About Us

Library is the nerve centre of an educational institution. It is the store house of knowledge in various branches in many disciplines and as such is the meeting point for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. Our library has played and has been playing a very important role in the all round development of our student and staff. The library is very much committed to inculcating in students the reading habit that contributes in no small measure to their general education development. The users of the library are the students of the institution and staff both teaching and non teaching.

History

 

The college library was established in 1965, when St George college Aruvithura started functioning. Library collection was increased at 1970 s by take charge of Miss V.R Chinnamma as a librarian. The Library was upgraded as first grade library and the post of a first grade Librarian and a iv grade librarian were sanctioned in 1978. The UGC grant, contribution from management and PTA etc., made the library well established. The library works generally 288 days per year and 8 hours per day. An average of 140 students and 22 staff visit the library every day. Mr. K.C.Joseph was completed 34 years service in library and retired as a first grade librarian .He added valuable contribution to library including automated library, Internet facilities, photocopying facilities and well arranged stacks.

Library Collection

33090 books 79 periodicals, 400 cds, and 8 newspapers are the documents are available here.

 

Reference Books  

 

We have different Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Yearbooks and books on general knowledge; we have two different editions of Encyclopedia Britannica. The world book encyclopedia and the 12 th century encyclopedia of Catholicism are the other two important encyclopedias. We have two separate of Viswavinjanakosam, manorama year book and different dictionaries.

We have added new section from Walk with Scholar Programme and Scholar Support Programme. This section contains about 400 books.

 

 

Library Advisory committee

 

The following are the members of the library advisory committee

Chairman - Dr.Siby Joseph

Members  Smt. Bitty Joseph ,  Mr. Joby Joseph( convener), Smt. Thejimol George  and Mr.. Josiah John

 

Library Staffs

Justin Joseph (Librarian )

Jolly Joseph

 

Library Services

 

Our college library serves its users in the following ways,

1.     Provides reading materials to the college community to suit their various needs and purposes.

2.     Makes material easily accessible physically through open shelves orientation etc.

3.     Give them easy access to library use and home use through reasonable loan period.

4.     Gives formal and informal instruction for the use of library

5.     Serves as a good reference services

6.     Provide internet access and Print out

7.     Provide Photocopying  facilities

 

 

Automated Library

 

Our library is fully computerized and the books are arranged on Dewey decimal classification System. It is automated with “Koha ” software  which is able to perform all the library operations. It also follows an open access system. For easy access of books easy search methods are provided. Separate bar coded membership cards are provided for all users. OPAC online public access catalogue is an important facility to provide by our library to the members for the easy access to the documents. Through this facility we can search for books by author, title, subject, accession member, class member, ISBN etc. “E-GATE” is used to mark the attendance of students and staff “Library Information KIOSK” is used to search books.

 

Computer terminals are also provided in the library for enabling the students to access virtual academic resources over the internet, in addition to the physical volumes of books and journals available in the library. Latest addition to the facilities offered by the college library is the subscription to the INFLIBNET N-LIST programme, which is a vast repository of thousands of online journals and e-books.

 

St.George’s College Digital Library

 

Our Library provides the following services

1.     E-journal

2.     E-books

3.     E-question paper(available through mail)

4.     On line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

5.     Power point Presentation

6.     Lecture notes

7.     Library blog

8.     Library orientation

9.     Photocopying   

10.   Printing                          

11.   Scanning

12.   Facilities for preparing Project and Assignment

13.  Carrier Orientation

14. Online search