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Cheena Bhavana Library

 

The Cheena Bhavana Library has one of the most valuable collections in Visva-Bharati. Although officially the Cheena Bhavana Library along with the Bhavana was opened in 1937, the acquisition of books and other documents had started earlier. Among rare books in this Library are Hwang-Chi’ing Ching-Chiai, a collection of Commentaries on Chinese Canons of Chi’ing Dynasty (1644-1910AD), Tzu-Chih Tunga-Chien, the Chinese Government Annuals, from the Chou Dynasty to the Sund Dynasty (771 BC – 960 AD), 24 different editions of the Chinese Tripitaka, presently it has a collection of 46,246 documents along with more than 5000 books received as gift from different sources. The Library has provision of 30 users seating capacity and around 200 users and a daily transaction of 30 books.

 

Cheena Bhavana Library has connected with the Campus wide MHRD Wifi. Library has 04 PCs, 02 printers, two 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 Chinese Language in general with an emphasis on the Indo-China relations in particular. To serve the Students and Faculty members of the Chinese Department, this Library is responsible for collecting the literary treasures of the Chinese people and preserving the continuity of Chinese culture.

Foreign Collaboration: Cheena Bhavana Library has signed MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) with Shanghai Library, People’s Republic of China on November 03, 2016 for three years. Through this MOA, Shanghai Library will provide 500 copies of books in the 1st year of MOA and subsequently 100 books per year. This will be of great help in collection and development of Cheena Bhavana Library, Library resource sharing would be possible for library catalogue database, books, journals, etc., This MOA between the two libraries possess important significance for India China educational exchanges.

 

Library Collection: 

India Today

 

Cambridge University Press

China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China, 1841-1951

Jstor

Oxford University Press

Project Muse

Sage

Springer

Taylor & Francis

Wiley Blackwell Publishing

 

Resources / Collections of the Library (including Special Collection, Rare Collection and Digitized Collection): Among the rare books in this library are the Hwang-Chi’ing Ching-Chiai, a collection of Commentaries of Chinese Canons of the Chi’ing Dynasty (1644-1910 A.D.), Tzu-Chih Tunga-Chien, the Chinese government Annuals, from the Chou Dynasty to the Sund dynasty (771 B.S-960 A.D), 24 different editions of the Chinese Tripitaka. The Library has also a special collections of Chinese Encyclopaedia and the very important and valuable collection of the Chinese Budhhist scriptures titled Tripitakas in Sanskrit and Ts’ang-ching in Chinese. In addition, the earlier complete set of the Tibetan Budhhist Tripataka purchased by Tagore.

 

Library Servics:

New Arrivals

Lending Service

Modern Language Lab with latest technology

Reference Service

On-line Public Access Catalogue

Book Reservation

Bibliographic Services

Reprographic Services

Inter Library Loan Services through different Libraries

Discovery Service

Drillbit (Anti Plagirism Software)

EndNote (Citation and Bibliography Management Software)

Wi-Fi facilities within department

Access of E-Journals

Internet Searching & Browsing

Accessing 120 TV channels directly from China 

 

Library Advisory Committee:

Members:

1. Prof. Avijit Banerjee, Professor & Head  - Chairman

2. Smt. Hem Kusum, Assistant Professor  - Member

3. Sri. Atreya Bhatta, Assistant Professor  - Member

4. Dr. Nimai Chand Saha, University Librarian (Acting)  - Special Invitee

5.  Sri. Ajay Kumar Sharma, Asstt. Lib. & In-charge, CBL  - Convener

  

Library has Institutional Repository (IR), for the digitised collections, of question papers, syllabuses, Faculty/Staff/Scholars Publications which are accessible through the Visva-Bharati Library website at (http://dspace.vblibrarynetwork.in/ ).

 

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:

  1. Union catalogue of documents of all libraries in the network (WebOPAC: https://vbu-opac.kohacloud.in/),

  2. Integrated automation through Koha software,

  3. Access to digital, electronic resources like online journals & databases, e-books, digitised books, theses

  4. 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 (Drillbit: https://www.drillbitplagiarism.com/ ), Single Window Search Engine (Discovery Service: https://vbu-opac.kohacloud.in/), Web of Science, JGate+, EndNote etc 

  1. Library Website: Gateway to everything about the Library: https://vblibrarynetwork.in/index.php

  2. Inter - Library Loan System (DELNET)

  3. Braille Library Service

  4. Network e-Newsletter