Central Library

Traditional Information Resources

With more than One and half Lakhs volumes of books, about 110 printed current journals and periodicals and back volumes of numerous important journals, the library is reasonably good. Automation facilities,  Reprographic facilities, Reference Service, Digital Information Services are rendered to the attractive user community.

Category-wise collections are given below:

Electronic Information Resources available

• CD’/DVDs (Offline)- 150
• Digitized question papers and syllabi
• E-Journals/E-Resources
• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Annual Reviews
• Blackwell Publishing
• The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
• Cambridge University Press
• DELNET E-databases
• EBSCOHOST Business
• IEEE (IEL Online)
• ISID
• Institute of Physics Publishing
• JCCC: An E-Journal Gateway to Indian Universities and Colleges
• Oxford University Press
• Project Muse
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• SCIENCE-DIRECT (Elsevier Science)
• Springer Link
• Taylor & Francis
• UGC-INFONET Consortium

Human Resources

Library Hours

Actually digital library has no such physical existence. It must be accessed through the official website of the University of Kalyani via clients connected to the University LAN. Digital library is basically the portal of the University. At first phase users may use digital library through the terminals in CIRM. Later, after the procurement of external IP one can access through any computer connected to the University LAN. We are using GSDL software for digital library and other supporting software like Apache web server, Windows server 2003 OS, JRE for java. At the first step we incorporated following services:

1. Current Awareness Service

It contains scanned image of the title page of the journals and list of recently added books in the library.

2. E-Journals

Different E-journals through consortia are to be hyper-linked here. Users may access to the E-journals those which are subscribed through this link. Besides subscribed journals we have linked some free E-journals. Now we are subscribing:
ü E-journals access through the UGC-INFONET Consortia.
ü E-journals provided by SCIENCE-DIRECT

3. E-Books

It contains different subscribed e-books, e-books in CDs accompanying with the books, born digital purchased books and digitized books through scanning. We initially have just linked free e-books in the web.

4. E-Database

Electronic bibliographic database subscribed by the university. Now it includes DELNET E-database, E-databases provided by UGC-INFONET and some free e-databases.

5. Digital repository

The digital repository within the digital library is an asset for any institution. Digital repository is the collection of all intellectual works of our University capturing in digital format, managing for dissemination of and preserving of services. Actually it exits as a complementary of traditional scholarly communication. Effective repository is collaboration among librarians, computer professionals, archives and record managers, faculty and university administrators and policy makers.

            There are various advantages in setting up an digital repository in our university. Such as:

1. Institutions around the world will gain from a more efficient and most cost-effective system of scholarly communication.
2. Digital repository also enables to publicize its research and teaching programmes by enabling access to the works of university staffs and students.
3. Our digital repository will be an effective advertising way of our university by unfolding its qualitative academic outputs.
4. It is an effective way of storing and making the documents accessible to authorized users.

It contains different collections shown below:

• Syllabus of UG and PG courses of University of Kalyani
• Examination Question Papers of University of Kalyani
• E-Theses & Dissertations
• E-Articles
• Students’ projects
• Miscellaneous

6. Reference sites

It contains different linked sites, which are very much useful for reference purpose.

7. OPAC

It is Online public Access Catalogue of the holdings of Central Library of University of Kalyani.

Seminars, Exhibition, Fair, Symposia etc. (2007-2008)

1. Three day long Book-Fair on the occasion of World Book Day from 23-25th April’2008 at the University Campus organised by Central Library, University of Kalyani.
2. Seminar on the topic “ ” on 23rd April’2008 at Vidyasagar Sabhagriha, University of Kalyani organised by Directorate of Open Distance Learning and Central Library, University of Kalyani on the occassion of World Book Day.
3. Seminar and Film show held on March 21, 2007 on Sundarban Biodiversity & Tiger project" on the occassion of World Forest Day organized by Department of Environmental Science and Central Library, University of Kalyani.

Publications

Central Library

1. ‘Bibliography on 1857’ on the occasion of celebration 1857
Dr. Asitabha Das, Deputy Librarian

Sri Sibsankar Jana, Assistant Librarian

1. Medium of instruction in LIS education in India- Regional language or English? Analysis through system approach. SRELS J Inf Mgt. 43(3), 2006. Pp.307-318
2. Open source publications in the changing context of digital environment: some threats and protections. National Seminar on Electronic Publications, MGNIRSA, Hyderabad. 2006
3. Ergonomic considerations in information center design for knowledge workers: The basic and foremost requirement for effective knowledge management process. IADIS International Conference e-Society 2006, Lisbon, Portugal
4. Information seeking behavior of academic users in digital environment with special reference to Jadavpur University Center for Digital Library and Documentation. National Conference on Information Management in Digital Library, 2006. IIT, Kharagpur
5. Encoded Archival Description: A metadata standard for archival material and manuscripts in digital library system. National Conference on Information Management in Digital Library, 2006. IIT, Kharagpur
6. Threats and protections of open sources in the changing context of digital environment: Some issues and observations. National Conference on Initiatives in Library and Information Centers in the Digital Era, 2006. Coimbatore
7. Knowledge management in the perspective of library and information center; A system approach. VIII MANLIBNET Annual Convention, 2006. Nirma University, Ahmedabad
8. Virulent software: A threat to online information in cyberspace in the changing context of digital library environment. NACLIN 2006. JNU, New Delhi
9. Open source software: The prominent face of Open Source Initiatives in the digital environment with special reference to Library and Information Center. ILA Conference, 2006.
10. Changing role of online information services in the digital environment. 4th International Convention CALIBER 2006. Gulbarga
11. Information warfare and privacy with special reference to IPR in the open sources of information in the changing context of digital environment. International Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006. New Delhi
12. The core concept of metadata for digital information resources with special reference to Dublin Core. International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007). ISI, Bangalore
13. Cornell University digital library: A user friendly approach for modern online information services. EMPI Digital Library National Convention, 2007. New Delhi
14. Workplace design for knowledge workers in digital library. SRELS J Inf Mgt. 44(1), 2007. Pp.27-40
15. Concepts and Architecture of Digital Library With Special Reference to the Creation of Digital Library Through Institutional Repository by Using Dspace" Accepted for the publication in the book "Managing Information in New Millennium" edited by Ashok Kumar Sahu, Ess Ess Publication, 2007
16. Anatomy and Embedded Mechanism of Web Search Engine: A Birds Eye View. Accepted for the publication in the book "Managing Information in New Millennium" edited by Ashok Kumar Sahu, Ess Ess Publication, 2007
17. Cyberplague: A tool for offensive information warfare in digital environment with special reference to library system. Accepted for the publication in the “Librarian” 2008 issue.
18. Knowledge and it's management: the core concepts. Accepted for the publication in the “Librarian” 2008 issue.