AMIYA GRANTHAGAR
From the very origin of this institution, special emphasis has been laid on the enrichment of library, and increasing its resourcefulness. The college library, along with the college, got its affiliation in 1946. With the support of Mr. B. G. Rao and his better-half Mrs. Amiya Rao, the first principal of this college, and the educationists of this region, the college library began a glorious journey that has remained intermittent till now. It was in 1948 that the building of the college got shifted from Begamkuthi to Barrack Square and the library was named ‘Amiya Granthagar’. In July 1956 the college, along with its library was shifted to its present building. However, because of the dearth of a separate library building, the small room of the then Communicative English Dept. had been used as the library hall.
During the 60’s the northern and southern blocks of the college building were integrated and the hall room in the ground floor of the two-storied building built on the western side of the college (presently room no. 13) came to house the library.
Later on, with the financial aid of UGC a separate library building was erected. On 6th September 1964 honorable education secretary of West Bengal Dr. Dhirendra Mohan Sen inaugurated the newly built college library. This library section on the ground floor consisted of three rooms- the first room on the northern side was used as the library office; the second one was used as the main stack; the third room was used as the reading room.
Gradually, the institution has undergone great extension. Consequently, the quantity of books and articles has also increased greatly, and the reading room gradually got transformed into second stack room.
In 1992 with the grant-in-aid of UGC the 1st floor of the library building was erected and consequently the library got its present form and entity. To fulfill the requirement of users and shortage of Library Staff it becomes essential to establish the total library in a single floor. So we shifted the functional books and rare books of the ground floor to the 1st floor and arranged in the adjacent room of 1st floor.
VISION
Our vision is to fulfill the five laws of Library Science, stated by Father of Library Science in India – Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan.
Five laws of Library Science are-
- Books are for use
- Every reader his /her book
- Every book its reader
- Save the time of the reader
- The Library is a growing organism
MISSION
To Fulfill our vision we involve ourselves in the following activities:-
- Provide Open Access facility
- Provide WebOPAC facility
- Organise Book Exhibitions in various important days of the year
- Organise Webiner, Seminer, Special Lecture, Workshop etc.
- Beside scheduled Orientation Programme we always oriented our students about use of library.
- Furnished the reading place with their necessary documents.
- Showcasing various special collections and rare collections for increasing their interest of research work.