Palli Siksha Bhavana Library
On the basis of recommendation of a National Commission (L.K. Elmhirst first director of Sriniketan was also a member), an Institution of Rural Higher Education was set up at Sriniketan in 1957. The main object was to give leadership by providing expertise agricultural information for sustainable rural economic development. Later in September 1, 1963 Palli Siksha Sadan was set up offering degree courses in Agriculture and Social Work. Later Social Work was transferred to Department of Social Work of Palli Samgathan Vibhaga in 1975. In revised Visva-Bharati Act of 1984 it again was renamed as Palli Siksha Bhavana (Institute of Agriculture) which offers graduation, post-graduation and Ph. D programmes in Agricultural Education. PSB Library serves Palli Siksha Bhavana comprising of three departments like Agriculture, Social Work and Palli Charcha Kendra in particular and to others departments of Visva-Bharati in general.
The Library is stationed in a two- storied building of 452 square meters consisting of stack, journal section, technical section, binding section, computer laboratory, reading room with seating capacity of fifty users. The Library can boast of its good collection on Agricultural Education, Research and Extension, Journal Section and gray literature in Agriculture.
Library Collection: As on 15th November 2014
Books: 49073
Journals: 5434
Newspapers: 2
Magazine: 3
E-Resources: 90000 including e-books, e-journals, e-database, etc.
Online Journal (UGC-Infonet): http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/
Open Access Digital Repository: Digital Library of India- http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
Library Users: Students, research scholars, teachers, staff of Visva-Bharati are the normal users of Library. Outsiders can use this Library with special permission.
Library Services:
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Reference Service
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E-content services
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On-line Public Access Catalogue (http://14.139.211.2:8380/opac/)
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Bibliographic Services
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Reprographic Services
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Access of E-Journals
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Newspaper cliping
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
Library Hours:
9.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (Wednesday and Sunday Holiday)