About Library

Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences Library.

Sector-2, Phase-1, Dwarka,

New Delhi-110 075. (India)

bcaslib@gmail.com             

Introduction

The College Library was set up in 1995 with the mission to cater to the information needs of the students and faculty. The library functions as an information resource centre to help the college in achieving its aim.

Infrastructure

The library is housed in a spacious and well-lit three-storied building called Library Block. The lower ground floor houses the book stacks and circulation counter. The upper ground floor has reading room facility for the teachers and staff members. Periodical Section, Reading Room for students and fully air-conditioned Internet Facility are on the first floor. The Library is equipped with CCTV surveillance system with recording facility.

Area of the Library                       2818.32 Sq Mts

Stacking Length                            3396 feet

Reading Room Capacity for         182 students/ teachers

Internet Room Capacity for          20

Collection (As on 31/03/2019)

Books                                           27068 (704 written off)          

Bound Volumes of Journals         336

CDs/ DVDs with Books              620
CDs/ DVDs with Magazines       571
Software CDs/ DVDs                   40
Total CDs/DVDs                          1231

Library also subscribes to the N-List programme of UGC-Infonet on a regular basis.

Team Library

     Geeta Papnei, MLIS                        IGNOU
     Krishan Kant Tiwari, BLIS             IGNOU     
     Babita, BLIS                                   IGNOU     
     Mukesh Kumar, MLIS                    IGNOU

     Rakesh Bharadwaj, B.Sc.                MGCGVVU
     Kanhaiya Lal, C Lib                        DLA
     Bhaskar Bhatt, Pursuing BA           IGNOU 

     Nagendra S.Rawat, DLIT                DLA 

     Ravinder Kumar, BA                       University of Delhi

Services and Facilities

•      Separate Reading Room facility for students and Staff members
•    Web OPAC – Web based Online Public Access Catalogue with personal ID and Password
•   Air-Conditioned Internet Room freely available to the students and the faculty
•    Article Indexing Service – Bibliographical details of the journal articles are computerized and disseminated to the users on demand
•    Reprography (Near the Library)
•    Open Access
•    Lending and Reference Service
•    Newspaper Clippings
•    Book Exhibitions and Displays

     

Amount Spent on Books (1995-96 to 2018-2019)

Department	Amount Spent/ Rs.	Percent Spent	Number of Books	Percent Books	Average Cost/ Rs.
Biochemistry	420677	3.34	734	2.8	573
Biology	79950	5.29	1263	4.9	527
Biomedical Science	1197213	9.51	1103	4.3	1085
Botany Computer Science	79950 1280443	0.63 10.17	98 3596	0.4 13.9	816 356
Chemistry	736096	5.85	1910	7.4	385
Electronics	1141834	9.07	3668	14.1	311
Food Technology	1143498	9.08	981	3.8	1166
Human Communication	234188	1.86	665	2.6	352
Instrumentation	748803	5.95	1961	7.6	382
Mathematics	715837	5.68	1979	7.6	362
Microbiology	952090	7.56	702	2.7	1356
Physical Education Physics	7081 1355895	0.06 10.77	14 4214	0.1 16.3	506 322
Polymer Science	1085805	8.62	863	3.3	1258
Zoology General	105446 602064	0.84 4.78	89 1604	0.3 6.2	1185 375
English	95320	0.76	408	1.6	234
Environment Studies  Economics	18785 4888	0.15 0.04	67 10	0.3 0.0	280 489
Total	12591924		25925		486