LIBRARY
Nandha Engineering Central Library (NECL) is fully automated and specially designed to motivate the learning experience of faculty members and students community. It functions in three storeyed building with the area of 10800 square feet as the heart of Educational institutions. The main aim of library is to provide right documents to right users at right time.
The collections of library include Books, Journals, Magazines, Project reports, Question Bank, Back volumes of Journals, Magazines and News papers in the field of Management studies, Science, Engineering and Technologies.
1. LEARNING SOURCES WITH LINK
The library has a unique website in the name of “Nandha Engineering College Library” (NECL). It has been designed with the help of free accessible online open source like books, journals, magazines, career and skill development, projects, scholarships, competitive exam portals etc by providing links. The main objective of website is “Save the time of the reader”. (4th law of Library Science).
1 | Books | Stack details, New arrivals & list of Titles | Link |
2 | Journals (Print) | List of Print Journals and Magazines – National and International | Link |
3 | e – journals* | Link for Accessing – IEEE, J-Gate and ProQuest | Link |
4 | e-books* | Link for Accessing – J-Gate Book series, Audio&Video and Conference Proceedings | Link |
5 | Shodhganga | A reservoir of Indian theses | Link |
6 | Databases | DELNET, NPTEL, NDLI, INFLIBNET | Link |
7 | Local and / or Remote access to library resources (Specify) | All the above |
* Ask Library faculty to know the Username and Password for accessing subscribed sources remotely
2. OPEN ACCESS DATABASES (Link)
BOOKS | PERIODICAL |
CAREER | PROJECTS |
COMPETETIVE | PROFESSIONAL BODIES |
DELNET* | REFERENCE SOURCES |
INFLIBNET | SCHOLARSHIPS |
National Digital Library | TECHNICAL EVENTS |
NPTEL | UPSC |
3. SECTIONS INTEGRATED IN THE LIBRARY
- Reference Section
- Periodical Section
- Stack Section
- Circulation Section
- OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogues)
- Digital Section
- Reprographic Section
3.1 Reference Section
This section has more than 7731 volumes like highly valuable books, unique collections, GATE books, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias; Syllabus based text and reference books.
3.2 Periodical Section
The air-conditioned periodical section has 76 International Journals from the following various societies of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA
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- Computer Society
- Computational Intelligence Society
- Power Engineering Society
- Power Electronics Society
- Control System Society
- Circuits & Systems Society
- Solid-State Circuits Society
- Professional Communication Society
- Communication Society
- Signal Processing Society
- Broad Casting Technology Society
- Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
- Robotics & Automation Society
- Nanotechnology Council
- Vehicular Technology Society
along with 4 International Journals from American Concrete Institute (ACI) for Civil Engineering and 5 from American Computing Machinery (ACM) for Computer Science available for users. Apart from this, 102 National Journals from various Societies / Association/ Institutions among Engineering, Technology and Management and also 77 Technical Magazines are available with back volume facilities in this section.
A 50 inch TV is installed along with Doordharsan dish to telecast 32 educational channels launched by Swayam Prabha for supporting Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) facility in the Periodical Section.
3.3 Stack Section
The collection of Library books has reached around 62252 volumes and 19593 titles related to Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Agriculture, Biomedical and Business Administration. Books are arranged in filiatory sequence using DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) and by author name alphabetically for easy accessing. It saves the time of users.
3.4 Circulation Section
Circulation section includes issue, return and renewal by the users using their Identity card. The Bar coding technology has been mapped with every user’s Identity card and also with library software to speed up the circulation process.
The library has 20 years digitalized question papers which is being send to faculty members and student community as per their request through mail ID. The library has procured unavailable and rare books by using membership with Developing Library Network (DELNET). OPAC facility is available to facilitate online search of library sources by giving keywords like Title, Author, and Publisher etc.
3.5 OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogues)
Library is computerized with Campes – Lib : The Digital Librarian commercial software. By this software, OPAC facility is available at the entrance of library to facilitate online search of library documents available in the library by giving keywords like Title, Author, Publisher etc.,
3.6 Digital Section
The air-conditioned digital library is implemented with 32 desktop systems and 20 Laptops usable desk for accessing 200 IEEE, 2952 JGate, and 130 ProQuest online journals, 8820 e-books, 31,535 Audio Visual courses and 9202 Conference Proceedings with back volumes. It can be accessed inside the campus on 24X7 bases via Wi-Fi and also remote access by using User name and Password for IEEE and J-Gate.There are 3005 e-Books, 852 e- Journals and e-Magazines as CDs, DVDs and VCDs. It also includes more than 292 NPTEL courses for teaching and learning purposes. It is networking with DELNET (Developing Library Network, New Delhi.) for resource sharing.
3.7 Working Hours
The library is kept open from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. in all working days.
4. FACULTY DETAILS
Sl.No. | Staff Name | Designation | Qualification |
1 | Dr. K.Sadagoban | Chief Librarian | M.Sc., M.L.I.Sc.,M.Phil., Ph.D |
2 | Ms. P.Punithavathy | Librarian | M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil |
3 | Mr. A. Ganeshamurthi | Asst. Librarian | B.A., M.L.I.Sc. |
4 | Ms. S. Rekha | Library Asst. | B.B.A., M.L.I.Sc. |
5. BOOKS STATUS
Sl. NO. | PROGRAMME | NO.OF TITLES | NO.OF VOLUMES |
1 | COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | 1262 | 4766 |
2 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 1046 | 3672 |
3 | ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING | 1544 | 6257 |
4 | ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING | 1803 | 6935 |
5 | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | 1769 | 6333 |
6 | CIVIL ENGINEERING | 871 | 3749 |
7 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE | 258 | 781 |
8 | AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING | 429 | 1148 |
9 | CHEMICAL ENGINEERING | 352 | 1244 |
10 | BIO MEDICAL ENGINEERING | 614 | 2503 |
11 | M.E – CSE | 511 | 1735 |
13 | M.E – ED | 339 | 1322 |
14 | M.E – VLSI | 233 | 990 |
15 | M.E – Structural Engg | 198 | 903 |
Total (Engineering & Technology) | 11229 | 42338 | |
16 | SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES | 4131 | 7249 |
17 | M . B . A | 2789 | 7033 |
18 | M . C . A | 1444 | 5632 |
TOTAL | 19593 | 62252 |
6. PERIODICAL STATUS
S.No. | Programmes | JOURNALS | MAGAZINES | ||
International | National | International | National | ||
1 | ECE | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
2 | EEE | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
3 | CSE | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
4 | I T | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
5 | AI & DS | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
6 | MECH | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
7 | CIVIL | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
8 | AGRI | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
9 | CHEMICAL | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
10 | BIOMEDICAL | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
11 | M.E – CSE | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
12 | M.E – EST | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
13 | M.E – ED | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
14 | M.E – SE | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
15 | Sc., & Hum., | 0 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
16 | M.B.A | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
17 | M.C.A | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 96 | 102 | 14 | 78 | |
1 | Engg & Tech | 84 | 90 | 14 | 54 |
2 | MBA | 6 | 6 | 0 | 24 |
3 | MCA | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 96 | 102 | 14 | 78 | |
TOTAL | 198 | 92 |
7. TOTAL – OVERALL
BOOKS | |
Titles | 19593 |
Volumes | 62252 |
NON BOOKS | |
CDs/e-Books | 3008 |
VCDs | 346 |
DVDs | 507 |
Projects | 1111 |
NPTEL Courses | 292 |
JOURNALS PRINT | |
International | 96 |
National | 102 |
ONLINE JOURNALS | |
IEEE – ASPP | 200 |
J-Gate | 2952 |
Inventi, ACM & ACI | 62 |
Delnet – MBA | 130 |
Total | 3344 |
MAGAZINES PRINT | |
International | 14 |
National | 78 |
J – GATE ONLINE SOURCES | |
e-books | 8820 |
Audio/Visual | 31,535 |
Conference Proceedings | 9202 |