Rajagiri College of Social Sciences - [RCSS]

Fr. Moses Library is named after Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Abraham Moses CMI, first principal of the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. The College library was established in the year 1981 with a view to preserve and disseminate knowledge to the academic communities. The library has a large collection of books, national-international journals, magazines, and periodicals, professional studies, PhD Thesis, Dissertations, Project Reports, Annual Reports, Conference Proceedings, and News Documentations etc. Also well equipped with online database like, Elsevier-SciVal NLIST-INFLIBNET, DELNET, IEEE, J-GATE Plus, SCIENCE DIRECT, ACM, Sage Online, Pearson and McGraw Hill E-books collections, QuillBot, Turnitin etc. Library also has a good digital repository system, D-Space.

We are conducting various User Awareness Programs on different database like, J-gate Plus, N-List, Elsevier-SciVal etc. We are also organizing various National and International Conference, Seminars and workshop on Research publication, Plagiarism, Web page design, Open Source Software like KOHA etc.

Library has a floor area of 17000 Sq.ft spread over in 4 floors from 5th to 8th floor of Carmel Block and well equipped with dedicated lift, fully air-conditioned reading and reference halls and other amenities. The total seating capacity is more than 300 the main attraction of the library is the Tower of wisdom at the entrance lobby. College is well connected with Wi-fi and the library is fully automated with AutoLib library software. Online web OPAC system is used for the searching of library resources. A very power full Flap Barrier Access Gate system is used for the entry and exit to the library. An informal fully air-conditioned Discussion hall ‘CONFAB’ is provided in Periodical section and a fully computerized Information Navigation center is functioning in the Research section.

Internal Extension Services It includes User Orientation Programmes, Library Awareness Service at the beginning of every academic year. The users are supplied with Library Brochure and User Guidelines.

Advisory Committee consists of Head of the institution, Librarian, Heads of departments and Representative from students. This committee is giving in the recommendation of matters regarding the purchase of books, equipment, developments in infrastructure, maintenance. The Library advisory committee meets once in three months.

Days Timing Monday to Friday 8.00 am to 8.00 pm Saturdays 8.00 am to 5.00 pm Second Saturdays 9.30 am to 4.30 pm Sundays & Holidays 9.30 am to 4.30 pm

The library usage of PhD. Scholars are restricted as per the criteria mentioned below:

b) PhD Scholars - Rs.100/- (per day)