Circulation of Books
(Timings 8:00 am to 9:00 pm)All libraries in the university provide this service with varied loan privileges. Students and staff can make use of any library to avail this service.
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About LPU Library System
LPU offers a huge Library System with 11 branches. The biggest one is the Central Library located in Block-37- LPU academic community is well catered by all departmental libraries.
- There are more than 24+ lakh books and e-books on all subject fields.
- Library system subscribes number of journals, magazines and newspapers.
- Library system also offers ICT based resources to its users, such as e-books, e-journals, databases. The E-resources subscribed by University Library are IEEE, Springer, EBSCO, Capitaline, SCC Online, JGate plus, DELNET, JSTOR, EPWRF, Ebooks academic collection, World e-Book Library, Shodhganga, Shodhgangotri, INFLIBNET, NDL etc.
- Central Library of the university also manages an Institutional Repository for theses and dissertations.
- A good number of theses/dissertations and research reports are available in libraries.
- Besides books, library system also possesses rare book collection, special reports, reference sources, audio-visual material etc.
- Library system uses LIBSYS ILMS for handling day to day routine tasks of the all the libraries. It makes use of RFID and Barcode system for inventory and security of library materials.
SERVICES
The University's Library system offers a variety of library services
Online Catalogue (OPAC)
(Timings 24 X 7 X 365)The Online Catalogue of all the libraries is available for 24X7 throughout year. Users may search and check the availability of a particular book, journal, audio-visual material, theses, dissertation etc. anywhere and anytime.
Digital Library Service
The Digital Section in every library is having good number of Computer Systems, which provides access to variety of E-Resources, such as E-books, E-journals, Conference Proceedings, Reports, Statistical Analysis, Court Cases, Company profiles, E-newspapers, E-magazines and whole lot of material for fulfilling the academic requirements of the library users.
Newspaper Clipping Service
The Newspaper Clipping Service is also provided by all the libraries of LPU. The newspaper clipping service arranges the clippings of Academic activities, News, Notices, Advertisement, write ups etc.
Documentation Service
(Timings 9:00 am to 5:00 pm)The Documentation Section provides services such as photocopy, scanning, type setting, designing and printing. Library users are provided with some discount on the given services.
Access to E-resources and Databases
Online Access is provided to users for variety of E-resources. Users can access E-resources within and outside the campus as well. The remote access to resources is given to users via Mapmyaccess. Users may straightway open the particular subscribed E-resources or they may use UMS (Campus ERP) for accessing E-resources. The usage data of E-resources is generated periodically and analysed further for to subscribe relevant contents for the users.
Journal Content Service
In this service the contents of recently received journals are routed to the concerned department's faculty members, so as they may visit the library for reading relevant literature.
Reference Service
The University Library System provides Reference Service to it's users. The reference service is provided offline and online format. Any registered user may approach to Reference Librarian for particular query about resources, services or any other particular query related to his/her academic requirement. The reference librarian keep records of all reference queries for analysis and adding more number of reference sources in the library.
CD/DVD Content Service
On the pattern of Journal Content Service, this service arranges the contents of recently received CDs/DVDs and route the same to the faculty members and students, so as users may make use of CDs/DVDs received by the libraries.
User Awareness Programs
The Central Library of the university organizes User Awareness Program in the beginning of academic session, so as every new user of library may know about various resources and services of library and also methods to access or utilize the same.
Inter Library Loan (ILL)
LPU Library system offers Inter-Library Loan (ILL) facility to its users. ILL request can be registered online for books and articles which are not available with the LPU libraries. The service of ILL is being subscribed through Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi. The request for books and articles can be submitted through E-mail ([email protected]) mentioning details of the document i.e. Author/Title/Publisher/Year/Edition etc.
Resources
The University's Library system offers a variety of library ResourcesBooks
LPU Library System provides access to more than
20+ Lakh books and e-books covering all fileds of knowledge, e.g. Engineering,
Pharmacy, Architecture, Hotel Management, Law, Agriculture, Chemical
Scieinces, Education, Social Sciences, Physiotherapy etc. University provides
generous grant for addition of new book to supplement existing collection.
Journals/Magazines/Newspapers
The Periodical section of all the libraries
subscribe good number of journals/magazines and newspapers. Currently, over 30000 (Print / Electronic Journals), more than 2000 Newspapers (Print / Electronic) and over 800 magazines (Print / Electronic) are being subscribed by the university library.
Theses and Dissertations
Theses and dissertations collection is available
in Central Library. There is separate section for these resources and students
refer them as and when required. Library also manages online repository of
theses, dissertations and other university publications, which is accessible
through UMS or Digital Repository link.
Audio-Visual Material
Libraries also manage the collection of
audio-visual material, such as CDs, DVDs, pen drives and other external data
device which contain vital information about specific subject fields.
Rare Books and Special Reports
The Central Library of the university manages
the Rare Book Section where one can find manuscripts, monographs, government
reports, Archaeological survey reports, literature in various other languages,
conference proceedings and old reference books. Some of the rarest titles in
the collection are;
- Jainendra Vyakaran/ by Dutpabhayanand. (1758)
- Vachcharaj Hansraj Charit/ by Rashachdas. (1755)
- Jainendra Vyakaran Mahavratto/ by Bhayanandi. (1833)
- Chaturdishati Teerthankar Pooja/ by Harivansh Mishra. (1861)
- Madacharya: Shri Sakal Kirti/ by Pannalal Choudhary. (1874)
- Corpus incriptionum indicarum: inscriptions of early Gupta’s kings and their successors/ by Fleet, Johan Faithfull. (1888)
- Corpus incriptionum indicarum: Kharoshthi inscriptions with the exception of those of Asoka Part-I/ by Konow, Sten. (1891)
- Indian empire: Its people history and products/ by Hunter, William Wilson. (1893)
- Extract from the revised list of objects of archaeological interest in the Punjab/ by Government Central Branch Press. (1907)
- Imperial gazetteers of India: Indian empire administrative/ by Clrerendon Press, Oxford. (1909)
Reference Book
The University Library System possesses good
number of Reference books for it's users, such as dictionaries, yearbooks,
directories, encyclopedias etc. These resources are regularly used by users.
E-resources and Databases
University's Library System provides online
access of variety of E-resources to its users. Users can access E-resources
within and outside the campus as well. The remote access to resources is given
to users via Mapmyaccess. Some of prominet e-resources are; IEEE, Springer, EBSCO, JGATE, SCC Online etc.
Newspaper Clipping
The Newspaper Clippings are managed by
periodical section of the libraries. The newspaper clipping service arranges
the clippings of Academic activities, News, Notices, Advertisement, write ups
etc.
Back volume of journals
The Central Library possesses the back volumes
of the subscribed journals, used by research scholars for research purposes.
e-Resources
The University's Library system provides variety of E-Resources & Databases to the users to supplement their teaching, learning and research activities.These E-Resources can be accessed inside and outside the campus. For using them inside, users just need to click on the link of desired E-Resource available at library portal.
For providing remote access (outside campus) to the E-Resources, Library system uses Mapmyaccess middleware solution. The middleware allows library users to have remote online access of various subscribed e-contents with single sign-on the existing library credentials i.e. username and password.
Open Access
Free E-Resources| Consortium for Educational Communicationion | View Link |
| Directory of Open Access Repositories | View Link |
| eGyanKosh (IGNOU) | View Link |
| Library of Congress | View Link |
| National Digital Library of India | View Link |
| National Science Digital Library (NSDL) | View Link |
| NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository | View Link |
| NPTEL | View Link |
| Parliament Digital Library | View Link |
| The British Library | View Link |
| UNESCO Library | View Link |
| Virtual Library | View Link |
| World Digital Library | View Link |
| DOAJ | View Link |
| Biomedcentral | View Link |
| Academic Journals | View Link |
| BMJOpen | View Link |
| PLoS | View Link |
| Access to Global online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) | View Link |
| Bioline international | View Link |
| Brill Open E-Journals Collection | View Link |
| Cambridge University Press: Open Access | View Link |
| Free Medical Journals | View Link |
| Free On-line Chemistry journals | View Link |
| HighWire Press | View Link |
| Hindawi - Open Access Journals | View Link |
| Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) | View Link |
| Palgrave Macmillan - Open Access Journals | View Link |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) | View Link |
| E-booksdirectory | View Link |
| Opentextbook | View Link |
| MilneOpenTextbook | View Link |
| Engineering ebooks | View Link |
| Arts & Photography | View Link |
| Audio Books | View Link |
| Baen Free Library | View Link |
| Biographies & Memoirs | View Link |
| Book Yards | View Link |
| Brill Open E-Book Collection | View Link |
| Business & Investing | View Link |
| Computers Science & Internet | View Link |
| Darwin Online | View Link |
| Directory of Open access Books | View Link |
| Engineering & Technology | View Link |
| Entertainment & Games | View Link |
| Computer books | View Link |
| Get Free Ebooks | View Link |
| History | View Link |
Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
The University's Library system provides OPAC to search Books and other reading material available in 11 libraries.OPAC provides basic and advance search options to the users. It tells about status of availability of the document in all 11 libraries. Besides, it also shows some external links for further search on desired document.
The University's Library system provides state of the art infrastructure for comfortable learning environment
Library's beautiful and user-friendly infrastructure includes big spacious halls, multimedia lab, digital sections, discussion rooms, circulation counters, air-conditioned well ventilated premises, neat and clean toiletries, fresh filtered water, lifts and staircases and well maintained library sections. Special attention is given on the upkeep of the library building by regular inspections and continuous up-gradation of the infrastructure.
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