Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University
Admission 2026-27
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University
Admission 2026-27

Prof. N. K. B. M. Library

Prof. N. K. B. M. Library

Promotion of Indian Languages in Technical Education as per National Education Policy

“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn’t make the library. People made the library. That’s what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.” ― Scott Douglas

Starting Library with the number of only 2000 Books by 19th August 2004, within a short span of time the library has acquired more than 54,000 Books & more than 3000 CD/DVDs collections.

Library has shifted to its new Building on 26th July 2010 The Prof. N. K. B. M. Library building in 36000 Square yds area & is being covered with a various separate sections consisting Acquisition Section, Technical Section, Circulation Section, Reference Section, Periodical Section, Text Book Section, Computer Section, Reading Section, Photocopy Section for the benefit of students, faculty & staff. More quality Books are being added to the library on a regular basis. Quality of education largely depends upon the collection of the books & other material in the Library.

The Prof. N. K. B. M. Library collection encompases Management, Economics, Engineering, Architecture, Sciences, Philosophy, Culture, Religion, English, Dogri, Hindi, Punjabi & Urdu Literature.

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Library Timings

Library remains open  all days except  Holidays of the university. Timings of the Library are as follows:

Sr. No. Collection Days Timings
1 Prof. N. K. B. M. Library Monday-Friday 9:00 A.M. – 8:00 P.M.
2 Reference Section (for reading the Books/ Periodicals) Monday-Friday 9:00 A.M. – 8:00 P.M. & 9:00 P.M. – 11:59 P.M.
3   Saturday-Sunday 10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Reading Room: 24X7

Library Catalogue

SMVDU Prof. N. K. B. M. Library Catalogue

Union Catalogues: A union catalog is a combined library catalogue describing the collections of a number of libraries, participating in a resource sharing programme.
  • DELNET’s (Union Catalogue) Coverage (for ID and Password contact library)
    DELNET maintains an online union catalogue of books available in its member-libraries. DELNET at present has 5002 libraries as its members. The following is a brief geographical break-up :
    India (In 33 States and centrally administered areas) 4978
    Bhutan 1
    Nepal 3
    Oman 4
    Pakistan 1
    Philippines 1
    Sri Lanka 7
    United Arab Emirates 3
    United States 4
    Total: 5002

    This union catalogue is continuously updated and is growing in size. The information can be retrieved by author, title, subject, conference, series, etc. It has 2,03,71,835 bibliographic records. The request for inter-library loan can be placed through the online system.

    Delnet also provide access to its following databases:

    Union List of Current Periodicals, UnionCatalogue of Periodicals, Database of Periodical Articles, CD-ROM Database, Union List of Video Recordings, Union List of Sound Recordings, Database of Theses and Dissertations, Union List of Newspapers, Database of E-books, Profile of Member-Libraries.

  • INFLIBNET ‘s (INDCAT) Coverage
    IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 160 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records. The IndCat consists three components available in open access to users and librarians.

Digital Library

Digital Library

Digital Library is equipped with 50 internet PCs. Various e-Journals, e-Resources are made available to the students, scholars, staff and the faculty members of the University through Digital Library.

E- Resources

Prof. N. K. B. M. Library Subscribes to the e-resources listed below. Click on the desired link to access the e-resources:

Centrally Funded:
  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • ISID Database(Institute for studies in Industrial Development)
  • JGate Plus(JCCC)
  • JSToR
  • MathSciNet
  • Springer Link 1700 Collection and Nature Journals
  • South Asia Archive(SAA)
Subscribed:
Open Access Resources:
Bibliographic Databases:
Free

Library Services

Prof. N. K. B. M. Library of SMVD University offers a variety of services to its users to fulfil the objectives of the SMVD University. The services are listed below:

  • Circulation Service
  • Reference and Information Service
  • Photocopy Service
  • Inter-Library Loan Service (ILL)
  • Resource Sharing
  • eNew Arrivals of Books
  • eContentsPage Journals Service
  • Database search and Bibliographic Services:(on demand)
  • Reprint Service

Library Activities

  • Induction: The library induction Programme is conducted during new intake time. It aims to introduce new students to the collections, services and facilities offered by the library
  • Orientation Programme: The library orientationProgramme orients the users about the resources of the library and instructs how to use the library resources. The users are informed about the types of literature, types of information retrieval devices (OPAC/WEBOPAC), the major reference sources on a particular subject, etc. The orientation would enable the users to answer these questions: How is the material organized within the library? How can information be retrieved? What are the techniques by which information is recorded?
  • Plagiarism Detection: The Library provides access to the Plagiarism Detection Software (Turnitin).
  • Sodhganga: Theses & Dissertations: The Ph. D. Theses of SMVD University are uploaded to the Shodhganga Repository of INFLIBNET on regular basis as and when a new thesis is received in the library.
  • Presentations: Presentations are conducted for the use of various products &services(e-journals, e-books, etc.) by various representatives of the publishers.
  • Trainings: Trainings are provided to the users on Plagiarism Detection software, use of e-resources, use of various tools for study & research etc.
  • Training Session:
    • 1.eBooks Academic Collection and EBSCO Business Source premier on 03/04/2023 at 2:30 p.m.
    • 2.Harvard Business Cases online Training Session Conducted on 03/05/2023 at 4:00 p.m.

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Collection Strength:

Books Collection in the Prof. N. K. B. M. Library:

S. No. Items Collection Quantity
1. Books Total Collection 56000+
2. CD’s and DVD’s Total no. of CDs and DVDs 3094+
3. Thesis & Dissertations   1,354
Library Membership:

All the students and employees of the University are eligible for membership of the Library. The registered members are issued bar-coded library membership cards. The categories of the Library members are Students, Faculty Members, Staff Members and Research Scholars. At present, Library is catering to the information needs of more than 1800+ users with the help of its trained professionals.

Library staff Strength
S. No. Name Email Designation
1. Dr. Ratna Chandra librarian@smvdu.ac.in Faculty Incharge Prof. N. K. B. M. Library
2. Ms. Suneeta Raina suneeta.raina@smvdu.ac.in Library Assistant
3. Mr. Ashwani Kumar ashwani.kumar@smvdu.ac.in Library Assistant
4. Mr. Mool Raj mool.raj@smvdu.ac.in Library Assistant
5. Mr. Chandreshwar Gupta chandreshwar.gupta@smvdu.ac.in Library Assistant
6. Mr. Avdhesh Gupta avdhesh.gupta@smvdu.ac.in Junior Assistant

Attendants – 3 (Day-2 & Evening-1)

Newspaper, Magazines and Journals Collection in the Prof. N. K. B. M. Library:

The SMVDU Prof. N. K. B. M. Library provides access to more than 46,409 online journals & 2,695conference proceedings through eShodhSindu Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET and also to subscription based e-resources from various suppliers & renowned publishers.

OPAC/Library Automation:

The Prof. N. K. B. M. Library has integrated Library Management software e-Granthalaya 4.0 with all the modules for the Library housekeeping operations. Users can find the latest additions of books and periodicals in the Library, status of books (issued/on-shelf) and books issued/ overdue against his name. Using e-Granthalaya 4.0 web OPAC users can search the Library Online Catalogue by Authors, Title, Subject, and Keywords. Library catalogue is automated and fully indexed.

The entire Library collection is Bar-coded. Bar-coded Library cards are printed inhouse in theLibrary and are issued to the members. Barcode technology enables circulation of books in easy, reliable and user friendly manner. Apart from this, the user can download e-Granthalaya app from the Google play store on their smart phone to find the status of books issued in their name, overdue, fines, etc.

Internet Access:

Library is providing access to its users to online periodicals & various information resources from 50 internet computers located at different sections.

Digital Library:

Digital Library is equipped with 30 internet PCs. Various subscribed as well as open access, e-Resources can be accessed by the students, scholars, staff and the faculty members of the University through Digital Library.

Virtual Digital Library:

In the year 2008, the Virtual Digital Library was established with various online reference resources and access to open journals are also available.

Reprographic Service:

Library provides photocopy service to the users against a nominal charges. At present Library is equipped with three Canon photocopying machines. All these machines are placed at different utility locations in the Library.

Apart from the above, Prof. N. K. B. M. Library is equipped with FAX Machine, Computer Printer and a Scanner.

CAS/SDI

Library also provides Current Awareness Services & is involved in Selective Dissemination of Information.

  • New arrivals of books
  • Monthly alert for e-resources, e-books, e-journals accessible at SMVD University.
Anti-Plagiarism:

In order to avoid any sort of plagiarism issues and improve upon the quality publications from the University and also improve the quality of the assignments submitted by the students of the University, Library has deployed Anti-plagiarism softwares TURNITIN & URKUND.

MEMBERSHIP
UGC-INFONET Consortium:

Library is also actively depositing quality Ph.D Thesis to the repository of Shodhganga of INFLIBNET (Information and Library Networking) Centre INFLIBNET is an Autonomous Inter University Centre (IUC) Of University Grant Commission(UGC).

DELNET Membership:

It is not possible for any Library to procure all books or subscribe to all journals. Hence, to get books on loan basis or journal reprints on request is possible through DELNET( Developing Library Network), Delhi. Library is a member of DELNET since 2007. We procure books on request through inter loan (ILL)from the DELNET.One can also find out the books or Journals available in various libraries in India with the help of Union Catalogue of DELNET.

Hardware (equipments) and Software, Computers:

Library is equipped with 80 computers total. Recently Library also procured 2 Blade Servers from UGC Fund.

Online UPS:

For power backup to all computers in the library FOUR numbers of Online UPS is available in the Library. The helps minimizing data loss and unwanted record freezing/Jamming due to unwarranted unsystematic shutdown of a system caused by power failure.

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