SKIBS B SCHOOL

(Formerly known as GIBS B School, Banashankari)
Banashankari 3rd Stage,
Bengaluru - 560085.​

Library

The Library of SKIBS-B SCHOOL. The Library being upgrade with the latest information to catering to the needs of all specialities of PG. The Library has all the facilities required information in the form of books, Journals and internet for access e Journals.

The library is divided in to various sections having a total area of 736 SQ.fts. it has a reading room, where students can read the books. The Library has the seating capacity of about 24 which is very well ventilated and illuminated even when in the case of power cut.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTER

The library is the heart of any academic institution and plays an important role in all academic activities of our institution. Keeping in view the aims and objectives of the college (institution), the library has been planned, developed & is constantly improvised by staff under the guidance of the library council.

The library has adopted an open access system so as to facilitate readers to have easy access to the library resources. The library has also established links with other important libraries at regional level, in order to provide inter – library access for the benefit of students and teachers of the college. To assist the students and research scholars to locate literature, as well as information in research, general reference & current awareness, computerized catalogue have been introduced.

National Digital Library Club Membership

Five laws of library Science

  • Books are for use
  • Every book its reader
  • Every reader his book
  • Save the time of the reader
  • Library is a Growing organism

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LIBRARY

  • Fully computerized and automated with a barcode system enabling easy and quick transactions
  • Open Access system providing easy accessibility.
  • Working Hours – 9.30 am to 5.00pm Saturday - 9:30am to 1.30pm.
  • A comprehensive collection of books and resource materials for competitive Exams.
  • Well maintained and easily accessible copies of previous question papers.
  • Deposit Scheme to allow Students to borrow books for longer periods during exams.
Library Staff

Chandrasekhar C
M.L.I.Sc., PGDCM Librarian PG Dept

Library Timings

Monday To Friday
9.30am To 5.00 pm

Saturday
9.30am To 1.30pm

MISSION

Library serves as a resource centre and aims to develop a comprehensive Collection of books and journals useful for faculty and students of the Institute and provides an efficient dissemination of knowledge.

VISION

  • Library aims to be one of the best among college libraries in the State.
  • Library intends to incorporate the latest technology and adopt user friendly approach towards student and faculty.
  • Library intends to offer comprehensive services related to dissemination of knowledge.

GOALS

To educate and prepare men and women to contribute as Dynamic Entrepreneur, Managers , Competitors and good citizens through the innovation, Integration, Application Transfer of Computer Programs, Commerce & Management skills & knowledge.

LIBRARY RULES & REGULATIONS

  • Users must bring ID cards while entering the library
  • Borrowing materials without a valid membership/ identity card is prohibited. No one is permitted to use other member's card to borrow documents.
  • The borrower owes responsibility to return the book borrowed in good condition. Any damage, deface or soil is noticed at the time of return, library staff will refuse to accept the publication. The borrower has to replace or make good the loss of such publication
  • Overdue charges at the rate of Rs.1.00 per day per book will be charged for late return.
  • No loud conversation or group discussion is allowed in the library.
  • Food and drinks are not allowed in the library.
  • Please deposit your personal belongings at the property counter. Library staff is not responsible for missing or loss of personal belongings in the library.
  • Please don't restore used library documents. Leave them on the tables properly after use.
  • If the documents borrowed are lost the member has to inform to the library staff immediately. The borrower is having an option to replace with the same or latest edition and pay overdue charges. Cheaper edition like paperback or student edition will not be accepted.
  • If the borrower's card is lost, member has to inform the library staff in writing, duplicate card will be issued on a fee of Rs. 30/- each. If the original is found at a later date, it has to be surrendered. No fee will be refunded.
  • No due certificate is issued on clearing all the dues and surrendering borrower’s ticket and ID card to the library.
  • Please switch off your cell phone before entering the library. Otherwise phone will be confiscated and a fine of Rs. 100/- will be charged.

FACILITIES / SERVICES

Circulation Service

The rich collection of information resources in the library is made available to the students, teachers and researchers for circulation. The library has been fully automated using LibSoft integrated library management software. The entire collection and membership records are bar-coded and circulation transactions are made through the software.

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

The bibliographic details of the entire library collection are made available through online public access catalogue. Users can search and browse through the catalogue without any intervention of the library staff

Reference Service

The Library has a collection of reference sources with more than 300 reference sources; the reference section caters to all kinds of reference queries. It has a seating capacity of 24 for students and for staff for serious intellectual pursuit.

Periodicals

To fulfil the current information needs and to keep users abreast with the recent trends and developments in various disciplines, the library subscribes to 02 magazines and 3 newspapers. Periodicals serve the serious as well as recreational information needs.

SC/ST Book Bank

For the benefit of students belonging to SC/ST & Minorities, a separate collection of books is made available. These books have been provided by Management.

Information alert service/Newspaper clipping service

Any important news, notices, circulars and other relevant information is notified on the notice board of the library.

Display of New Arrivals

In this section Library displays newly added books to the library notified on the New Arrivals Rack.

Old Question Paper

Repository of Previous year Question papers (Bangalore Central University) for access to students and staff

Competitive Book Corner

Providing access to resources on competitive examinations to encourage competitive spirit and career orientation among students

Orientation Programme

Library conduct Orientation programme to orient the newly enrolled library user to the facilities and services provided by the library for First year students to optimize usage of the library

Types of resources
  • Textbooks
  • General & Competitive Books
  • Newspapers and General Periodicals
  • Open Access e-resources
  • Educational Cd's and DVd's
  • Old Question Papers

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE COLLECTIONS

TOTAL NUMBER OF Volumes : 1823

TOTAL NUMBER OF TITLE : 550

REFERENCE BOOKS : 328

Periodicals

NEWS PAPERS : 6

MAGAZINES: 7

Library Collection Details

COLLECTION POLICY

Through Acquisitions, Librarian has the responsibility for the implementation of collection development policy. He will also encourage each faculty of the college to select materials to build the collection of relevant material in the Library.

The guidelines for materials selection for the SKIBS-B SCHOOLLibrary are as follows

  • Faculty recommendations
  • User requirements
  • Price and date of Publication
  • Relation to current trends
  • Advisory Committee recommendations
  • Strengths and weaknesses of SKIBS-B SCHOOLLibrary’s existing collection

The Library will select materials based upon researching the appropriate professional literature, which consists primarily of :

  • Publishers’ leaflets, catalogues, brochures
  • University recommended textbooks
  • Books as per the syllabus of various courses
Collection Maintenance Policy
  • Special arrangements are made to Accessioning Library materials (Book or non Book) immediately, if the request is deemed urgent.
  • The Library does not Access donated books whose publication dates are very old and damaged.
Procedures for Processing Library Books
  • When a Book is pulled out for correction and / or repair, all necessary work should be done as soon as possible.
  • Enter all information in to the local database as well as Accession Register.
  • Each book is stamped, classification number assigned, bar-coded book pocket pasted in the book and due date slip and book card is prepared.
  • Cataloguing information at this point is done following Dewey decimal classification Book card is kept inside the pocket and paste the packet is pasted to the centre of inside of back cover page
  • Book card is kept inside the pocket and paste the packet is pasted to the centre of inside of back cover page
  • Stamp the 1st and last inside pages as well as 51st page of the book.
  • Stamp the top, bottom and side edges of each book with SKIBS-B SCHOOL stamp.
  • Place a barcode on the front cover page itself. If there is some descriptive information on cover page, place a barcode in suitable corner, or at the edge of the cover page.
  • Statistics are kept for the purpose of reporting all departmental activities.
Non – Book Materials

All policies and procedures for processing books also apply for non-book materials, except stamping. Book card, book packet and due date slip is slightly different because of non-book format, alternate methods are adopted for the same.

Circulation Policy

Staff members are entitled to borrow the Library items as follows

Member Type No of Books Days No of Non Books Days Max Items No of Renewals
Principal 10 90 5 30 15 1
HOD’S/ Professors 10 90 5 30 15 1
Assistant Professors 10 90 5 30 15 1
Office Staff 10 90 5 30 15 1
Supporting Staff 5 90 5 30 15 1
Part time Lecturer 5* 15 - - 5 -

* Issue of books to part time lecturer is done through respective HOD’s only.

* For Departmental Library, required books will be issued to all HOD’s of respective departments. HOD’s are responsible for borrowing and returning of the same.

Borrowing Rules – Student
  • For PG Students, Two borrower’s tickets will be issued to each student and they can borrow two books at a time for a fortnight. For PG students two books will be issued at a time of fortnight.
  • Books can be borrowed only on producing the valid borrower’s ticket.
  • Borrowers are responsible for returning items issued to them on or before the due date.
  • All the overdue items are fined at Rs.1/- per item per day.
  • In case of loss of books, the borrower is required to replace the book with the latest edition.
  • If the book is not available anywhere for purchase. The borrower must pay twice the cost of the book.
  • Books from general collection are issued to all eligible members as per their entitlement.
Stock Verification Policy

Physical verification of the Library stocks has to be carried out to identify the losses, identifying misplaced documents, identifying documents that need repair, etc, the verification has to be carried out once in a years by a team of members appointed by the principal and the library staff will assist the verification team.

  • Some loss of publications is inevitable especially in the context of open access practice in Libraries. The Librarian has a role as information manager and not just a custodian. Therefore he / she should not be held responsible for the losses.
  • Loss of 5Volumes per 1000 Volumes issued and /or consulted in a year may be taken as reasonable
  • A publication may be considered as lost only when it is found missing in two successive stock verifications and their after only action are taken to write off the publications by competent authority.
  • Occasional loss /damage of issues of periodicals are inevitable during postal transits. If the payment is made directly to the publisher, then sometimes it is not possible to get the replacement. In such cases, the non receipts/ damages are considered as loss for Write –off.
  • There may be no objection to the Librarian disposing of mutilated / damaged / obsolete volumes to the best interest of the Library. However, the disposal of such volumes should permitted by the principal.
Replacement

The Library will not automatically replace all materials withdrawn from the collection. Decisions to replace an item will be based on the demand for specific titles in support of curriculum, number of copies on the self, subject content, and the availability of never and better materials on the subject.

Binding

Binding the damaged and important books is carried out whenever required.

Weeding

The following categories of materials can be considered for weeding out :

  • Superseded editions
  • Worn, mutilated, and / or badly marked items
  • Missing and outdated books
  • Outdated and / or inaccurate information
  • Outdated text books
  • Ephemeral material ( e.g . newsletters, progress reports, pamphlets) including those materials that lose value after a certain period of time such as: annual reports directories, yearbooks, annual editions of Income Tax Books etc.
Procedure for write-off
  • List the Documents not found during stock verification
  • Library staff to make all possible efforts to locate the document not found during stock verification (the process can go up to six months but not as an exclusive task)
  • Prepare pre-final list of the documents not found and publicize.
  • Compile a final list of documents not found.
  • Compare with the list of earlier stock verification to identify common entries.
  • Compare losses with borrowing /consulting/photocopying statistics
  • Put up the list of common entries to the principal along with justification for the losses (open access, limited staff, inadequate security system, large number of students visiting library, losses within permissible limits, etc.)
  • Get approval from the Principal.
  • Make necessary entries in the accession register, write-off register, assets register, etc.
  • Remove records from databases
  • Close file
  • Improve the system with additional precautionary measures
Links to Open Access Sources
Links to General Knowledge and Current Awareness
English Online Newpapers
Kannada Online Newpapers

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