Library offers circulation services, reference services, Electronic information services, Digital Library services, consultancy services, reprography services etc. to the users.

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Books are circulated among the users of the college. The members are eligible to borrow the number of books given against each category.

Cateogry	No. of Books	Loan Period (Days)
Teaching Staff	10	14
Students (U.G.)	3	14
Students (P.G.)	5	14
Research Scholars	5	14
Non-Teaching Staff	5	14
Guest Lecturers	5	14

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Library has a very good collection of reference books and bound volumes of magazines and journals. The reference collection consists of Multi volumes of Mc Graw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and technology, Britannica Encyclopedia, Book of knowledge etc.
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Library catalog can be accessed online.
Koha - Library OPAC

Institutional repository of scholarly contents of our faculty members is set up with open source software ‘DSpace’ also can be accessed through our intranet.
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Digital Library is designed with DSpace open source software. DSpace open source software is a turnkey repository application used by more than 1000+ organizations and institutions worldwide to provide durable access to digital resources.

192.168.168.49/xmlui (Accessible from the Campus only)
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Library provides support for other libraries in setting up of collection, designing library, library automation, building digital library etc.
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The library has undergone a great deal of development in terms of its collection of information resources in both print and electronic format during the last five years. The statistics of the collection is given below.

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Sl. No.	Item	Count
1	Books	31665
	Book (Titles)	19305
2	Journals	84
	Journals (International)	18
	Journals (Indian)	36
	Journals (Peer Reviewed)	20
	Boun Volumes	1439+
	Magazines	23
3	Newspapers	11
4	Career Resources
	Books	112
	Magazines	10
5	Books Under Various Schemes	174
	NET Coaching	66
	Entry-In-Service	46
	Remedial Coaching	62

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1. Chandrika
2. Deepika
3. Deshabhimani
4. Kerala Kaumudi
5. Maadhyamam
6. Malayala Manorama
7. Mathrubhumi
8. Janmabhumi
9. Business Line
10. The Hindu
11. The New Indian Express

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List of Journals
List of Bound Volumes
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N-LIST

Library subscribes N-LIST – electronic resource package offered to the colleges by INFLIBNET. It consists of E-Journals and E-books which can be accessed by the user community of the college.
http://iproxy.inflibnet.ac.in:2048/login

DELNET

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.

http://www.delnet.nic.in/

Contact Library for username and password

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• Books for NET exams.
• Competitive Exams/Books purchased under NET Coaching scheme, Entry in service scheme, Remedial coaching etc.
• Personalised career guidance also provided.
• Journal list include career journals also.

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http://univ.cc/world.php
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An active Library Advisory Committee, working under the chairmanship of Principal, meets at regular intervals for discussing the policy matters related with the library. The other members of the committee include Heads of the Departments, faculty members, Librarian and a representative from the student community. The committee will be reconstituted every year and the members of the Library Advisory committee for the academic year 2017-18 are:

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Role
1	Dr. Pushpaja P. V.	Principal	Chairman
2	Mr. Manoj Kumar P.	Librarian	Secretary
3	Dr. Ambikasutan M.	Associate Prof., Malayalam Dept.	Member
4	Dr. K. V. Murali	Assistant Prof., Physics Dept.	Member
5	Dr. Prajith P. K.	Assistant Prof., Botany Dept.	Member
6	Mrs. Sabitha A.	Assistant Prof., Commerce Dept.	Member
7	Mr. Mithun A. V.	Assistant Prof., Computer Science Dept.	Member
8	Miss. Haritha	College Union Chairperson	Student Rep.

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1. Users have to sign the gate register at the entrance before entering the library.
2. Users of library have to keep their personal belongings at the property counter at the entrance.
3. Personal copies of books or other printed materials are not permitted inside the library.
4. Strict silence should be observed inside the library.
5. Library provides 'open access' facility to the users. Users are advised not to replace the books on shelves. They may leave the books on table after use. A misplaced book is similar to a lost book.
6. Books, journals, other documents, library materials etc. should be handled with utmost care. Students are not supposed to write, deface, damage, mark or mutilate library materials. Such instances shall render the user liable to the payment of the full replacement cost of the material.
7. Users will have to produce identity card along with the borrower’s ticket at the time of issue of books.
8. Books are normally issued for a fortnight’s period to the students. Period of loan is two months for Teaching Staff and one month for Non-Teaching and Research Scholars.
9. An amount of Re. 1/- per day per volume shall be collected for the late return of borrowed books.
10. Reference books, journals, damaged or worn out books will not be issued to the users.
11. One time renewal of books is allowed through email: librarynasc@gmail.com. For further renewals the books are to be presented physically in the library. Subsequent renewal requests will be considered only in the absence of prior reservations against the borrowed book.
12. Users have to examine the books carefully and report damages if any to the staff on duty while borrowing. The borrower will be held responsible for any damage discovered subsequent to the issue of book to him.
13. A penalty of Rs.10 will be imposed when a date label or book pocket from the issued book is found missing or damaged.
14. If an issued book is lost or damaged, the matter should be reported to the Librarian immediately. Borrower has to replace it with a new copy of the same edition/ subsequent edition within the due date or has to pay the fine as per rules.
15. When a Borrower’s ticket is lost, the matter should be brought immediately to the notice of the librarian for necessary action.
16. Books issued can be recalled at any time by the librarian in case of an urgent demand for the same.
17. Loss of the library ticket will entail a fine of Rs. 10/-
18. Users/ members have to surrender the library ticket when they leave the institute. 'Non-liability certificate' will be issued to a user, only after the entire tickets are returned and the dues, if any, to the library are cleared.
19. Users have to leave ten minutes before the closing hour of library.
20. All documents borrowed from the library by the students and the members of the staff should be returned on or before the last working day of the Academic Year or on the date fixed by the librarian.

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Manoj Kumar P. Librarian MLIS

Vijin Das K V MCA

Subin K B.Com.

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C. K. Nair Library
Nehru Arts and Science College Kanhangad
Padnekat Post, 
Kasaragod District
Kerala Pin: 671314
email: librarynasc@gmail.com
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Library Automation

Library is automated with open source software ‘Koha’ in the year 2011 and the online public access catalogue (OPAC) is made available to the users to browse the library books replacing the conventional card catalogue system. The books are classified with international Dewey Decimal System of classification (DDC) The server is installed in Linux Platform and users can browse the catalogue from anywhere in the campus and the searches can be carried out on the basis of author, title, subject, call number , isbn etc.

Digital Library

Open source software ‘Dspace’ is used for maintaining the instituitional repository of scholarly content of the faculty members of the college. The server is of Linux platform and the repository consists of journal articles, Electronic thesis and dissertations, presentations, Lecture notes, minor research projects, university question papers and Journal ‘Academia’ published by the college.

Barcode Technology

Barcode technology is made applicable to circulation services so that the effectiveness and efficiency of the section is improved considerably. The possibility for errors at circulation counter is minimized to a large extent with the application of barcode technology.

Web-browsing

The library provides web browsing facility to the users to retrieve information and data quickly from the internet. Wireless internet is available to all users to their laptops/personal computers so that they can make the best use of the electronic information resources at any time.

Computer-assisted technology for differently-abled users

Specially designed Linux operating system with the facility of the screen read software is made available to differently-abled users so that they can hear the contents of the web page/scanned pages through ear-phones. They can hear the contents from sources from multiple languages like English, Malayalam, Hindi etc.

Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV)

The library is observed with six number CCTV cameras working 24x7 basis. The system is useful for monitoring the library premises and to prevent book theft and other disturbances. Security to library collection and equipments is enhanced with the introduction of CCTV system.

Kindle-E-book reader

E-book reader is available at the library so that users can experience reading books through digital devices at their convenience.

Reprography

Reprography facilities like scanning and printing facilities are available inside the library. A full-fledged photocopying centre is attached to the library so that users can take photocopies of documents at reduced rates.

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Book Exhibition

Library organized a book exhibition from 13th -14th of October 2015 at the open auditorium of the college, Out of the 7 leading book distributors participated the book exhibition and books worth Rs. 5,12,449/- (Rupees Five lakhs Twelve Thousand Four hundred and Forty Nine)is purchased to the library.

Training programme for library professionals

One day training programme on was organized for the librarians working under state library council libraries on 28th September 2016. The programme was focused on public library services and the technological applications in public libraries using Open source software ‘koha’. The programme was attended by 28 librarians from Kannur and Kasaragod districts.

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