Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir's

Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad Arts, Science & Commerce College

Malegaon Camp,Tal. Malegaon, Dist. Nashik (MS)
Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
(Estd.1959)

Library

About Library

Our library has grown into a well-known library of the college in Nashik district since it was founded by Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hiray, a former minister of agriculture, forests, and revenue for the Mumbai Province. The library serves as the teaching and learning knowledge resource centre. Our college library building occupies the area of 1227 sq.m. (13207.32 sq. ft) as its construction. The library building is very well ventilated with adequate facilities. The library is one of the richest libraries in the area having around 1,76,832 books, including reference books, Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Biographies, Yearbooks etc. on various subjects. The College regularly subscribes 71 national, regional journals, magazines and periodicals. The collection is not only more extensive in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality. In addition to offering services through this extensive collection, our library also keeps readers up to date with current developments in the universe of knowledge by becoming a member of INFLIBNET NLIST and DELNET New Delhi. The readers have open access to select and check out books from a library on their own.

A precious reading hall having the capacity of around 300 students attracts students to seat and study. The library also provides a separate reference section. The reference section is enriched with a number of reference books, periodicals, journals and CDs etc.The library helps to our students, researchers and faculty members in their studies, research work and competitive exams by providing various sources and services. The library ensures that, we are a library for the next generation of the 21st century and beyond while keeping the knowledge of the past through a rich collection. Employees of the library genuinely takes effort to help our readers.

Library Sections

Ground floor

This section has following sections:

1.Student & Staff Circulation section

This section performs issue, renewal, return of books by using library management software. Apart from these basic tasks many other jobs like membership registration, issue no-dues certificate, inter library loan, overdue fine collection, book reservation, distribution of exam hall tickets and marksheets etc.

2.Book Acquisition and Technical Processing Section.

The new books acquired by library are processed in this section from accessioning to barcode and QR code labels are pasting are completed here.

3.KIBO & Bilingual reading section for students with various disabilities.

The library has started to provide special service for our blind students and students with various disabilities with the help of KIBO XS Device. It is a multi-lingual scanning & reading device that can seamlessly connect with computer to read any printed or handwritten documents in audio across 11 Indian languages.

4.Book stacking section (Science)

This is a repository for storing the books of the faculty of natural sciences.

5.Book stacking section (Arts, Commerce)

This is a repository for storing the books of the arts, commerce & religion.

6.Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) and Online Library Visit System

The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) kept at the entrance helps users to search the books available in library and live status of it. The library user records their library visit in online library visit system.

7.New arrival books (Electronics Display

The new books added in library collections are displayed on electronic new arrival display board to aware the readers about them.

8.Water Filter

Library visitors are provided with purified, cold water in the library

Mezzanine floor

This section has following sections:

1.Periodical section

The current journals received in the library are displayed on Periodical Display Racks. Proper signage's are displayed for Journals and Magazines on racks.

2.Reference Section

This section housed with rich collection of dictionaries, encyclopaedias bibliographies, style manual, gazetteers and other reference books of all the subjects from arts, science and commerce faculty. This collection is usually used to find facts or provide broad overviews of topics and helps to researchers and students.

First Floor
  • This section has following sections:
    • 1.Reading Hall

    The library has an independent precious reading hall on the first floor of library. The users of the library can make use of this reading hall. It comprises separate section for the boys and girls having capacity of 300 students.

    2.Newspapers section

    There are 20 local, state and national level newspapers are available for library users.

    3.E-Library

    The 10 computers with internet facility are made available in e-library for students, researchers and staff to access subscribed as well as open access e-resources available on internet. The library provides BSNL Fiber Optic Connection with 50 Mbps Internet speed.

    Library Timings

    Library remains open from Monday to Saturday between 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Daily Circulation Hours: Monday to Saturday 09.30 AM to 4:30 PM

    Library Collection

    The library has collection of print resources that include text books, reference books, books for general reading, journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. The library also has a collection of CDs and DVDs.

    Books Collection

    Senior College
    Reference Books 111841
    Textbooks 39603
    Total Senior Books 151444
    Junior College
    Junior College 15362
    Junior College Book-Bank 10026
    Total Junior Books 25388
    Total Book Collection 176832

    E-resources Collection

    INFLIBNET N-LIST E-books 3,00,000+
    DELNET E-books 3,70,000 for Loan
    INFLIBNET N-LIST E-Journals 6000+
    DELNET E-journals 5000+

    Journals Collection

    Sr. No. Faculty No. of Journals List of Journals
    1 Science 15 view
    2 Commerce 8 view
    3 Arts 50 view
    73

    Journals Collection

    Sr. No. Knowledge Resource No. of Volumes Vols.
    1 Biographies view 39
    2 Dictionaries view 79
    3 Encyclopaedias view 327
    4 Handbooks view 10
    5 Gen. References view 93

    Newspaper Collection

    Sr. No. Name of Newspaper No. of Papers
    1 Times of India 1
    2 Indian Express 1
    3 Navbharat Times 1
    4 Loksatta 2
    5 Maharashtra Times 2
    6 Sakal 2
    7 Lokmat 1
    8 Punyanagari 1
    9 Deshdoot 1
    10 Gavkari 1
    11 Divya Marathi 2
    12 Loknama 2
    13 Pudhari 1
    14 Ajacha Dinkar 1
    15 Agrowan 1
    16 Balekilla 1
    17 Samana 1
    18 The Inquilab Urdu 1
    19 Apala Mahanagar 1
    20 Navrashtra 1
    25

    Library Committee

    The Library Advisory Committee has been appointed, under the chairmanship of our Principal. The composition of the committee is as given here.

    Sr.No.. Name of Member Designation Post
    1 Dr.S.N.Nikam Principal Chairman
    2 Prof.S.I.Ansari IQAC Coordinator Member
    3 Dr.P.S.Patil Representative, Science Faculty Member
    4 Dr.V.S.Mistary Representative, Commerce Faculty Member
    5 Dr.M.B.Sonawane Representative, Arts Faculty Member
    6 Dr.S.C.Kulkarni Representative, Women Member
    7 Mr.R.H.Shelar Registrar Member
    8 Dr.R.R. Nikam Accountant Member
    9 Miss. Snehal Khairnar Representative, Student Member
    10 Mr.Nilesh Nagare Librarian Secretary

    Major responsibilities of Library Advisory Committee are:

    • To promote all the teaching staff of the college to give their requirement of new books to be purchased for the library.
    • Prepares planning for
    • New Books Procurement
    • Library manpower developments and planning
    • Framing general rules for the services & management of the library
    • Guidelines for effective utilization of library resources.
    • The minutes of the meetings of the library committee are maintained separately by the librarian in library.

    Library Services

    The library offers many services in support of academic and research work. Some of the major services offered are listed below.

    Circulation Services:

    Circulation section is the gateway between library users and collection, so it plays a major role to any Library System. This section performs issue, renewal, return of books by using library management software. All kind of queries by the readers are being performed by this section.

    Book Bank Scheme

    The library has started a separate Book-Bank Section to the under graduate and junior college students from economically and socially backward class. Every year thousands of students are getting benefit of this visionary idea of MGV Management. Under this scheme students can issue a set of 4 books for the academic year by submitting prescribed form. Apart from this set students get two books for weekly circulation on their Library Issue Card.

    Reference and Information Services

    The library is always ready to provide personal assistance or reference service to its readers. It helps to search and retrieve the information required to readers from various sources of information by providing reference service.

    Inter Library Loan (ILL)

    Library has developed linkage with KBH Law College Malegaon, so as to access the law related books and other collection by our students.

    Resource Sharing

    As a well-equipped and rich collection of the library, we are always ready to share our sources of information and services to KBH College Nimgaon and MGV’s College of Education Malegaon.

    Current Awareness Service

    New arrival books:

    The library provides the current awareness service by displaying new books arrived in library collection. The cover pages of newly added books are displays on electronic board at the entrance of the library.

    Newspaper Clippings:

    The news from various newspapers are clipped by library to provide current information related or about UGC, universities and other institutes of parent organization with management.

    Telegram Job Alert Service

    The library has started a Telegram Channel of College to aware our students about latest updates on job announcements or recruitment notifications. More than 1000 students and teachers are joined to this channel. It also helps to notify them about admission, results and various college activities carried out in college. Student can join this channel by clicking the below link on Telegram Appt.me/msgcollegemalegaoncamp

    E-Resources

    College Library is a gateway of information to its users by becoming member of INFLIBNET-NLIST & DELNET New Delhi as well as making available open access online sources of information.

    Subscribed E-Resources

  • https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

    • DELNET DATABASE

  • https://www.delnet.in/

    • Open Educational Resources (OER)

    Name link
    M.S.G. College YouTube Channel view
    Institutional Repository view
    Free/Open Access Resources view
    DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals view
    DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books view
    SWAYAM view
    ePathshala view
    eGyanKosh view
    e-PG Pathshala view
    लोकराज्य मासिक अंक view
    NCERT Books view
    Yojana Magazine (1972- 2008) view
    My Government view
    Library Website view
    "Books and Toys" view
    GeoGebra for Teaching & Learning Math view

    Library Rules

    • All books must be returned on or before the due date.
    • Books are required to be presented physically at the Counter for renewal.
    • Members are requested to collect the receipts for the overdue paid.
    • Members must replace the book if lost with latest edition along with overdue charges.
    • Members are required to deposit their bags/belongings at the entrance of library.
    • Members are required to bring their Library Issue Card and Identity Card to enter/exit the library and also to produce the same to the Staff as and when asked for.
    • Library books and belongings except for return are not permitted to be brought inside the library; however, laptop/ personal books after getting proper notice from the Librarian may be permitted for referring in library.
    • Library membership (External) form can be collected from Circulation Desk or download from library website.
    • The above-mentioned rules are subject to periodical reviews and revisions.
    • My Government

    Library Staff

    Sr.No.. Name of Staff Designation Designation
    1 Mr. Nilesh Nagare B.A., M.Lib.I.Sc, NET, SET Librarian
    2 Mr.K.U.Ahire M.Lib.I.Sc Asst. Librarian
    3 Mr.N N Pawar BA Jr. Clerk
    4 Mr.S.N.Wagh M.Lib.I.Sc Lab.Asst.
    5 Mr.S.A.Shelar BA Peon
    6 Mr.D.S.Borale HSC Peon

    Contact Us

    Sr.No.. Name Designation Email.id mobile no
    1 Mr. Nilesh Nagare- Patil Librarian Nagare131@gmail.com 8806792111

    Location

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