Darjeeling Government College

LIBRARY AS A LEARNING RESOURCE

College has a Library Sub-Committee having nine members under Teachers’ Council.

The composition of the sub-committee is provided below:

1. Principal - Chairperson

2. Librarian - Convener

3. Secretary, Teachers’ Council - Ex-officio member

4. Members (Teaching staffs from Arts, Commerce, Science Departments)

For departmental seminar library, respective departmental teaching staffs are appointed as Seminar Library-in-charge.

Library Sub-Committee organizes meetings for planning the development of Central as well as Departmental Seminar Library. A few Departments have developed Book Bank for providing Books to the poor and meritorious students. The books for books bank are obtained from the teachers’ specimen copy.

Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.): 4160 sq. ft.(approx.).

Total seating capacity: Approximately 100 readers can sit at a given time in the Central Library, being a College situated in hill area we have some difficulties for providing more spaces in library.

Working hours (on working days, on holidays, before examination days, during examination days, during vacation):

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)

10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (on Saturday)

The working hours are same for all working days.

During vacations the Library remains closed as all the departments remain closed during winter vacation of Darjeeling.