The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Waymade members and to sustain and preserve the collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
Waymade library has more than 7000 resources which include books, journals, dissertation/theses, audio/video materials etc. The library collection covers educational subjects like Education, Psychology, Philosophy, Educational Management, commerce, ICT, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Fictions, Poetry, and Reference, etc.
16 periodicals/magazines are subscribed to keep the users updated with the trends in the field.
User-friendly library software called SOUL (Software University Libraries) has been adopted at the Library. This is popular software facilitates automated circulation (issue & return) of the books and speedy access to bibliographies, locations and availability information of the books stocked in the library. Bar-coding on books and the automated issue and return facility of books reduce the waiting time.
Library has their own Institutional Repository with the help of DSpace software (an Open Source Software), which is having more than 80 online dissertation/theses within the campus. Moreover college library also has Online E-learning software installed called Moodle.
Library has database of content based search engine, which contains contents of journals/periodical. By this search engine students/faculty can save the time to search the content.
S.N. |
Kinds of Materials |
Quantity |
1 |
Books* |
|
|
a. General Books |
3549 |
|
b. Reference Books |
527 |
|
c. Text-books |
1829 |
|
d. Book Bank |
555 |
|
e. Reading Club |
64 |
2 |
Audio-visual |
|
|
a. CD ROM |
236 |
|
b. Audio Cassette |
76 |
|
c. Video Cassette |
22 |
3 |
Periodical/Magazine |
16 |
4 |
Newspapers |
5 |
5 |
E Books |
890+ |
6 |
Dissertation/Thesis |
436 |
|
Total Collection |
8205 |
List of Periodical / Magazine:
Sr. No. Name of the Periodicals/Magazines
1. “V”- Vidanagar
2. Shilshrutam
3. Down to Earth
4. India Today
5. University News
6. Quest in Education
7. Madhyamik Shikshan Ane Parikshan
8. Dimdima
9. Suganitam
10. EDUTRACKS
11. Competition Success Review
M.Ed.
12. Indian Education Review
13. Journal of Indian Education
14. Primary Shikshak (Hindi)
15. The Primary Teacher
16. School Science
17. Bharatiya Adhunik Shikshan (Hindi)
Library Services:
• Circulation Services
• News paper Clipping Service
• Reprographic Service
• New Arrivals Service
• Landing Library Loan Service (When needed)
• Reference & Information Service
• E-queries
• SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information)
• Current Awareness Services (CAS)
• Book Bank
• E-Books (890+ In-House)
• Search Engine for Contents of Journal
• Institutional Repository (80+ online Dissertation)
• E-Learning by Moodle (On-line Learning Software)
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