Rabindra Bhavana Library

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Rabindra Bhavana Library

 

Rabindra-Bhavana situated in Uttaryana Complex was established in 1942 by the poet’s son Rathindranath Tagore as a memorial museum and research centre for Tagore studies. By the early 70s of the last century, the various activities of Rabindra-Bhavana gradually began to be organised into its different sections.

Rabindra-Bhavana Library is one of the most important units of Rabindra-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati. It is a special library. This library mainly serves the requirements of the Tagore Researchers from all over the world. It includes the personal library of Rabindranath, different editions of the poet’s works, Tagore’s books translated in different Indian and foreign languages and books written by the Tagore scholars on his life and works at different points of time. This library also has a newspaper clipping collection from 1912 to date and a valuable Pamphlets file collection.

Access to the Library: It’s a Reference Library and, hence, the documents have to be consulted within the Library during the working hours.

Permission for use of Library and Archive (separate applications required) a) Short term: Submit the filled up prescribed form along with an introductory letter from eminent scholars/head of departments/ guides etc, b) Long term: Submit the filled up prescribed form with an introductory letter from eminent

scholars/head of departments/ guides etc attaching 2 passport size photos. They will be issued a Library Card (extendable) for use both at Library and Archive.

How to obtain books: Fill up the requisition form by consulting the catalogue cards (Maximum of 4documents are issued at a time for consultation at the Reading Area).

 

Area of Library:

Stack Room : 508.365 Sq.m

Reading Room: 106.652 Sq.m

Seating Capacity: 16 seats for Scholars

 

Special Collections:

  1. Pulinbehari Sen

  2. Probodh Chandra Sen

  3. Santidev Ghosh

  4. S. Khastogi

 

Library Collection: As on 15th November 2014

Books: 47830

Journals: 13474

Newspapers: 9 (Bengali-6 & English-3)

       E-Resources: 90000 including e-books, e-journals, e-database, etc.

 

Writings of and on Rabindranath Tagore are available from this sources.



Online Journal (UGC-Infonet)

1. Down to Earth (Password Based Access)

2. Economic & Political Weekly

3. J-CCC : (Database)

4. J-STOR

5. Oxford University Press

Open Access Digital Repository: Digital Library of India: http://www.new.dli.ernet.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.

 

Library Services:

 

Library Hours: Friday to Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

 

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