M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies

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M. S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies
C. R. Ramachandran Library

About the Library

The library was established in the year 1999, named after Shri. C.R.Ramachandran, the first principal of M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Since then it is growing in size and content to take present shape. It caters to the academic needs of postgraduate, training, project, research students, staff members, alumni and external guests etc..

Growth

The library has grown with about 300 books in the year 2000 to 8700 plus books and e-resources as on date. The collection is mainly in areas of Mechanical engineering, Electronics engineering and Management studies. All the books are of high quality books and are from leading publishers. In addition to the general services, library provides various value added services including OPAC, reservation facilities, inter-library loan, TOC of books through OPAC, video viewing, access to e-resources and photocopying.

Automation

In the Year 2003, library has implemented management system to automate all the activities of library. The systems features are like acquisition, cataloguing, transaction, documentation, statistics, search and OPAC. Readers can use the OPAC to check availability of titles and reserve the books if required.

Collection

The library has developed an excellent collection of books, e-books, e-journals in mechanical engineering, Electronics engineering and Management studies. It has a separate sections for reference books, stack area, bound volumes, students theses, compact disc and reading area.

Library is well equipped with modern facilities and resources in the form of Books, CDs, Audio and Video Cassettes, Product Catalogs, Bound Volumes, E-Journal, E-Books, Multimedia CDs, Theses, and document Scanning facility.

Objectives

> To support the educational and research programmes of the institute by providing substantial and intellectual access to information.
> To provide information service, which enables members of the organization to keep track of significant developments in the fields of interest.
> To acquire all possible documents, relevant to present and future needs of students and faculty members.
> To organize and process all documents, in the best possible way as to provide maximum ease to both students and faculty readers for its access and retrieval at all times.
> To disseminate all possible information both of demand as well as in anticipation, to those who need it.

Library Facilities

Library Collections

> Books - 8809
> Bound Volumes - 335
> Magazines /Journals - 19
> Audio Cassettes- 08
> Video Cassette - 10
> Compact Disk - 941
> Students Theses - 1627
> E-Journals [CU] - 4000
> E-Books - 2450
> DVD - 174
> Recorded Programmes - 74

Library Services

> Document Acquisition
> Document Circulation / Reservation of Books
> Reference Service
> Library Database [OPAC]
> Internet Browsing
> Digital Library

OPAC Facility

The search can be done through author, title, subject search etc Members can check number of books on their card and its due date. They can also check as which member the required title is issued.

User Awareness Programme for

Postgraduate students( Full Time / Part Time )
Corporate MSc Students
Advanced Certificate Training Programme
Library updates to all its members

Digital Library / [Library Category]

Digital library has a repository of various documents in electronic form for the use of the readers. Access is only in school premises. Digital library can be accessed using a browser with appropriate IP address.

Inter-Library Loan Facilities

We have association with various library for the use of their library facility, following are library:

British Council Library
IISC (Reference)

For further information contact:

Mrs. T. R. Sridevi, M.L.I.Sc, M.Phil. (LIS)
Librarian,
Mobile : 9449517483
e-mail: sridevi@msrsas.org

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