LIBRARY 

 

GENESIS AND GROWTH:
   M.G.M college library started functioning from 27-6-1946 when it was housed in a small room with hardly 1000 volumes in its book stack to begin with.
           When the college was shifted to its own building on 27-6-1951 at Sagri , the library was shifted to a fairly bigger hall atop the Administrative block of the Main Building , having four rooms and this made it possible to provide more library facilities to the students whose number was growing year after year.
            The generous gift of Rs.10,000/- made to the College Library by the Canara Banking Corporation Ltd. in the year 1954 was responsible for the further growth of the Library which was named after Canara Banking Corporation, the biggest donor of the Library , by his Holiness Sri Vishwesha Thirtha Swamiji of Pejavar Mutt in the same year .

ORGANISATION  OF  THE  LIBRARY   AND  ITS  SECTIONS  :

Book  Collection
The  total  number  of  books  on  various  subjects  in  different  languages  in  the  library  now  exceeds  74,000  and  this  includes  book  collections  found  in  book  banks,  College  Science  Improvement  Programme  Library  and  the  Rashtrakavi  Govinda  Pai  Memorial  Research  Centre  Library.
Membership
All   the  current  students  and  the  members  of  the  college  staff  , both  teaching  and  non-teaching,  are  allowed  to  make  use  of  the  college   library,  reading  room  and  the  reference  section   and  others   can  enroll  themselves   as  members  only  with  the  written  permission  of  the  Principal  on  conditions  laid  down  by  him. 
Book-Borrowing  and  the  duration  of  Loan 
Library  Books  and  Magazines  are  issued  to  the  members  as  follows :
                                                                                                                               
1. Professors,Readers and Lecturers -  30 Books, 5 Magazines - For a period  of one academic  year.
2. Ministerial Staff -  3 Books, 3 Magazines - For a period  of one  academic  year.
3. Menial  Staff -  1 Book 1 Magazine -   For a period of one academic year.
4. Students of all classes - 2 Books - For a  period of  14 days
5. Old students and outsiders - 2 Books - For a  period of  14 days
 
Students  may  get  the  books  renewed  by  the  Librarian  for  a  further  period  of  14  days   on  request  if  necessary.
 
Magazine  (Periodical)  Section
The  Reading  Room  subscribes to a good  number  of  magazines  numbering  nearly 125  and  receives  over  25  periodicals  as  complimentary  copies.  It  also  subscribes  to  10  dailies.
 
Books  for  reference
Books   are  issued  one  at  a  time  to  the  students  during  their  leisure  hours  in  the  college  during  the  following  hours:
From  10:00 A.M.  to  12:00 Noon 
From  2:00  P.M.  to  5:15  P.M.  daily.
 
Magazines  for  reference
Magazines  for  reference   are  issued  one  at  a  time  for  reference  during  the  following  hours  of  the  day
From  9:00 A.M.  to  5:15 P.M.  daily  on  requisition.
 
Issue  of  Reader's  Borrowers  Tickets 
Each  student  is  issued  two  reader's  tickets  to  enable  him  to  borrow  two  books  at  a  time .These  tickets  are  NON-TRANSFERABLE   and  no  student  can  borrow  books  by  using  another's  tickets. 
 
Book-Bank  Facility
 The  library   has  3  Book  Banks  which  contain  a  good  number  of  text  books  on  each  subject  for   all  classes. They  are  as  follows:
      Lion-Syndicate  Book  Bank              
      University  Grants  Commission
      Text  Book  Library  and  the  U.G.C  General   Education  Library
      Ramnarayan  Chellaram  Book  Bank  
These  banks  have  approximately  3,200  volumes  of  books . Books  available  in  the  above  Book-Banks  are  issued  to  the  current  students  of  the  college  on  a  long  term  basis  i.e.  till  the  end  of  the  academic  year.
 
Department  libraries
To  assist  teaching   and  reading  books  are  loaned  to  some  of  the  departments  for  the  departmental  libraries. Students  can  also  borrow  books  from  the  departmental  libraries  by  contacting  the  heads  of   the  departments  concerned  by  fulfilling  the  necessary  conditions.
 
COSIP ( College  Science  Improvement  Programme )  
The  Central  Government  envisaged  a  scheme  called  COSIP  by  which  the  government  experimented   to  improve  science  teaching  in  some  of  the  selected  colleges  with  an  adhoc  grant  of  Rs.1,00,000/-  per  year  for  a   period  of  three  years  commencing  from  the  academic  year  1971-1972. The  Science  Laboratories  of  the  college  are  equipped  with  modern  apparatus  for  necessary  experiments.  The  Library  also  has  special  books  on  science  purchased  with  the  help  of  these  grants.

WORKING  HOURS  OF  THE  COLLEGE  LIBRARY

1.       On  all  the  working  days  during  the  terms  except  Sundays   and   the  other  Public Holidays.                                           
                                                  9:00  A.M.  to   5:00 P.M.
                           (Both  the  Main  Library  and  the  Reference  Section)
                                      On Saturdays - 9:00 A.M. to 12:45P.M.     

2.   During  Mid-Term   Vacation:
                                               9:00  A.M.  to  12  Noon  and 
                                               2:00  P.M.  to  5:00  P.M.
                                                    (Main  Library)
                                              9:00  A.M.   to   12  Noon  and 
                                              2:00  P.M.  to   5:00  P.M. 
                                                 (  Reference   Section  )

3.     During   Summer  Vacations:
                                             9:00  A.M.  to  1:00  P.M.
                                              ( Only  Main   Library  )