Mahesh Chandra Dev Goswami Library Is housed in a two storied building with a rich collection of 51565 information sources comprising of Text and Reference books, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Rachanawali, Novels, Biographies, Reports, Thesis, MRP and Manuscripts. The ground floor comprises of the Circulation and the Distribution desks. It also comprises of the Librarian's chamber, the Teachers! Reading room and the Reference section. The upper floor has the Digital Library, Students' Reading room with a sitting capacity for 52 students, and corners for journal and periodicals. The library is a member of INFLIBNET and has KOHA software for its housekeeping operations. Quite a good number of information sources such as college and teachers' publication, question papers, manuscripts, college. magazines, some e- books and journals, MRP, thesis and their likes are uploaded for access with the help of D-space software. Books are tagged with barcode for easy retrieval as it leads the users directly to the source, For its smooth functioning, 4 staff members including the librarian caters to the information needs of the user. community and the library is governed by the rules and regulation which is applicable for all. The library has its own notice board where information related to the library is notified on the board for the users. The library remains open from 9 Am till 4 PM on all working days and the students in order to avail its services must come in complete uniform along with their identity cards for issue and return of books. However, during vacations they can come in any dress to avail its service. The library follows open access system as a result of which the users can have a direct access to the books on the stacks. Considering the fact that majority of the students hail from economically backward section, the library feels its moral obligation to provide more number of books for a longer period of time. The main objective of the library is to collect and circulate the information to the users and to create users out of non-users so apart from its normal services such as Circulation, Reference, OPAC, Inter-Library Loan, the library provides Current Awareness on Information which is disseminated with the help of mobile phones to aware the faculty members on the arrival of its current journals. Keeping in mind that a library is a house to be utilized and enjoyed, we have separate corners for Novels, North East Collection, Religion, Srimanta Sankardeva Collection, Biographies, Political Figures, Rules, Regulation and Manuscripts. The library is covered by wifi facility and to provide all basic amenities, the library has a provision for clean and safe drinking water, proper furniture with lighting facility, congeal atmosphere and clean hygienic toilet. Following records helps in the smooth functioning such as the Attendance register both for the students and the staff to see the foot falls in the library, the Defaulter register to record the names of the defaulters and the Accession register where the full bibliographic information of the books are recorded this reflects the strength of the library.
Dr. Kishore Kumar Sarmah
Librarian, Nowgong Girls' College