Katwa College B.Ed. ; E - Library (Powered by KOHA) Link : https://kcbed-opac.libcarecloud.com

About the LIBRARY :

The B.Ed. Library is situated at the 2 nd floor of the B.Ed. building of the college with an area of 700sq.ft. equipped with text books, reference books, journals,magazines etc. properly arranged and decorated. Open access systems have been maintained in the library. Different services are regularly being rendered such as: circulation service,reading room service,reprographic service,internet service etc.Actually koha software has been used in B.Ed.Library from May,2023.Now,Library have fully automated. Users can access the library and /or its database through mobile/PC using WiFi freely within the library premises and also access the library database from anywhere in 24x7x365 basis. This library is highly used by the faculty members and B.Ed. students of the college.

Vision

To Provide a student centred learning environment that facilitates transference of information and to carter to the needs of its users to access it.

To augment and maintain collections in support of the academic pursuits of the college.

To provide well equipped and functional physical spaces where students can pursure learning independently beyond the classroom.

Mission

To develop representative collection.

To develop reading habits in students.

To support classroom teaching.

To inform the teachers about new editions of books and periodicals to the library.

To use modern tools techniques fo collection,storage and dissemination of information.

To access the user needs and accordingly provide necessary services.

Goals

To promote the reading habits in users.

Extensive use of reading materials.

Objectives

To provide every reader his /her books & information.

To see that every book has its reader.

To save the time of the reader.

Library is growing organization:a step towards development.

Library  At  A Glance

Sl.No.	Title	Details	Log in portal
1.	Floor area of the library	700 sq.ft.
2.	Total collection(print books)	5343
2.1	Text book	4842
2.2	Reference book	701
	Total Cost	Rs.1029253/-
	Total subscribed journals
3.1	Print journals	375(NCERT)
3.2	Online journals	DOAJ	https://doaj.org/
		e-PG Pathshala	https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
		Sage Open Journal	https://journals.sagepub.com/
		Jstor Open	https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
		Springer Open	https://www.springeropen.com/journals
		e-ShodhSindhu	https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
		Elsevier Open	https://www.elsevier.com
3.3	Online E-books	PDF Drive	https://www.pdfdrive.com
		DOAB	https://www.doabooks.org
		HathiTrust Digital Library	https://www.hathitrust.org
		Project Gutenberg	https://dev.gutenberg.org
		Bentham Open	https://benthamopen.com
		Z Library	https://z-lib.org/
		Oapen	https://library.oapen.org/
		Indian Manuscripts	http://indianmanuscripts.com/
4.	CD/DVD Roms
5.	Method of classification	DDC
6	Method of cataloguing	OPAC
7.	Library automated	Fully
8.	Library automation software	KOHA
9.	Seating capacity	10
10.	Library services available
	Books lending service
	Reference service
	Reprographic service
	Internet based service

Salient features of the library :

1. Total Numbers of books: 5543(as on June,2024)
2. Open access system- Students are allowed to choose their books from the shelves also search from the mentioned https://kcbed-opac.libcarecloud.com
3. College library is a member of UGC N-list consortium.
4. Library have fully automated

List of journals :

1. Bhartiya Adhunik Shiksha(quarterly).
2. Journal of Indian Education(quarterly).
3. Indian Educational Review(half-yearly).
4. Edutracks(monthly).
5. Indian journal of Teacher Education(yearly).
6. Teacher Support(yearly).

Library infrastructure facilities added up to June 2024

	Existing		Newly Added		Total
	No.	Value	No.	Value	No.	Value
Text Books	4720	736822	122	18072	4842	754894
Reference Books	701	274359	-	-	701	274359
E-Books
Journals	355	21477	20	1482	375	22959
e-journals
Digital Database
CD &  Video
Others(specify)