Services & Initiatives

The major services offered to the users by the library are:

• Book lending service
• Scan and reprography service
• Book locating service
• Reference reading services
• E-books delivery service
• Current Awareness Service
• Document delivery service
• Competitive exam assistance
• Research Assistance

 

MAJOR INITIATIVES:

Since last one year the central library has taken many initiatives to make the library more useful and tech-savvy. Once we become successful to implement the below initiatives, it will be a far better place to spend users’ valuable time.

• Prepared library rules and policies
• Lending services to each and every students
• Increased the seating space in the reading hall
• Initiated Internet facility for the users in the reading hall
• Started e-document (e-books & articles) delivery service on demand
• Proposal sent for employing library professional trainee or interns (on contract)
• Proposal sent for the extension of library building to create various types of reading spaces
• Requisition sent for 9 PCs for library users
• Koha LMS and DSpace will be implemented once we receive the PCs
• Requested for display cum notice board to exhibit the current information regarding higher education, research and fellowships
• Students clubs will be formed for library activity and promotion
• External membership will be offered to the outsider
• Archiving Darjeeling initiative has been taken to make a separate collection of documents related to Darjeeling and its culture, religion, society, economy, ecology, weather and geographical aspect.