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| VANKATRAM LEARNING CENTRE |
| Central Library |
Library is the treasure house opened for academicians, students and Industrial members. The library was started with an initial stock of 4000 books in 1998 and now has more than 45,251 volumes of books on a variety of subjects. Utmost care is taken in developing resources for each department. Our Library Subscribes to more than 774 International and National Periodicals in print and digital mode and has a good collection of Latest CDs & Floppies on various fields. Most of the Library functions such as issue, return, reservation and searching books have been automated |
| Vision and Mission |
| Vision |
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To cater to the needs of all the users through scholarly resources available in print, digital and visual media, thereby to support the teaching, learning and research process
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To disseminate the resources among the stakeholders for effective usage through implementing the innovation of Information Technology
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To market the library infrastructure and resources among academic and societal users to reach the status of best brand of the parent institution
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| Mission |
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To identify the best resources in co-operation with faculty and students.
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To procure the resources through authorized suppliers and publishers.
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To disseminate the scholarly resources among the users through automation and open source software packages.
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To provide access to the informal information through digital library centre.
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To conduct periodical information literacy and technology programs to faculty and students.
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To plan periodical outreach programs.
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To provide consultancy services.
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| Facilities |
| Services |
- Lending Service
- Reference Service
- Service for Career & Placement aids
- Higher Education Service
- Current awareness service
- Industrial information service
- E-Journal [Full-text] Access
- E-Books Access
- Internet Service
- Information Retrieval/Internet print out
- Teaching aids (For preparation of Visual Material for Classroom Teaching)
- Information Desk - Any Information any time
- Upcoming Conference Alert Service
- Reprography Service
- Referral Service
- SDI Service
- Inter library loan service
- User Orientations
- Media Center
- Studio
- News Paper Clippings
- Video Conferencing
- Scanning Service
- Article Alert Service
- Higher Education Channels
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| Infrastructure Facilities |
- Audio/visual Theatres
- Studio Room
- Wi-Fi Enabled Discussion rooms
- Centralized Air Conditioning
- Digital Library
- Multimedia Library
- Language Lab
- Fully automated Library services
- Higher Education Centre
- Multimedia Library
- Research Scholar Room
- An in house cafeteria
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| Resource Collection |
| Books : Titles : 28713, Volumes : 45251 |
| Periodicals : 774 journals / magazines including Print and Digital mode |
| Digital Resources : 8339 CDs/DVDs/VCDs/Floppy Disks/Video Lectures |
| Back Volumes : 3997 |
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| Highlights |
- Covered area 55000 sq ft fully air conditioned space in three levels built on international standards
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- Digital Library with internet facility
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- Multimedia Library with studio room and audio visual theaters
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- Communication lab for language learning
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- Separate sections for Text and Reference books; Periodicals and journals; Digital and Multimedia Library
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- The Central Library is supported by academically and technically qualified Library Staff
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- We also have individual departmental libraries holding a stock of 13,783 books
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| Digital Library |
The Digital Library facilitates access to Electronic Information and library services to ensure that the information needs of our students, faculty, and staff are met. The digital library collection can be accessed through intranet site http://165.165.80.80/lib |
| Digital Resources |
The collection comprises more than 5,876 CD-ROMs and 2006 VCD/DVDs, as well as audiotapes, video cassettes, and floppy discs. Subjects range from Computer Science, Electronics and Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering, Mathematics, Science and humanities to coverage of public lectures, Convocation and other college events. Special attention is paid to the collections on higher education abroad, placement resources, resources for preparation to competitive examinations. |
The quickest way to locate videos or CDs in the Library is to search the library Catalog [OPAC]. Do a keyword search by "Material type". Enter a portion of the title, or other keyword information and the Material Type (Videos, CD-ROMs/DVDs, Floppies, Audio) to find the required resource. You can also search by subject for a particular department. The Center has many multimedia systems for viewing digital videos or other formats. The Center provides equipment and expertise for producing digital videos for classroom and extracurricular projects. This includes CD and DVD creation. Our team of library assistants provide assistance to students, faculty, and staff by attending to their needs |
| Internet Access |
1 Mbps Broad Band Internet connections are provided for enhancing the classroom study and for access to the electronic resources. There are more than 70 computer systems available in the digital section to access Internet. Internet will be available to the students and faculty from 8.00 AM to 9.00 PM. |
| E-books & e-journals |
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Our library subscribes more than 205 Online Journals, 612 E-Books and has access to over journal, magazine and newspaper articles from international societies. E-Books and E-Journals support the learning and research needs of our students and faculty. In addition, a unique collection of useful standalone online journals and e-books free on the internet are made available to the users in our campus |
| Higher Education Centre |
It provides variety of resources for preparing higher studies for going abroad. It provides multimedia facilities to the patron on various subjects. In this section, there are five multimedia systems are provided with individual headphone |
| Satellite Channel |
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Dish antenna has been tuned to receive the educational channels such as Eklavya channel and Technology channel. There are two AV theatres for viewing educational channels. 50 students can view the channel program in the library media centre at the same. Programme schedules are updated in our library intranet
(http://165.165.80.80/SKCET_library/LibrarySatellite.htm) |
| OPAC / Web OPAC |
The quickest way to locate Resources of Books, Periodicals and CDs in the Library is to search the library Catalog (OPAC). It also provided with department wise search facility at intranet address http://165.165.79.79 |
Membership |
| The Central Library is member in the following learned Associations and Institutes |
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA
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- Association for Computing Machinery, USA
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- American Society for Heat, Refrigeration and Air conditioning Engineers, USA
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- International Solar Energy Society, Germany
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- Society for Environmental Engineers, UK
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- Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineers, Australia
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- National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, India
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- Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, India
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- British Council Library, India
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- American Information Resource Centre, India
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- Indian Library Association (ILA), India
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- Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, India
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The Central Library provides membership to industries |
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- Cameron Manufacturing Private Limited, Coimbatore is the industrial member of the Library
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| Best Library User Awards |
The Central Library offers “BEST LIBRARY USER AWARDS” for Faculty and Students in order to motivate the users and to increase the Library usage |
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RECIPIENTS FACULTY |
STUDENTS |
| 2009-2010 |
Mr. S. Krishna Anand, Assistant Professor, Dept. of IT |
Mr. E. Prakash III MCA |
| 2010-2011 |
Mr. S. Krishna Anand, Assistant Professor, Dept. of IT |
Mr. K. Karthick,IV MSc Ms.S. Gayathri,II BE CSE |
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| Librarian |
A. Fazlur Rahman has joined the Institution as Librarian in the month of July 2009. He is M.LISc., M.Phil and doing his PhD. His area of research is “Information Seeking Behaviour of Students”. He has 14 years of experience in the area of Library Information Science especially in Academic and Special Library Systems.
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He is the receipent of "AutoLib - Tamil Nadu Best Young Librarian Award" for the year 2009 |
| He was working with renowned institutions and organizations like PSG College of Technology, and Coimbatore Stock Exchange Ltd., |
To his credit, he has been guiding M.Phil Scholars of Annamalai University. He has attended a lot of International / National level Conferences / Seminars / workshops etc., and presented papers |
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He is a member in ALA (USA), SLA (USA), SALIS and ISTE. His area of interest is Computerization / Digital / Multimedia Library Concepts, Knowledge Management and User Behaviour |
He is instrumental in the development and implementation of Library Softwares and technologies like Barcode, RFID and Web based User Education Programme |
| Contact Us |
| Contact us at librarian@skcet.ac.in and librarian@skcet.net |
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