“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body” —Joseph Addison

Year of Establishment 1972

Information is the backbone of future & lies at the core of research and forms the mainstay of learning. Vidya Bharati ensures that students and teachers have access to almost inexhaustible sources of information. Our well stocked library has a wealth of information on a myriad of subjects and hosts a collection of 62015 volumes of books. Vidya Bharati Mahavidyalaya has an excellent library for the benefit of students, faculties and researchers. As one of the best established libraries according to International Standards, the College Library has a large collection of books covering various branches of knowledge viz. Humanities, Science, Commerce & Management Studies and its related fields. The library is nearly Four decades old. It is fully automated and well equipped with all resources, under the surveillance of CCTV. The library is well protected with fire-fighting facility. The college subscribes to a wide range of Books, Journals and Periodicals in all the areas of different streams of knowledge. Library starts it’s functioning at 7.30 am and closes at 9.00 pm. on all working days.

Special Features

1. Libsys supported fully Automated Library
2. Book Issuing as per Barcode System
3. Total Library Building area 4991.86 sq.ft.
4. Equipped with reading halls, Reference Section, Browsing facility with reprography.
5. Reading room facility for Competitive Exam.students.
6. Reading room capacity for 300 students.
7. Open access for all Students.
8. Special Services to other books, Competitive and NET/SET Examinations
9. Internet and OPAC facility.
10. Web OPAC
11. Bound volumes of periodicals and Journals available in the Library.
12. Fully automated equipped with fire-fighting facility.
13. Newspaper cutting of the college News.
14. Rare Book Collection
15. NVDA open Source Software and smart speaker ALEXA for Disabled students
16. Braille Books & Audio Talking book CD's for blind student
17. Classification of all books as for D.D.C classification system except Text books.
18. Special Book Collection
19. User Tracking System for Library Attendance
20. Library Portal
21. Well protected with CCTV security systems
22. Wi -Fi and Power backup facilities

Library Advisory Committee

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Library Committee – the governing body of the College Library System – formulates library policies for the guidance of the College Librarian. This Committee has Principal as its Chairperson and College Librarian as its Convener. Five members of the teaching faculty and one member of the Administrative staff as members of the committee. Three Students are nominated as its Members by the Principal for one academic year. The organogram of the Library is displayed below.

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr. P. S. Yenkar (Principal)	Chairperson
2	Dr. M. M. Kherde	Member
3	Dr. S. B. Kadu	Member
4	Prof. V. P. Shekokar	Member
5	Dr. P.G.Bansod	Member
6	Mr. B. K. Karamsot	Member
7	Dr. V. R. Shekhawat	Secretary
8	Mr. Rajesh Wankhade	Member

Details Of Faculty Members

Library Collection

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Sr. No.	Subject	No. of Books
SCIENCE		20879
1	Mathematics	2127
2	Physics	3886
3	Chemistry	3698
4	Botany	2700
5	Zoology+Vermiculture	2109
6	Electronics	2322
7	Computer Sc.+Web Design	2590
8	Environmental Sc.	154
9	Cosmetic Technology	1293
COMMERCE		22747
10	Commerce	3551
ARTS		16586
13	English	3002
14	Marathi	3125
15	Hindi	476
16	Economics	1186
17	History	1779
18	Political science	1462
19	Sociology	1568
20	Psychology	1209
21	Library Science	1115
22	Physical Education	212
23	Competitive Exam.	1452
24	Junior College	1237

Reference & Non Book Material Collection

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Sr. No.	Non Book Material	Total
1	C.D.'s and Videos	456
2	News Papers	19
3	Periodicals	106
4	Bound Volume	3802
5	Dissertation/Thesis	525
6	E-Books	3432333
7	Reference Books	3059
8	E-Journals	8000

Newspaper List

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Sr. No.	Name of Newspaper	Language
1	Hindustan	Marathi
2	Janmadhyam	Marathi
3	Deshonnati	Marathi
4	Matrubhumi	Marathi
5	Punnanagri	Marathi
6	Lokmat	Marathi
7	Loksatta	Marathi
8	Tarun Bharat	Marathi
9	Sakal	Marathi
10	Diwya Marathi	Marathi
11	Maharashtra Times	Marathi
12	Pratidin	Hindi
13	Lokmat Samachar	Hindi
14	Nawbharat	Hindi
15	The Hitavada	English
16	The Hindu	English
17	The Indian Express	English
18	Times of India	English
19	Urdu Times	Urdu

Journals / Periodicals

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Sr. No.	Name of Journal & Periodical
CHEMISTRY (05)
1	Journal of Chemical Sciences (online)
2	Indian Journal of Chemistry
3	Journal of Soil and Crops
4	Asian Journal of Chemical & Envoi.. Research
5	Dream (online)
PHYSICS (08)
6	Bulletin of Material Science
7	Journal of Earth system Science
8	Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics
9	Journal of Physics ( Pramana )
10	Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
11	Engineering Sciences (Sadhana)
12	Science Reporter
13	Indian Journal of Physics
BIOLOGY (03)
14	Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Science
15	Indian Journal of Experimental Biology
16	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
BOTANY (05)
17	Journal of Biosciences
18	Pollution Research
19	Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
20	Current Science
21	Current Agriculture Research Journal
ZOOLOGY (02)
22	Environment & Ecology
23	Journal of Genetics
MATHEMATICS (03)
24	Mathematical Sciences (Proceedings)
25	Journal of Indian Mathematical Society
26	Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences Section-E-Math. & Stat.
ELECTRONICS (01)
27	Electronics for you
COMPUTER SCIENCE (01)
28	Open Source for You
MANAGEMENT / COMMERCE / MCA (38)
29	Asian Journal of Management Cases
30	Competition Success Review
31	Forbes India
32	Foreign Trade Review
33	Global Business Review
34	Indian Journal of Finance
35	Indian Journal of Human Resource Development and Management
36	Indian Journal of Integrated Marketing Communication and Digital Marketing
37	Indian Journal of Marketing
38	Indian Journal of Micro. And Small Business Management
39	International Journal of Rural Management
40	IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review
41	Journal Entrepreneurship
42	Journal of Emerging Market Finance
43	Journal of Human Values
44	Metamorphosis A Journal of Management Research
45	Outlook Business
46	South Asian Journal of Business and Mgt. Cases
47	Udhyojak
48	Vikalpa : Journal of Decision Makers
49	Vision : Journal of Business perspectives
50	Inventi Impact : Artificial Intelligence
51	Inventi Impact : Cloud Computing
52	ICTACT Journal of Soft Computing
53	Indian Journal of Computer Graphics and Techniques
54	Indian Journal of Computer and Internet Security
55	Indian Journal of Data Mining and Warehouse
56	Indian Journal of Information Sciences and Computer Application
57	Indian Journal of Information Security and Computer
58	Indian Journal of Mobile Communication , Networking and Applications
59	International Journal of Computational Intelligence In Control
60	International Journal of Computing and Application
61	International Journal of Wireless Sensor Networks and Application
62	International Journal of Block chains and Crypto currencies
63	Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation
64	Journal of Neural Computing Systems
65	Journal of Cyber Security Technology
66	Employment News
COSMETIC TECHNOLOGY (02)
67	Cosmetic & Toiletries
68	Inventi Impact : Cosmeceuticals
ENGLISH (05)
69	India Today
70	Outlook
71	Femina
72	The Atlantic Literary Review
73	The Atlantic Critical Review
MAATHI (10)
74	Aksharvaidharbhi
75	Sarvadhara
76	Akhsargatha
77	Bhawmala
78	Sadhana
79	Lalit
80	Saptahik Sakal
81	Tuhmi Aahmi Palak
82	Jadan Ghadan
83	Maha Anubhav
HINDI (02)
84	Meri Saheli
85	Gruhalaxmi
PSYCHOLOGY (02)
86	Journal of Psychological Research
87	The International Journal of Indian Psychology
ECONOMICS (02)
88	Arthasanwad
89	Business Today
HISTORY (01)
90	Sanshodhak
POLITICAL SCIENCE (02)
91	Journal of Advanced Research in Political Science and Governance
92	Yojana (Hindi Lang.)
SOCIOLOGY (03)
93	Sociological Bulletin
94	Yojana (Hindi Lang.)
95	Yojana (English Lang.)
EDUCATION (03)
96	University News
97	Journal of Science Education (Resonance)
98	Shikshan Sankraman
LIBRARY SCIENCE (03)
99	DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT)
100	Library Herald
101	Dnyangangotri
PHYSICAL EDUCATION (02)
102	Yog Sandesh
103	Yog Sudha
COMPETATIVE (10)
104	Chronicles
105	Competition Affairs
106	Competition Success Review
107	Pratiyogita Darpan
108	Kurushetra
109	Yashachi Parikarma
110	Lakshavedh
111	Chanakya Mandal
112	Drishti Current Affairs Today (English)
113	Drishti Current Affairs Today (Hindi)
MCVC / ITI (01)
114	Autocar India
GENERAL (05)
115	Frontline
116	Employment News
117	Someshwar Nokari Sandarbha
118	Rojgar Nokari Sandarbh
119	Amravati University Amravati (SGBAU)

Important Links

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1) About N-LIST

https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/
The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.

N-LIST: Four Components

The project has four distinct components, i.e. i) to subscribe and provide access to selected e-ShodhSindhu e-resources to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs) and monitor its usage; ii) to subscribe and provide access to selected INDEST e-resources to selected universities and monitor its usage; iii) to subscribe and provide access of selected e-resources to Govt./ Govt.-aided colleges and monitor its usage; and iv) to act as a Monitoring Agency for colleges and evaluate, promote, impart training and monitor all activities involved in the process of providing effective and efficient access to e-resources to colleges.
The INDEST and UGC-INFONET are jointly responsible for activity listed at i) and ii) above. The INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar is responsible for activities listed at iii) and iv) above. The INFLIBNET Centre is also responsible for developing and deploying appropriate software tools and techniques for authenticating authorized users.
Note: From Year 2014, N-LIST programme is subsumed under e-ShodhSindhu Consortium as college component. The colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing) in India are eligible to get access e-resources under N-LIST programme.

2) DELNET was started at the India International Centre Library in January 1988 and was registered as a society in 1992.
https://delnet.in
It was initially supported by the National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial Reseach, Government of India. It was subsequently supported by the National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
DELNET has been established with the prime objective of promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information besides offering computerised services to users, to coordinate efforts for suitable collection development and also to reduce unnecessary duplication wherever possible.
DELNET has been actively engaged with the compilation of various Union Catalogues of the resources available in member-libraries.It has already created the Union Catalogue of Books,Union List of Current Periodicals, Union Catalogue of Periodicals,CD-ROM Database,Database of Indian Specialists, Database of Periodical Articles, Union List of Video Recordings, Urdu Manuscripts' Database, Database of Theses and Dissertations, sample databases of language publications using GIST technology and several other databases. The data is being updated in these databases and is growing rapidly. All the DELNET databases have been resident on DELSIS, an in-house software developed on BASISPlus, an RDBMS, the product of Information Dimensions Inc. of USA which has been provided to DELNET courtesy National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.

3) Shodhganga - Shodhganga Resources and Information
https://www.shodhganga.com

4) National Digital Library (NDL) - National Digital Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

5) About NPTEL
https://nptel.ac.in
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003. Five core disciplines were identified, namely, civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering and mechanical engineering and 235 courses in web/video format were developed in this phase.
The main goal of NPTEL Phase II (2009-14) was to build on the engineering and core science courses launched previously in NPTEL Phase I. An additional 600 web and video courses were created in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level. Several improvements such as indexing of all video and web courses and keyword search were implemented.

6) SWAYAM:
https://swayam.gov.in
This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing these courses.
The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology.
In order to ensure that best quality content is produced and delivered, nine National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:
1. AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
2. NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
3. UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education
4. CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
5. NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
6. NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
7. IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
8. IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
9. NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme.
Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get certificates only if this criteria is matched. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.

7) The SWAYAM PRABHA
https://swayamprabha.gov.in
The Swayamprabha is a group of 34 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The channels are uplinked from BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.
PM eVidya is a unique and innovative venture by the Ministry of Education, Government of India to facilitate multi-mode access to digital/online teaching-learning contents of various types among students and teachers. The uniqueness of the PM e-Vidya lies with its comprehensive accessibility for all as it caters the education content to all with its multi-mode set-up of remote learning platforms including internet, radio, community radio, podcast, and TV.
One of the major initiatives of PM eVidya is 12 eVidya TV Channels based on the line of One Class-One Channel for class 1 to 12 to air educational content related to the respective classes. 12 eVidya DTH channels are especially useful for the learners of those remote areas where stable internet is not available. These channels telecast curriculum based educational contents developed by NCERT and other agencies such as CBSE, KVS, NIOS, Rotary, etc. The video contents have been developed in both Hindi and English medium. These video contents are superimposed with QR codes, which, if scanned using DIKSHA mobile app will take the users to the same content on DIKSHA portal.

8) DigiLocker or digital locker
https://digilocker.gov.in
It provides access to authentic virtual documents. It is a digital document wallet where you can store your documents such as driving license, PAN card, Voter ID, policy documents, etc. You can upload the documents and keep these safe when you sign up for a DigiLocker account.

9) The FOSSEE - Free/Libre and Open Source Software https://fossee.in (Open Access) The project at IIT Bombay has been promoting Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in a big way for a decade. It has created excellent free resources by contributions from students and faculty across India, and curated by the FOSSEE Team and other experts. FLOSS resources made available by FOSSEE will be very useful to colleges that plan to conduct online teaching in the next semester (Autumn 2020). Because of license issues, FLOSS is the only option for many institutions - this is the only product accessible to students from their homes. As a matter of fact, IIT Bombay is likely to use FLOSS in a big way during the next semester. Even if proprietary software is available, accessing the license keys through a VPN Server may create a lot of practical problems. Unauthorized use of commercial software is illegal and will bring a bad name to all. In this report, we point out some of the useful FLOSS and content available to everyone free of cost. We point out how to use them and how to get help, in case you plan to use some of them. We also invite everyone to join hands with FOSSEE and further improve the usability of FLOSS for the good of the Society. FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial projects are funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT, Ministry of Education (Formerly MHRD), Govt. of India.

10) What is Spoken Tutorial?
https://spoken-tutorial.org/accounts/login/
Spoken Tutorial is a multi-award winning educational content portal. Here one can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by oneself. Our self-paced, multi-lingual courses ensure that anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of their choice. All the content published on this website are shared under the CC BY SA license.
Our courses are simple and easy to follow even for a beginner but they also meet the growing needs of the learner. Our engaging digital content ensures that learning happens at all levels - Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Our content mandates side-by-side practice thereby ensuring that learners are actively learning. Many of the software taught, are used in various disciplines of Engineering, pure Sciences and several other Under-Grad and Post-Grad studies, and can be extended to Commerce, Arts and Management streams as well. Alongside these, there are some courses relevant at School level, too, which help school students to visualize difficult concepts of Math and Science. These can also be used by Teachers to prepare lesson plans, explain abstract concepts and give digital assignments to students.
The learning can happen in an organized manner as well. Faculty in institutes can organize their batch of students into groups, who will learn a particular software course for an entire semester. The ST course can be mapped to the Course/Lab manuals and systematic learning can take place. If the academic timetable permits, then a single student can learn upto 3 different ST courses in one semester during the designated academic Lab hours.
End-of-Course online tests and certificates are available for those who wish to test their expertise in a particular software. These certificates give an edge to students during placement by increasing their employability potential. For more details, please write to contact[at]spoken-tutorial[dot]org or visit https://process.spoken-tutorial.org/index.php/Software Training# Contacts_For_Training and contact the respective State Training Managers.
Forum help is also available on our website. To post questions on a particular portion of a specific tutorial, visit this web-page: https://forums.spoken-tutorial.org/ Other interesting information about our work can be found under the Main Menu tab items such as News, Academics, About and Statistics.
Details of our Software Training methodology and Content Creation methodology are available under the respective tab items in the Main Menu.
Under Maa aur Shishu project, from 2018 onwards, we have created educational tutorials on Breastfeeding, various holds of breastfeeding, complementary feeding, maternal nutrition, breastfeeding difficulties and infant care topics, dubbed into 14 languages, used to train Anganwadi workers, ASHA workers, auxiliary nurses, nursing students and lady health visitors. Through these trainings, we have reached out to thousands of mothers and care-givers in rural areas of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa. President’s Poshan Award was received by two health workers from Melghat, Maharashtra, for their work based on the Spoken Tutorial methodology.

11) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
https://www.doabooks.org
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open access books to DOAB. DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. It runs on the open source DSpace 6 platform. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.

12) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
https://doaj.org
DOAJ is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA).[1] The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control.[2] DOAJ defines those as open access journals where an open license is used so that any user is allowed immediate free access to the works published in the journal and is permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of [the] articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose.[2] The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals".[3]
In 2015, DOAJ launched a reapplication process based on updated and expanded inclusion criteria. At the end of the process (December 2017), close to 5,000 journals, out of the 11,600 indexed in May 2016, had been removed from their database, in majority for failure to reapply.[4][5][6] This substantial cleanup notwithstanding, the number of journals included in DOAJ has continued to grow, to reach 14,299 as of 3 March 2020.[7]
As of December 2020, the independent database contains more than 15,647 open access journals and 5,478,8537 articles covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.[3]
DOAJ provides a spreadsheet on Google Sheets that has been updated since March 2014 and identifies the journals added and the journals removed with the justification for the removal.

13) ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
http://www.onlinenewspaper.com

14) GUTENBERG
https://www.gutenberg.org

15) Boston Book Company
http://www.rarebook.com
Our business was started in the late 70s by two women who opened a general old book shop with an emphasis on literature. Soon they had moved into general rare books as well. Charles joined his partner Helen Kelly at Boston Book Company in 1979 and became a principal, bringing his interest and specialization in Japan and East Asia. Within the last decade, books, albums and ephemera from this area have become our main emphasis. Charles spends about half his time in Japan and otherwise on the road, with a base in Kyoto. We are proud to have one of the finest inventories of its kind in the world.
Boston Book Company is located at 705 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, Massachusetts. In business since 1979, we are about to celebrate our 40th year selling books in Boston. The shop is located on the second floor of a 19th Century brick building in the downtown area of this Boston neighborhood.

16) http://openknowledgeworldbank.org

17) http://www.nobalprize.org

18) The Universal Library
http://www.ulib.org
The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access. Libraries have played a vital role in the advancement of human society. Societal advance depends on young people having access to books via libraries and other means. We expect that making this unique web resource available free to everyone around the world will enhance the learning process.
Libraries are unevenly distributed around the world and within each country. In the U.S., the NCES Survey noted that in 1996, 3,408 of 3,792 institutions of higher education had libraries holding 806.7 million volumes. The 112 largest university libraries in the United States and Canada each have at least 1.8 million books. They are members of the Association for Research Libraries. Massachusetts has about 25 million volumes; New York has about 31 million volumes, and California has about 40 million volumes in their ARL Libraries (Association for Research Libraries, 1999/2000). Other states, such as North and South Dakota , have no large libraries. A few large public libraries have several million volumes. However, most junior colleges, high schools, and public libraries have much smaller collections. Making this large knowledge repository can revolutionize research at all levels of education and give a much-needed boost at minimal cost to our national educational infrastructure. This impact will be further enhanced given the convenience of online access, and the benefit of full text searching at word and phrase levels.
A secondary benefit of online search is to make locating the relevant information inside of books far more reliable and much easier. Student success in finding exactly what they seek will increase and increased success will enhance student willingness to perform research using this large resource. NCES reports that 84 percent of libraries around the country are open between 60 and 80 hours a week. This digital library would be open all the 168 hours the week on a 24x7x365 basis. More than one individual will be able to use the same book at the same time. Thus, popular works will not be checked out and thus unavailable to others.
This project will produce an extensive and rich test bed for use in further textual language processing research. It is hoped that at least 10,000 books among the million will be available in more than one language, providing a unique resource for example based machine translation.
Many believe that information is now doubling every two years. Machine summarization, intelligent indexing, and information mining are tools that will be needed for individuals to keep up in their discipline work, in their businesses, and in their personal interests. This large digitization project will enable extensive research in these areas.

19) OATD - Open Access Theses and Dissertations
http://oatd.org
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,860,381 theses and dissertations.

20) SSRN
http://www.ssrn.com
SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks.

21) RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
http://repec.org/
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data are then used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it.

22) OAPEN - Online Library and Publication Platform
www.oapen.org
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

23) The Internet Archive
http://archive.org
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 25+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 750+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages.

24) The World Digital Library (WDL)
http://www.wdl.org
Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.
After more than 10 years of operation, WDL is now celebrating its success as a world-wide collection of cross-cultural treasures by transitioning into a sustainable home for perpetual access on the Library of Congress’s main website. This transition is expected to be completed by the end of calendar year 2021, providing a view these resources as a coherent collection, while allowing the WDL material to benefit from ongoing enhancements to the loc.gov website.

25) Open DOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories
www.opendoar.org
Open DOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. We host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within Open DOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by a member of our editorial team which enables us to offer a trusted service for the community.
The service launched in 2005 as the product of a collaborative project between the University of Nottingham and Lund University, funded by OSI, Jisc, SPARC Europe and CURL.

26) ROAR - The Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://roar.eprint.org

27) KRISHIKOSH
http://krishikosh.eqranth.ac.in

28) SAHITYA CHINTAN
http://sahityachintan.com
Sahitya Chintan eBook Reader - Your Pocket Books Library.
Sahitya Chintan eBook Reader is World's largest platform where you can read and download free e-books, stories, books, poems, articles, magazines in English as well as Indian Regional languages Freely.

29) MARATHI VISHWAKOSH
http://marathivishwakosh.maharashgtra.gov.in
दिनांक १ मे १९६० रोजी महाराष्ट्र राज्याची स्थापना झाली आणि मराठी भाषेच्या विकासाची नवी दालने खुली झाली. महाराष्ट्र राज्याचे पहिले मुख्यमंत्री स्व. यशवंतराव चव्हाण यांनी मराठी भाषा, साहित्य, संस्कृती आणि ज्ञाननिर्मिती यांचा विकास करण्याकरिता जी अनेक पावले उचलली, त्यांतले महत्त्वाचे पाऊल म्हणजे दि. १ नोव्हेंबर १९६० रोजी महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य आणि संस्कृती मंडळाची स्थापना. आधुनिक जग हे ज्ञान आणि माहिती यांचे जग म्हणून ओळखले जाते. यामध्ये ज्ञाननिर्मिती, ज्ञानसंवर्धन आणि ज्ञानप्रसार या तिन्हीं गोष्टींचा समावेश होतो. याचा विचार करून महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य संस्कृती मंडळाच्या अंतर्गत मराठी विश्वकोशाचा प्रकल्प हाती घेण्यात आला. मानव्यविद्या आणि विज्ञान व तंत्रज्ञान या दोन ज्ञानशाखांमध्ये जेवढे विषय असतील, त्या सर्वांची माहिती मराठी वाचकांना उपलब्ध करून द्यावी हे विश्वकोशाचे प्रमुख उद्दिष्ट होते. या मंडळाकडून मराठी विश्वकोशाच्या नऊ खंडांचे प्रकाशन करण्यात आले.
पुढे विश्वकोशाच्या कामाची वाढती व्याप्ती लक्षात घेऊन दि. १ डिसेंबर १९८० रोजी साहित्य संस्कृती मंडळाचे विभाजन होऊन मराठी विश्वकोशाच्या संपादन आणि प्रकाशन कार्यार्थ महाराष्ट्र राज्य मराठी विश्वकोश निर्मिती मंडळाची स्थापना करण्यात आली. या आधी महाराष्ट्रीय ज्ञानकोश हा अनेक शास्त्रांचे ज्ञान मराठी भाषेतून करून देणारा प्रकल्प श्रीधर व्यंकटेश केतकर यांनी स्वबळावर हाती घेऊन पूर्ण केलेला आहे.

30) VAIDIKA VIGNYANAM
Vignanam.org/mobile
Vaidika Vignyanam includes not just vedas, but everything that is derived from Vedas as well. If Vedas are like trees, then scriptures like Ramayanam, Bhagawad Gita, Slokas, Stotrams, Mantras, and Devotional Keertanas are like fruits and flowers from these trees. They are as as important and respectable as Vedas themselves. The goal of this Web site is to capture all of that information in a single place.
In this site, you will find the spiritual and devotional literature in various Indian languages. The purpose of this site is to serve everyone with the vast amount of Indian literature that is available, which is sometimes hard to find, especially on the Internet.
Please comment if there any typos in any of the stotrams. Although utmost care has been taken care to avoid typos and any mistakes, if you notice any errors, please point that out by emailing contact@vignanam.org. Finally, you are most welcome to contribute to the site. Your name will be recognized as the contributor of the content and if you are interested in adding content to the site, please visit https://www.vignanam.org/contribute.htm or email to contact@vignanam.org.
Most of the content in this site is based on Sanskrit or Samskritam. You can read translations to understand their content, but the best way would to be learn the language so that you can derive your own meaning. Samskrita Bharati (India and USA) is an excellent resource for learning the Sanskrit language. The Sanskrit Dictionary is also a valuable resource to find meaning of specific words. The beauty of the literature is realized if you can understand the individual words directly without the usage of any translation. Most of the translations miss the beauty of the literature, which is the poetry and the experiments with the words the author often performs. Most of the popular Sanskrit literature is in the form of poetry in the form of Slokas, Stotrams or Vedic Scriptures which adhere to a specific meter in chanting them, rather than prose which is a mere text explaining thoughts. The same meaning can often be expressed in a hundred different ways if written in prose, but when using poetry according to a Chandas (meter), one needs to be careful about the selection of the words. In ancient Indian literature written by enlightned Rishis, these Slokas or Stotrams often come naturally and the beauty of the Scripture is fully understood only when one goes back to the source by reading the Sanskrit Slokas and Stotrams and understanding them. There is so much power in these words that one is believed to attain Punyam (vitue) just by chanting these Slokas or Stotrams without understanding the meaning, but the benefit of chanting them by understanding every word of it is immensely powerful.
Vaidika Vignanam was founded in 2006 as an online collection of spiritual and devotional literature in Indian languages. It started as a blog and then later evolved into a full website in 2010 as https://vignanam.org. It was created primarily as a website to catalog the Stotrams for myself. Over time, it has emerged as a popular resource to find the lyrics to popular Stotrams like Hanuman Chalisa, Lingashtakam, Aditya Hrudayam, etc. in Indian languages. Over the past years, I have added several Stotrams to the site with help from other contributors. Our goal is to make it a resource for accessing all of our scriptures in one place.
My name is Srinivas Vadrevu. By profession, I am a Computer Scientist and a Software Engineer. I am also a spiritual seeker, and like many of you, I’ve been searching for the meaning of life for several years. Although I haven’t exactly found that yet, I have learned that the rich Indian culture I was born into offers me several ways to get closer to my answer and provide me the joy in living my life fully and happily. The primary tools that I use for this are Vedam, Samskritam, and Samskriti. Together, these essential tools have guided me and helped me to navigate this complex thing, known as life, and helped me face difficult situations.
I am grateful to have multiple key contributors and influencers over the years who motivated and helped shape the work and provided valuable suggestions and critical feedback, including my family members, friends, and well-wishers.
My humble Pranams and respects to my Poojya guruvulu Brahmasri Marepalli Naga Venkata Sastri garu. My sincere gratitude and respect to many of my Samskritam teachers and students at Samskrita Bharati over the past several years, who have guided me in my study of Samskritam. I am also grateful to my fellow Vedam and Samskritam students, who have helped me to see the right perspectives of life.


Sincerely,
Srinivas Vadrevu

Library Facilities

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    •  Book Bank Scheme
    •  Inter Library Loan
    •  Newspaper Clipping
    •  Digital Library( Library Repository)
    •  Reprographic /Printing
    •  Internet Facility
    •  Live Streaming of Lectures through DTH
    •  Web OPAC Facility
    •  Competitive Exam Reading Space
    •  College Magazine
    •  Display Article's, Research Paper & Advertisement of U.P.S.C/ M.P.S.C. Examination on Notice Board
    • Lecture Capturing System (LCS)
    • Display New Arrival books

Library Services

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1. Orientation to Fresher’s
2. Issue/ Return Books
3. Reference Service
4. Digital Library
5. University collaboration (Study Room)
6. Career Corner
7. Reading Room
8. Question Papers Depository

Best practices

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   •  Best Reader Award
   •  Regular feedback and suggestions from user.
   •  Service attitude Improvement.
   •  User Orientation & Information Literacy to students.
   •  Inclusion of library information in college prospectus.
   •  Career/ Employment information display.
   •  Display New Arrival books.
   •  Organize book exhibition.

Library Membership

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Necessary documents For Teachers and Students

  •   Membership form (available at library)
  •   Colour Photo
✓   For New Membership and renewal of Membership

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Notice

     1. New I-Card
     • All the Students, who have taken admission in the college should take Membership of Library within one month.
     2. Please bring following document for New I-Cards
     • Admission fee Receipt

Library Rules

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Book Circulation

1. Books are issued against the library membership cards on all working days till 5:30 pm.
2. Reference books and periodicals will not be issued for home reading.
3. Students must examine the books taken by them and report to the librarian if the books are in a damaged condition before taking         them away.
4. Any book lost or damaged, must be replaced with the same one or latest edition. (in case of multi volume set, complete set should         be replaced).
5. Journals publication, Dictionaries, bound volume and such other documents cannot be taken on Library account or I-Card except         with the permission of the Library authority.
6. For Reading Room purpose book will be issued on I-Card and this book will be return same day.
7. Book should be return to the library on or before due date. If not return in due date he/she pay due charge.

Stack Room

1. No member will be allowed to the take in the stack room bags or other similar material.
2. While inside the libraries and Reading room no member will be allows break the silence by talking or by action of any kind, eating        food and sleep on the table.
3. Do not damage to any fitting, furniture books or other kinds of reading material of the library.

Digital Library

1. Internet/Digital facility is for all Students.
2. Every student will get 1 hr. for the use of internet.
3.Playing games, chatting, downloading any pictures, Videos, songs & misuse of internet is not allowed.
4.Do not save any material on pc.
5. Printing/ Downloading is allowed with prior Permission of Librarian.
6. Printing/Xeroxing will be provided on payment.

General Rules

1. Students must sign in the entry register of the library before entering.
2. Library is a place for serious study and research. So strict silence is to be maintained.
3. Every staff/student of the college is eligible for membership of the library.
4. The library card must be returned on the completion of the course. In case of loss of membership card, no fine is charged and         fresh card will be issued only against the application in writing to the librarian.
5. The library can utilize by students and staff from 7.30 am to 9 pm on all working days. (except public holidays).
6. Mobile not allowed in library campus.
7. For Details rules see the Notice board of Library.
8. Any difficulty about Library immediately contact to the Librarian.

Library Timings

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Library Opening Time – Morning 07.30 am to 09.30 pm
Book Issue - Monday to Friday - 10.30 am. To 05.30 pm.
Book Issue on Saturday – 10.30am To 02.30 pm.
Reading Room - Monday to Saturday - 07.30 am. To 09.00 pm.

Collaboration

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Library is collaborated with Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Knowledge Resource Center (KRC). This collaboration provides the online databases with remote access to our college library. The students who access this facility have to pay Rs. 50 per month.

Activity Conducted

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• National Conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Sciences.’

The Library organized a Plenary Sessions on
   • Knowledge Management System in Academic Libraries
   • Current Trends in Library and Information Science

• Celebration of Dr. S. R. Ranganathan Birth Anniversary

Every year Library celebrated Library Day and Birth Anniversary of Dr. S. R. Rangnathan. On the occasion Library organized the Book Exhibition to inculcate the reading habit among the students. The programme was celebrated by garlanding the portrait of Dr. S. R. Rangnathan by Hon`ble Dr. P.S.Yenkar, Principal of the college. She guided the students that they must read the competitive examination and career guidance books other than subject books to explore the knowledge and get the better jobs. In the Book exhibition books on Competitive Exam, Text books, Essays, Quiz and General Knowledge etc. were exhibited for the students and staff.

• Students Interaction

Disseminating the information about library to newly entrants

• Programme on Reading Day

As per the directions of State Government, Library celebrated ‘Reading Day’ with a view to promote and preserve the reading culture among the students and to encourage the students to spend at least half an hour out of working hours for reading. The day is observed to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of late Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

• Newspaper Clippings on Various Subject

Students prepared Projects on various topics by Paper cuttings using News, articles, editorials and reviews published in daily News papers as a source of information. The projects were evaluated by Committee members and the ‘Best Clipping Project’ award was felicitated on the day of Felicitation ‘Sanmaan.’

Vidya Niketan Study Center

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The center is a unique creation of the institution for the well-being of the students and society. It is an additional facility made available on campus so that the youth can prepare for university examinations as well as competitive examinations. It is even made available to youth other than our regular college students.
          The Centre is situated on College Campus in a separate round shaped building and was inaugurated at the hands of the Honorable Founder President of Vidya Bharati Shaikshanik Mandal Dr. Devisingh R. Shekhawat in the year 2017 on 1st February. The center presently has seating facility for 500 students.
                 The study center remains open between 7.00 a.m. to 11.00 p.m on all the working days, Sundays & Holidays.
Following are the rules and regulations for making use of the Study Centre:
•  Membership is available to:
                ✓ Under-Graduate Students and Post-Graduate students of the college and outside the college
                ✓ NET/SET, M.Phil./Ph.D./Competitive exam aspirants
                ✓ Students of nearby colleges in Amravati City need to forward their membership forms through their College Principal
• Students can bring their study material along with them, study center staff won’t be responsible for misplace of study material
• Talking over mobile is strictly prohibited in the Study Centre

The students, who would like to avail this facility, may please contact Dr. V. R. Shekhawat, Librarian, Vidya Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Amravati at the e-mail address shekhawatamt@gmail.com

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Contact Information

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Name : Dr. V. R. Shekhawat

Designation : Librarian

Mobile : +919822740260

Email Id : shekhawatamt@gmail.com