About Library
Library and Resource Centre of R. H. Sapat College of Engineering was established
in 2009. Library is situated in a Main building of area 537 sq. mt. surrounded by
lush green area. It has an ample stock of 19,586 Books and 5643 E-Books. 91 National and International
journals and periodicals are subscribe currently which facilitates research in our
institute. It is most lively place on the campus providing a safe, comfortable and friendly
environment that enables learning and advancement of knowledge, and promotes
innovation. It maintains separate department of Welfare SC/ST student’s book-bank
scheme books, periodical section, bound volumes of journals & e-books collections,
compact discs and educational Videos. We have subscription to multiple copies of
National, regional and local news-papers and magazines. We have an attractive reading
room, where readers find conductive environment for reading.
Library Services
The library provides following services to its users:
E-Resources: Springer & Pearson E-books(5643)
- Book lending service
- Current awareness service
- Reference service
- Inter Library Loan Service
- Reprographic service
Besides receiving access to e-resources on complementary basis under
the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Centre maintains a separate Archival
Library consisting of print journals received as a part of the agreement with the
participating publishers of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the
agreement, the publishers are requested to submit a copy of all the issues of the
journals. This archival library is open to all users interested in using these print
resources for their study / research.
The Centre has received issues of 286 journal
titles from different publishers. During this year under review, issues of 100 journals
each were received from the Taylor and Francis, Blackwell and Oxford University
Press. Users can access information about these journals on their desktops at the
website.
IR @ INFLIBNET
The IR @ INFLBNET has been set-up to host full-text of research publications of
technical staff as well as other publications of the Centre using Dspace, an open
source digital library software developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Dspace supports the Open Archives Initiative�s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH), an internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards.
The IR @ INFLBNET provides a platform for researcher in LIS to deposit, reuse and
share their research publications. The repository also has the ability to capture,
index, store, disseminate and preserve digital materials created in the Centre.
Staff members can register themselves with the digital repository and submit their
pre-prints (pre-refereed version of an article), post-prints (post-refereed final
version) and publisher PDFs (if allowed by the publisher). The papers publish in
CALIBER and PLANNER proceedings have been uploaded in to the IR @ INFLIBNET in PDF
format. The Institutional Repository also includes Course Materials, Newspaper Clippings,
etc.
Institutional Member
The Central Library has institutional membership of NDLI (National Digital Library of India)
E-Journals Archival Library (Print Version)