Hearty Welcome to Fr. Gordon Library (formerly College Library) of Andhra Loyola College (Autonomous), Vijayawada. Our college library is named after Rev. Fr. Douglas Gordon SJ., who was a second Principal of the college and Academic Senate Member of Andhra University. Fr. Gordon Library is housed with all modern amenities, situated in a mezzanine four storied building covering an area of 12,704 sft., with a seating capacity of 270. The vision and mission of the library is to provide information services and access to bibliographic, full text both in digital and printed resources to support the scholarly and information needs of all students, faculty members and staff. The library also caters to outsiders who are registered as members for their academic requirements and interests.
Library
Timings: The library remains open on all working days
from 8-30 a.m. to 5-30 p.m. .
Timings during
Holidays
: Summer vacassion & other holidays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Reference and Research Assistance Service is dedicated to
assist faculty and students of ALC for their information and document
search. A dedicated library professional
staff will be available on the first floor, to assist the users in addressing
their reference information requirements. The requirements may include help in
identifying the appropriate document, database for research assignments or
class work, and mining data, etc.
Layout of the library (individual reading carrels, lounge area for browsing and relaxed reading, IT zone for accessing e-resources)
1. A separate reading hall for students
with two 2 ton A/c’s. and chairs with writing pad in the ground floor of the
library. In this section, all the Personality development books, Competitive
exams preparation books and retold classics have been arranged. Staff reading
space with cushioned Godrej chairs and also curved long cane chairs for relaxed
long-hours reading is arranged at the main entrance of the library with fully
ventilated natural free air-zone.
2. E-Learning section with two 2 ton
A/c’s and 27 revolving computer chairs for both students (4 hours a day) exclusively
and for staff (5 hours a day). Different e-resource paid & free sites are
made available in this section. Available
e-journals, e-Books, e-Encyclopedias and e-Thesis are made available in flexi
small banners for students’ usage. A
separate high-end 02TB SATA Disc GDLC server with Digital books & PPT’s in
Wi-Fi environment are made available for class work preparation for teachers
& students.
3. Reference Section on the right hand
side on the first floor, has more than
36 different varieties of volume collections including 30-Volume set on Sri
Aurobindo, Nobel Laureates’ works, the Oxford Dictionary set of 12 Volumes and
more than 100 subject dictionaries are made available for users. Collected
works of Mahatma Gandhi (103 Vol), Mathematician Sri Ramanujam’s hand written
letters (printed books), great speeches of famous persons, special collections
like Atlas, paintings, Great Museums of the World (10 Vol), etc., are also
available in this reference section. All these good and rare collections are
kept in open access on the first floor in A/c. environment. During holidays, these are also issued to
students for their free time reading.
4. Five stack areas: At the mezzanine
first floor, all books on English literature onside and, on the other side of
the same floor, reference section arranged.
On the second floor, all Languages and Literature books, books on Arts
and Humanities are arranged subject wise, by following DDC (Dewey decimal
classification) scheme. All the science
books, Computer & Electronics Textbooks are made available in the same
second floor in an extended long hall. Each stack area is provided with 2 sets of
tables and chairs for staff and students for quick reference. All these stack area’s are connected with LAN.
Students can access and check the database from any corner of the library and
select books of their choice in an open access system.
5. Back
volume stack areas (2 sections) maintained at the top floor i.e. Fourth
floor of the mezzanine area. National Geographic books are available from 1935
onwards and the same title CD’s are available for 110 years. Harvard Business
Review, popularly known as HBR, Fortune, Forbes Asia, etc. are also available
in separate PG stack area. The Hall (back volumes section) is well-maintained
with more than 6000 books in the top floor.
6. Librarian’s Chamber and a
separate Book Technical Processing section where new books are processed and
sent to stack areas and reference section are also on the ground floor of the
library.
7. Visually
challenged students books also kept in ground floor. Access to the premises through prominent
display of clearly laid out floor plan, adequate signage, fire alarm.
1.
Floor plan is displayed at the main entrance (5ft. X 4ft. size),
2.
Three fire alarms on different floors,
3. Special assistance for differently - abled users by the supporting staff.
A) Books,
back volumes and thesis 1, 20,782
1. Text book
collections 1,00,119
2. Reference books 14,663
3. Back volumes 6,000
B)
Non-Print (Microfiche, AV) 2,513
C)
Electronic (e-books, e-Journals) 1,02,600
D) Special Collections:
(i) Palm leaves (5 in number) are available and one set of
palm leaves entitled ‘Sarawathi Sahaasra
Nama’ displayed in a glass box at the main entrance for students’ sake;
(ii) CD’s of National Geographic 110 Years’ collection;
(iii) CD’s of Census, data
of all Districts with Mandal-level data;
(iv) Books on Paintings, Art and World Famous Museum’s collections;
(v) Atlas Collections, Oxford Special Dictionary – 02 Vol.’s, etc.
OPAC:
The
College web-site facilitates a link to access the Library. Details of documents
are available with accession numbers so that users can approach the issue
counter with the help of accession number and get it issued.
NEWGENLIB
:
Our Library is automated with NEWGENLIB
software and all the Library activities will
be done through the Library soft-ware . for
both e-resource management and for hard copy of the journals.
Federated
searching tools to search articles in multiple databases:
GDLC· (Galileo
Integrated Digital Learning Center)
appliance is used for digital information search in the e-Learning center of
the library. This GDLC can be accessed with 108 different gadgets.
Library
Website: In the College website, a link is provided
and in addition to that the Library blog www.andhraloyolalibrary1.blogspot.in is also
active and periodically updated.
In-house/remote access to e-publications: A separate A/c. hall for e-Learning center
with Wi-Fi around the library with a radius of 10 meters has Provided.
Special services provided by the library:
Manuscripts: Available in
reference section Reference: More than
14,663 books/Volume Collections.
Reprography: Canon
Automated* & two-side auto reversible Xerox cum
Printer at UG and Xerox Machine at PG library and 3 normal printers are also
available for users.
ILL (Inter Library Loan Service): Delnet,
Acharya Nagarjuna University, Krishna University, AIRC (American Information
& Resource Center) and with other 4 college libraries. Many books borrowed
from Planning Commission Library and returned safely through DELNET – ILL
facility. Research articles are received from AIRC, Chennai. These facilitate
our users with latest developments across the globe and additional added
service for Research & Development.
Information Deployment
and Notification: From UGC-Nlist, NKRC & other sources, we receive
information and the same is notified to our users for students’ career
development and other purposes.
Internet
Access: For
students: 4 hours & for staff: 5 hours. Students can avail this facility for their project work and to store information in their mails.
Downloads: Facility is provided in e-Learning Centre
with 56 systems in both PG & UG Libraries.
Printouts: 4 printers
are available for students & staff
to print old question papers of our college examinations and also University PG
entrance examinations. Both soft and hard copies are made available for some
special & important examinations like J AM and different entrance tests.
Reading
list/Bibliography compilation: Reading lists are available for some special
areas to encourage students. Book lists on Personality development, Volume
Collections, special Collections, etc., are available and displayed.
In-house/remote
access to e-resources: Wi-Fi facility is
available and can be accessed with most gadgets and all the stack areas are
connected. The entire library is in LAN (Local Area Network).
User
Orientation: Banners are displayed on different areas for students’ information. During lunch break, Librarian is always
available for interaction and counseling with students.
Assistance in
searching Databases: Librarian & a Technician are available for
assistance and individual password & ID are provided to search different
e-services.
INFLIBNET/IUC facilities:
360 registered users do utilize INFLIBNET and IUC facilities regularly.
Additional Book Issue Facility: Some special
students (those who are preparing for JAM, CSIR-NET, etc.) and regular general
book readers are provided with additional books including Reference
Collections.
Library
Exhibitions: Regular annual exhibition is conducted during* National
Book Week time i.e. 14-20 November, every year and Special collections are also
exhibited along with college annual exhibition time.
Online Old
Question paper service: Before examinations all the old question papers are made
available in e-Learning centre and the same are copied and attached to students
emails to save paper as an environmental friendly care.
Book
Bank Facility: Every year on an average 45 to 55 economically backward and
deserving students are given book bank facility.
CONFERENCES
& OTHER EVENTS :
2011-12 Organized Indian Association of Special Library and Information Centers’
One-Day Workshop for South Zone on 14, August.
2012-13 Organized UGC-Sponsored two-Day National Conference on 17-18, November and
Conference Volume released with ISBN. 72 papers and 108 participants both local
& non-local (from 7 States) presented papers.
2013-14 Established Endowment / Memorial Lecture (Worth 7 lakhs in FD) on 3rd February
in loving memory of Rev. Fr. D. Gordon, the second Principal of the College.
2014-15 Two Invited
Talks and Six Book Reviews organized
& continuing till date as
monthly activity.
2015-16 Organized National Library, ( Under MHRD ),Kolkata,
Sponsored two-Day National Conference on 17-18, November
and Conference Volume released on D. B. ACT, 1954. (Annual
Activity from 2012, on the Birth Anniversary of Fr.Douglas Gordon SJ