Prashant Kumar Memorial Library
Our Library is the students place to study, learn, and collaborate. We are here to help students develop critical thinking skills and to become lifelong learners.
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Lingayas Lalita Devi Institute of Management & Sciences established the Library in the year 2005 in the memory of Renowned Journalist Prashant Kumar. Henceforth it is called Prashant Kumar Memorial Library. The motto of the Library is to turn it into a main source of knowledge, and make it an integral and important part of our institute for learning. The facility features an outstanding well-equipped learning space with central air conditioning, an expanding collection, and a large selection of textbooks on various subject themes. The Institute’s Library has a covered space of more than 2000 square feet and is the center of academic activity on campus. With 7816 Titles and 29,188 Volumes of Reference and Textbooks, and a strong fiction collection, the Institute’s iconographic power provides organized knowledge and readily accessible information. In addition, the Library comprises 215 CDs, 14 newspapers, 307 hardbound back volumes of journals, and 25 dissertations. Additionally, it offers subscribers to over 103 National and International periodicals and publications.
Prashant Kumar Memorial Library has a membership of the British Council Library, the American Library, and the National Digital Library of India for Library Users. Our Library offers DELNET services so that patrons may access online journals. In addition to DELNET, the Library includes links to Sage and Indian Journals.com online subscribed journals and several open-access databases, journals, magazines, and newspapers for readers. The Library features an open-access system that allows direct access to its materials.
ERP is the foundation for all library operations. All services are offered electronically through ERP, and users can access all resource information via OPAC. Visitors can access free 24*7 high-speed Wi-Fi and Xerox facilities in the Library. We have a separate area that serves as a user reading room and a virtual zone for internet access. The Library also provides its students with a Book Bank service on a semester-by-semester basis so they may familiarise themselves with the format of GGSIPU Question papers. The Library also runs a daily newspaper clipping service to keep patrons informed. The Library’s mission is to become a hub for information for its patrons’ and play a significant role as an Institute for Learning and Teaching for LLDIMS Delhi.
Vision of the Library
- Leveraging on the latest technology, create a virtual network of people and resources in academic institutions with an aim to provide effective and efficient access to knowledge through perseverance, innovation and collaboration.
- Provide seamless, reliable and ubiquitous access to scholarly, peer-reviewed electronic resources to the academic community in all educational institutions with a focus on services and tools, processes and practices that support its effective use and increase value of the information. .
- Build and strengthen ICT infrastructure in educational institutions with value-added services.
- Develop tools, techniques and procedures for secure and convenient access management enabling users to access information in electronic format from anywhere, anytime
- Develop resource selection guides and online tutorials for effective delivery and usage of e-resources.
- Facilitate creation of open access digital repositories in the institutions for hosting educational and research contents.
Mission of the Library
- Achieve complete automation of libraries in the institutions.
- Create union catalogues of documents available in libraries in online and real-time environment.
- Provide seamless and ubiquitous access to scholarly, peer-reviewed electronic resources to the users.
- Promote digitization of legacy documents and creation of content in e-format (including electronic version of research articles etc.) in the institutions.
- Promote setting-up of open access digital repositories in universities for hosting content created in the process mentioned above.
- Develop digital expertise in house
- Digital content creation, process of digitization and managing digital depositories.
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Rules of the Library
General Rules
Library users shall maintain silence in the Library.
Reading materials should not be shelf by the user because of misplacement.
Personal belonging shall not be allowed inside the Library. It shall be left at the property counter.
Mobile phones, smoking, chewing, eating, photography, etc., are strictly prohibited in the Library.
The Library should be kept neat and clean.
A user’s membership can be suspended because of misbehavior with the library staff.
No dues certificate will be issued to a member on returning all the borrowers’ tickets and library books.
Policies and Guideline
The overall functioning of the Library shall be supervised by the library committee consisting of one faculty member and one student from each discipline nominated by the Academic Head/Director and the Librarian. At his discretion, the academic Head/Director may nominate other committee members.
The library committee shall recommend new additions to Library, which would be purchased after application to the Chairman.
The librarian can recall the books before the due date in special circumstances.
Loss of Library Card
Loss of borrowers’ tickets should be immediately reported to the librarian, and duplicate tickets at Rs. 100/- should be issued. But the responsibility of books borrowed on the original tickets will remain with the bonafide owner of the tickets for the full period of validity.
Borrowers’ tickets shall be valid for the period mentioned on the tickets or up to the end of the academic session, whichever is earlier.
Borrowers will be held responsible for misusing their borrower’s ticket and the books issued. Disciplinary action will be taken for any misuse of borrowers’ tickets.
Borrowing Rule
All the students shall receive two borrower tickets cum I Card to borrow books from the general textbooks section of the Library. The tickets are not transferable. The number of books to be issued to the faculty and staff are as follows. Faculty: 5 borrower tickets cum I Card.
Reference books, out-of-print books, and current periodicals will not be loaned. Library staff will provide referencing services, catalogs, and reference indexes.
Overdue Fine
Textbooks will be issued for two weeks. After that, an overdue fine of Rs. 5 per day per volume will be charged. After one week charge will be Rs. 10/- per day.
Loss/Spoiling of Books
If a borrower loses any book, he will either replace it with the latest edition of that book or pay the price assessed by the Library. If the book is spoiled, he will replace the book / pay the assessed cost.
Borrowers should inspect the books carefully before getting them issued. Defects, if any, should be brought to the notice of the librarian at the counter at the time of issuing. If a defect by way of damage is discovered later, the borrower will be responsible and liable to make payment.
No person is allowed to write down, damage, make any mark on any book or reading material, or tamper with any book or material belonging to Library.
Library Hours
The Library remains open for seven hours, including lunch, on all working days. During vacations, the Library remains open for five hours. The issue counter opens one hour after the first period and closes half an hour before the last lecture. The Library remains closed on Sundays and other public holidays.
Library Membership
Library membership is open for bonafide students/teachers and staff. However, others may be allowed to use the Library with the prior permission of the academic head/Director. The book will be issued from the counter where the member produces their tickets and identity cards.
