Jankidevi Bajaj College of Science

Bajaj College of Science Library, Wardha is committed to fulfilling its mission by acquiring the requisite information and documents to cater to the needs of its borrowers to help them in achieving excellence in teaching and learning. The library is committed to the Five laws of library science formulated by the father of library science in India, Dr.S.R.Ranganathan.

The college was established in the year 1962. Likewise, the library of the college came into existence in the same year. Initially, it was housed in a very small room.

Presently the library is housed in 625.324 Sq.mt. the area wherein there is a separate Reading Room, Reference Section, Issue Counter, Stack Rooms, and Bound Volume Room. The capacity of reading room is to accommodate 150 readers. A separate arrangement is done for faculties to study in the library.

For the smooth working of the library, we have Library Committee. Meetings of the library committee are held regularly to streamline the functioning of the library.

At present, the structure of the library committee is as follows-

Books are classified according to Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme. Every rack is provided with signboards of subjects.

Previously Card Catalogues according to the subject, title and author were prepared and subject-wise book catalogs were also prepared. With the advent of computerization, these traditional methods are discontinued. Now the catalog of library collection can be accessed on computers using various options, such as author, title, subject, any word in author or title, Boolean search, etc. Terminals are provided in the reading room for access to Open Access Public Catalogue ( Web OPAC).

B.Sc. Part I students are issued 1 BT. Students of B.Sc. Part II, III, M.Sc. Part I and II are issued 2 Library Borrower’s Tickets (BT). SC/ST/OBC students of undergraduate classes are provided additional BT on which they are allowed to issue a book from the specified collection in addition to their normal quota. Students are issued the books twice in a week on the specified days and times. Undergraduate students are allowed to keep the books for a period of 6 days and Postgraduate students are allowed to keep the books for 10 days. There is closed access for undergraduate students. However, the students who have scored more than 60 % marks in the previous examination are allowed to have open access. All postgraduate students and faculties have open access. On average, there is a transaction of 60 books per day.