AUD LIBRARY

“Knowledge is Power” Francis Bacon

Library: At a Glance

AUD library first came in existence in March 2009 with the collection of 1800

print books at Dwarka campus. Presently AUD has rich and rapidly growing

three campus libraries based in Kashmere Gate (KG), Karampura (KP), and

Lodhi Road (LR) campus.

The Library aims to provide a user-friendly platform to all users to access print

and online resources without any hassle through KOHA OPAC along with

remote access facility. The library is fully automated with KOHA open source

software for daily housekeeping operations of the library across the campuses.

Currently, AUD Library has more than 65198 print books, 70 print journals,

261 CD/DVDs, more than 19222 e-journals, around 2 lakhs e-books and 35

online databases.

Library Timings

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD)

Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate, Delhi-110006

Contact No.-011-23865080

Days KG KP LR

Monday to Sunday

8.00 am 8.00 pm 8.00 am 8.00 pm 8.00 am 6.00 pm

Sunday/Gazetted Holidays

8.00 am 8.00 pm 8.00 am 8.00 pm

Closed

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Introduction .................... 1

KG Library ..................... 2

KP Library ...................... 3

LR Library ...................... 4

Library Policies……….5-6

Library Services……....6-7

Library Statistics ............ 8

Staff Achievements ......... 9

Library Events……..10-11

Useful Links….………..11

Future Plan….………...12

Editorial Team….….....12

Library Team…….…...13

Vol No. -2; Issue No.-1 & 2 (January-June 2020)

Quarterly Publication

LIBRARY

NEWSLETTER

The central library of AUD is based at Kashmere Gate Campus and was established in 2009. It has a

comprehensive collection of print and online resources to endorse the academic, professional and

research activities in Social Science and Humanities area. This campus also have special collection on

Mahatma Gandhi (256) , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, books on Disability Studies (121) and Rare books (527).

LIBRARY RESOURCES

Print

Books/Journals/ Theses & Dissertation/ Magazine/ Newspapers

Electronic

e-Journals/ e-Books/ ETD/ Online Resources & Databases

Audio Videos

CDs/ DVD’s

LIBRARY COLLECTION

KG Library has a very rich collection (approx. 60397+) of documents not only in quantity, also

in quality wise which includes;

Kashmere Gate

Library

Collection

AUD Library at Karampura Campus was established on 27th July 2016. The KP library has wide-range of

the collection covers the law and governance, global studies, urban studies, along with the undergraduate

and vocational courses.

LIBRARY RESOURCES

Print

Books/ Journals/ Theses & Dissertation / Magazine / Newspapers

Electronic

e-Journals/ e-Books/ ETD/ Online Resources & Databases

Audio Videos

CDs/ DVD’s

LIBRARY COLLECTION

KP Library has a very rich collection (approx. 10357+) of documents which include;

Karampura

Library

Collection

The Library at Lodhi Road campus was established on 05th September 2017 with 1535 print

books. The LR library has multidisciplinary resources with a focus on educational studies and early

childhood education.

LIBRARY RESOURCES

Print

Books/ Journals/ Theses & Dissertation / Magazine / Newspapers

Electronic

e-Journals/ e-Books/ ETD/ Online Resources & Databases

Audio Videos

CDs/ DVD’s

Teaching Learning Aids

Learning kits (Books, Alpha numeric/ Pictures Cards CDs & DVDs, Paintings)

Practical tools kit

LIBRARY COLLECTION

LR Library has a very rich collection (approx. 6170+) collection of documents which includes;

Lodhi Road

Library

Collection

LIBRARY PROCUREMENT POLICY OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALS

AUD Library has a fairly comprehensive book procurement procedure to facilitate faculties and students.

Library accepts recommendation through various methods like book exhibition, individual recommendation

and request by faculty. Library checks duplication of recommended books and place the list of

recommended books before the competent authority to obtain its administrative as well as financial

approval before ordering the books. Recommendation form is available on :

https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/forms

LIBRARY CIRCULATION POLICY

Library circulation section facilitates users for check out, check in, place hold and renew of books. AUD

students, staff and faculty must have to carry their university ID card to avail these services. Library has

categorised borrowing limits and period on the basis of courses-

INTER-LIBRARY LOAN/ INTRA-CAMPUS-LIBRARY LOAN

AUD Library provides Inter-Library Loan through DELNET to their users. Under this facility, all users can

borrow books through DELNET, which operates inter-library loan service among around 7000 member

libraries across the world. Library has also Intra-Campus-Library Loan facility where users have access to

resources of all the three campuses of AUD. For these services, users can request through e-mail or can

visit the AUD libraries of their campuses.

Patrons Can Borrow Days

UG Students 3 Books/2 Text Books 15/2

PG Students 5 Books/3 Text Books 15/2

MPhil, PhD 10 Books 90 Days

Faculty 15 Books 1 Semester

Non-Teaching 5 Books 1 Month

Circulation Hours

Monday-Friday 09.00 A.M. to 06.00 P.M

Saturday, Sunday & Gazetted Holidays Closed

Circulation Service

Reference Service

IT Services/Computer Facilities

Document Scanning Facility

Information Literacy Programme/User’s orientation program

Remote Access

Online Public Access Catalogue

Inter Campus Loan ( ICL)

Suggestion Box/Feedback

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

AUD Library has its Institutional Repository (IR) which designed to store and make available the entire

digital scholarly output of AUD. Library uses DSpace Institutional Repository Software which allows the

users (Faculty, Staff, Student and Research Scholar) to self-archive their papers, share research data, and

store their digitized image or multimedia collections. Library users can use this platform for more visibility

of their research and others colleagues writing works.

As of now Library has uploaded more than 360 documents in different categories like AUD News/

Conference Proceedings Articles/ Articles in Journals and Newspapers/ Thesis and Dissertation/ Annual

Report/ NAAC etc. In last six months (January-June 2020) Library has uploaded 334 documents. For more

details kindly go through the given link- http://172.16.2.115:8080/jspui/

GENERAL FACILITIES

SPECIAL FACILITIES

Library is providing following specialized services to its users-

Membership of Sugamya Pustakalay (DFI) -Daisy books access

to visually challenged users

Jaws software as well as Scanner cum reader for visually

challenged users

Separate section of disability studies

Institutional Repository

DELNET facility for Inter Library Loan

Workshop on library resources and services

Online user’s orientation program on “how to access library and its

resources?”

News Paper Clippings; AUD Library daily review 20 newspaper(10

English, 08 Hindi, 02 Urdu excluded Employment Newspaper)

Document Delivery Service (DDS)

Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)

Current Awareness Services (CAS)

Bibliographic Compilation

Access of E-ShodhSindhu : Consortium for Higher Education

Electronics & Shodhganga : a reservoir of Indian theses through

INFLIBNET

Assistance in Searching Database

E-referencing

News Alerts

ICT Services/ Internet Access

Information Deployment and Notification

Library Facebook page

Remote access Facility for e-resources : AUD Library provides two platforms for remote access

Sophos Connect: AUD Users can easily use library e-resources through Sophos software remotely. For

this service, first, the user should have to install Sophos software and Open the VPN on their computer.

For more information kindly go through the video tutorial- https://youtu.be/ljKiR_QoW18

INFED (INFLIBNET Access Management Federation): AUD Library has subscription of the

electronic resources through e-ShodhSindhu as well as from the publishers. The Off-Campus Access

service is provided to the faculty members, scholars and students to seamlessly access the subscribed

scholarly electronic resources. Username and password has been provided to all the faculty members

and scholars to access the resources 24/7 through the Library. For more information kindly go through

the video tutorial- https://youtu.be/F__qCEet3rA

(January to June 2020)

LIBRARY STATISTICS (January to March 2020)

Kashmere

Gate Library

Karampura

Library

Lodhi Road

Library

Number of Enrolled Users 4332 8421 892

Library Visitors 0043 4820 211

Expenditure of Books 10611054 1868889 942585

Transaction of Books (Check in, Check out & Renewal) 7819 8112 923

Inter Campus Library Loan Service: 290 494 819 24

ILL through DELNET (lending and borrowing both) 804 From KG From KG

Fine Collection (Rs.) 32130 1804 4444

Dr. Debal C. Kar (University Librarian)

Dr. Alka Rai (Deputy Librarian)

.

Dr. Alka Rai was invited as subject expert in a Live and interactive

session of Sr. Secondary, Library Science, Modern Libraries: Concept of

Automated, Hybrid, Digital and Virtual Libraries by NIOS (National

Institute of Open Schooling) on 27th February 2020 for the senior

secondary level students.

For watching the full programme kindly click on the YouTube Link-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsLcsKaONk

Invited as a panelist, by the MPLA webinar on “Overview on

Demystifying e-Resources” on 7th June 2020 and she delivered a talk

on “E-Books: The Past, Present and future”.

Invited as a panelist, by the Legal Help Line India webinar on “Learning

Web Search and Research” on 23rd June 2020.

For watching the full programme kindly click on the YouTube Link-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5M3AqNiN8o

Chair Plenary Session of Keynote Speakers and address in the

Valedictory session at 9th International Library Information Professional

Summit (I-LIPS) On Academic Libraries: Latest Trends Challenges and

Opportunities, 14 Feb to 16 Feb 2020, Organized by S.O.S. in Library

and Information Science, Jiwaji University Gwalior, in association with

ITM University, Gwalior, Special Libraries Association (USA)- Asian

Chapter, Society for Library Professionals (SLP), IFLA - Asia and

Oceania Section, at Jiwaji University, Gwalior, M.P.

On 30th May 2020 uLektz Wall of Fame has announced top 50

outstanding librarians across India for the year 2019 and Dr. Debal

C. Kar was one of the top librarian in the list.

Programme : Workshop

Library organised a workshop during “Shodhotsav” for MPhil and PhD Scholars, “From Research to

Publication: What Researchers Should Know?” on 20th January 2020 at Kashmere Gate Campus. In this

workshop more than 180 persons were registered and due to limited seats only 60 participants could

participated. Prof. Ramesh C. Gaur, Dean and Director (Library & Information) & Head - Kala

Nidhi Division at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, Ministry of Culture,

Government of India, Dr. Manorama Tripathi, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),

New Delhi and Mr. Aakash Chakravarty from Routledge were the resource persons and Dr. Alka Rai,

Deputy Librarian was the session coordinator.

Programme : Newsletter Launching

Library published its first issue of quarterly newsletter on 22nd January 2020

during the valedictory of Shodhotsav in the presence of Pro Vice-

Chancellor I Prof. Jatin Bhatt, Pro Vice-Chancellor II Prof. Salil Misra

and Dean Research and Consultancy, Prof. Geetha Venkataraman .

Programme : Inauguration of JAWS Computer Software

A step towards making AUD library more inclusive. Hon'ble Vice

Chancellor Prof. Anu Singh Lather inaugurated Library’s first assistive

device Scanner cum reader (that can convert text into speech) as well as

„JAWS Computer Software‟ installed in Library to reduce print disability

in presence of Pro-VC , Prof Jatin Bhatt, Registrar Dr. Nitin Malik, and

LC chair Prof Rukmini Sen and other members of Library committee on

Programme : Demo Session

Library organised demo session of EPWRF India Time Series on 26th Feb 2020 at Kashmere Gate Campus.

Programme : Online Webinar/ Training Sessions

AUD Library has conducted two hours long webinar / online workshop for MA, Global Studies Students at

GOOGLE MEET on 29th April 2020. It was an interactive session and the feedbacks received from the

participants after the workshop were highly motivating.

Library organised two online training sessions on URKUND plagiarism software for AUD fraternity on

12/5/2020 and 4/6/2020.

USEFUL LINKS

Library Web Page (https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/library-home)

OPAC/Library Catalogue (http://aud-opac.kohacloud.in)

Institutional Repository (http://172.16.2.115:8080/jspui/)

Inter Library Loan through DELNET (http://www.delnet.in/)

Library Rules & Regulations (https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/rules-and-regulations)

Library E-Resources (https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/e-resources)

Library E-Journals (https://aud.ac.in/e-journals-individual-titles)

Online Databases (https://aud.ac.in/online-database)

Library E-Books (https://aud.ac.in/e-books-and-archival-database)

Remote Access/Sophos Connect (https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/vpn-access)

INFED Access (https://idp.aud.ac.in/)

INFED Password Change (https://idp.aud.ac.in/pw/)

Open Educational Resources (https://aud.ac.in/services-1/library/open-educational-resources)

Library Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/AUD-Library-1256924024348868/ )

Key Links for Video Tutorial

Video Tutorial for Sophos Connect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljKiR_QoW18&feature=youtu.be)

Video Tutorial for INFED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__qCEet3rA&feature=youtu.be)

AUD library in collaboration with Elsevier organised a research

article writing webinar “Basics of Planning your Research Article

Writing” on 29th June 2020. The second session in this webinar was

on Mendeley, a reference management tool. More than 440 national

and international (participants from Australia, Nigeria, and Fiji)

participants got registered. Around 50% (200) registrations were

from AUD only and total 210 faculty, research scholars, and

librarians from various institutions attended this webinar.

The library has planned to provide a single window search facility to users for smooth searching and to

access all the subscribed resources without any obstacles.

Library has initiated for RFID technology for security purpose as well as for self-check-in facility.

AUD Library is working on developing a dedicated library website.

To provide more techno-friendly and convenient environment to library users in future AUD library is

planning to initiate the Digital Library Project.

Library is planning to collaborate with other universities and academic institution libraries in India and

abroad for resource sharing.

Mr. Ravinder Rawat (Junior Executive Library) Book Acquisition, Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Library Clearance, Circulation E-mail : ravinder@aud.ac.in

Mr. Nekson (Library Attendant) E-mail : nekson@aud.ac.in

EDITORIAL TEAM

Dr. Alka Rai (Deputy Librarian)

Ravinder Rawat (Jr. Executive)

Nisha Sharma (Library Assistant)

KG Campus

Kumud (Library Assistant)

KP Campus

Preeti (Library Assistant)

LR Campus

For more information visit our website

https://aud.ac.in/services-1

For Digital Copy

Library Team

Dr. Debal C. Kar (University Librarian) E-mail : debal@aud.ac.in

Know Your Contact Persons

Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Deputy Librarian)

Key Profiles : Journal Subscription, Urkund Plagiarism, Library Orientations,

Circulation (KP Campus) E-mail : dinesh@aud.ac.in

(KG & KP Campus Library)

Dr. Alka Rai (Deputy Librarian)

Key Profiles : Book Acquisition, Online Resource/Remote Access, Library Orientations, Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Library Clearance, Circulation E-mail : alka@aud.ac.in

(KG & LR Campus Library)

AUD Library Staff

Kashmere Gate Campus Library Lodhi Road Campus Library Karampura Campus Library

Mr. Ravinder Rawat (Junior Executive Library) Book Acquisition, Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Library Clearance, Circulation E-mail : ravinder@aud.ac.in

Ms. Manju (Junior Executive Library) Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Library Clearance, Fine Collection , Circulation E-mail : manju@aud.ac.in

Ms. Nisha Sharma (Library Assistant) E-mail : nisha@aud.ac.in

Ms. Meena (Library Assistant) E-mail : meena@aud.ac.in

Mr. Nekson (Library Attendant) E-mail : nekson@aud.ac.in

Mr. Sanjay Rawat (Library Attendant) E-mail : rawat@aud.ac.in

Ms. Pinky (Library Attendant) E-mail : pinky@aud.ac.in

Mr. Om Parkash Mishra (Library Assistant) Reference Services and Journals E-mail : omparkash@aud.ac.in

Ms. Kumud (Library Assistant) Inter Library Loan (DELNET) and Intra Campus Loan E-mail : kumud@aud.ac.in

Ms. Meenakshi Sharma (Junior Library Assistant) Fine Collection E-mail : msmeenakshi@aud.ac.in

Ms. Preeti (Library Assistant) Reference Service, Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Fine Collection, Library Clearance, Circulation E-mail : preeti2@aud.ac.in

Mr. Anoop Kumar Verma (Library Assistant) Reference Service, Inter Library Loan (DELNET), Intra Campus Loan, Fine Collection, Library Clearance, Circulation E-mail : anoopk@aud.ac.in

Mr. Deepu Singh (Library Attendant) E-mail : dsingh@aud.ac.in