COMMITTEE

Library advisory committee is constituted for effective functioning of the college Central library. Day-to-day activities of the college library are supervised and co-ordinated by the Faculty-in-charge. Library Advisory committee is functioning under the chairmanship of the Principal, Librarian as the secretary and members of the faculty as its members. Representations are given to the students also. They serve as a member of the library committee for an academic year only. The committee shall meet atleast three times in an academic year.

The constitution of the Library Advisory Committee shall consist of the following members:

• Principal as the Chairman of the Committee
• Senior Faculty nominated by the Principal as a Library Staff in-charge
• Deputy Medical Superintendent
• Co-ordinators of UG and PG
• Three representatives from the faculty preferably from the Head of the Department
• Research Officer
• Librarian and Assistant Librarian, Librarian is the co-ordinator.
• Two student representative each from PG and Final BHMS
• One student representative each from Internees, III BHMS, II BHMS, & I BHMS.

Library Advisory Committee as on 02.10.2018

Sl.No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr.C.K.Mohan	Chairman
2	Dr.N.V.Sugathan	Principal
3	Dr.P.R.Sisir	HoD, Paediatrics & Library Staff -in-charge
4	Dr.Winston Vargheese	P.G.Co-ordinator
5	Dr.C.R.Krishna Kumari Amma	U.G.Co-ordinator
6	Dr.Ajayan.T	HoD, Practice of Medicine
7	Dr.Zion Natharaj.P.S	HoD, Anatomy
8	Dr.Salini Chandran	HoD, Forensic Medicine
9	Dr.Chandraja.C.V	Research Officer
10	Mrs.Sreekumari.L	Librarian & Co-ordinator
11	Mrs.Preetha.K.B	Assistant Librarian
12	Dr.Selvaraj, K.	II-PG
13	Dr.Shahna .N.S.	I-PG
14	Ammu J. Vijayan	Internee
15	Maithrei, C.	Internee
16	Minu Maria Shaju	IV-BHMS
17	Miss.Aparna, S.	IV-BHMS
18	Miss.Pragathee, S.	III-BHMS
19	Miss.Jaya Suhi, J.	II-BHMS
20	Shamim Susan David	I-BHMS

Library Advisory Committee Reconstituted 2020
Library Advisory Committee Reconstituted 2021

Duties and Functions of the Library Advisory Committee

The duties and functions of the Library Advisory Committee shall be as under:

1. To consider the policy for procurement books and journals to the central library and departmental library.
2. To frame rules and regulations time-to-time including guest user policy and library timing.
3. To advise the librarian and other professionals for better library facilities and added services to the users.
4. To advice the librarian to prepare the library budget and technology updation.
5. To consider and put forward the views of faculty members regarding books and journal selections.
6. To review the suggestions put forward by the students and other users of the library and find out remedies.

Category of Members

The library has following category of users. Maximum number of books that can be borrowed as per the category and their loan period are as follows:

Category of Membership	No. of Books	Period of Loan
Student Undergraduates up to III yr.	1	7 days
Student Undergraduates IV Year and Internees	2	7 days
Students Post Graduate	2	7 days
Teaching Staff	3	21 days
Non Teaching staff	1	21 days