"Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand(still), philosophy lame, letter dumb and all things involved in Cimmerian Darkness."

--Thomas Bertholins

Library is the brain of any educational institution of higher learning. It is the hub around which all the academic activities of the institution revolve. The central library of Eternal University is in computerization process and is stocked with thousands of books authored by authorities on the subject. The intake of books is a regular feature in the library and no important title related to the courses of study is missed. In addition to the course books general books for personality development, general knowledge, handbooks, yearbooks, reference books etc. are also added to the collections. The library subscribes to national and international subject journals, magazines of current interest along with national and regional dailies to keep the students abreast with the day to day happenings in the world and their fields of study. The duplex library is stylishly furnished and it can seat 200 students at a time in its spacious reading halls& Students can also access 50 Computers for internet access. The serene atmosphere in the library with rows of neatly stacked books plays a major role in attracting the students to the library for serious study and supplementing their class notes.

The central library has a collection of 22000 volumes and subscribes to 54 periodicals. Apart from books it has a huge collection of Audio video material, CD’s & DVD’s. The Library has a collection of over 300 CDs/ DVDs on different subjects. Ample space with adequate no. of terminals dedicated for the digital/e-resources, has been provided within the premises of the Library for maximum use of the services.

• The Library subscribes to online resources through J-Gate Consortium and has access to over 1435 scholarly Engineering & Technology Journals.

• The Library is also providing access to the curriculum based video and web courses through National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) & MIT Course Ware &to enhance the quality of education.

LIBRARY AUTOMATION

Library automation is the general term for information and communications technologies that are used to replace manual organizational systems in the Library.The take off the automation process was in August 2009, when the first step of classification of the Library collection was started following Library of Congress (USA) based upon On Line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) using 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme. Up to now we have classified the whole lot.

The second process of cataloguing of the collection started in Sept 2010 when PHI Alma Library Automation Software installed in the Eternal University. This Process is being carried out in two modes i.e. cataloguing and by printing & fixing of Bar Codes for each book available in the Library. This way will lead to us towards completion of On Line Public access catalogue (OPAC) of the University Library which will be accessible on LAN, MAN & WAN area networks.

BENEFITS OF AUTOMATING THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

• Library automation is beneficial to students, librarians, faculty members, administrators and parents for various reasons. The library is the resource center that supports and enhances the curriculum for the University. Students can expand their horizons more effectively with an automated library. Teachers can reinforce their classroom instruction with assignments that guide students to research opportunities within the University Library. An automated library helps administrators complete accreditation requirements for the university. Parents can feel good about the university library being available to their students anytime the students want to access it via a Web browser. Everyone benefits when the University Library is automated.

• The cost of automating the library is less expensive than maintaining a traditional card catalog.

• The in-built network feature of the software will allow multiple libraries of the university to function together as well as access to the distributed databases installed at various university libraries and union catalogue mounted at INFLIBNET using VSAT network.