City College, Kolkata

श्रद्धावान लभते ज्ञानम
NAAC Accredited Degree College. Affiliated to University of Calcutta.

College Library

Services of the Library

  • Library orientation:
    In order to familiarize our students with the library layout; we display a Floor Plan of the library, illustrating the arrangement of book shelves according to subject area. This helps the students in identifying their required materials easily and quickly. We also individually meet the students visiting the library and guiding them in selecting their requisite documents.
  • Reference Service:
    The library holds a good collection of reference books and text books on various subjects. A maximum of 3 (three) books are issued at a time to a student for reading purposes. We provide personal services to obtain the required information from various reference sources available in the library or to satisfy any other queries as requested.
  • Lending Service:
    The students may borrow 1 (one) book at a time for home use for a period of two weeks and can renew the same for another week.
  • Lending Service to the outgoing students:
    The students appearing at the university examination may borrow books for home use through special library card system and keep the book till the completion of the examination. The students have to deposit the same within one week after the completion of the examination.
  • Syllabi of different subjects:
    In the present day of continuously changing frontiers, the syllabi of all subjects have been modified in recent times, in some cases substantially. To serve our readers in a better and fruitful way, we keep the syllabi of different subjects (as followed by our affiliating university).
  • Question papers of previous examinations:
    To acquaint the students with the demands made by various university examinations, we keep the question papers of the affiliating university for the users’ study. The questions of previous examinations are very important for study and teaching.
  • Information Service:
    To sensitize our users about the current and latest information in respect of various academic courses, ensuing dates of various competitive examinations, admission procedures of important institutions of higher learning, we display the Newspaper clippings of important announcements, information brochures of various academic institutes and other source materials. Information about the forthcoming seminars/workshops organized by the college is also brought to the notice of the students for their participation.
  • Latest arrivals:
    To inform the users about our new arrivals, we display the list of new additions along with the jacket of books (if available). Lists of books of renowned and important publishers are kept with us for consultation.
  • Periodical and Newspaper Service:
    We also issue periodicals and newspapers to the users for use in the library and common room.
  • Internet Service:
    We have internet connectivity in the library and if required, we help the users to search various information sources available in the net. We are also entrusted with the job of making liaison (through e-mail) with other institutes and personnel on behalf of the college. We have the practice of preparing a list of web addresses of important institutes and organizations and bringing it to the notice of the users. The list is updated periodically.
  • LAN connection with the IT Laboratory of the Commerce Department:
    We are trying our best to broaden the services of the library. As a part of our endeavour, we have already connected the library computer with the computer of the IT Laboratory of the Department of Commerce.


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