Library

The newly constructed, modern and spacious Learning Resource Centre (Central Library) of IMSEC was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prof. Kripa Shanker Vice Chancellor, Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow on 21st April, 2012. Prof. Kripa Shanker was all praise for the library and said: “This Institute is committed to provide world class facilities”. This unique Central Library is the first and the only one of its kind among the academic libraries established by private colleges in NCR region. It is housed in fully air-conditioned building (6870 sq. ft) which works as a single gateway towards the ocean of knowledge resources.

E-Resources

Taylor and Francis Online

JSTOR

McGraw Hill Express Library

Taylor and Francis Group

ASME Digital Collection

Science Direct

ASCE Library

IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) IEEE LIST

Engineering (Access Method for Springer Link) Springer Titles

Emerald Insight

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

NPTEL

Virtual Lab of IIT (Procedure Link) Virtual Lab of IIT (Access Link)

Library at a glance

Library Space	Total Area: 6385.00 Sq. ft.
Seating Capacity	Reading Section: 116 Multimedia Library: 20 Staff Seating : 05
Library Timings	Week days on: 9.00 am to 08.00 pm During Examination: 9.00 am to 8.00 pm Holidays : Closed
Library Usage	No. of Books per day (Check in, Check out): 235 user (Avg.) No. of Student Visiting Every Day: 180 user (Avg.) No. of Faculty/Staff Visiting Every Day : 15 (Avg.)
Library Automation	Library Automation: Yes OPAC: Yes Internet Connectivity: Yes Automation Software : ERP
E- Resources	NPTEL Video/Web Course (511 Title Video & 418 Title Web) Membership of National Digital Library Nalanda E-Consortium of AKTU – access to popular Digital libraries like IEEE Explore, Springer Nature, ASCE, ASME, Elsevier, Science Direct, Taylor Francis, JSTOR etc., Delnet National Digital Library www.ndl.iitkgp.ac.in
Additional E Resources	www.pdfdrive.net You will get access to millions of books you need, for free. Unlimited downloads. You may browse by title or author, etc. Currently 274376478 books are available for free and every minute, around 50 new books are added to the database. All downloads are free. SOME USEFUL WEBSITES ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT www.khanacademy.org www.academicearths.org www.coursera.com www.edx.org www.open2study.com www.academicjournals.org codeacademy.org youtube.com/education BOOK SITES www.bookboon.com http://ebookee.org http://sharebookfree.com http://m.freebooks.com www.obooko.com www.manybooks.net www.epubbud.com www.bookyards.com www.getfreeebooks.com http://freecomputerbooks.com www.essays.se www.sparknotes.com www.pink.monkey.com ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites http://ocw.tufts.edu - Tuft University http://ocw.upm.es – Universidad Politechnica, Madrid http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ http://ocw.usu.edu/ - Utah State University http://open.umich.edu/ - University of Michigan http://ocw.nd.edu/ - Nore Dame University ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS www.ehow.com www.whatis.com www.howstuffwork.com www.webopedia.com www.plagtracker.com www.answers.com SEARCH SITES About.com (www.about.com) All The Web (www.alltheweb.com) AltaVista (www.altavista.com) Ask Jeeves! (www.askjeeves.com) Excite (www.excite.com) Hot Bot (www.hotbot.com) Look Smart (www.looksmart.com) Lycos (www.lycos.com) Open Directory (www.dmoz.org) Google (www.google.com) Mamma (www.mamma.com) WebCrawler (www.webcrawler.com) Aol (www.aol.com) Dog pile (www.dogpile.com) 10pht (www.10pht.com) SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE Any Who (www.anywho.com) Info Space (www.infospace.com) Switchboard (www.switchboard.com) WhitePages.com (www.whitepages.com) Who Where (www.whowhere.lycos.com) SEARCHING FOR THE LATEST NEWS ABC News (www.abcnews.com) CBS News (www.cbsnews.com) CNN (www.cnn.com) Fox News (www.foxnews.com) MSNBC (www.msnbc.com) New York Times (www.nytimes.com) USA Today (www.usatoday.com) SEARCHING FOR SPORTS HEADLINES AND SCORES CBS Sports Line (www.sportsline.com) CNN/Sports Illustrated (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) ESPN.com (espn.go.com) FOX Sports (foxsports.lycos.com) NBC Sports (www.nbcsports.com) The Sporting News (www.sportingnews.com) SEARCHING FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION healthAtoZ.com (www.healthatoz.com) kids Doctor (www.kidsdoctor.com) Med Explorer (www.medexplorer.com) Medicine Net (www.medicinenet.com) National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov) Planet Wellness (www.planetwellness.com) WebMD Health (my.webmd.com) JOURNALS http://www.indexcopernicus.com Multidisciplinary http://www.ajol.info/ – African Journal Online www.africanjournalseries.com – www.devconsortservices.com.ng www.doaj.org – directory of open access journal www.sabinet.co.za – South African Journals. www.oajse.com – Open Access Journal Search Engine http://www.lub.lu.se/en.html – Lund University http://www.dovepress.com/ – Free Scientific & Medical Materials http://www.copernicus.org/ – Access & Publication ACADEMIC SEARCH/WEB RESEARCH TOOLS/REFERENCE MANAGERS http://academic.research.microsoft.com – Multidisciplinary http://www.scirus.com www.scholar.google.com http://dbis.uni-trier.de/DBL-Browser/ – Digital Bibliography Library Browser http://academic.live.com – Live Search Academic http://www.science.gov/ – USA government for Science http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index – Computing & Information Sciences http://www.mendeley.com/ – academic social network/collaboration http://www.worldcat.org/ – Multidisciplinary http://libserver.cedefop.europa.eu – Voc & Tech Education http://inspirehep.net/ – Stanford physics information retrieval system
Multimedia Library	No. of PCs With Internet Connectivity : 25 Student Capacity : 20
Multimedia, Audio - Visual & Other Collections	LIBRARY AUTOMATION SOFTWARE : ERP Library Computer : 25 CD’S : 1560 Bound Volumes : 455 Magazines: 08. News Papers : 12

DEPARTMENT	NUMBER OF TITLES	NUMBER OF VOLUMES	NO. OF NATIONAL JOURNALS
CSE	865	10700	24
IT	766	6560	12
EN	479	6798	06
EC	684	9919	11
BT	743	4884	07
ME	578	9594	11
Civil	154	2578	05
Applied Sc.	732	22671	03
MBA	345	3078	12
Total	5346	76782	91

GENERAL RULES

All library users must sign in/out register available with the attendant at the gate.
User should maintain peace in the library and should not disturb other readers in the library. Smoking/eating/use of mobile phone/drinking/sleeping is strictly prohibited in the library premises.
While entering the library user should leave his/her personal belongings such as bags, personal books etc. at the counter reserved for this purpose. Loose papers and notebooks may however be taken into the library. Users leaving the library should permit the library staff to examine their personal belongings. If asked.
IMSEC library follows an open access system. Remember a book misplaced is a book lost, until tracked.
The Librarian may suspend library service of a student member for one month. If he/she misbehaves with the library staff.
User of the library should not deface, mark, cut or damage the reading materials in any way. Persons doing so are liable to be fined heavily, apart from being asked to pay the cost of the damage. In case a person repeats the offences a second time his/her library card would be impounded and the membership terminated summarily.
If any student is found indulging in book hiding, stealing or mutilating, disciplinary action will be taken against him/her.
The member would satisfy himself / herself before leaving the issue counter as to whether the book is in good condition or not otherwise he may be held responsible.
Library remains open from 09:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m.
Circulation counter shall remain closed during 12:50 p.m. to 01:40 p.m. for lunch break.

CIRCULATION RULES

Borrowing facilities are given only to the member of the library. Books may be borrowed only against the College ID card issued to an individual. Borrowing will be done only through the counter. The College ID card is non transferable.
Books are issued and returned from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Newspapers, periodicals & reference books will not be issued from the Library.
Book will not be renewed.
No books in damaged condition will be accepted from the users on return. Damaged books will have to be replaced by the borrower.
In case of loss of books by borrower, the borrower is required either to replace the books by a recent edition, if available or pay its cost.
Copyright of the CDs will be available for the Users in Multimedia Section.
If a book is not returned within the stipulated time .The member will be charged a penalty of Rs.05.00 book per day per volume. The fine should be paid at the circulation counter.
If the relevant book is not easily available in the market then the user would pay the double of the current cost of the book.
If a borrower does not return the documents in spite of two successive reminders his/her membership is liable to be cancelled without further notice.
The Librarian can recall books and publications any time if need arises.

USE OF COMPUTER / LAPTOPS ETC

Computer in the library premises should be used for academic purpose only. Online chatting / dating, browsing of social networking sites, playing game of the computers are strictly prohibited. Strict disciplinary action will be taken against the defaulters.
Personal keyboard, mouse, etc are not allowed inside the library .Students must take care of their Pen drives, /DVD/ROMs, Mobiles and wallets etc.
Readers should not remove/ unplug computer cables/ connections network cables and other peripherals/ accessories in the library. Changing the setting and display of computer kept in the library is not permitted.

USER ASSISTANCE

All members of the library team are available for any assistance one may need in using the library resources, facilities & services they are also welcome to offer suggestion for improving library & its environment.

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