KNOW YOUR LIBRARY
Father of Library Science :
Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science (1931) :
- Books are for use
- Every reader his/her book
- Every book its reader
- Save the time of the reader
- The library is a growing organism
Our Motto :
Uninterrupted Service :
Jogamaya Devi College sincerely witnesses 90 years legacy of
learning and profound collection of archival heritage enriched Library to
support students and academicians. This institution proud of serving the
illustrious women in pursuing their glorious path. This is one of the renowned
girls’ colleges in Kolkata as well as in West Bengal with around 3500 students.
All students and teachers are always cordially invited to use library to
encourage reading and learning and to support academic growth of organization.
The College has one Central Library and 19 Seminar Libraries for respective
departments.
Central Library :
The Central library operates and
serves from the ground floor of the Academic Building of Jogamaya Devi
College housed at 92, S. P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata - 700026
Library hours for users from morning 6.30 AM to 11.30 AM on
Monday to Friday and till 10AM on Saturdays. It has a great collection of more than 28000 text and
reference books and subscribed few important journals, newspapers and magazines
to meet patrons requests. Central Library offers a adequately spacious and
well-lighted reading room facility for library users. Nearly about 80 students
may use reading room at a time.
Library has a good quality archival collection of Sanskrit,
English and Bengali literature, Philosophy, Mathematics, History and so on as
reference collection.
Central library serves as a core library for General and
Honours course students for circulation of books. Membership cards are issued
from here for students. It offers stock verification process for all
departmental seminar libraries. There are various facilities offered by
Central Library. Our resources are classified under DDC 23 rules, and
cataloguing and other library management facilities are maintained by Library Management software SOUL 3.0 version; provided by INFLIBNET.
Open access facility, Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) search facility
available for users. Institutional membership of British Council and American
Library; Kolkata for our users. Online database N-LIST can be accessed by
college students and staffs through college library. There are computers
provided with internet connection for students and faculty in Central
library.
Core and value added services offered for all users as per
to meet their academic reference reading.
Central Library is renovated and developed with CSR grant
under P. C. Chandra Gyandhara Project and developed an extension in library
with very useful knowledge building collection. A huge collection of resources
built under RUSA fund and library renovations has been done with help of the
same.
Core Services offered
by Central library :
- Open Access Library
- Circulation of Text and Reference Books
- Internet Searching Facility
- Wi-fi Facility
- Reading Room Facility
- Book Borrowing Services : 15days
- OPAC
- Reference Services : Online
and Offline
- N-LIST Reference Resources : (An initiative of MHRD and INFLIBNET) Access Scholarly E-Resources@N-LIST
: Subscribed e-Journals and e-Books
- Library Orientation : Monday
to Friday; Time : 09am to 10am
- Ask a Librarian (Email : libraryhelp.jogamaya@gmail.com)
- Reputed Journals
- Daily Newspapers
Value Added Services :
- Career Guiding : Books and Magazines and Employment
Newspapers
- E-Requisition Facility : How to avail E-Requisition facility: To avail E-Requisition facility, one needs to
check OPAC section of our college Library website. Send requirements
to either of the mentioned email. Email : libraryhelp.jogamaya@gmail.com
- Collaborations : JDC-SANJOG - A collaborative platform launched by Jogamaya Devi
College for resource sharing with other academic institutions, and asking for humble collaboration with other institutions for better enriched learning environment .Kindly mail us for professional collaboration. Email: principal.jdc26@gmail.com
- Online E-Book Delivery Services (Email/Whatsapp) : libraryhelp.jogamaya@gmail.com
- Online Book Club for
students (To know more meet the Librarian)
- Programmes : Library organizes Webinars on Library resources and various topics related to library, Organizes Book Donation Drive; and so on
- Library Tour (Library visit with our students in groups, they attend Orientation Program there)
- Special Reference Services for Ex-students : We offered Free of Cost Reference Reading
facility for our all passed out students
- Archival Collection : We have a good quality of Archival Collection of Books
for research reference. This section is dedicated to Lady Jogamaya
Devi.
- Special Collaboration with other Institutions : We are helping researchers from other higher education
institutions with our library Archival collection in their research work.
- Institutional Membership : American Library Kolkata and British Council Library Kolkata
- JDC is Club Member of National Digital Library of India (NDL)
- Seminar Libraries : The College has one Central Library and Seminar
Libraries for respective departments.
Seminar
Library :
There are separate seminar libraries
in every department for the use of the Honours students & teachers. The
departments of Bengali, English, Communicative English, Philosophy, Sanskrit,
Political science, History, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and
Commerce all have rich collection of Seminar Library. Seminar libraries operates from
both Academic and Administrative building of the college.
Seminar libraries are supervised by the Central library. The
collection is developed as per demand and requirement of teachers and
students. After acquisition of new books, central library processes the newly
acquired books for accessioning, cataloguing, classification and preparation of
subject bibliography, after entering the barcodes. Then, the newly purchased
and processed books are sent to the respective departments. Seminar collection
registers for all seminar libraries are maintained by Central library and the
respective department representatives of seminar library maintain their own
register after handover of books. Seminar library stock verification process
done by Central library.
Moreover, library staffs regularly take care of library
resources by maintaining and operating circulation, helping patrons to find and
search catalogue, helping to resolve their queries, and sincerely communicating
with students as well as faculties to serve them better and to grow together.