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Library is the heart of the institution. It is a unique Knowledge Centre, which offers essential and specialized information resources and services to meet the information needs of the users. The Central Library of RIT has been playing a vital role in overall development of the college since its inception. The library is enriched with variety of books, well equipped with modern facilities and resources in the form of books, e-books, periodicals, e-journals, newspapers, CD-ROMs etc.

To cultivate 'reading culture' amongst the students library increases a collection of general reading books also from time to time.

The library has subscribed e-journals as well as print journals over Rs. 25 lakhs. The total investment in the library is more than Rs. 2.76 crores.

 

Working Hours:

Monday to Saturday              9.00 a.m. To 8.00 p.m.
Digital Library Timing          10.00 a.m. To 8.00 p.m.
During Exam. Period            9.00 a.m. To 12.00 midnight

 

Library Resources:

Total number of Books 61767

Titles

18338

Text Books

53571

Reference Books

8196
Investment in Books 2.45 crores
E-books 1705
Titles 17081
CDs/DVDs 1262
Journals and Magazines 145

National Journals

98

International Journals

47
Online Journals ASCE, ScienceDirect, IEL, Springer, J-Gate, EBSCO, ASTM, McGraw-hill.

Full Text Journals

6670

Indexed Journals

17738
Bound Volumes 3205
Total Subscription 25 lakhs
Reading Room Seating Capacity 180
Membership of I.I.T., Powai, Mumbai. ARAI, Pune.
Total Investment In Library (In Rs. ) 2.76 crores
 

Salient Features of Library:

  • Open access to all.
  • Book Bank facility for all the students of FE/SE.
  • Book Bank facility for reserved category students.
  • Night library and reading room facility.
  • Use of barcode system for circulation of books.
  • OPAC facility for book search.
  • Institutional membership of I.I.T., Powai and A.R.A.I. Pune.
  • Printing and photocopying facility.
  • Availability of digitized question papers.

Digital Library:

In the modern information based era, the students and faculties require pinpointed, exhaustive and quick information. To fulfill this requirement, we have developed a well equipped Digital Library with 50 computers to provide access to electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, digitized question papers etc. The students and faculties can search, browse, download or print the article from e-journal or a portion from e-book, subject to copyright restrictions. The GATE CDs are also made available to the students for the preparation of GATE examination which is helpful to the students to face the GATE examination confidently and successfully.

 

E - Journals 2012-13:


No of E-journals & E-books - 2013:

Sr. No.
E-journals/E-books
Total
URL
1 ASCE (Civil) 34 http://ascelibrary.org/journals/alljournal titles
2 Science direct (ETC, Electrical, CSE, IT, Mech., Civil) 275 http://www.sciencedirect.com
3 Springer (Mechanical) 49 http://www.springerlink.com
4 Springer ( Electrical, Electronics, Computer ) 149 http://www.springerlink.com
5 IEL (Electrical, Electronics, Computer) 419 http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore
6 ASTM Digital Library Over 13,000 Journal Articles Over 1700 E-Books http://enterprise.astm.org/
For product information: http://www.bsbstd.co.in/bsb/astmdl.aspx
7 McGraw- Hill's Access Engineering 363 Reference Tools/e-books http://accessengineeringlibrary.com
8 J-Gate-
i) Engineering and technology
2005 full text 5003 indexed http://www.jgate.in OR
  ii) Social & Management Sciences 2628 full text 7775 indexed http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in
9 EBSCO Management 1103 full text 4960 indexed http://search.ebscohost.com