Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre of SDMCET acts as a resource hub of the college and is easily accessible to its users providing uncompromising information to its users in a fully integrated and dynamic environment. The functional infrastructure, state of art facility & well trained staff of the center provides a good ambience for self-learning. Excellent support from both Management & Users has geared to build extensive collection of conventional as well as digital formats.
The automated services are accessible on the Campus wide network (24×7) through library web pages. The web pages provide comprehensive information about library resources and services. High quality resources support learning and research. The Library has automated its functions to increase efficiency in routine activities and enable easy search of the bibliographic details of the holdings through EPAC (E-Catalogue).The library supports wifi access for all its online resources in the college and hostels supported by remote access outside the campus. Digital Library helps to access all digital content & previous year question papers of the center accessible on the campus wide network.
About
Library is centrally located in the campus housed in independent building having a plinth area of over 2500 Sq mtrs, having total seating capacity of 550 students at a time. The Library has over 60,000 volumes which are updated regularly by way of adding new collections in diverse formats in the form of text books, reference books, reports, proceedings, abstracts & indexes, encyclopedias, data books, standards (National & International) Journals, Audio Visual resources, CDs, educational videos and thesis/reports.
Library is automated by using EASYLIB-Library management software. It is a multi-user package for effective management of a library from all aspects. Online catalogue of the library and the e-resources can be accessed on the campus network. The library subscribes to nearly 121 Technical Periodicals and More than 8600 International e-journals from IEL, Springer Link, Taylor and Francis, Science Direct and ProQuest. In addition there are more than 2000 Bound volumes of journals, 2500 CD’s & DVD’S, & IS Standards.
Guidance and assistance is available from any member of Library staff. More Information about how we can help you make best use of our resources can be found in the using the Library section of our pages. We hope you find these pages useful and informative.
Library Services & Facilities
- OVER NIGHT ISSUE BOOK
- BOOK LENDING
- BOOK BANK FOR CATEGORY STUDENTS
- INTER LIBRARY LOAN SERVICE
- WIFI ENABLED
- USER AWARENESS PROGRAMS SERVICE
- PERIODICAL SERVICES
- DIGITAL LIBRARY
- CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE [NEW ARRIVALS]
- SPECIAL ENCOURAGEMENT SCHEME FOR TOPPERS & SPORTS SERVICES
- CD-DVD SERVICE
- NEWS PAPER CLIPPING SERVICE.
- REFERENCE & REFERRALSERVICE.
- REQUEST A PURCHASE.
- 24/7 ACCESS TO E-RESOURCES.
- COLLECTION OF PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS
Library Collection
LIBRARY COLLECTION
The library collection includes following types/numbers of documents.
| General Books | 60975 |
| Book Bank | 5390 |
| Print Journals | 121 |
| International Journals (e-Journals) | 8000 Plus |
| CD-DVD’s | 2600* |
ORGANIZATION OF COLLECTIONS
| Ground Floor | Circulation Section, Web EPAC, Book Bank Section. |
| First Floor | Librarian Chamber, Reception Counter, Reprography Section, Book Processing Section, News papers-Periodical Section, Reading Room I, Reading Room II, Reading Room for PG Student /Staff Reading-III, Digital Library, Reference Section, & Book Bank Section. |
E – Journals
The library is a member of the VTU Consortium for accessing e-resources (e-journals) subscribed through the consortium like IEEE, ASCE, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Science Direct. Etc.
- IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) (273 e-Journals, 6514 Conference proceedings, 3043 Technical Standards etc. (2016) (Back file Access from 1872 – till date)
URL : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
[Note: You can download the full papers which are shown as]
- Science Direct (Elsevier): Engineering + Computer Science (285 journals) (Back file Access 2000 – 2015)
URL : http:/www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals
[Note: You can download the full papers which are shown as ]
Full text Open Access Contains Open Access - Springer: Engineering + Basic Science Subjects (680 e-Journals) (Back file Access from 1997 – till date)
URL : http://link.springer.com
[Note: Uncheck Include Preview-Only content & Refine Your Search so that you can get only full text list of e-Journals] - Taylor and Francis: Engineering (535 e-Journals) (Back file Access from 2000 – till date)
URL : http://www.tandfonline.com
[Note: Browse by your relevant subjects, all accessible titles will have the Green icon.] - ASCE ONLINE: Civil Engineering (38 e-Journals) (Back file Access from 1983 – till date)
URL : http://ascelibrary.org/action/showPublications?pubType=journal - ProQuest – Technology Collection (Back file Access from 2000 – till date)
URL : https://search.proquest.com/materialscienceengineering?accountid=166054 - ProQuest – Management Collection (Back file Access from 2000 – till date)
URL : http://search.proquest.com/abiglobal - Knimbus Digital library Platform (All subjects 12 K + Resources)
Knimbus presents a single search window to all subscribed resources: Journals + e-Books + e-Theses + Educational videos etc.
URL : https://www.knimbus.com/user/auth.do?signin=true
NOTE: All the above Resources are IP based and accessible within SDMCET campus only.
E – Books
The library is a member of the VTU Consortium for accessing e-books subscribed through the VTU consortium like, Springer, Taylor & Francis Etc.
- Springer E-books: (e-books in Engineering and Allied Subjects, Copyright years 2013- 2005)
https://link.springer.com/ - Taylor & Francis E-books– (More than 250 Ebooks)
http://www.tandfonline.com - Pearson Ebooks (153 e-Books)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/ - DELNET e-Books (e-books in engineering and Allied Subjects)
http://164.100.247.30/
NOTE: All the above Resources are IP based and accessible within SDMCET campus only.
Important web links for library services are available through Online..
- Previous Year Question Papers(Digital Library :http://192.168.2.19/
- EPAC : http://192.168.14.3/EPAC/EPAC_selorg.asp?status=exp
- DELNET (Interlibrary Loan) : http://164.100.247.30
- NPTEL (E – Learing) : http://nptel.ac.in/
- National Digital Library of India : https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
- The Institution of Engineers (India) : https://www.ieindia.org/
Contact
Librarian
Knowledge & Learning Resource Centre
SDM College of Engineering & Technology
Dhavalagiri, Dharwad – 580002
Phone: 0836-2447465
Email : sdmcetlibrary@yahoo.in
