ABOUT US
A well-equipped library is considered the epitome of any academic institution. It is the storehouse of knowledge that nourishes the staff and students equally as per their requirements and needs. Ramsaday College Library was started in 1946 with the establishment of our college. Since our institution is situated on the embankments of river Damodar and the thought what the inundated area could cause to the library situated on the ground floor of the heritage building, the college governing body in 2005 shifted it to first floor of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray building. At present the library (covered space around 3500 sq. Ft. area) has one stack area, librarian's cabin and area for housekeeping operations. Library has a rich collection of 27000+ books, 2000+ volumes of journals and magazines. It has been modernized with 8 computers which are connected with high speed internet through LAN, 2 Printers, 1 Xerox, 2 Scanners, 1 barcode printer, 1 hand-held scanner, 1 digital notice board. Two CCTV cameras have been installed in reading room and stack areas for 24x7 surveillance of library activities. Apart from main reading room there is an air-conditioned annex room for reading purpose and a separate Research block for faculty members and research scholars.
The Central Library is automated with the latest version of Koha software which gets upgraded at regular intervals with latest versions. Some rare books of M.N. Roy Collection, faculty publications and previous year question papers are kept in the Institutional repository (IR) for internal uses. IR was developed by latest version of DSPACE software and is monitored periodically. We take pride in announcing that all upgradation work using available free softwares were done indigenously with no outsourcing whatsoever.
SERVICES
Library provides OPAC searches to the students to get better access to their required resources. The Central Library provides free access to e-resources of NDL developed by IIT Kharagpur and INFLIBNET-NLIST. Library also contributes to OAR database (WBCOLOR) developed by West Bengal college librarians and provide free access to the students and faculties. Users can enjoy facility of reading and downloading e-books and e-journals through 'NLIST' programme of INFLIBNET, WBCOLOR or any other OA databases. Periodic subscriptions are made from college fund to keep the facilities active.
Other services provided through library include information regarding new arrival of books, journals and magazines, notifications related to job vacancies or admission in higher studies, photocopying facility, Internet surfing from designated terminals or from personal gadgets using library Wi-Fi. Library facility is also open to the ex-students preparing for higher studies or competitive examinations. Users can enjoy virtual tour of different Indian tourist attractions and can have the pleasure of reading and downloading the e version story books as well as text books from the custom search engine which was indigenously developed and integrated to our library website. A Facebook page is also maintained by the library to alert users about introduction of new services or upcoming college events. Students are trained periodically about OPAC and e-resource searching techniques.
SPECIALITY
• To encourage our students to effectively make use of the library facilities 'Indrajit Bakshi Best Library User Award' is given to three students in every year.
• Our central library actively participates in different commemorative and cultural events of the college.
• Library looks after the publication process of the college journal "Budhil" and also provides ISBN to the departmental publications.
Seminar/Webinar Organized:
Library organized an international webinar "Living with the Pandemic: Managing Mind, Body & Lifestyle" on 04-07-2020.
Library Timings:
Monday to Friday (Except Holidays ): 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday: 10:30 AM - 3 PM
