S.N.Medical College Bagalkot

Library

The creation and execution of the SNMC Library was inspired by ideas like: acquisition of relevant knowledge, intellectual exploration and flights into the limitless skies of research.

As on today this library offers to any aspiration in the field, a pool of 8902 books that are meticulously chosen for their contents; added to this are 120 back volumes of relevant fields and this unit has been subscribing to as many as 101 well known national and international journals. Almost all the principal medical branches are covered by these reading materials.

Working Hours

True to the spirit of learning the Library is open to all the aspirants, especially to the faculty and students and researchers. # Week Days- 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Monday to Saturday). The Personal Books Reading Room offers services round the clock including Sundays and General Holidays.

Sections of the Library

The Library has been suitable divided into following sections:

• Book Stack

• Reference Book

• Periodical Section

• Back Volumes

• Circulation

• Internet

• Video Library

• Xeroxing

For quick and easy identification of the reading material, the world famous classification is followed here: Dewey Decimal Classification System. For Cataloguing of Books AACR2 is incorporated. Searching for any information EPAC is helpful.

Membership

Teaching and non-teaching faculty & students of the college & hospital automatically get membership. Local practicing medical doctors can enroll themselves as members access to the reading services of the Library.

Visitors as well as outsiders can also make use of the library. Negotiations are on to establish an educational hot line to other Medical College Libraries for some suitable links for exchange of matching material (both print as well as computerized information) to enable sharing of knowledge and further enhancement of the needed material.

Accessing Electronic Public Access Catalogue (EPAC)

The Library has acquired “LIBRARY MANAGER” a Library Management Software, to automate all its functions. EPAC can be used to browse/search for an item (book/non book) along with its details and the availability and also reserving facility to the library members.

Services

• Department Library Services

• Book Bank Library Services

• Current Journal Services.

• Binding Service.

• Reprographic Service.

• Video Library Service.

• Electronic Public Access Catalogue (EPAC)- The Library Search Engine.

• HELINET Database

Library at a Glance

• Built up Area	24,000 sq ft
• Seating Capacity	300 Readers
• Total No of Books	8902
• Total No of Journals	101
• Indian Journals	70
• Foreign Journals	31
• Bound Volumes	120
• VCDs 60	60
• CD-ROMs	170

Digital Library

Library has state of the art Digital Library section. Digital Library has 10 terminals with Internet connectivity. This section is holding 170 CD-ROMs apart from that it is connected to HELINET consortia of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. The consortium is giving access to full text online journals and e-books.

Design Committee