Central Library

Library Resources The library has developed an excellent collection of books, journals and non-book material in science, engineering, technology, humanities and management.

Library Services

Membership

Every bonafide student of the college is entitled to become a member of the library. Library Borrower ticket is issued to every student.

Circulation

Open access system is practiced. Borrowing of books is allowed only to the registered library members against their membership card. They can borrow books from stack room as per their borrowing privilege. Books from the Reference section are not allowed and must be refereed in the library only.

1) Every regular student of FAMT is allowed to borrow 5 books for the period of 15 days.

2) Every Faculty member of FAMT is allowed to borrow 10 books per Semester

3) Every office staff, non teaching staff & library staff of FAMT is allowed to borrow 05 books per Semester.

4) Reference books, bound volumes of journals, encyclopaedia, Handbooks, Directories, Directories, Atlases, Manuals, standards are not for issue.

Issue / Return Timing – Monday To Saturday – 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Overnight Issue Facility

Members can barrow 2 book against identity card after 4.30 pm & return the same on next day before 9.30 am.

Reservation Facility

Books which are in circulation can be reserved. The students who desire to make use of this facility should enter the details in the reservation slip kept for this purpose. Books which are to be reserved will not be renewed and reissued. The person who makes the reservation should note the expected date of return and claim the reserved book within two days after the return. Otherwise the reservation will remain cancelled.

Reference

Reference books like Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Yearbooks, Rare collections etc. and one copy of all the books in the general stack are kept for the students, staff and other users to refer within the library.

Book Bank

Book Bank books are made available separately for SC/ST Students, and Books are issued for the period of one semester to the students belonging to SC & ST. Eligible students may apply for books from the special collection as per the schedule announced by the library.

Competitive Examination Section

A separate competitive examination section having 919 different types of competitive examination books like GATE, GRE, Toffel, UPSC & MPSC, CAT etc is available in library for the final year students who wish to prepare for different types of competitive examination.

News Paper Clipping Service

The current articles of various competitive examinations published in newspapers are displayed on library notice board.

Facility to Divyang Student

• Books are provided in classroom/laboratory as per demand of respective student.
• Book bank facility is provided To Divyang Student from general book collections.

Internet Service

Internet facility is available to the student & staff for e-resources access, e-mail and web browsing.

Digital Library

An e-library Wing is being dunned in our library containing the facilities such as Springer, Videeya Engineering Collection, NDL, & NPTEL. Digital library or an Electronic Library is a focused collection of digital objects that can include e-journals, e-books, audio visual materials etc., stored as electronic media.

E-journals & E-books – The e-library section in the college library is a beneficiary of Springer Three Subject Collection (510 e-journals & 934 e-books ) & Videeya Enginering Collection ( 36 books titles & 108 Volumes).

NDL-National Digital Library of India( NDL) is an all digital library that stores information (meta data) about different types of digital contents including books, articles, videos, audios, thesis and other educational materials relevant for users from varying educational levels and capabilities. It provides a single window search facility to access digital contents currently existing in India as well as other digital sources under single umbrella.

NPTEL-NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), is a joint venture of the IITs and IISc, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Government of India, and was launched in 2003. Initially started as a project to take quality education to all corners of the country. Library provided NPTEL video lectures link (Branch, Semester & Subject wise) through library webpage, which will be useful for teacher training and through them improve the quality of students.

Multimedia

Library has the facility to search CD-ROMs. There is a good collection of CD-ROMs.

WebOPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)

We have a special facility called web WebOPAC which allows the user to search the library’s holdings. A user can access the bibliographic details of books from the web OPAC.

Online Question Paper

Library provides an online facility of previous year question paper to its users. The question papers are available on the library website in pdf format.

Plagiarism Checking Facility

Library provided Plagiarism Checking Facility using plagiarismcheckerx 2019 Business software.

Periodicals

The library subscribes 56 periodicals of which 48 are journals and around 8 are related academic magazines. Previous volumes of the journals are also available for use. Overnight reference is also allowed on request. career magazines are also available for casual reading.

Current Awareness Services

Under CAS System following Services can be used:

• Displaying new arrivals – books – on the New Arrivals rack.
• Displaying list of new arrivals and list of Journals and Periodicals on the notice-board

Information Literacy Program

Library orientation and User education program for our students as a part of induction

program. Library orientation is to introduce users to facilities and resources in the library, to develop library skills, to develop students into independent users and learners in the library.

User education is one of the important services of the library each year for new entrants into the college library, which includes:

• How to use the library?
• How to use WEB OPAC?
• How to use e-resources?
• How to locate a particular book?
• Shelf arrangements, Classification

Feedback Form and Suggestion Box

Printed as well as online feedback forms are available for collecting user responses on the facilities and services of the library.