Reading Halls: The College Library has two reading halls with a total seating capacity of 100. It also have a separate reading room with air-condition, computer and wi-fi facility with four study carrels specially for Faculty members.
Book Bank: The College Library houses a Book Bank, with a rich collection of around 1,300 books with yearly addition of around 50 books covering all the disciplines taught in the College. The books are procured in the Book Bank strictly keeping in view the demand of the students. It renders services to the students by providing them with the text books (Maximum 04) of their choice for the whole academic session. The students are required to apply for getting this facility as and when notified. To ensure transparency in distribution, books are issued on first come first serve basis. Students are required to return these books before the commencement of their examinations to get Clearance/No Dues from the library.
Property Counter: The Library offers the facility of property counter to its users. Users are required to deposit their Bags (excluding valuable items such as money, passport, credit/debit cards/mobile phones etc.) with the property counter attendant before entering into the library. But they are advised not to carry any valuable belongings / cash / jewellery etc. for which they themselves be responsible.
Special Facilities offered by the Library to the Divyangjan: There is a ramp at the entrance of the College Library for the purpose of facilitating the access of Divyangjan users in the library. Divyangjan users are not required to wait in the queue for issue/return of the books. The Library staff addresses the requirements of all such users on priority basis. The library has Wi-Fi enabled air-conditioned cabin, providing Angel, talking digital daisy pocket player, text to speech converter and braille books for the benefit of Divyangjan. Delhi University Braille Library Membership is also provided to the visually challenged students where they are provided with all their reading material both in Braille format as well as audio. The membership of Sugamya Pustakalaya is also provided to them where they are provided with all reading material for competitive examination both in Braille format as well as audio.
User Orientation and Awareness: All the newly enrolled students are made aware about the various facilities provided by the College Library every year during Induction/Orientation Programme organized on the very first day of the start of the new academic session. The students are also helped and trained in searching the books in the College Library by the library staff.
In-house / Remote Access to e-Resources: The users also access this facility through University of Delhi website on the computers installed in the College Library. Library is member of N-LIST programme of INFLIBNET to provide off site access to various e-journals and e-books etc.
Download: The users can also download documents and other information from the various databases and electronic journals provided to the College through DULS and N-List. as per their needs and requirements.
Plagiarism checking: College Library has initiated a service for Plagiarism checking of Research Papers from URKUND through University of Delhi.
Reference: College Library provides access to all reference collections including encyclopaedias, yearbooks, dictionaries, atlas, biographies, competition books and reports etc. All these reference books are for consultation only.
New Arrival Display Service: Books newly added to the library are displayed on the Revolving display stands before they are released for loan.
Newspaper & Magazines: Newspaper reading Huts and magazine stands are provided for the readers on each floor.
Dictionary: Dictionary display stands are provided at each floor.
Reservation of Book(s): Books in great demand and which generally remain under issue can be reserved by the user at the Main Counter as well as Reserve Section.
Current Awareness Service: The Library provides various important services like Current Awareness Services (CAS), Newspaper Clipping Service, Reference Services, information regarding examinations, results, syllabus, etc.
The College Library Committee: The College Library is administered by the Library Committee. The Librarian holds the position of Member Secretary while the teachers-in-charge of all the Departments of the College are the members of the Library Committee. The Staff Council of the College elects a Convener of the Library Committee. The tenure of Convener and teachers-in-charges are one year. Being a statuary body of the library, it gives its recommendations for the betterment of the Library and its services from time to time. The college Library acquires books and reading resources on the recommendations of the Teachers-in-charge of the various departments of the College. Some of the general and reference books needed by the library are purchased by the Librarian in consultation with the convener of the Library Committee.
COMPOSITION OF COLLEGE LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Librarian — Member Secretary
Convenor — Convenor (elected by Staff Council for one year)
Co-Convenor — Co-Convenor (elected by Staff Council for one year)
Members — A few Members (elected by Staff Council for one year)
Teacher-in-Charges — All Teacher-in-charges are the members of Library Committee
At the beginning of the new academic session, a tentative budget is allocated to the various departments.