Services Offered
Library Services
Reference and Reading Services
Provides personalized assistance to users in locating relevant information resources, accessing library collections, and effectively utilizing library facilities and services. The service supports students, faculty, and researchers through reference assistance, information guidance, collection navigation, and help in identifying appropriate print and electronic resources to meet their academic and research needs.
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Provides users with online access to the library catalogue for quick and efficient discovery of available resources. Users can search and locate books, journals, and other library materials using various search options such as author, title, subject, keywords, publisher, ISBN, and classification number. The service enables users to check bibliographic details, verify resource availability, and improve access to the library collection anytime and anywhere.
Book Borrowing Facility
Provides convenient and efficient access to the library’s book collection through user-friendly borrowing, renewal, and return services. The facility enables users to borrow required learning and research materials, manage their issued resources, and access library collections effectively while ensuring smooth circulation operations and better utilization of available resources.
Digital Library Services
Provides seamless access to a wide range of digital information resources, including e-books, e-journals, online databases, institutional repositories, theses and dissertations, and other subscribed electronic resources. The service enables authorized users to access scholarly content anytime and anywhere through secure authentication, supporting teaching, learning, research, and academic collaboration.
Document Delivery Services
Facilitates timely access to scholarly information by providing copies of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, theses, technical reports, standards, and other research materials that are not available in the library's collection. The service supports teaching, learning, and research by obtaining documents through interlibrary cooperation, resource sharing networks, and authorized document delivery channels, subject to copyright regulations and licensing agreements.
Faculty Profiling System
Provides comprehensive faculty profile management through IRINS by creating and maintaining centralized researcher profiles integrated with ORCID, Scopus Author ID, Google Scholar, Crossref, and other scholarly platforms. The service facilitates accurate representation of research publications, citations, research interests, projects, patents, awards, collaborations, and academic achievements, enhancing researcher visibility, institutional research output, and national and international academic recognition.
User Education Service
Provides structured orientation programmes, training sessions, and personalized guidance to help users effectively discover, access, and utilize library resources, digital collections, research databases, and scholarly tools. The service enhances information literacy, develops effective search skills, promotes the ethical use of information, and empowers students, faculty, and researchers to make better use of library services for academic and research activities.
Research Performance Metrics
Provides regular updates on institutional research publications, citation counts, H-index, and other research impact indicators. The service supports faculty and researchers by monitoring scholarly output, tracking research performance, and enhancing institutional visibility through bibliometric analysis and reporting.
Research Support Services
Provides comprehensive guidance and assistance to researchers throughout the research lifecycle, including literature searching, systematic review support, scholarly communication, reference management, research data management, publication strategies, plagiarism awareness, citation analysis, and the effective use of research databases and digital tools. The service aims to enhance research quality, improve scholarly visibility, and support academic excellence.
RFID-Enabled Library Services
Provides RFID-enabled library automation solutions to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and security of library operations. The service supports automated identification and tracking of library resources, faster circulation management, inventory verification, and effective resource security. RFID technology improves the user experience, streamlines library workflows, and enables efficient collection management.
Inter Library Loan
Provides access to books, research papers, journal articles, and other scholarly resources that are not available in the library’s collection through resource sharing networks and library consortia such as DELNET. The service facilitates borrowing and document exchange among participating libraries, ensuring that users have timely access to required academic and research materials while supporting collaborative resource sharing.
External Membership
Provides library membership facilities to external users, including alumni, retired faculty and staff, institutions, professionals, corporate organizations, and individuals. The service enables registered members to access library resources and facilities, supporting lifelong learning, knowledge sharing, and continued engagement with the library.
Remote access to E-Resources
Remote Access to E-Resources through MyLOFT
Provides secure remote access to subscribed e-resources through the MyLOFT platform for faculty members and research scholars anytime and anywhere.
Remote Access to E-Resources through INFED
Enables users to access subscribed e-resources remotely through INFED/Shibboleth authentication using institutional credentials.