LIBRARY

Principal´ Desk   Librarian´s Desk
Dear Readers, Greetings from Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati, Assam. An academic library is always a ‘Knowledge Hub’, where the students, teachers and other academic fraternity receive the ‘key for lifelong learning’. Here one can experience an effective, meaningful and joyful learning. Our library is committed to provide that learning facilities to our college community so that they can excel in life.

Dr. Ranjit Sarma
Principal		   We are committed to serve our users with utmost dedication recognizing the value of Indian culture and the need of modern education in global perspective. Rajabala Das Library always facilitates the college fraternity with its updated collection of both print & e-resources and a conducive environment of self-learning to support the Teaching-Learning process. We always assist and encourage our users to learn how to learn to succeed in life, having the courage and strength to walk on the path of truth, humility and humanity

Dr. Nabajyoti Das
Librarian

ABOUT THE LIBRARY

Handique Girls" College, Guwahati is a premier institution of higher education in North East India, which was established on 16th July, 1939.. The College was established by a legendry lady Rajabala Das and has been titled in the honour of the great Radhakanta Handique, who donated 2.5 bighas of land and a capital amount for the cause of higher education for women in Assam.

The great determination of higher education for girls students and love for education of Rajabala Das led the establishment of Handique Girls" College. The Central Library of Handique Girls" College was established along with the establishment of the college in 1939. The first library professional of the library was Late Jogeswar Sharma with a designation of Clark Librarian. In the year 2008 the college authority has decided to modernize the library and shifted the library to a new building located centrally within the college campus comprising of 4924.50 sqft. area in August 2009. The library is named as “Rajabala Das Library” in honour of the founder principal of the college. It is easily accessible to the user community. The library has undergone an expeditious growth in terms of its resources, and infrastructures as time progressed.

The Rajabala Das library plays a very critical role in supporting the academic programmes of the college. It identifies, evaluates, procures, process and then makes these learning resources available to the faculty and students for their teaching-learning and research assignments.

OBJECTIVES

The Rajabala Das Library"s objectives are to-

  • 1. To support teaching-learning needs of the students, teachers and other members
  • 2. To develop comprehensive resources in the Course Curriculum of the college
  • 3. To disseminate the knowledge to the stakeholders and to reach them
  • 4. To create a conducive environment to stimulate knowledge creation among its stakeholders
  • 5. To nurture and promote quality and excellence in education
  • 6. To cooperate with other libraries to meet the expectation and needs of the user.

 

ACCESS TYPE

The Rajabala Das Library provides Open Access to its collection. The library with its open access system and spacious reading area provides an atmosphere conducive to the excitement of mental discovery. Students are encouraged to become sagacious users of the library which is a welcome haven for intellectual pursuits. Moreover, the departmental libraries maintained by both Arts and Science departments provide additional help to students and teachers in their academic pursuits.


CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM USED

The library is using the Dewey Decimal Classification system, 22nd edition for organizing its collection.

CATALOUGUING SYSTEM USED

The printed books are catalogued in the predefined format of SOUL 2.0 software i.e. MARC 21 format.


SOFTWARE USED

The Rajabala Das Library is using SOUL 2.0 Software developed by the INFLIBNET Centre-an IUC of UGC to automate it"s all housekeeping operations. All the bibliographic data of library collection including serials of the library are fed into the SOUL 2.0 software. Library has built up its digital library cum Institutional Repository with DSPACE