Central Library :-
Facilities available
Introduction
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The Central Library of the University is the hub of academic
activities where students sit from morning evening everyday
throughout, the year. Its four storey building has spacious
reading halls and compact stack areas. The Library has a
collection of nearly 4,66,656 volumes are rare as well as latest, and 276
current periodicals with back numbers. The Library
also provides the access to the different online journals
only in the campus. The Library possesses
facilities like photocopiers, LCD projectors, INFLIBNET, CD-ROM
databases and inter-connected computer terminals at selected
sites. It has
Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID), an automatic
identification method, relying on storing and remotely
retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or
transponders. An RFID tag is a small object that can be
attached to or incorporated into a product like books. RFID
tags contain silicon chips and antennas to enable them to
receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID
transceiver.
The University Library is centrally located and constructed
on modular plan. It has a total area of about 9,300 square
feet which includes a stack area of about 36,000 square
feet. The Library has three main reading halls and additional
reading areas in the Textbook section, Periodical section,
Jammu and Kashmir section, Reference section, Private books
reading hall, besides a reading space for newspapers near
the exhibition area. These areas provide reading facilities
for about 500 readers.
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The Central Library was renamed as Dhanvantri Library,
University of Jammu by the Syndicate and the University
Council. The nomenclature was changed to give recognition
the work of Dhanvantri (1902-1953), in to the freedom movement
and the socialist cause in India in general and Jammu and
Kashmir in particular besides his contribution to land reforms
in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
