Government Engineering College - [GEC]

The website complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA. This will enable people with visual impairments access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers. The information of the website is accessible with different screen readers, such as JAWS, NVDA, SAFA, Supernova and Window-Eyes.

Following table lists the information about different screen readers:

The information society has brought developments in the way information is created, consolidated, and accessed. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has produced larger volumes of information, new ways of packaging information, and new tools for managing information to meet the changing demands of the user community. In view of the complex information needs of the society, the library and information centre have to play a greater role in building, developing, and disseminating information

The GECk Library acts as a central knowledge centre for students and faculty of the college and the collection of this knowledge center comprise of documents in Engineering subjects (Civil, E&C, Mechanical and CS & E). Efforts are ongoing to provide computerized library services by skilled Information professionals and systematic organization of documents are the major functions of the library. Preparations are on-going to make the library catalogue searchable and can be browsed online.

The library collection today stands at 7612 books (Statistics as on 10-10-2013). Social Welfare Department, Govt. of Karnataka also assisting in building SC/ST Book Bank in the library. From recent past, the collection has also been enriching by donations of valuable books for Electronics and communication Engineering from Mr Bende of Ankola.

· Use Library documents ( Books, Journals, Magazine, etc.) with great care as they are precious, costly and valuable.

· For the rules for replacement of lost book - kindly contact the Librarian.

· The borrowing facility can be withdrawn or restricted in case of misbehavior or misuse of the library.