About us

Library is a treasure house of knowledge. Within a span of 22 years, Central Library of Sarada Krishna Homoeopathic Medical College has acquired more than 13,296 books on various subjects. Moreover, it subscribes a number of contemporary periodicals and journals including foreign ones to keep abreast with the trendy times. The library provides referral, lending and reprographic services for the benefit of the users. Day-to-day housekeeping operation of the library is managed by the well qualified library professionals. There is also a faculty in-charge of library for its overall supervision and coordination. An active library advisory committee includes the members of the faculty and student representatives for effective functioning of the library.
In addition to the central library, every department is maintaining departmental libraries for easy access of information resources. The members of Faculty and P.G. & Ph.D students are allowed to borrow books for reference from departmental library in addition to the borrowing facility provided in the Central Library.
Library procured E-resources according to the changing needs of the user community. All the members of faculty and students are motivated by the librarian to enroll themselves in the National Digital Library (NDL) for accessing digital resources. The institution becomes institutional member of DELNET (Developing Library Network) for accessing digital resources.
Vision

To provide access to wide variety of information sources to the users and convert information centre of the institution as a unique centre for Homoeopathic information

Mission

To promote reading habit among the users.
To impart life-long learning skills among the homoeopaths.
To offer information services through state-of-art technology.
To fulfil information requirements of the user community with reference to e-environment.

Library remains open from 8.00 a. m - 6.00 p. m on all working days and Sunday from 9.00 a.m - 1.00 p.m.

Year-wise Acquisition of Library Resources 
Library resources in terms of both the print as well as electronic resources are procured annually to make the library collection up-to-date. Number of books and journals added per year are as follows:
To provide access to wide variety of information sources to the users and convert information centre of the institution as a unique centre for Homoeopathic information

Library remains open from 8.00 a. m - 6.00 p. m on all working days and Sunday from 9.00 a.m - 1.00 p.m.

Journals/Magazines added for the Last Years

Year	Total number of Journals/ magazines	Print only	E – Journals		Amount
			Print+ Ejournal	Only  E-journal
2012-2013	21	21	-	-	6410
2013-2014	15	15	-	-	4,300/-
2014-2015	18	17	-	1	14959/-
2015-2016	27	25	1	1	53783/-
2016-2017	22	20	1	1	58211/-
2017-2018	30	20	4	6	1,07807/-
2018-2019	32	22	4	6	1,16141/-
2019-2020	40	30	4	6	119955/-
2020-2021	37	37	4	6	126885/-
2021-2022	46	34	6	6	152792/-

Library Automation

 Library is fully automated using KOHA Software (ver. 16.05) with Barcode and OPAC facility.

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