The Lending section is located in the ground floor of New Library Extension Building. All books are stacked in the ground floor. The Technical books are made available for home reading to the staff and regular students of the Institute from this section. About one-lakh books can be stacked in this section and seating arrangement nearly 50-60 students has been made. At a time two books will be issued to each student against his or her Library Tickets during the week days by filling up in the prescribed borrower's slip and presenting it to the library staff in the circulation counter and on the production of identity card.
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The reference sources like encyclopedias, hand books, dictionaries and general reference tools are kept for reference along with the main stack in the ground floor of the new library extension building.
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The Periodicals Section is located in the two Mezzanine floors of the ground floor of New Library Extension Building. It provides seating arrangement for about 50 students at a time. The Institute Library subscribes for 383 journals (both Indian and Foreign). Latest issues of each of periodicals are displayed on the display rack. The loose issues of periodicals and bound volumes are issued to, students and staff for reference only but not for home reading.
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In order to enable students to study inside the Library, a Text Book Section is separately maintained and is located on the first floor of the New Library building. Arrangement for about 700 students has been made including the 2nd floor of New Library Extension Building and 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor of the old building. This section maintains important and prescribed textbooks in multiple copies useful for day-to-day class work for reference. The books from this section are not lent out. The Indian Standards are also maintained in this section for reference purpose.
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As an aid to learning, the Library has Educational Video-films on the topics related to Engineering and Technology with required equipments for the Library user. Information Center In order to provide the users, information about the available library Resources quickly the library has the database developed using CDS/ISIS software. The library has the plan to computerize other library activities also. This center has 'COMPENDEX PLUS'CD ROM (Compact disc read only memory) Data Base which covers nearly 4500 journals, reports, conference proceedings etc. published all over the world related to Science, Engineering and Technology. This gives full bibliographic information along with the abstract of the source indexed in the disc. It covers 40 disciplines in Engineering and Technology.
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Two photocopying machines are installed in the photocopying section at the right side of the ground floor of the Library. Both the staff and students can make use of the photocopying facility against payment.
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The Library has in addition, five Book-Banks as follows:
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| 1 | Students Aid Society | 1508 | 20,455.00 |
| 2 | Institute of Engineers | 35 | 820.00 |
| 3 | British Council | 320 | Gifted |
| 4 | U. G. C. | 1050 | 28,070.00 |
| 5 | College Book Bank | 4226 | 3,63,925.28 |
The above Book-Banks consist of mainly textbooks on different subjects relating to Engineering and Technology.
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The Library provides the following:
- Lending Service
- Reference Service
- Current Awareness Service
- Bibliographic Service
- Photocopying Service
- Text Book Service
- Audio/Visual Service
- Indexing Service
- CD-ROM Service
The library subscribes to 13 leading newspapers published in India to have current knowledge of regional and national events. In addition to this library publishes a quarterly library publication "New Additions to MIT Central Library". This gives the information about the new books, journals and video films purchased by different departments and subject-wise addition of books. This also provides a subject index for fast and easy location of the required information.
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