About Library
The state-of-the-art College library is enriched with carefully built collection of books. Library subscribes to various international and national periodicals (Journals & magazines) and newspapers. Library’s collection includes books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, CDs, DVDs, e-journals, e-books, and databases. It contains numerous books pertaining to the course curriculum as well as general interest areas. The furnishings of the library also cater to promoting academic knowledge which inculcates in the students and faculty the desire to learn more. It conducts User Orientation Programmes from time to time to make familiar its new entrants with library services and facilities to improve the usage of library collections. Students can borrow books to carry home or for browsing within the library. The functions of library are automated with integrated ERP software named TCSiON. Web-OPAC: Web Online Public Access Catalogue facility for searching documents available in the library.
The library consists of sections namely Circulation Counter, Stack Area, Reference Section, Reading Hall, Newspaper Section, Periodical Section, Centralised Research Facility cum Digital library for students, Pt. Mohan Lal Digitization Centre and Centralised Research Facility cum Digital library has computers for staff for accessing e-books, e-journals, e-resources, e-contents, CMIE ProwessIQ Database. 2 Pentium dual core computers with JAWS Screen Reading Software reserved for Persons with Disabilities.
Special reading carrels of the college library on the first floor provides a reader their own private milieu where they can delve deep into the domain of learning without any hindrance and distraction from other readers. These carrels are so artistically and aesthetically done that they spur a reader to pull down a book to sit down to read.
Pt. Mohan Lal Digitization Centre of the library embraces new technologies to digitize special collections to support and enrich the educational, cultural and economic endeavors of the college and communities beyond. In this section, a special collection of handwritten diaries, documents, books, photographs related to our college founder Pt. Mohan Lal Ji are kept digitized form. Library also publishes an annual book of News Clippings of news related to college that appears in daily newspapers.
GGDSD College Library Readers' Club of the library holds different activities throughout the year to promote the habit of quality reading among students.
Information Services like Plagiarism Checking, OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) search, Reprographic Service, ILL (Inter Library Loan), Internet Surfing, Current Content Alert, SMS Alert Services, Previous Year Question Papers Alert, Employment News and New Arrival Books are provided to the users of the library.
The subscribed resources, software and database include the subscription of EBSCO ebook academic collection, McGraw Hill ebooks collection for Computer Science books, CMIE ProwessIQ database, and Urkund anti plagiarism software. College Library has institutional membership of INFLIBNET N-LIST and National Digital Library of India (NDLI). The online resources subscribed to by the Library are accessible to staff and students (using passwords) from anytime, anywhere. Students can give feedback through Online Feedback Form. Users can also register for e-resources through online e-resources form. Library offers plagiarism checking services using Urkund software to its faculty and research scholars.
