The University Library named after ANANDA RANGAPILLAI was established in September 1986 and it serves the students, Research Scholars, Members of the Faculty and Non- Teaching Staff of the University. It functions on all the days of the week (i.e. 9:30 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. on week days and 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. on weekly holidays). Reprographic and photocopying facilities, E-Journals access service, Internet access service, E-mail service and CD-ROM Journals Databases access service are provided to the Students, Research scholars and Faculty. The University Library has a collection of 1,19,035 Books and 7,597 Bound Back- Volumes of Journals. The Library has 3250 Theses, 472 current print journals (Foreign Journals 279 and Indian Journals 190) and E-Journals in various subjects have been subscribed for the calendar year 2007 as on 31/03/2007. The Library has a centrally airconditioned Journals Reading Hall, Theses & Dissertation Halls & UN Depository Section.

Membership

The Library has a total number of 1162 members on its roll which includes the Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, officers and Non-Teaching staff of the University. A number of persons from other institutions are also using the Library resources for their Research/Study purpose/ entrepreneurial purpose.

Reference Services

A staff member of the University Library is always available in the reference Section to answer all enquiries about the Library stack, services and Reference queries. Information can be obtained by personal call to the Library, by telephone or by letter. The answers may be immediately obtained about the library collection materials or else the Librarian, Deputy/Assistant Librarians can suggest alternative sources. This service is generally available to Research Scholars & the Faculty members.

Inter-Library loan

The University Library arranges to get books and other information which are not available in the Library, on Inter-Library Loan, from other University Libraries on request from the members.

U.N. Deposit Library

The Library has been recognised by the United Nations Organisation as one of its Deposit Centres. Publications of the U.N.O are being received by the University Library and kept in separate air conditioned Hall for use by the members. Rs.8,922/- expenditure has been incurred for U.N.Document for the year 2006- 07.

Computer Application to Library Operations Services

The University Library has twenty-eight Computer Systems which includes one Unix Server, One Novell Server and One CD-ROM Server with 7 Drive CD Tower and 2 Nos. of CD-MIRROR Server for Modernising and Automating Library operations and services. The work on the creation of bibliographic database of books, theses, periodicals holdings and United Nations Documents holdings is almost complete. Barcoding of Library books, Theses, etc., have been completed. Complete automation of Library activities has been accomplished issuing Membership Identification Cards with the help of barcoding equipments. The University Library is being linked to National Network of Libraries viz. INFLIBNET Centre, an interminents centre of U.G.C, Ahmedabad.

Acquisition System

The Acquisition work of the Library has been Computerised. The status of the books, like books approved / ordered / received / invoiced / accessioned/ Catalogued etc., can be known at any moment. The recently added books to the Library collection are being hosted in the Pondicherry University website and the same is updated every week.

Serial Control system

The Journal Subscription work of the Library has been computerised. The Bibliographic details of Journals approved/ordered/invoiced/issues received from the Publishers & Suppliers are entered in the Computer and are available for Online Access and hence, the Students, Research Scholars and Faculty can know the availability of and the gaps in supply of any of the Journals, at any time.

Circulation System

The Circulation System of the Library has been computerised. The details of books on loan/ on stack are now available On-line. The status of the books like those under issue, under reservation, on shelf in the stack section, in the reference section, in the departmental collection, sent for binding, missing, etc., can be known from the Online circulation system. Students can reserve the books through the computer.

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

The University Library is having the following computerised bibliographic databases as on 22-03-2006.

Name of Database	Number of Records
Books	1,15,613
Serials Holding	3,250
Theses	3,007
U.N.Documents	1,246

These databases can be accessed by the users in what is called OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) by using the computer terminal kept in the Library separately for the purpose.

Print-Journals

472 Print Journals (279 Foreign Journals and 190 Indian Journals) have been subscribed for the year 2007.

E-Journals

The UGC Infonet consortium of INFLIBNET Centre have subscribed E-Journals and have provided IP based access to E-Journals. In addition to these E-Journals, the University has subscribed to current E-Journals in various subject areas.

Online Journals

The Print medium journals subscribed by the University Library are found to be inadequate to meet the information needs of the Researchers, Students and Faculty members of the University. Since, the University Library operations and services have been computerised and Internet access facility has also been provided to the Library users and the various Schools/Departments/ Centres have been networked by Campuswide Intranet, On-line journals are subscribed to supplement the print journals, to help the academic development of the University to a large extent. The UGC INFONET E-Journals Consortium have also made access to a large number of E-Journal available to the University Academic Community.

UGC Infonet Consortium E-Journals

Pondicherry University Library has been provided online access to the E-Journals subscribed under UGC INFONET PROGRAMME by the INFLIBNET Centre of UGC.

ELSEVIER SCIENCEDIRECT E-Journals (Online)

ScienceDirect-A database of journals published by ELSEVIER is available online.

EBSCO Publishing Journals (Online)

EBSCO Publishing Ltd an Online publishing company of U.S.A. provides access to the electronic journal databases viz. Business Source Elite and Academic Search Elite. The Business Source Elite is an aggregate collection of 1122 Business and Economics Full Text journals and the Academic Search Elite is supporting core curriculum, degree requirements and elective classes covering most academic areas of study such as Social Sciences, Humanities, Communications, Computer Science, Medical Sciences etc.The annual subscription cost paid for the online journal databases of EBSCO publishing is Rs.7.59 Lakhs (US $ 16500)(Non-Plan A/c 2006-07).

Annual Reviews Archives

Annual Reviews (Electronic Back Volumes) Archives Online coverage from 1993 onwards: Perpetual access will be available.

CD-ROM Journals Database Service

The University Library is having CDROM Network server with 7 CD-ROM drives which is used for browsing the abstracts and bibliographical information about the articles. To view the full text, 4 Nos. of stand-alone PCs with 24X CD-ROM drive are used. Laser print-out facilities for retrieved full text articles and dot matrix print facility for print-out of abstracts from CDROM data bases are available for the users.

Article Indexing

The Library has been preparing Computerised database of indices of articles contained in the Indian Journals (in Social Sciences) subscribed by the Library. The users can retrieve the relevant bibliographic details of the articles of their area of specialisation/interest.

Programmes Conducted by the Library

Training Programmes conducted

One-day Practical hands on Trainings on Computer Application to Library Operations and Services to the School Librarian working in Government of Pondicherry Schools were conducted on 11-05-2005 and 12-01-2006. IRTPLA Training Programmer for College Librarians in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry was conducted by the Librarian from 26/02/ 2002 to 01/03/2002.

UGC-ASC Refresher Course Conducted

UGC-Academic Staff College Refresher Courses in Library and Information Science for the Lecturers, College Librarians and University Assistant Librarians were conducted during 21/12/2002 to 10/01/ 2002, 10/11/2005 to 30/11/2005 and 09/ 11/2006 to 29/11/2006.

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