Siksha Satra Library

Siksha-Satra, established in 1924 in Santiniketan, and later shifted to Sriniketan (1927), caters to the children of villages deprived of opportunities of any form of education due to lack of facilities or poverty. That India lives in her villages and that it is impossible to maintain the organic health by enriching urban centres and neglecting rural India was the enduring truth which Tagore tried relentlessly to establish. Towards the upliftment of the rural people through education and development of self-reliance, Tagore devoted himself and directed his efforts. Tagore was conscious of the difference in needs of the rural and urban people and imaginatively developed curricula for such needs.

Siksha-Satra provides an atmosphere of openness of nature in which lessons are imparted in keeping with the syllabus shared with Patha-Bhavana. It also provides a large spectrum of work education subjects like Modeling, Woodwork, Weaving, Electrical Servicing and Maintenance, Horticulture, Artistic Handicraft and Drawing & Painting. Other student activities are the meetings of the literary forum (Sahitya Sabha), Sports and Games, N.C.C., N.S.S., excursions and participation in the University festivals.

Siksha-Satra was a residential school with facilities for day-scholars up to 1975. It is, at present, a non-residential school.

Area of Library:

Stack Room : 23 X 20 Ft.

Reading Room: 20 X 15 & 18 X 20 Ft.

Seating Capacity: 20 seats for Students & 10 for teachers

Library Collection: As on 31st March 2014

Books: 24847

Current Journals: 24

Newspapers : 9 

Library Users: Students, teachers and staffs of Visva-Bharati are the normal users of Library.

Academic Service: The Siksha Satra Library organises the Library Science course (vocational) of the pre-degree students.

Library Services:

• Lending Service

• Reference Service

• E-content services

• On-line Public Access Catalogue (http://172.16.2.2:8080/jopacgwt)

• Internet Searching & Browsing

Library Hours:

All days except weekly holidays (Wednesday & Sunday):

Day time: 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Morning time: 6.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. 

Important Links:

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

NCERT-Online books 

Books & Support Material----CBSE 

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 

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

6. Inter - Library Loan System (DELNET)

7. Braille Library Service

8. Network e-Newsletter