The Central Library:
The Central Library of Raja Peary Mohan College has a very unique and rich collection of books, periodicals, and reports as well as multimedia resources built over nearly one hundred years. This includes some of the rarest materials along with thousands of important documents and journals.
The Central Library of Raja Peary Mohan College is situated in the Ground Floor of the new building. The library was established way back in the year 1927 with about 1000 books, mostly obtained through donations from the founder members. For several years, the library was located in one of the small classrooms of the earlier hostel building. However, with the passage of time, as the number of books increased, the library had to be shifted to a larger hall in Room No. 101. In 1963 there was a separate library on the 3rd floor. In the year 2018 The Central Library had to be shifted to the Ground floor to become functional in fulfilling the long-standing academic hunger of all categories of our users. Central library is spread over three levels, it has 6 special sections, (i) Textbook Section; (ii) Reference Section (iii) Rare section; (iv) Remedial Section; (v) Periodicals Section; and (vi) Braille Books. The library has been upgraded with the pace of time with KOHA software for extending facilities of automated search and online access respectively. An automated barcode system is being used to make the circulation system effectively modernized. The library has provided digital resource service through Institutional repository software DSpace.
Presently, the total number of books in the library is more than 29,000 and every year there is a fresh purchase of books from the RUSA grants UGC grants, and College funds
Raja Peary Mohan College Library is a proud member of NLIST, (INFLIBNET [http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in]) National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content which is part of UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium, JSTOR Digital Library extends e-resources to colleges.
An initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under the NME-ICT now funded by UGC, as a college component under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, it gives us access to over:
6000+ e-journals and
97000+ e-books
2. Our motto:
Motto of Central Library- “Right Document to the Right Reader at the Right Time”
The primary mission of the library is to support the educational and research programs of the college by providing access to rich physical and digital repositories of learning resources. With its rare archives and the most current databases, the College library is designed to cater to the College's current and future teaching and research interest
3. Library Timing:
Monday – Friday 10:00 a.m. to 05:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Circulation Time
Monday – Friday 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Library visiting hours for External members – 9.30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
4. Library section:
- Property Counter
- Circulation section
- Periodicals section
- Stack rooms
- Reading room
- Digital library section
- Reference section
- Rare section
- Remedial section
- Librarian’s desk
- OPAC zone
- Acquisition Section
- Technical Section
5. Contact us:
Address:
Central Library
Raja Peary Mohan College
1, Acharya Dhruba Pal Road, Koutrung, Uttarpara, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, pin-712258
Ground Floore
Phone number: 033 2663 0881
Mail ID: rpmclibrary20@gmail.com
Librarian
Dr. Sonali Dapsi - 9433217462
Mrs. Shraboni Das - 7980659238
6. Suggestions /Feedback:
https://forms.gle/1Vys5TmnAMosJHBN6
*Please give your suggestions. The central library welcomes all suggestions and encourages them. All library users can put their valuable suggestions at any time.
