Library Services & Facilities

                                                                          

                       ST. VINCENT PALLOTTI COLLEGE

              Library and Information Centre

               Chellikere, Kalyan Nagar Bangalore-560043

        stvplibrary@gmail.com


 

         Library Hours

             1. Monday To Friday -  8.30 AM to 4.30 PM

              2. Saturday -                  8.30AM  to  1.30PM



                                                    Services & Facilities

Open Access

The greatest advantage that a Library can offer to its readers is its open access or open shelf system. This system enables the users to have direct and easy access to the book collection providing good opportunity and freedom to examine and browse the books. It encourages the users to develop a closer acquaintance with the diversity of information sources available in the Library. Keeping this in mind, the Library is practicing Open Access System.

 

Circulations of Books

The users are eligible to borrow books against identity card/borrower's ticket for a period of 15 days. The books kept in reference section and the periodicals normally will not be issued. However under certain conditions the reference textbooks are issued to the faculty for overnight reference and return. Those who fail to return/renew the books within a specified due date will be levied an overdue charge of Rs One per book per day.

 

New Arrivals

Some selected titles of new books acquired by the Library are displayed in 'New Arrivals' racks for the benefit of users. These books will be on display for at least one week and after that they will be made available to borrow.

 

News Paper Clipping Service

Newspaper clipping service is one of the most important service in a Library. This service is one of the most important service in a Library. The press clipping means the screening, scanning/cutting of news items etc., daily from newspapers in an organisation and sending them via e-mail to officials, decision-makers, Faculties etc., who will find them useful. SVPC Library has also undertaken such service.

 

Reference service

Reference service means "Process of establishing contact between a user and his requirements in a personal way". It is a personal service, which involves various activities, aimed at making information available to the users as easily as possible. SVPC Library is having a sound reference source collection. Professional staff of the library make use of these resources as well as those resources available outside the Library. Either our staff may give the information which is required by the users or they guide them to browse the documents which contain the required information, depending upon their requirements.

 

Ready reference service 

In ready reference service Library staff will answer the users queries with the help of dictionaries, encyclopedias, yearbooks, etc., which are more or less fact-finding questions. On the other hand Library staff also undertake long range service for the benefit of the user’s community. In this service, Library will offer the users the list of books on a given subject on demand.


The SVPC Library Provides The Following Services.

All the students, the researchers, the faculty members and the employees of the SVPC -Aare eligible for the membership of the Library. The registered members are issued Borrower’s Ticket corresponding to their entitlement. Without the membership registration, no documents can be borrowed. To get the Library membership students have to produce the below mentioned documents:

  • Fill the Library  Membership -Google form and submit one Stamp size Photo 

SVPC Library is initiated in issuing bar-coded library identity cards for all its members. The entitlements, in terms of the number of books that can be borrowed by the members, are as follows.

  • Faculty Members Five Cards for one Month Issue Period
  • Non Teaching Staff  Two Cards for one Month Issue Period
  • UG Students Two Cards for fifteen days Issue Period
  • UG SC/ST Students + Two  Cards for Full Semester Issue Period
  • PUC  Students Two  Cards for fifteen days Issue Period
  • PUC SC/ST Students + Two  Cards for Full Semester Issue Period
  • College ID Card Compulsory

                       

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