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GIET LIBRARY

Central Library occupies a place of pride in GIET and is an essential component of the institute's outstanding research and education mission. It is a most lively place on the campus providing a safe, comfortable and friendly environment that enables learning and advancement of knowledge, and promotes discovery and scholarship. The mission of the Central Library is to facilitate creation of new knowledge through acquisition, organization and dissemination of knowledge resources and providing for value added services. The library system consists of Central Library and 16 departmental libraries, which collectively support the teaching, research and extension programs of the institute. All students, faculty members and employees of the Institute are permitted to make use of library facilities. The library has a huge collection of books on Engineering, Management, Science and Humanities offers library services through its various divisions. In Duplex Central Library with a carpet area of 6000 Sq.ft. with Digital facility, Web OPAC and NEWGENLIB is functioning from 8.00 AM to 5.00 PM on all working days and 8.00AM to 8.00 PM on all holidays, including Sundays.

Library Resources

The Library has an excellent collection of Books, Journals and non-book material in Science, Engineering, Technology, Humanities and Management.

Resources	Number
No. of Volumes	43143
No. of Titles	6000+
Back Volumes	4000
Project Reports	3000
No. of CDs & VCDs	3405
No. of Reference Volumes	3000
Journals / Magazines / Proceedings Online / Hardcopy	1200+
e-books	1000
Online courses	500
Subscriptions : ACM, IEEE, ASME, Springer Link, ABI/Inform Complete
Database : EZ-LIBRARY,NEWGENLIB

Library Computerization :

The Central Library has computerized all its activities including Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, and Stock Verification using in - house software. The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) can be accessed on Internet and Intranet. The central library uses Barcode and Biometric technology for computerized circulation system and stock verification. The library has developed in-house facility for bar coding of books and ID cards.

Video collection and video viewing :

The central library has a collection of 500 Sonnets CDs video lectures. Most of the Video lectures are delivered by IIT faculty for undergraduate engineering students. The library is equipped with video viewing facility through FTP.

The Library remains open on all days of year.

Major Services in the library include Reference Services, Photocopying service, Resource sharing (Inter-Library loan), Information Alert Services -New Arrivals.

Digital Library :

Digital Library is a part of the Central Library with wide network built up of fiber optic Giga-byte Ethernet backbone. Digital library has 25 computer terminals to access Internet/ e-Learning material. It also has a CD Server with 1000 CD capacity.

The Central Library is a member of NEWGENLIB, ASME, IEEE, ACM, MAA, MIS, Bio Parma International, Geo Technical Engineering, Nature, IE, Computer Society of India and SPRINGER LINK. 

Salient Features of the Library :

• Instructional Materials.
• University Question papers.
• Model Question papers.
• Hand Books.
• GATE Question Papers
• The Total Seating Capacity is 350
• Individual Cabins for Research
• The Central Library is automated with Integrated Information Systems - a software developed in-House
• WEBOPAC is the special feature of GIET
• NEWGENLIB connectivity
• Audio-Visual section
• Digital Library with 25 Systems
• CD Server with 1000 CD's storage capacity on LAN
• IEEE and other Journals online
• Reference section
• Periodical section
• Reprographic facilities
• Standard text books and books by well known authors
• Institutional Membership of British Council Library, American Information Center in Chennai, In addition to existing IIT's and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Laboratiries,Libraries located at various places throughout India
• GIET is also an Associate Member of the JNTU Central Library

A central library with an area of 600 Sq. M.
Digital Library 20 Systems functioning from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM on all working days and
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on all holidays, including Sundays. 

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