Layout
On the First floor
- Entrance to the Library – entrance to the Library is restricted to students and faculty of the institute on producing an Identity card at the check counter
- Property counter – where the users deposit their belongings and are allowed only to carry a notebook, except if they have to return the books to the library.
- E-Library - which is equipped with 12 machines where in the students can log on using their internet accounts provided by the institute and surf the Internet, browse the e-journals, ebooks etc. download into their accounts and all this is made available without any extra charge.
- Multimedia storage– The library has a good collection of around 2500 multimedia documents (CD/DVD etc.) which are issued to the users for a period of 2 days.
- Circulation Counter – All the check-in and check-out of documents in the library happen in this section. There are 3 counters for the same.
- Technical processing room – for in house processing of the documents procured by the library.
- The stacks section: the stacks section is well organized according the major streams viz. CE/IT, EC, IC, ELECT, MECH, CIVIL, Maths, Physics/Chemistry etc. and in turn each of this collection is internally organized according to narrow subjects with stack guides to support easy navigation.
- The reading area – there is a seating capacity of 80 on the first floor itself.
- Newspaper section – The Library has subscribed to around 15 dailies, local and national; Gujarati and English.
- Librarians chamber is also on the first floor.
On the ground floor
- The Periodical section: all the print periodicals are on display and are organized according to the subjects.
- Reprography section: there is photocopying machine made available for reprography services for in house and for users too.
- Stack section – The stack section for PG courses viz. MCA and MBA and the reference section is organized on the ground floor again internally according classified according to narrow subjects.
- Periodical archives – the library archives the periodicals by binding them together into a bound volume and are available for reference purpose only
- Project section – the project reports of the students are available for reference purpose.
- Faculty reading room- the library also provides a separate reading area for the faculties and also a place where the students can discuss with the faculty for their queries
- Reading room
– The best part of the Library is a separate 24X7 reading room with a separate
entrance to it; where the students can carry their own books and study. During
the night hours the books are also issued for night reading; that is a student
can select a maximum of 5 books and keep them aside at the circulation counter
before the circulation counter closes for the day and later these books are
sent to the in-charge of the reading room to issue to the students on their ID
cards.
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