Library Accomodation :                    

(i)  Area of the library                                 :: 3688 sq.ft.
(ii) Area of the staff room                           :: 13.5 ft.x 11 ft.
(iii) Reading Space (teachers)                     :: 50ft.x 14ft.
(iv) Reading Space (students)                     :: 948 sq.ft.
(v) Stock space (books/journal/magazine)  :: 63x28sq.ft.

Library Assets :

1) Xerox Machine                       : 1 no.
2) Computer                                : 9 nos.
3) Shelves & Almirah                 : 43 nos.
4) Chairs                                     : 49+28+13
5) Table                                      : 25 nos.
6) Catalogue cabinet                  : 2 nos.
7) News paper reading table      : 4 nos.
8) Charging trays                       : 2 nos.
9) Journal/Magazine display shelves  : 4 nos.
10) Display Board                                 : 2 nos.
11) Computer table                              : 5 nos.

 * Staff Position :The staff position of the library are as follows :

1. Librarian – 1
2. Library Assistant -1
3. Library bearer -2

*The present Library Staff are :
Librarian                  :  Mrs. Mondira Chutia.
Librarian Assistant  :  Mrs. Malarani Buragohain.
Library Attendant    :  Mr. Mridul Saikia & Miss Santana Buragohain.  
Management of the Organization :

The whole management system has been governed by an honourable Advisory Committee and the Principal. The Librarian is to be abide by their instructions.The acquisition policies and budget are approved in the meetings of this committee.
The present advisory committee are :

1) Chairman           : Dr. A.K.Gogoi, Principal
2) Vice Chairman  : Mr. T.Sonowal, Vice Principal
3) Secretary           : Mrs. Mondira Chutia, Librarian
4) Members           : Dr. Dip Saikia, Deptt. of Physics.
Dr. P.J.Borthakur, Deptt of Maths.
Mr. Dhruba Hazarika, Deptt of Sociology.
Mr. Parag Saikia, Deptt. of Commerce.
Mr. Monoj Kr. Deka, Deptt. of Computer Science
Miss. Shyamali Singha, Deptt. of  Computer Science

Finance : The source of finance of the Duliajan college library comes from parent body, State Govt. and U.G.C.Grant. All financial activities are conducted by the principal cum secretary of the college.

The Acquisition policies and Budget :
The college has Library Advisory Committee.The acquisition policies and budget are approved in the meetings of this committee.

1. Book and Journal selection is done
2. On the recommendations of Library Advisory Committee members
3. On the recommendations of Head of the Departments and other faculties
4. Recommendations from the students are also considered
5. Book selection tools used are Publishers’ Catalogues, Book Reviews in journals and newspaper and Internet Bookshops for tracing current Indian and Foreign Publications.
6. To strengthen the acquisition policy, every year “ Book Exhibitions” in and Book Fair Collaboration with reputed publishers and booksellers are organized.

 

Sl. No.	Year	Duration	Details of the Exhibition
1. 2. 3. 4.	2008 - 09 2009 - 10 2010 – 11 2010 – 11	12/8/2008 to 15/08/2008 24/08/2009 to 26/08/2009 12/08/2010 to 14/08/2010 23/09/2010 to 25/09/2010	Patowary Book Forum , Duliajan  Satirtha, Guwahati Satirtha, Guwahati Kaustobh Publishers , Dibrugarh

 

Library Services :
The services that the library provides are :
1) OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) service
2) Reference and Referral services
3) Book Bank Schemes / Deposit schemes
4) Exciting “News Corner” which is updated daily
5) Newspaper service ( 7 newspapers along with Employment News )
6) Newspaper clipping services
7) Internet Service (Broad Band)
8) Photocopy services
9) Current Awareness Service
10) Information Literacy Programmes
11) Reading room facilities
12) Display of new arrivals
The library remains open at 9 am to 4 pm. Two non-transferable library cards are issued to each students and four lib. Cards are issued to each teachers for home lending of books. Nos. of books issued per students / teachers per card are given below :
H.S.                        – 1 (ONE) book
Degree (General)   - 2 (two) book
Degree (Major)     - 4(four) books.
Teachers               - 8 (eight) books.
Both teachers and students can borrow a book for the period of time 15 days.Daily 200 nos.of visitors visit the library and the average nos of books circulated are 250 approx.
-Library adopts Close access system for H.S.students and Open access system for Graduate students and staff members.
- The learning resources are systematically arranged in various sections like Book Stacks,Periodicals section and Reference section.
-The books are arranged subject-wise.
-Efficient and up-to-date OPAC helps in retrieving relevant books.
-Current Awareness services,New Arrival Corner,Library Orientation and Information Literacy Programmes help in maximizing the use of the learning resources.

Present availability of books are  :

Sl.Nos	Name of the Head	Nos. of Books
	UGC Grant	4930
	State Govt.Grant	1106
	Purchased	8986
	Donated	518
	Total	15540

 

The books are subject wise :

Sl.Nos.	Subjects	Nos. of Books
1	Assamese	2869
2	English	1869
3	Education	888
4	History	853
5	Bengali	529
6	Economics	981
7	Mathematics	774
8	Political science	974
9	Sociology	940
10	Physics/Electronics	924
11	Chemistry	922
12	Botany	396
13	Zoology	286
14	Hindi	127
15	Computer Science	173
16	Commerce	952
17	Environmental Studies	52
18	Functional English	26
19	Cosmetology	05
20	Reference Books	1000
	Total Number of Books	15540

NEWS PAPERS :

1.Amar Asom

2.The Dainik Janambhumi

3.The Assam Tribune

4.Purvanchal Prahari

5.The Hind 

6.The Telegraph

7.Anandabazar Pratrika

8.Employment News

Year wise statement of  Books and Journals purchased

 

Sl. No.	Year	Amount spent on Books in Rs.	Amount spent on journals in Rs.
		Books	Journals		Magazines	News paper
1	2005	45,894.00	2,380.00	2230.00		7,992.00
2	2006	1,57,404.00	6,390.00	2142.00		8400.00
3	2007	1,40,676.00	13,537.00	2182.00		8423.00
4	2008	4,06,356.00	18,200.00	2416.00		9051.00
5	2009	75,295.00	16,900.00	2865.00		9,850.00

 

1. The library has a collection of 63 educational CDs.
2. The library has licensed software for Library automation “SOUL”Inflibnet,Ahmedabad.
3. Bibliographic database of the Books is ready
4. Purchase orders and Reminder letters are generated through computers
5. Online Public Acces Catalogue(OPAC)
6. Circulation is automated

List the infrastructural development of the library over the last two years

Sl.No.	Year	Infrastructure added
1	2008-09	One Computer with LAN connection One UPS One scanner One Deskjet printer One journal rack One CD Almirah 13 reading Table One computer table One Revolving display rack One charging tray 156 book supporter 5 large book rack 40 Chairs
2	2009-10	One 3-in 1 machine(Laser,Copier and Scanner) Xerox model 05 Computers with Internet connection One Broadband Internet connections

Learning Resources :
1. Working hours of the Library
a) On working days                                                                          8.00 hrs.
b) On holidays                                                                                     --
c) On examination days                                                                   8.00 hrs.
2. Average number of faculty visiting the library / day                      45
(Average for last two years)
3. Number of journals subscribed to the institution                            27 nos.
4. Does the library have the open access system ?                              Yes          
5. Total collection of (Number)                                                          15,540 nos.

  a) Books    

Titles      Volumes
9698	15540

                                                                                       

 b) Text books    

8648

14540