The library aims to facilitate learning, teaching, research, training and consultancy activities at the Institute. The library resource center is fully automated and for this we have specialized user-friendly library software called Alice for Windows (AfW). The center has adopted latest information technologies like CD, DVD, Multimedia Kits, Bar-code Scanners, Text and Graphic Scanners. The user community has access to the entire collection through CD, DVD, Hard Disk, and Internet based access. The campus spread over 100 acres of land including hostel rooms is fully wired with more than 1200 desktop computers through the fibre optic network.
Services provided by Library
Reading Facilities, Reference, Photocopying, Circulation, Video Viewing, Computerized Information Search, Library Orientation Programme, Newspaper Clipping, Current Awareness Services, Inter-Library Loan DELNET, ADINET, New Arrival List, CAS and SDI services.
Resources
The library has an excellent digital library system in place with access to
5 world-class electronic databases, which include more than
781 e-journals like ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) online journals, ASME
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
journals, ACM (Association of Computing
Machinery) Digital Library and IEL (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library) journals,
33,452 books, 227 print periodicals and a user friendly automation system in place.
The library is an institutional member of
The British Library Ahmedabad, TATA Energy Research Institute [TERI], Institute of Engineers (Kolkata), Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET), DELNET, Institute for Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG), INDEST Membership, Indian Geotechnical Society.
Book Bank Services
The Library Resource Center provides book bank facility to the students of
Institute of Technology. The main purpose of this service is to help the needy
meritorious students.
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