CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN

LIBRARY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME

CENTRAL LIBRARY
(

2011-2012)

Agenda
INTRODUCTION
LIBRARY RESOURCES
LIBRARY SERVICES & FACILITIES
HOW TO GET LIBRARY RESOURCES
IMPORTANT WEBSITES
FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
CONTACT PERSON

INTRODUCTION
Books are for use
Every reader his/her book
Every book its reader
Save the time of the reader
Library is a growing organism

INTRODUCTION
Library plays a vital role for an institution for:

creation of new knowledge through acquisition;

organization and dissemination of knowledge resources; and
providing value added services.

Its

an essential component of the institute's

outstanding research and education mission. It also
enables:

learning and advancement of knowledge; and

promotes discovery and scholarship.

Working Hours of Library

Library Opening Hour :

09.30 a.m.

Library Closing Hour

06.00 p.m.

Different Sections in Library

Acquisition Section
Technical Section
Circulation Section
Periodical Section
Reference Section
Stack Room
Reading Room
Reprography (Photocopying) Section

Library Rules: Property Counter

Personal belongings should be kept Outside the

Library/in Property Counter at owners risk

No Valuable items viz., Money, Pass Books, Mobiles;
should be kept in your bag while keeping them in
Property Counter
Personal Books/ Checked Out Books are not allowed
for consultation/reference in the library
Mobile Should be Switched Off OR kept on Silent Mode
inside library. Mobile Use is restricted in Reading
Areas.

Access to Library

A Register for all students is available at

entrance of the library; Students are

requested to make their entry in the
Register while entering and departing
from library.

LIBRARY RESOURCES
BOOKS: More then 5594

reference and text books

The subscriptions of 44
National and International
printed journals
08 Newspapers
Online access of more than
3,000 Journals and few
electronics database under
the UGC-INFONET Digital
Library consortium of
INFLIBNET
IEEE subscription through
AICTE-INDEST
Consortium

Subject-wise no. of books

S. No.

Subject

1.

Computer Science

891

2.

Mathematics

885

3.

Economics

465

4.

Management

1381

5.

Chemistry

415

6.

Statistics

536

7.

English

881

8.

General Reference

75

9.

Architecture

73

10.

Culture and Media

98

11.

Hindi

133

12.

Physics

11

13.

Bio-Technology

27

14.

Environment Science

36

TOTAL

No. of books
(Approx.)

5907

Borrowing Rights

Students
Teachers/Officers
Other Staff

: 2 books
(for 15 days)
: 5-10 books
(for one month)
: 02 books
(for one month)

Overdue Charges

Rs. 1.00 for per book per day will be

charged, if book is not returned after
the due date

Library Rules: Issuing Books

Identity card is must while visiting and using the library.
Reservation of borrowed books by others may be made in a Register

available in the library.

Readers shall not write upon, damage, or make any mark upon any
book, journal or magazine, or other material belonging to the
library.
Any reader observing a defect, or damage to any book or manuscript
shall point out the same to the Library Staff immediately.
Borrowers must satisfy themselves about the physical condition of
the book before borrowing. Otherwise they will be responsible for
any damage at the time of returning.
Books borrowed on a particular day will not be accepted for return
on the same day.
Books taken for reference from the stack area need to be kept on the
table and not to be merged on the shelves.

LIBRARY SERVICES
AND FACILITIES:

Lending Services
Reading Room Facilities
Reference Services
Bibliographical and
Documentation services
Online access to eresources
10 Mbps High Speed
Internet Connectivity and
extended to 1Gbps soon
Multimedia PC's in the
Library
Reprography Services

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF
RAJASTHAN
LIBRARY STACK ROOM & READING ROOM

HOW TO GET BOOKS

Search for books in the following order

Subject-wise
Title-wise
Author-wise

Go to the stack area and select your required books

Books are arranged Subject-wise

After selection of books you may get books issued

from the Circulation Counter

Magazines and Periodicals are only for reference

How to get Online Resources

FOR ONLINE RESOURCES GOTO WEBSITE.

http://www.curaj.ac.in
Click on Central Facilities Central Library
Online Resources

UGC-Infonet E-Resources
S. No.

E-Resources

Website

1.

Annual Reviews

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/

2.

Economic & Political Weekly

http://www.epw.in

3.

ISID

http://isid.org.in/

4.

JCCC

http://jccc-ugcinfonet.in or www.jcccugcinfonet.in

5.

Oxford University Press

http://www.oxfordjournals.org

6.

Project Euclid

http://projecteuclid.org/

7.

SIAM

http://epubs.siam.org/

8.

Springer Link

http://www.springerlink.com/

9.

Taylor & Francis

http://www.informaworld.com/

JCCC (J-Gate Custom Content for Consortia)

A virtual library of journal literature created as a

customized e-journals access gateway and database

solution. It acts as a one point access to 7900+
journals subscribed currently under UGC INFONET
Digital library consortium as well as university
libraries designated as Inter Library Loan (ILL)
Centers besides index to open access journals.

It offers the following facilities and benefits to users:

Table of Contents Browsing: Users can select journals of

their choice by searching by journal title words and / or

subject categories and browse the table of contents for the
latest issues of the journals.
Database Searching: JCCC@UGCINFONET acts a
comprehensive database of journal articles published in the
7900+ journals. The articles are indexed with subject
keywords and are searchable by - author, title words, abstract
words, subject keywords, author name etc.
My Journals: Users can select journals of their choice and
create their own alert profiles. JCCC@UGCINFONET sends email alerts to the users, every week and as and when their
favorite journals are published, to facilitate browsing TOC of
the latest issues.

How to send ILL request?

If the article is not available online, but one of the

ILL designated libraries is subscribing to that

journal, user will be directed to send ILL request to
nearest ILL Centre. As shown in the slide, users can
click to Request the article. It will display the
details of article along with list of libraries
subscribing to the journal. User can select a library
and send email for request of article which will be
delivered to the requesting librarian.

Other Important Websites

http://www.inflibnet.ac.in

A platform for research students to

deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to
the entire scholarly community in open access.
INDCAT: A Union database contains bibliographic
description, location and holdings information for
books, journals and theses in all subject areas
available in more than 124 university libraries
across the country.
Shodhganga:

Free Resources you can access

Open J-Gate
DOAJ
OAIster

Open J-gate

A service by Informatics dedicated to the

promotion of the Open Access movement for

scholarly journals
(9302 Open Access Journals)
(6228 Peer-Reviewed)

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific

and scholarly journals, covering all subjects

and many languages.

OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over

1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using

OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Digital resources in OAIster include items such as:
o Digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
o Born-digital texts
o Audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
o Images (e.g., tiff, gif)
o Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
o Datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)
Collections in OAIster include:
o Theses
o Technical reports
o Research Papers
o Image Collections

Information searching & Retrieval

Techniques

Search and retrieval process for accessing Electronic

Information Resources

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1.

DEFINE SEARCH QUESTION

2.

IDENTIFY DATABASE OF SEARCH

1.

DEFINE SEARCH STRATEGY (SELECT SEARCH TERMS AND USE BOOLEAN OPERATORS)

4.

CARRY OUT THE SEARCH

5.

EVALUATE THE RESULTS

6.

REVISED THE SEARCH IF REQUIRED

7.

EVALUATE AGAIN IF STILL POOR TRY OTHER DATABASES OTHERWISE GO AHEAD

8.

OBTAIN THE INFORMATION

9.

APPRAISE THE INFORMATION FOUND

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Types of searches
There are several ways to execute searches. The most
frequently used ways of simple as well as advanced
searches are elaborated below:
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Simple or Basic search: One can simply type

a term, word, phrase, etc as follows:

Mechanics
This would display the search results related the term
Mechanics wherever the term is used in the documents and
databases.
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Advance search: Boolean Logics

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A AND B

A OR B

A NOT B
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Searching- AND Operator

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Electricity AND Magnetism

Organic chemistry AND Inorganic chemistry

AND operator narrows the search and retrieving only

those documents that contain both of the keyword
entered.

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Searching- OR Operator
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Heat OR Thermodynamics
The OR operator expands the search by retrieving those documents in
which either of or both of the keyword appear. This operator is usually
used for:
Synonymous or equivalent terms
Spelling variations
Related terms

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Searching- NOT Operator

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Chemistry NOT Organic chemistry

The NOT operator limits the search by retrieving only first keyword
but not second, even if the first word appears in that document too.
The NOT operator should be used with care, as it is easy to
eliminate relevant documents as well as irrelevant.

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Citation and References

Referencing is a standardized method of

acknowledging sources of information and ideas that

you have used in your assignment in a way that
uniquely identifies their source.
Referencing is necessary to avoid plagiarism, and to
enable readers to follow-up and read more fully the
cited authors arguments.

Examples
Book
Madden, R., & Hogan, T. (1997). A handbook of critical approaches to
literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Article or Chapter in a Book
Blaxter, M. (1976). Social class and health inequalities. In C. Carter & J.
Peel (Eds.), Equalities and inequalities in health (pp. 120-135).
London: Academic Press.
Journal Article
Wharton, N. (1996). Health and safety in outdoor activity centres.
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 12(4), 8-9.
Journal Article from electronic database
Madden, G. (2002). Internet economics and policy: an Australian
perspective. Economic Record, 78, 343-58. Retrieved October 16, 2002,
from ABI/INFORM Global database.

Learning Tasks and Activities

Journal Name
Vol. No (issue no.)

Page No.

Learning Tasks and Activities

ISBN No.

Publication

Learning tasks cont.--

ISSN NO.

FUTURE PLANS
Fully Automated Library
Institutional/Digital Repository
Knowledge based Resource Centre

Suggestions are most welcome to improve

the library and its services.

FOR ANY QUERY AND HELP CONTACT

Mr. Bhaw Nath Pandey (Assistant Librarian)

Email: bhawpandey@gmail.com

Ms. Sobhagyawati Gupta (Assistant Librarian)

E-mail: shobhagupt@gmail.com

Mr. Manoj Pareek (Library Attendant)

E-mail: manojpareek1986@gmail.com