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Bhai Gurdas Library
The University Library named after the great Sikh scholar Bhai Gurdas ji, housed in a five-storey beautifully architectural pyramid shaped structure and located at a central place and is visible from the main gate of the University. Bhai Gurdas Library remains open on all the days of the year except on 26th January and 15th August. Library has total book collection of 5,43,357 documents.
Library Timings:
The library remains open on all the days of the year except on two National Holidays i.e. 26th January and 15th August.
The library has been organized into different sections viz.:
- Acquisition
- Circulation
- Computer Section
- Digital Lounge to access electronic resources
- Electronic Theses & Dissertation Lab
- Periodical
- Punjabi Reference Library
- Reference
- Technical
- Manuscript & Rare Books
- Theses & Dissertation
University library is a member of ONOS (One Nation One Subscription) initiative of Government of India. University is getting IP based access to about 13000+ electronic journals of both international and national repute also have DELNET membership for receiving any book/article as part of inter-library loan from other libraries of India. Presently, University Library subscribes to 134 Indian, 52 Foreign journals and 24 newspapers. Library has purchased more than 15612 e-books for the various teaching departments. Subject wise list of published books by faculty members and Punjabi & English books by university press publication are available on library website. The library has about 5174 rare books and 1511 manuscripts which date back to the 15th, 16th and early eighteenth centuries and are digitized in five volume catalogues along with digital media format. To serve the immediate needs of the students and the faculty, the library has also established twenty-two Departmental Libraries in other departments / centres of the university.
A separate section of Prof. Pritam Singh’s collection consisting of 9804 rare books and 1062 manuscripts has been organized and uploaded on library website for reference. Under the name of famous Punjabi novelist Nanak Singh, University and Nanak Singh memorial Trust, Amritsar has established "Nanak Singh Centre" with the life and works of Nanak Singh. A corner named after Dr. Gurnam Singh Teer, writer & journalist has been also established in the manuscripts and rare books section displaying different facets of his life and teaching are displayed.
Comprehensive Bibliographies on different subjects are also available in the library namely:
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Holy City of Amritsar
- From Guru Nanak to Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Shaheed Udham Singh
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh
- Freedom Movement in Punjab (bibliography of books in English, Punjabi and Hindi)
- Punjab Through the Ages have been prepared by University Library
Library housed 24-hour open air-conditioned reading room (250 seating capacity) and a dedicated digital lounge to access journals, books and other online resources. A Seminar cum orientation hall (50 seating capacity) has also been developed with multimedia facilities and smart digital podium. This facility is being used for orientation of new students admitted in different departments of the University and also to demonstrate use of e-resources (plagiarism software, different databases like SCOPUS, Web of Science etc) for students, Ph.D. scholars and faculty members.
Library Management System (LMS-KOHA) software has been the backbone of automatic issuing and return of books and digital entry gates for automatic entry-exit to the library are state of the art facilities. Every student, research scholars, faculty and non-teaching staff are issued a RFID enabled plastic card along with an additional feature of biometric entry into the library. The library resources including online journal access is provided through local area network (IP domain-based access) within the campus network. Online book search through OPAC is also available at http://library.gndu.ac.in besides digital Kiosks available on different floors of the library.