Vinaya Bhavana Library

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Vinaya Bhavana Library

 

The emergence of Vinaya Bhavana as a Department of Education in Visva-Bharati occurred in 1947. Vinaya Bhavana Library came into existence in 1948 as a Sectional Library for Vinaya Bhavana in order to provide library and information services for study and research on education ( including physical education). Presently this library stands for dissemination of information through books, journals, periodicals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, including e-documents like e-books, e-journals, CD, DVD etc. to the scholars, students, staff members and academic faculties of the departments both Department of Education and Department of Physical Education of Vinaya Bhavana, Institute of Education, Visva-Bharati.

Users of Vinaya Bhavana Library are enjoying Internet search through Wi-Fi connectivity. Personal laptops are allowed in Reading Room for academic and research use. Forty (40) readers can be accommodated at a time in the Reading Room. Three computers have been provided for OPAC and internet searching and browsing

Library Area: 45 square metres

Library Collection:

Books: 20,724+

Print Journals: 16

Dissertation Papers: 610 (Education: 586 & Physical Education: 24)

CDs/DVDs: 34

Newspapers: 05

Magazines: 05

Online Databases:

Blackwell - Wiley

Emerald

J-Gate

JSTOR

Project Muse

Science Direct

Springer Link

Taylor and Francis

Open Access e-Resources:

Digital Library of India

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Shodhganga

 

Library Users: Students, Research Scholars, Staffs of Visva-Bharati are the normal users of Library. Outsiders can use this library with special permission.

 

Library Services:

 

 

Library Hours:

All days except weekly holidays: 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Weekly Holidays: Wednesday and Sunday

 

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 (Urkund: http://www.urkund.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