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  • Inflibnet Library
  • Inflibnet Library
  • Inflibnet Library
  • Inflibnet Library
  • Inflibnet Library
  • Inflibnet Library
Central library of the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) incepted its operations in 2005 at the academic block of the University and subsequently in 2010 from Skill and Enhancement Training (SET) building. The library however is now housed in mega structure in the campus which has been recently completed. The library has been named as “Rumi Library” by the Executive Council. The building has been designed to provide the most modern facilities to its patrons. The building is octagonal in shape with a plinth area of 1574 (Sq mtr) and acts as the signature building of the University. It is G+3 framed building with ground floor housing mini conference cum meeting hall, space for cafeteria and other sections. The first floor has atrium, reference section, journal section, acquisition section, circulation counter for the issue/return and other sections/offices of the library. The second-floor houses text/lending sections, technical processing and browsing centre with 50 computer terminals. Similarly, the third floor holds text/lending sections, newspapers archive section and reading/discussion rooms. Apt to mention here, that the library is growing each year and has about 50,000 volumes of books. The library subscribes to about 65 Print journals/magazines and has access to over 12000 journals through various consortiums for knowledge updation and research trend identification across the globe. Moreover, in order to support needy and meritorious students as a part of social responsibility, the library introduced “Book Bank” facility which has a separate collection of 763 books other than the library books. Furthermore, to assist job seekers desperately seeking for resources to prepare for various competitive examinations and brush up their skills, the library maintains “Career Corner” with 638 books. In addition, Rumi Library subscribes to 14 leading national as well as local newspapers to keep users abreast of nascent affairs around the globe. The library has the institutional membership with different national-level organizations to offer effective services to its users which include eShodhSindhu Consortium (ESS), DELNET, New Delhi, ShodhGanga etc. In future, the Rumi library of IUST intends to create upgraded “Learning Resource Centre for Visually Impaired Students” and “institutional digital repository”.
The IR @ INFLBNET has been set-up to host full-text of research publications of technical staff as well as other publications of the Centre using Dspace, an open source digital library software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Dspace supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), an internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. The IR @ INFLBNET provides a platform for researcher in LIS to deposit, reuse and share their research publications. The repository also has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve digital materials created in the Centre. Staff members can register themselves with the digital repository and submit their pre-prints (pre-refereed version of an article), post-prints (post-refereed final version) and publisher PDFs (if allowed by the publisher). The papers publish in CALIBER and PLANNER proceedings have been uploaded in to the IR @ INFLIBNET in PDF format. The Institutional Repository also includes Course Materials, Newspaper Clippings, etc.
Besides receiving access to e-resources on complementary basis under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Centre maintains a separate Archival Library consisting of print journals received as a part of the agreement with the participating publishers of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the agreement, the publishers are requested to submit a copy of all the issues of the journals. This archival library is open to all users interested in using these print resources for their study / research. The Centre has received issues of 286 journal titles from different publishers. During this year under review, issues of 100 journals each were received from the Taylor and Francis, Blackwell and Oxford University Press. Users can access information about these journals on their desktops at the website.
The library provides following services to its users:
  • Reference Service
  • Document Delivery Service
  • Current Awareness Service
  • Inter Library Loan Service
  • Electronic Information Service
  • Photocopy Service
The Centre subscribes to a large number of databases on CD-ROM consisting of bibliographic details of research articles mainly in the area of social sciences, arts and humanities. Services from these databases are available free-of-cost to the academic community including research scholars and the students for their research activities. These CD ROM databases have been discontinued since 2003 given the fact that e-resources are now being made available to universities under the purview of UGC through the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The CD-ROM databases available at the INFLIBNET Library are as follows:
  • LISA: Library and Information Science Abstract [1969-2003]
  • Dissertation Abstracts International: Humanities & Social Sciences [1987-2003]
  • EconLit: Economic Literature [1969-2003]
  • EMBASE Drugs & Pharmacology CD [1986-2003]
  • Philosopher's Index [1999-2003]
  • PsycLit: Psychological Literature [1887-2003]
  • Sociofile: Sociological Abstracts [1974-2003]
  • Current Contents on Diskette: Social and Behavioral Sciences [1999-2003]
  • Inside Science [1999-2003]
  • Inside Social Science [1999-2003]
The Centre also subscribes to the following bibliographic databases of books that are being used for authenticating bibliographic records in union catalogues. These databases are also available to visiting users:
  • Ulrich's On Disc: International Periodicals Directory
  • ISSN Compact: The ISSN register on CD-ROM [1999, 2003]
  • NUCSAL: National Union Catalogue of Serials in Academic Libraries [2005]
  • BNB: British National Bibliography, Current file [1986-2001]
  • OCLC: Recent Books [1999]
  • OCLC: Old Books [1999]
  • OCLC: Serials [1999]
  • OCLC: Authority file [1999]
  • CDMARC: Subject Headings [1996]
  • CDMARC: Names [1996]
  • CDMARC: Holdings [1996]
The Centre has institutional membership of following national and international organizations:
  • Association for Information Management (ASLIB)
  • International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
  • American Library Association (ALA)
  • National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
  • Indian Library Association (ILA)
  • Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
  • Society for Information Science (SIS)
  • Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
  • Computer Society of India (CSI)
  • ADINET (Ahmedbad Library Nework)
  • American Resource Centre,
  • British Library, Ahmedabad
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