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Central Science Library University
of Delhi Delhi-110007 |
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LIBRARY PROFILE |
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ABOUT LIBRARY The emergence of Central Science Library (CSL) dates back to
1981 prior to that, it was a part of Central Reference Library (CRL), Delhi. However,
the need to have a separate Science Library was shown much earlier by Carl M.
White in 1966 who recommended "that a Science Library be created to
serve the departments, which consist of Faculty of Science and that the
collection now maintained by these departments and related material in the
main library be used to form the nucleus of the new library. A Science
Librarian of outstanding ability be employed to take charge of it and that a
new building be erected to house the library". With the growth of the University, the membership of Central
Library was also increasing continuously, as a result in due course of time
with increasing membership and their changing information needs, it became
inconvenient for Central Library to serve the users, belonging to the faculty
of science effectively. So CSL was separated from CRL and housed in a
separate building to serve members of science faculty .The three-storied
building having a carpet area of 22,595 sq. feet with a sitting capacity of 185
seats started functioning independently with effect from 8th April 1981. The
administration of CSL is under the Dean of the faculty of science. |
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Library Building The Central Science Library is situated in the vicinity of Science
Departments viz Anthropology, Botany, Zoology,
Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Environmental Biology and others. The three storeyed library building in red
stone and concrete is located in beautiful surroundings of parks, flowers and
ornamental trees amidst various science faculties. It is just opposite to and
very near to Delhi University Computer Centre. Hence it would always
facilitate in its modernization. It has a total carpet area of 22,595 sq feet and it offers a
congenial environment for study and research. The total capacity of the
library is about 185 seats with reading halls on 1st and 2nd
floors. The library has been organized as follows:- Ground Floor The ground floor of the library has the Incharge
Room, Issue/Return Counter, Membership, Internet Access Facility, Public
Catalogue, Acquisitions Section, Processing Section, textbooks collection and
the Reference desk. First Floor The first floor of the library has the Periodicals Section. It
has three stack areas and display of new journals and a reading room where
current issues are arranged alphabetically. Presently the Library is
subscribing to 350 journals. The photocopy facility is also available on this
floor. The 1st stack hall contains journals in Biological and
Chemical and Earth Sciences. The 2nd stack hall contains journals
in Physical, Chemical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. Second Floor The 3rd stack hall contains books and journals
published before 1970, A/Cs & establishment & binding section. |
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Departments Served By CSL The CSL is situated in the north campus
of the University of Delhi to serve the needs of 13 departments of science
faculty. These are as follows
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LIBRARY STAFF
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LIBRARY HOURS/
TIMINGS The Library functions for nearly twelve hours during
most of academic session. Library hours are subject to change and all changes
in timings are notified on the notice board well in advance. The Library remains open round the year except
Republic Day, Holi, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti. The Library Hours are as follows:
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RIGHT OF ENTRY
TO THE CENTRAL SCIENCE LIBRARY The right of admission to the Library is reserved
to the bonafide registered members of the Science
Library. The entry to the Library will be against the Identity Card to be
shown at the entrance. A serious view is taken of the unauthorized entrants
and the trespassers. Personal and private books, brief-case and printed
matter other than library books are not allowed inside the Library. Library
does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage of personal property
or/personal effects left on its premises at the property counter. LIBRARY
ORDINANCES / RULES Library tickets are not transferable, as they are
tokens of privilege which only the member to whom they are issued, is
entitled to. Transfer of Library Tickets is misuse of this privilege and may
lead to the withdrawal of membership. Books should not be kept beyond the due date
marked on the date slip,(pasted inside the book) at
the time of getting issued. Overdue Charges. The overdue charges for keeping
the books overtime are Rs.1 per day (EC Res. No. 200 dated 27-08-1996). Members should keep the Library informed of any
change of residential address, change of College, change of Subject, etc.
during the period of their membership. Members must satisfy themselves about the physical
conditions of the books before borrowing them. They shall be held responsible
for any damage, noticed/reported later on, at the time of returning. Members
shall be required to replace/to deposit the cost alongwith
binding charges) of the books reported lost or found damaged or defaced by
marking etc. Defaulters may be suspended from the use of the Library by the
Librarian Incharge of Central Science Library,
pending the discharge of their liabilities. Atmosphere of Study. As the University Library is a
place of individual study and research, it is necessary to maintain an
atmosphere of quiet and dignity inside the library. Members are, therefore,
reminded that conversation or consultation among themselves or noisy or
demonstrative greetings of friends inside the library is not permissible. Smoking is also not allowed inside the library.
Mobile phone should be kept on vibrator. |
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COMPARATIVE
STATEMENT OF THE LIBRARY ACTIVITIES From 2007 to
2012
LIBRARY COLLECTION The library has a total collection of about 1 lakh 80 thousands volumes including books and bound
journals. Some of the collections are also available in the form of CDs and
floppies purchased as well as received along with the books. The books for
various advanced centers are purchased and processed in CSL and then sent to
them. The library is subscribing to 350 foreign and Indian journals. The rare
book section is housed on top floor of the library. OPEN ACCESS
COLLECTION The members have the privilege of direct access to
shelves in the stack halls for general books collection. It is important that
the arrangement of books be maintained on the shelves for the convenience of
members themselves. While books can be freely taken out of the shelves and on
no account should they be reshelved by the members
because of the danger of their misplacement. TEXTBOOK
COLLECTION (CLOSE ACCESS) Science Library Text Books Section contains
reading materials covering prescribed readings, recommended readings allied
and relational readings and such other reading materials as may be considered
important for placement along with such text-related materials. Minimum one and even more copies as may be
considered necessary be retained in the text-book
collection ‘For Consultation only’. Text Book Section is operated through the page
service by the Library Staff and is not open to access by users. Books are issued for 3 days from this section.
Only the ticket marked No. 1 (Text Book) shall be used for borrowing books
from this section. PERIODICALS
DEPARTMENT Periodicals collection of Central Science Library
is housed in the 1st & 2nd floors. CSL is subscribing to 370 learned and
Scientific periodicals including abstracting and indexing journals like Sci-Finder Scholar, Web of Science, Mathematical Reviews,
and 28074 Online Journals from societies and publishers. Bound volumes of journals are arranged according
to Colon Classification Scheme same as used for Books. Loose issues are
arranged broadly by subject and within subject alphabetically. ‘Current list of Subscription’ which
is revised annually and a Holding List of periodicals is available in Science
Library and kept at the Counter of Periodicals Section for locating
availability of journals in CSL. The lists are accessible through CSL website
http://csl.du.ac.in. Periodicals Section through National Union
Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India (NUCSSI) and Developing Library
Network (DELNET) helps its clientele in identifying availability of Journals
in other libraries in Delhi and makes efforts in acquiring a photostat copy through e-mail attachment. LIBRARY
MEMBERSHIP Postgraduate, M.Phil. and Ph.D. Students, and Faculty members of the above
mentioned discipline and college teachers of the same disciplines are
eligible for the membership of the Library. They have to get their
memberships renewed every year, as all memberships are valid only for one
academic year i.e. from July-June. In no case membership is valid for more
than one academic year. A schedule for the registration of eligible
members is notified to the concerned University Departments and colleges by
the Library in the month of July every year. Application for membership is to be made on the
prescribed form obtainable from the membership section of the Library on
production of the Identity cards (Identity Cards not applicable in the case
of faculty members). Applicants are required to obtain a recommendation
on the application form from the Principal of the College or the Head of the
Department of the University as the case may be. NUMBER OF
VOLUMES TO BE ISSUED The under mentioned categories of members shall be
entitled to borrow the specified number of volumes from the library for the
period mentioned against each.
A member will be entitled to library privileges
according to only one of the above mentioned categories. Members of the categories 1-4 can get last two
numbers of the tickets issued to them validated for use in any other Library
Unit of the system if they so desire. The other library units of the system
for this purpose are Arts Library and Ratan Tata
Library. LOSS OF
LIBRARY BOOKS/LIBRARY TICKETS Members are responsible for the books borrowed on their
library tickets. Neither the books nor the tickets be
lent to anyone else. Loss of library books /library tickets is reported
immediately in prescribed form to the Library In-Charge Science Library. Members shall replace/deposit the cost (along with
binding charges) of the books, lost or returned in a damaged condition. When a library ticket is lost a duplicate ticket
shall be issued on the payment of Rs.5 per ticket. The member shall however
continue to be responsible for any loss that the library may suffer through
the loss/misuse of the lost ticket. NO DUES
CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE CLEARANCE
FOR MEMBERS Library tickets are the property of the library.
Before taking the university examination or terminating connection with the
college or the university every member has to return the library tickets and
clear all dues, if any, and a no dues clearance certificate is to be
obtained. No College/institution/department shall issue a
discharge certificate to its students/ teachers/non-teaching staff who had
been recommended by them for library membership without obtaining a
no-dues/clearance certificate from the Science Library. CLEARANCE
FOR NON MEMBERS The cases of non-members shall be settled by the
College Office/Department Office locally after the verification of their
records whether their membership forms were recommended by them or not.
Science Library shall not issue any clearance certificate in respect of
non-members. This will be followed very strictly & responsibility will
lie with the University Department & College Office entirely. ORIENTATION
FOR NEW USERS In this programme, new
users are acquainted with the library and its various services. Notices are
pasted regarding orientation and availability of library resources on
University website, Central Science Library website and Helpdesk etc.
Computer terminals are also provided for the purpose. Additional orientation programme can also be arranged on the basis of request by
a group of users. Personal assistance is also available. If the users are
curious to know anything, Central Scinece Library Incharge is always ready to deliver orientation. |
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LIBRARY
CATALOGUE To find out if a book is available and where it is
located in the library consult the Public Catalogue, which is in the card
cabinet form and is placed near the entrance to the stack hall. The catalogue
is a key to all the books available in any collection of the library. The
library follows unit card system i.e. all the cards 5-6 cards for each book
have identical information. The catalogue through its multiple card system
endeavors to satisfy multi-dimensional approaches of the readers to a
document. The public catalogue is in five parts 1. Alphabetical
Dictionary Part 2. Classified
Part 3. Subject
Catalogue 4. Advance
Centre Catalogue 5. Online
Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) 1.
ALPHABETICAL OR DICTIONARY PART In
this part the entries are arranged under the letter of alphabets as in a
dictionary. The cards are as in a dictionary. The cards are made out for
authors, translators, editors, series, pseudonames,
fanciful titles etc. To find out a book whose author, collaborator, name of
the series is known, consult it under the first
letter in the alphabetical part of the catalogue. The card contains a Call
Number which indicates the location of the book on the shelves. 2.
CLASSIFIED PART This is the subject approach catalogue of the
books available in the library. The collection is classified according to the
Colon Classification Scheme. The cards are arranged in the classified order.
All the books available in the library on the subject irrespective of their
location will be found listed in this part. 3.
SUBJECT PART The Key to the classified part is available in the
subject part, which is arranged alphabetically kept in a separate catalogue
cabinet. This cabinet is kept in the no.1 position of all card catalogue
cabinets. 4.
ADVANCE CENTRE CATALOGUE It lists the books first in alphabetical order and
later in classified order for Botany, Chemistry, & Physics Advance Centres respectively. 5.
ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGUE Since 1994 CSL has online catalogue of books and
it is also available through OPAC. The access to books could be made through
author, title, keywords, subject descriptors etc. TIPS TO LOCATE
BOOKS Care should be taken to note down the
classification number as given on the card in full. Roman capitals, small
letters, numerals and some connecting symbols are used in constructing the call
number. BROAD
CLASS NUMBERS For sake of convenience, selected classification
numbers are given below for various science subjects: Symbol Subject
To find out books available in the
library on a particular subject, look up the subject part of the catalogue under the
subject term. The subject card will give directions to look up the classified
part of the catalogue under a particular class number. All the books
available in the library on the subject will be found listed in this part.
The classification number given on the first line (leading section) indicates
the location of the book on the shelves. In addition to subject part, one
must seek the help of library staff for satisfying the subject approach from
computer database of books. In case of any difficulty in consultation or use
of the catalogue, members may seek help from the reference staff/any library
staff. LOCATION
GUIDE There are various points and sections where books
are kept in the library. To indicate the location of a book, a sequence
symbol is written above the Book Classification Number. Various sequences and
their symbols used are as follows along with their locations
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SERVICES
PROVIDED BY CSL Library is essentially a service organization to cater
to information needs of its users. CSL acquires the documents, processes and
organizes them on the shelves for purposeful utilization of its resources and
provides various useful services to its users. The various services provide
by the library are given below CIRCULATION It is one of the most popular
services of the library .It is also called lending service as books are lent
or issued to the users by circulation section according to users entitlement.
Library is using a Brown Charging System for charging and discharging of
books. The general books and journals can be accessed through open access
while textbooks are in close access and are issued for 3 days only. On an
average 250 books issued and about
600 books are given for consultation against I-Card per day. BOOKS RESERVATION When a particular book required by
any user is already issued out, then issue and return counter staff writes
down the name of the user and details of that book in a register maintained
by them (very shortly such reservation will be undertaken online). When a
reserved book is returned back, then if that book belongs to “only for
consultation” category then it is retained by 1 day for the user who
has reserved it. If the book belongs to “Text Book Section” it is
retained till the next day and if the book belongs to “General
Category” then it is retained for 3 days. RENEWAL/REISSUE Any book may be renewed/reissued
on its due date provided, it is not reserved by any other user or it is in
heavy demand. BOOK BORROWING SYSTEM On each occasion the book is
borrowed, a library ticket is to be given at the Issue Counter and the
Identity Card is to be shown. The Library ticket shall be generally restored
to the members, when the book is returned, but the library ticket may be retained
by the library staff, if any problem is detected at the time of return of the
book, to be discharged only when the case settles. CONDITIONS OF LOAN Reference books, rare books periodicals
(loose issue and bound volumes) and such other reading materials as marked
‘Not to be Issued’, ‘For Consultation Only’ shall not
be issued out on loan except with the special permission of the
Librarian-In-Charge, Science Library. Books on loan with members can be
recalled by the ‘Librarian In-Charge’ at any time without
assigning any reason thereof. INTER LIBRARY LOAN (ILL) No library is self-sufficient today
on account of ever increasing such information needs of research scholars and
ongoing multi disciplinary research being conducted in the university. So
when the required documents are not available in the collection of respective
library, ILL facility is used to acquire documents from some other library,
for the purpose of use and consultation by its scholars and teachers. Library
on receiving written request from its members, arrange for its ILL by sending
requisition to the particular library. Similarly CSL also lends documents to
other libraries on ILL. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERVICE Such services provided to Faculty
Teachers and Research Scholars selectively on demand both manually and online
from e-journals. DISPLAY OF LATEST BOOKS AND JOURNALS Display of books and journals is a
regular feature of the CSL, which keeps the users aware of the latest
literature, and the development taking place in their fields of
specialization. Latest issues of journals are being displayed alphabetically
by the titles under broad subjects in the periodicals department. Books are
displayed in the ground floor which is replaced by a new lot of books on a
fortnight basis. CSL also sends some selected journals for display for 10 to
15 days to South Campus Library. REFERENCE SERVICE CSL has a provision for reference
services. The users who approach the library with a reference query are
provided with the required information or source of information. For document
tracing facility, which is a part of reference, library maintains a register
where users fill the information about the document to be traced such as a
Call Number, name of the author and title etc. Usually library takes a few
hours to trace the document. CSL staff has lot of information skill both
online and manually to provide suitable reference service to users. PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE CSL has the provision of
photocopying services through commercial photocopying service available to
the users started in the year 1998 when CSL was finding it difficult to meet
the user's demand. The demand of photocopying is very heavy and during the
last financial year approximately 3.5 lakh pages
from various journals and books have been photocopied. The CSL has enrolled
with "Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore" for providing
photocopy of articles from journals, which are available there on payment
basis. COMPUTERISATION CSL library has 90 Personal
Computers installed, and the computerization process of the library has
completed. The library is using Troodon software.
Prior to Troodon, the CDS/ISIS software was used in
acquisitions and cataloguing section. The CSL is actively engaged in
rendering e-resource availability through http://csl.du.ac.in. INTERNET ACCESS FACILITY – E-RESOURCE CENTRE The library is having Internet
Access Facility and is available to science stream clientele only. All
Internet services like E-mail, browsing, and downloading are open to all the
science users. In some cases printouts of articles are also provided.
Presently more then 90 databases and 28074 online
journals from various publishers are available through IAF. A list of such
online journals is on CSL Website under http://csl.du.ac.in, www.du.ac.in E-mail The CSL taking advantage of e-mail
services in day-to-day services with the users informing them latest
additions and e-alert services. Articles on request are sent or received
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CONSULTATION
FACILITY External Users The university being central in character
has provision to allow scholars of other universities to consult library
resources Rs.100 per month. As a result research scholars and teachers from
universities like Agra, Indore, Meerut, Gorakhpur, Patna, Jaipur,
Jodhpur, Chandigarh, Jammu, Punjab, Roorkee, Pune etc have consulted the
library and a number of scientists and researchers from IIT, NPL, DESIDOC,
INSA etc. Also regularly visited and consulted the library. Please look at our website http://csl.du.ac.in for complete details and giv you feedback to serve you better. |
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ENQUIRIES TO WHOM In case of queries and questions regarding
Central Science Library and its services. Please contact:- Dr. S. C. Jindal Incharge Ph.
91-11-27667911 E-mail: scjindal@duls.du.ac.in Website: http://csl.du.ac.in -------------------------------***--------------------------------- |