Chowgule College Library

This is the library of a prominent Chowgule college based in Margao, Goa in India.

Chowgule College library building.

Collection

It has a collection of 65,000 items "covering every field of knowledge"[1]

Facilities on offer

Some of the facilities[1] it offers are:

  • Reading rooms, book stacks, specialist function area (visual room and multimedia resource centre)
  • Study places to accommodate 100 students at a time.
  • Learning resources (including subscription to 75 scientific and academic journals, 3215 bound volumes and about 767 dissertations submitted by final year students).
  • Orientation and information support.
  • New additions list, document delivery service, bibliography and reference service, networking through INFLIP NET and the British Council for inter-library loan services.
  • Electronic services
  • A cyber-library, with a provision of 99 study places on the ground floor.
  • Access of library facilities to the general public (using the rare reference collection, searching OPAC or the Online Public Access Catalogue, borrowing two books at a time, attending events and talks, accessing online resources, access to the special collection of books on Goa, access to the 'Goa Government Gazette ' from 1962)

Recognition

Librarian Dr M.P. Shivalli was awarded Commonwealth Professional Fellowship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, United Kingdom, for 2011, to become "the first Librarian in the state of Goa and one of the three from India to be chosen as recipient of this internationally coveted award."[2]

gollark: I mean, arguably the human rights they define are kind of arbitrary, but I like them, and they're... quite popular in Western countries, I guess.
gollark: It's both!
gollark: ~~but if you have three that's fine!~~
gollark: Trying to map everything onto a one-dimensional political scale is a terrible idea.
gollark: I'm distrustful of any economic system which runs on central planning, which is problematic for many, many reasons.

References
  1. Undated brochure from the Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts & Science, listing details of library facilities, accessed first in 2012.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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