Introduction
The College Library and Information Centre at Navkis College of Engineering is situated in the 2nd Floor of Block A building. It extends over 562 Sq.mt and has necessary furniture, facilities and resources.
The Library aims to provide sufficient information resources for all branches of study present in the College like Text Books, Reference Books, Journals, Magazines, News Papers, Seminar Reports and Project Reports. Some resources are available as Hard Copies and Some are in Digital form, available on-line.
New Gen Lib Software is used for cataloguing the books in the Library.
Presently the Library has 16768 Volumes with 4892Titles.
The library is open from 8.00 AM to 8:pm on all working days
The College Library has the following Sections:
- Circulation Section
- SC/ST Book Bank
- Reference Section
- News Paper Section
- Digital Library Access Section
1.CIRCULATION SECTION
All NCEH students are issued one Library Card with which they are permitted to borrow up to four books and must get them renewed once in 15 days. Faculty members are permitted to borrow up to 10 books and must get them renewed once in 6 months. Users can reserve the required reading material, and the same will be issued on a queue-based basis.
Availability of a desired book can be checked in the New Gen Lib Software. Books are issued at the Issue Counter and entries are made in the hard and soft database. If the books are not renewed within the stipulated period, a fine of Rs.1.00 per day per book will be charged
SC/ST BOOK BANK
Special book borrowing facility is provide for the SC/ST students in a separate book bank. A total of 537 books related to different subjects are available in the SC/ST Book Bank. A fair number of text books will be issued to each student for a period of six months.
REFERENCE SECTION
Reference Section is a place where students and faculty members can refer to any hard copy resources at the Library itself. 200 seats are available for the users to do reference. If desired, Library staff will assist the users in locating desired information from the available information resources. A total of 1893 books on different subjects are kept for reference purposes only and will not be issued to the users
NEWS PAPERS AND MAGAZINES SECTION
In this section, Newspapers (Kannada and English) and Magazines are kept for the readers.
HARD COPY JOURNALS
The College gets 09 journals from MAT Journals Pvt. Ltd. which publishes 90+ Peer reviewed, indexed Journals in various domains of Engineering, Pharmacy, Nursing and Management. 15 journals were being procured from HBRP Publication Pvt. Ltd. till 2022.
DIGITAL LIBRARY
The College has subscription to the VTU Library Consortium and is a member of DEveloping Library NETwork (DELNET) and National Digital Library of India (NDLI).
The VTU Consortium provides a variety of full texts of e-journals and e-books covering almost all areas of engineering. The Remote Access Gateway Knimbus has been specially designed for the Libraries and Academic Community of VTU Consortium, Belagavi, to provide off-campus and anytime-anywhere access to the Library’s Digital Resources for seamless teaching, learning, and research.
DELNET provides a number of e-resources - 116991 e-books and 14378 e- journals, and others.
A Digital Library Access Section has been established in the Library. This section has 30 Computers with Internet Facility. Students and Faculty Members can use the Internet Facility as well as connect to the Digital Library resources to get the desired information.
Hard Copy Journals from MAT Publication Pvt. Ltd.
| # | Journal Name | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Journal of Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence | Quarterly |
| 2. | Journal of Information Technology and Sciences | Quarterly |
| 3. | Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence &its applications | Quarterly |
| 4. | Research and Review :Machine learning and cloud computing | Quarterly |
| 5. | Journal of Innovations in Data science and Big data management | Quarterly |
| 6. | Journal of cyber security, privacy Issues and challenges | Quarterly |
| 7. | Research and review: electronics and communication engineering | Quarterly |
| 8. | Journal of Communication engineering and Innovations | Quarterly |
| 9. | Recent trends in Semiconductor and sensor technology | Quarterly |
Navkis College of Engineering has been headed by Ms. Khyser Jaha F., Head of the Department of Library Science, to monitor the various activities in the library.