The
Library
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is one of the central support services of
IIT Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...
. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to
bibliographic
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and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and information needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community.
Building Plan
The library occupies an independent five-storey building.
Renovated Library with a beautiful entrance lobby and exhibit area, reorganized reference and periodicals reading halls, provided a variety of user spaces for individual studies with wifi and laptop plugging facility. Improved staff work area and a large reading hall open for 24×7.
Library Services
The library offers circulation of books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parent's income falls below the taxable limit.
The library maintains Inter-Library Loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including
IITs
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned Institute of technology, public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Educat ...
,
BARC,
NITIE
Indian Institute of Management Mumbai (IIM Mumbai) previously recognized as the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai (NITIE Mumbai), is a graduate business school under the Ministry of Education (India), Government of India lo ...
,
NCST,
IISc
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a Public university, public, Deemed university, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bangalore, Bengaluru, in ...
,
IIG
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a US nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal, as well as to fight the influence of religion in government.
History
The Center for Inquiry was established in 199 ...
,
TIFR
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the De ...
,
IGIDR,
TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassette
Library Collection
The Library receives 450 print periodicals. Apart from this it has books and theses and dissertations, standards and reports, pamphlets which are approximately 5 lakhs. There are 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs.
The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12,000 full text journals and 10 databases 24 x 7 on institute-wide network as per the following details.
Institutional Repository
The IIT Bombay Institutional repository is an electronic collection of research produced at IITB, including full-text book chapters, conference/proceeding papers, technical reports, journal pre prints & post-prints, working papers, Patents and annual reports.
ETD (Electronic Theses Dissertation)
The Library supports electronic submission of theses and dissertations by postgraduate and doctoral students. During 2017-2018 year 749 Master's degree dissertations, 367 PhD theses and 239 Dual degree theses are submitted and approved by supervisor via this system.
Staff
Dr. Manju Naika is the current Chief library Officer.
External links
Official Website
References
Annual Report of IIT Bombay LibraryAnnual Report of ITT Bombay Library 2010-11
Annual Report of IIT Bombay LibraryAnnual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2009-10
Annual Report of IIT Bombay LibraryAnnual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2008-09
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* Ghosh, Maitraiee. "Digital Infrastructure and attitude towards access and sharing: A case study of Selected Engineering Libraries in the Maharashtra State of India." International Information and Library Review 41, no.2(2009),
* Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Bamane, Niranjana J. "Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD): An initiative at Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Available at: http://docs.ndltd.org:8080/dspace/bitstream/2340/208/1/1074244208-text.pdf
* Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Kulkarni, Shobha Electronic Security: A case study of IIT Bombay Central Library. Available at http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/181/03cali_12.pdf?sequence=2
* Jotwani, Daulat (2005). Library portal – a knowledge management tool. In Multilingual computing and information management in networked
* digital environment. ed. Murthy T.A.V. et al. (pp. 612–620). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre.
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