GENERAL LIBRARY

    College library acts as a helping source of learning and provides adequate learning resources to the students. It opens doors to the wide world of books, reading ,knowledge and pleasure. Library of Sree Narayana College, Punalur has a long history of more than 50 Years in parallel with the history of the college which was established on 15 July 1965. The library consists of three rooms such as reading room, stack room and reference room. The total number of books in the library is 21,412 and number of journals is 22. Five newspapers are also available in the library. The reference books are around 3250. The timing is from 9.30 am to 4.30pm. The membership is restricted for students, teachers and non- teaching staff.

Objectives

• To Extend support to teaching, learning and research initiatives of the college
• To Provide access to digital source of information
• To Create a suitable learning environment inside the library for the optimum usage of library resources
• Offers Training for how to effectively preserve the library resources

The college library automation was completed in the year of 2013. Installed licensed software - LIBSOFT
*.Name of ILMS software: LIBSOFT
*. Nature of automation: Fully
*. Version: 4.
*Year of Automation: 2013

LIBSOFT
1. Integrated:- The same set of data is used to perform several functions. For instance, the same record as we enter at the time of acquisition of books, Journals and Membership details must be used for the other library housekeeping operations like Issue, Return, Renewal, Reservation, and Cataloguing and also for Information Retrieval process. However, depending on the functions the contents may vary as you like. In order to have data security and to provide access to the required files on a selective basis, LIBSOFT has been organized into two modules namely System Administrator Module and User Module. Each module has different password and restricts user access. LIBSOFT can accommodate more than 10 lakh of books & Journals.

NLIST
Our library provides, the NLIST, the Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", jointly executed by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.