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A Library is a public
institution charged with the care of, collection of books,
the duty of making them accessible to those who require
the use of them and the task of converting every person in
its neighborhood into a habitual library reader of books.
A Library plays an important role in the field of
education. Education and libraries are the two joint parts
of body. One cannot be separated from the other. Library
is charged with providing adequate reading material to
users. The library organizes the reading materials so that
it can be in systematic order for use. As we know
libraries are spending institutions where the money spent
on establishment and services can’t be measured in the
form of profit
Thus a library is a place where books, periodicals,
musical scores, manuscripts and other literary and
artistic materials are collected, processed and kept in
some convenient order for use by clientele and not for
sale
The RGNUL came into existence in the month of June 2006.
With in a short span, the University has established a
well-resourced Library on the Campus. Keeping in view the
aims and objectives of the Law University, the Library has
been planned and is being developed by a team of qualified
professional Library staff.
Our Library is well stocked and the entire Library is
divided into five major sections.
(1) Reference Section
(2) Periodical Section
(3) Textbook Section
(4) Documentation Section.
(5) Moot Court competition Section
(6) General Section
(7) Technical Section
(8) Xerox Section.
The Library at the RGNUL has acquired a collection of over
22000 Volumes covering a wide range of general and special
subjects consisting of text books, reference books, bound
volumes of journals, reports, e-books, thesis etc. apart
from the current legal periodicals. The RGNUL Library at
present subscribes 80 Law Journals and about 25 magazines.
Apart from the subscription to law journals, 19 Newspapers
and Online journals (Manupatra, Westlaw India, SCC Online,
LII of India, EPW, DELNET and Hein Online etc. ) are also
being subscribed by the RGNUL Library for keeping the
students and faculty in touch with the current affairs.
Apart from these two, separate reading rooms have been
marked for the undergraduate students and for the Post
graduate students
The active library professionals started using computers
not only to manage library but also to fulfill the needs
and requirements of library users. Computer and other
digital or electronic resources are less expensive and
more helpful for easy access. Now the users can access the
libraries from outside by digital access by commonly
available electronic information resources such as
CO-ROMs/DVDs, OPAC, Web-OPAC and the Internet. The RGNUL
Library has been using LIBSYS package for Library
Automation and housekeeping operations. The library
on-line catalogue database has bibliographic information
books and back volumes of periodicals. Through the LIBSYS
OPAC users can access and search the Library Online
Catalogue by Author, Title, Subject, and keywords. Users
can know the latest additions of periodicals. Reservation
of a book can be done Online through WEB-OPAC. Students
and other staff can access WEB-OPAC through Wi-Fi network
with in University campus and Hostels also. RGNUL Library
also providing “Ask a Librarian” service for online
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