Hindi Bhavana Library
The Hindi Bhavana foundation was inspired by C.F.Andrews and Kshitimohan Sen and the tireless endeavour of Pandit Banarasidas Chaturvedi bore fruit with the completion of the Hindi Bhavana building on January 31, 1939. The Library in Hindi-Bhavana was started in 1939 and has a collection of 37,480 print books. This is also an excellent library where autographed books by Mahadevi Verma, Sumitranandan Pant, Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’, Premchand, Benarsidas Chaturvedi and Hazariprasad Dwivedi are preserved along with books on Hindi literature and books on various subjects in Hindi. There is a rich collection of journals, old and contemporary. The Library has provision of 3 users seating capacity and around 260 users having daily transaction of average 35 books.
Hindi Bhavana Library has connected with the Campus wide MHRD Wifi. Library has 04 PCs, 02 printers, one Scanner for its Library and Cloud Based Library Management Software Koha (Unicode Web compliant) is being used for automating the library activity and services.
Goals/Objectives of the Library: To collect, preserve, cultivate and endow the treasures of knowledge, heritage and culture in Hindi Language. To serve the Students and Faculty members of the Hindi Department, this Library is responsible for collecting the Hindi literature and books on various subjects.
Library Collection:
- Books: 37290 (alongwith 429 Gifted Books)
- Journals / Magazine: 2
Samakalin Bharatiya Sahitya
India Today (Hindi)
- Newspapers: 02 (Jansatta & Telegraph)
Resources / Collections of the Library (including Special Collection, Rare Collection and Digitized Collection): This is also an excellent library where autographed books by Mahadevi Verma, Sumitranandan Pant, Suryakant Tripathi’Nirala’, Premchand, Benarsidas Chaturvedi and Hazariprasad Dwivedi and special collection on Gandhi and translated works of Rabindranath Tagore are preserved along with books on Hindi literature and books on various subjects in Hindi.
Library Servics:
New Arrivals
Lending Service
Reference Service
On-line Public Access Catalogue
Book Reservation
Bibliographic Services
Reprographic Services
Inter Library Loan Services through different Libraries
Urkund (Anti Plagirism Software)
EndNote (Citation and Bibliography Management Software)
Wi-Fi facilities within department
Access of E-Journals
Internet Searching & Browsing
Library Advisory Committee:
Members:
1. Prof. Chakradhar Tripathy, Professor & Head - Chairman
2. Dr. Subhash Chandra Roy, Assistant Professor - Member
3. Dr. Jagdish Bhagat, Assistant Professor - Member
4. Dr. Arjun Kumar, Assistant Professor - Member
5. Dr. Nimai Chand Saha, University Librarian (Acting) - Special Invitee
6. Sri. Ajay Kumar Sharma, Asstt. Lib. & Additional charge, HBL - Convener
Library has Institutional Repository (IR), for the digitised collections, of question papers, syllabuses which are accessible through the Visva-Bharati Library website at (https://vbu.lsdiscovery.in/home/dashboard ).
Library Users: Students, Research Scholars, Teachers, Staffs of Visva-Bharati are the normal users of Library. Outsiders can use this library with special permission.
Visva-Bharati Library Network: The Library is part of the Visva-Bharati Library Network and is connected to the Central Library through the campus wide MHRD Wifi. The services that are available to the users through this network are:
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Union catalogue of documents of all libraries in the network (WebOPAC: https://vbu.lsdiscovery.in/home/dashboard),
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Integrated automation through Koha software,
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Access to digital, electronic resources like online journals & databases, e-books, digitised books, theses
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Information services like Newspaper Clipping, CAS, Scholarship update, New Arrivals, Institutional Repository consisting of syllabuses and question papers, IT-enabled services like access to plagiarism detection software (Urkund: http://www.urkund.com ), Single Window Search Engine (Discovery Service: https://vbu.lsdiscovery.in/home/dashboard), Web of Science, JGate+, EndNote etc
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Library Website: Gateway to everything about the Library: https://vblibrarynetwork.in/index.php
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Inter - Library Loan System (DELNET)
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Braille Library Service
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Network e-Newsletter