Farook college (Autonomous)

Abussabah Library is the Central Library of the Farook College (Autonomous). The College offers one of the best libraries in the state of Kerala. It has a valuable collection of books, periodicals, CDs and other audio visual aids. A saperate section for visually challenged students with Braille literature and Digital Talking Book Library has been set up. A well organised Digital Library under MPLAD work of Sri P.V. Abdul Wahab M.P. has been set up. Access to e-resources has been provided by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre of UGC, Ahmedabad. A state of the art, fully air conditioned Audio-Visual Theater is attached to the Library. The Library structure, named after Moulavi Abussabah Ahmed Ali, the founder of the Campus was commissioned by His Excellency the then President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on 17th November 2002. The library meets the needs of its students, academics and research scholars with a wide range of library services.

The Abussabah Library’s vision is to cater to the informational, academic and research needs of the Farook College fraternity, primarily and the society in general, thus, enabling the Farook College to achieve excellence in teaching, learning and research.

The Mission of Abussabah Library is to provide user-oriented library services to enhance the teaching, learning and research activities of the Farook College by providing them with high quality academic and research resources.

To achieve the vision and mission of the library, the Abussabah Library has the following objectives:

Select, acquire and organise high quality, relevant and up to date information resources according to need and requirement of the College fraternity;

Develop, maintain and promote a wide range of library services to optimize the use of library resources;

Organise frequently user orientation and staff training programmes for optimum utilization of the resources of the library; and

Adopt the latest tools and technologies to provide library services to the users more effectively and efficiently.