This Library came into existence as an important component of and along with the Non Plan Establishment of the institute in 1960. It continued to provide the following categories of services to its users : students, Teachers, Researchers and other staff members.

  
 
Routine transaction (lending and retrieval) of books
Providing Reference materials
Reprographic services
Reading room services
 
  Space  
 

The three storied Library premises are situated adjacent to the Administrative Block of the Institute. It spans a total floor space of about 32,184 sq. feet, consisting of a separate Reading Hall, Periodical section, a processing section, stack Room, Book Bank and a Binding Unit, as briefly described below.

  
     
 

Reading Room: It is situated in the ground floor. It stores Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, News papers, popular Magazines, Journal & Reference Books for on- the spot use of the Library- users.

Stack Room: It is situated in the first floor of the Library having open access to the users to select books of their choice & get them issued.

Book Bank: There are two Book Banks in the Library.

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One of them is meant for the students belonging to scheduled cast (SC) & Scheduled Tribe (ST). It was established under a scheme sanctioned by the government of Bihar (Welfare Department). Under this scheme the Welfare department, earlier Bihar Govt. but now Jharkhand Government, through their Disctrict Welfare Officer, supplies books & Almirahs. As many as 15 books are issued for one academic session to a SC /ST student from such a Book Bank.

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The other Book Bank is TEQIP Book Bank, used by both SC/ST students and General students. TEQIP Book Bank is governed & funded by World Bank Aid. Two Books are issued from this Book Bank for one academic session to a student.

Acquisition & Processing Unit : This is situated on the top floor on the library. New arrivals of Books & Journals are processed. (Accessioning, Cataloguing & Classification) here before they are stocked in the stack room.

 
     
  New arrivals of Books during 2005-2006  
 

Books of 239 different titles in TEQIP BOOK BANK were purchased during this year, comprising of 605 number of Books.

 
     
 

Collection

 
 

Total number of the books in the library including bound volumes of Journals as on 31.03. 2006 was as given below.

 
 

Stack Room .........55144.......

Book Bank (Sc /St) ...23022..........

TEQIP (Book Bank) ...3022........
 
     
  Working hours  
 

The library has open access system to its users. It operates in two shifts in two shifts from Monday through Saturday.

 
 

08 :00 AM to 03 :00 PM

03 :00 PM to 10 :00PM
 
   
  Other Facilities
 

The Library subscribes to a sizeable number of technical, scientific & general periodicals journal & newspapers for the students and faculty members of the Institute. The Library system is ready to shift from manual to automated system, which include circulation, serial & online public access catalogue (OPAC) searching.Data entry work of the books is in progress & is likely to be completed within two months, and thereafter linking of Circulation Deptt is (issue & return of books, books position and upto date information regarding any book) to Reading Room and places to users friendly have to be done in the library.

 
 

In addition to this we have online service through INDEST CONSORTIUM on the subjects for the following:

 
     
 

IEEE (IEL ONLINE)

ASCE
ASME
Springer - Verlag
SCIENCE-DIRECT
 

 
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