Library

a) Students coming to the library should produce their identity cards to the library staff on demand. 

b) Personal articles like bags, books, umbrellas, etc. should be kept at the entrance at places assigned for the purpose before entering the library.

c) Strict silence should be maintained in the library. Conversation, and loud talking, are strictly prohibited in the library.

d) Reference books, illustrated and rare books, special books, serial Publications, and periodicals will not be issued from the library. However, these may be consulted within the library after making necessary entries in the Reference register.

e) Magazines and newspapers should not be removed from their places on the tables. 

f) No mechanical reproduction or tracing of materials Shall be made without the permission of the librarian.

g) Any book may be recalled at any time even if the Period of loan has not expired.

h) Transfer or sub-lending of books taken out for loan is strictly prohibited.

i) All the books taken by the readers including teaching staff should be returned to the library before the end of the academic year for annual stock verification.

All the students and staff members of the college are eligible to become members of the library. Without membership, no one can borrow books from the library. To become a member of the college library, students have to produce the below-mentioned documents: 

1. College Admission card
2. 1 Passport Size Photo 

Library cards will be issued to the students who have completed the membership process. Books are issued to the students on a Library card. The open access system is as follows in the library. Students have access to any section/ shelf. After making his selection, the borrower must produce the book and library card at the circulation counter. The book will be issued after making the necessary entries.

Library staff should examine the book when they are returned by the borrower in order to take necessary action whenever necessary. Borrowed books must be returned within a period of two weeks when they can be reissued for a further period of two weeks if no one else has reserved for them. But in special circumstances, the librarian can call back any book at any time from a reader, even if the period of the loan has not expired. Should the library not be open when a book is due, it must be returned the next day on which it is open.

Water damage, mold, marking on books with pencil or ink, soiling them, damage to pages or binding, underlining, writing remarks, etc. on pages, folding or tearing off pages, etc. will be held as serious charges.

Borrowers will be responsible for the loss of or damage to the books taken out by them. If a book is lost, it should be reported to the librarian immediately. He will decide if the book is to be replaced or paid off. If after the payment of the cost, a book lost or missing is recovered, the library will not accept it. The penal cost of the missing book should be levied in the following manner: -

• Ten times the actual cost of books published before 1. 1. 1946

• Six Times the actual cost of books published between 1.1.1946 and 1.1.1970

• Three times the actual cost of books published after l. 1 1970

• In the case of foreign books, the conversion rate of the present rate will be charged.

Borrowers who do not return books when due, will be fined RS. 1 per day for each volume and will not be allowed to take out more books until the fine is Paid. All such fines may be paid to the college office and the receipt issued should be shown to the librarian to nullify the fine.

Librarian Grade IV 

Nissy Samuel

BSc (Zoology), B Ed, BLISc, MLISc, NET

Library Assistant 1

Pramod KB

Library Assistant 2

Nithish Sathyan