCHEMISTRY	201
21	PHYSICS	3144
22	MATHEMATICS	2705
23	CHEMISTRY	2630
24	BOTANY	3185
25	ZOOLOGY	2776
26	BIOTECHNOLOGY	308
	TOTAL	56323

 

MAGAZINES WEEKLIES/FORTNIGHTLIES/MONTHLIES

• THE WEEK
• EMPLOYMENT NEWS
• UNIVERSITY NEWS
• TELUGU VIDYARTHI
• READERS DIGEST
• SPORTS STAR
• INDIA TODAY (ENGLISH)
• INDIA TODAY (TELUGU)
• CAREER AND COMPETITION CHRONICLE
• FRONTLINE
• ANDHRA PRADESH
• COMPETITION SUCCESS REVIEW
• UDYOGA SOPANAM
• PRATIYOGITA KIRAN

AMOUNT SPENT ON BOOKS AND PERIODICALS DURING THE PERIOD OF 2004-11
TOTAL AMOUNT:- 6,49,498

Year	Amount spent  on books                    (in Rs)	Amount spent on periodical (in Rs)	Grand Total (in Rs)
2003-04	1,01,140	15,771	1,16,911
2004-05	33,701	29,065	62,766
2005-06	23,071	11,866	34,937
2006-07	1,52,878	12,725	1,75,603
2007-08	1,56,660	13,007	1,69,667
2008-09	20,659	17,609	38,268
2009-10	4,60,911	15101	476012
2010-11	10084	27431	37,515

 

WORKING HOURS Of THE DEPARTMENT

• 9 AM. To 5 PM. On all working days

TIMETABLE FOR ISSUE AND RETURN OF BOOKS TO STUDENTS

DAYS	ISSUES	RETURNS
MONDAY	III BA, BCom., B.Sc, M.Com, M.Sc, MA	ALL STUDENTS
TUESDAY	II BA, B.Com& B.Sc	ALL STUDENTS
WEDNESDAY	I  BA, B.Com& B.Sc	ALL STUDENTS
THURSDAY	III  BA, B.Com, B.Sc & MA., M.Com., M.Sc. Students	ALL STUDENTS
FRIDAY	II  BA, B.Com& B.Sc	ALL STUDENTS
SATURDAY	I  BA, B.Com& B.Sc	ALL STUDENTS

 

• LIBRARY USERS STATISTICS

1	Average No. of faculty visiting the library/day (average for the last five years)	30
2	Average No. of  students visiting the library/day (average for the last five years )	700
3	Average No. of an issue & returns     to students & Faculty/day average for the last five years	300

 

SHELF LISTING

• Subject wise and Class wise separate shelf lists are prepared and maintained in order to facilitate easy identification and location of books on shelves

Cataloging

OPAC” On-Line Public Access Catalogue is made available to the users.  It is user – friendly and enables the user to search the bibliographic details with ease and speed.  It allows searching by Author Title, Subject, Call number, Keywords and Boolean search, besides in case of a power failure we are also maintaining card catalog cabinet for the benefit of the library.

LIBRARY SERVICES

• Information Service: The library is offering the information service to the users using the printed and electronic resources and equipment Access of E-Journals is also available to users through the U.G.C. INFLIBNET center.
• Internet facility: The library is offering Internet browsing facility for E-Learning and for referring free E-Journals to the users.
• Current awareness services: Latest information or published literature on the particular subject of the internet is provided for the library users. Latest issues of periodicals are kept for the reference purpose.  Costly and important articles from journals are downloaded through the internet and kept for the use of our readers.
• Reprographic Services: Copies of the books which cannot be lent out, articles from the periodicals and information downloaded from the internet are supplied to the needed users through Xerox copies.
• Reference services: Library is helping the users in finding simple facts like whether a particular book, CD/DVD, information is available or not in this library.

EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE

• There are sufficient Book stacks, Reading Tables, Chairs, Lights, Fans and Exhaust Fans in the book section as well as in the periodical section for comfortable sitting and Reading. Six computers are available with LAN connectivity for providing Library Automation services (with SOUL operation) and for Internet facility for E-learning to the Users

RECORDS MAINTAINED

1. Departmental Profile
2. Individual Profiles
3. Library Staff Attendance Registers
4. Students visitors Registers
5. Staff Visitors Registers
6. Library Advisory committee Resolutions Register
7. Central Accession Registers Volume – I – V
8. Book Bank Accession Register
9. Gift Books Accession Register
10. Subject wise Catalogue Registers
11. Subject Wise Shelf Lists of all subjects
12. Departmental Stock Registers
13. Periodicals Accession Register
14. Periodicals Issue & Returns Registers
15. Registers for Issue and Return of Books to Students
16. Registers for Issue and Return of books To Faculty
17. Reference service Registers
18. UGC. Bills Registers
19. Govt. Bills Registers
20. Book Bank Bills Registers
21. Special Fee Bills Registers
22. Furniture Registers
23. Dispatch Register
24. Consumable Articles Registers
25. Students defaulters Registers
26. Cost Recovered Books Register
27. Students No Dues issue Register
28. Book Binding Register
29. Career guidance Material
30. Register for the outgoing students who secured jobs

Plan of action of the department for the next five years

The department proposed to:

• Subscribe a number of e-journals.
• Establishment of the digital library.
• Trials for construction of separate library building.
• Introduce a certificate course in Library and Information science