From the year 1880 to 1886, the library was situated in a hall on the ground floor of Bishop’s residence. The main building of the College was commissioned for use in 1885. The library was shifted to one of the halls of this building in 1886. Later a small building was constructed and the library was moved to this building at the beginning of the year 1900. This building came to be known as Red Building.

However, this building was also insufficient and another new building was constructed and was occupied in 1910. This new building was meant to house all the College classes, an examination hall, the College library and the physics and chemistry laboratories. An electricity generator was installed in the College in the year 1911 and lights and fans were provided in the College library in the year 1913.

At the end of the year 1940 the total collection of the library was 8564 books. The College had in its rolls 600 students in the year 1943. Changes took place in 1943-44 when B.Sc. and B.Com. degree courses were introduced in the College. With these changes the student strength had steadily increased and again a new massive 3 storied building was planned. It was half-complete when it was commissioned for use in 1948-49. By now the students strength of the College had reached the 1000 mark. And at the end of the year 1950, the library had in its stock a total collection of 14,469 books.

As the College was growing and hence the library, it was felt that the space was insufficient for the library in the old Science block building. The library was again shifted to the new college extension building, which was called arts block, in the year 1961. At this time the library had 20,904 books in its collection.

The centenary of the College was celebrated in the year 1980. To mark this occasion, a centenary memorial extension building was planned. The half completed college main building was further extended. An excellent 3 storyed extension building was constructed and opened in the year 1980. The library was shifted to this new building. The upper two floors of the building were meant for the library. At this time the collection of the library was 40453 books.

THE PRESENT

The post-centenary era starting from 1980 saw a number of changes and a steady all round growth of the College library. To keep pace with the changing environment in all fields a number of new subjects and altogether new courses of study were introduced in the College. Student’s strength of the College was increased and the College became co-educational in 1985, after being Men’s College for 105 years.

The new subjects like Computer Science, Electronics, Microbiology, Statistics, Physical Education, Psychology, Journalism, Communicative English, Optional English, Optional Kannada, Biochemistry, Bio-technology were introduced. New courses like B.B.M., B.C.A., B.S.W., and P.G. courses like P.G.D.B.M., P.G.D.C.A., M.C.A., M.S.W., M.Sc. have also been started. The College library had to respond accordingly to all these changes.

LIBRARY COLLECTION:

Book collection: books are foremost among the library reading material collection. In order to meet the academic and intellectual needs of both the students and the teachers, to whet their appetite for more knowledge, to satisfy their curiosity, to enable the students to have a full mastery of the subjects they are studying the library over the years made a good collection of books.

TYPES OF BOOKS:

1. Text-books: text books in multiple copies are available in the library
2. Books recommended for extra reading: books of a more advanced nature, primarily for the benefit of the teachers and for the students to appear for competitive exams.
3. Reference books: such as general encyclopedias, subject encyclopedias, language and other dictionaries, year-books, gazetteers, atlases etc.
4. The library has also a collection for browsing, consisting of light reading material – namely, fiction, travelogues, biographies, art books and the kind.

TECHNICAL PROCESSING OF BOOKS:

Classification: The College library uses Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme for classification of books.

Cataloguing: The library has a printed catalogue updated till 1969. For the books added after 1969, Classified Catalogue Code is used to prepare catalogue cards.

Use of computer software: LIBSOFT, a user friendly library software

LIBSOFT is a user friendly library software system. It can be used for cataloguing, issue/circulation and report generation. Search is possible under 4 categories: Subject, Author, Title and Keywords. Sometimes the title of the book does not reveal the subject matter or contents of the book. In such a case all the contents or some important keywords can be fed to the computer at the entry level. So search is possible through keywords.

DELNET: Development Library Network is a registered society, being promoted by the National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India , New Delhi. DELNET offers access to more than a million bibliographic records that are accessible through various union catalogues and databases.

LIBRARY SERVICES:
Working hours of the library: 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

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