School Of Management Sciences - [SMS]

School of Management Sciences (SMS) Library & Documentation Centre has established in 2008 around 6375 books including engineering & management. After around 14 years of existence, the number of books has crossed the 28653 books.

The SMS Library is automated in its operations using the Soul 3.0 software and works on the DDC (22nd edition) platform. The Library encompasses an area of 706 sq meters and has two reading hall of capacity 150 (90 in Engineering & 60 in Management). Two separate stack sections for Engineering & Management hold the books and other reading materials in hard copies. Further, rich repository of online resources have been made available to the users through the ‘Digital Harbor’ in the form of e-books, e-journals, educational Video Lectures & back year question papers also through DELNET, NDL (National Digital Library of India), AKTU Nalanda E-Consortium & NPTEL of which membership exists regularly.

The Library has a well-defined policy for acquisition, usage and disposal of the learning resources supported by a faculty-led team popularly known as Library Coordination Committee, which is empowered to take most of the Library related decisions. The library accepts suggestions from all its stakeholders and decisions are taken on them if found beneficial to the Library services and users.

Ø WEB OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) - Web OPAC has been provided at the Library Entrance for students (additional kiosks also available in the Computer Centers) where they can know exact status of any book. It is useful to avoid unnecessary footfalls and ease of operations.

Ø Inter-Library Loan facility (ILL):- The Interlibrary Loan service allows SMS, faculty, and staff to borrow from other libraries if items are not available at the SMS Library through DELNET.

Ø Daily Record Updation:- Entry and Exit records of faculty, staff and students, books issue and return (both offline and online), reference books issue and return

Ø Digital Harbor:-This caters to the needs of faculty, staff and students who wish to retrieve information through the ONLINE mode.

Ø Reprography facility: - Reprography facility is available to all students (against payment) and faculty members (free of cost) for utility concerning library stock.