Palli Samganthan Vibhavaga Library

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Palli Samganthan Vibhavaga Library

 

Palli Samgathana Vibhaga Library was set up at Sriniketan in the year 1927 as one of its section for providing information and library services to the villagers as part of Tagore’s mission on rural reconstruction in the surrounding villages of Sriniketan. Tagore set up Chalantika Library, mobile library service for the remote villagers. The Govt. of West Bengal came forward in 1952 to promote the rural development programmes undertaken by Tagore at Sriniketan , they sponsored and attached one Area Library to PSV Library providing with fund and staff. RRRLF has also extended their cooperation providing books, furniture, computers, etc. for the rural people. The Present Palli Samgathana Vibhaga (PSV) Library (having 52,675 of documents) is the combination of Chalantika Library, Sriniketan Sadharan Pathagar and Area Library.

PSV Library has connected with the Campus wide Fiber Optic Network named GitanjaliNet (INFLIBNET). Library has seven (07) PCs, two (02) printers, one Scanner for its Library and Library Management Software Koha (Unicode Web compliant) is being used for automating the library activity and services.

Goal of the PSV Library: To endeavour the legacy of Tagore through rural reconstruction. Helping users from Rural Extension Centre ,Silpa Sadan and others Department of Visva-Bharati to benefit from the resources of the Library to the maximum possible extension. Introduction of modern equipment and furniture, additional reading space, introduction of Wi-Fi facilities has increased more number of users at PSV Library than earlier. This year has witnessed about three thousand five hundred users at the Library which is expected to be much higher in coming days.

 

Area:

Area in (Sq. metres): 205.30

Seating Capacity: Sixty Users at a time.

 

Library Collection:

Books: 5,2675 (PSV Library:36833+ Area Library& RRLF:15740+ Gifts: 102)

      Bound Journals: 2,545

 

Special Collection:

Books on and about Tagore

Vishwa VdiyaSangraha .

Visva-Bharati Research Publication Collections

Birbhum Collection

History, development and activities of Sriniketan

 

Newspapers:

Anandabazar Patrika

Bartaman

Sambad Pratidin

Aajkal

The Statesman

Times of India

 

Magazines:

  1. Economic and Political Weekly

  2. The Indian Textile Journal

  3. Colourage

  4. Employment News

  5. Man and Life

  6. Aneek

  7. Desh

  8. Pesha Prabesh

  9. Karma Kshetra

  10. Suswastha

  11. Asian Dyer

  12. Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research

 

Library Services:

 

 

Library Hours :

9:30 a.m to 6:00 p.m.

(Wednesday & Sunday is the weekly holidays).

 

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.lsdiscovery.in/home/dashboard),

  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 (Urkund: http://www.urkund.com ), Single Window Search Engine (Discovery Service: https://vbu.lsdiscovery.in/home/dashboard), 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