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IQRA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

IT IN BUSINESS

FINAL REPORT

TOPIC: IQRA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

SECTION "B"

SUBMITTED BY:

Shariq Fareed (25544)

Ahad Altaf Hussain (25808)

SUBMITTED TO:

SAEED AHMED

DATE: 1.5.2014

LETTER OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It has been a pleasure to be SAEED AHMED's students. We would like to thanks him for providing

Us a great knowledge on theories of IT. His teaching helps us to learn IT more efficiently.

His lectures have been very interesting. I would like to express the deepest appreciation to SAEED AHMED. His effort and guidance were extremely helpful to us. His motivation and Hardwork toward us was really helpful to us. We just wanted to express how much we enjoyed being in your class . We cant think of a teacher who could have made this year any more special than you did.Thank you for a great university year and for always going the extra mile as a teacher. We appreciate it more than you will ever know.

Sincerely Regards,

Shariq Fareed

Ahad Altaf Hussain

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

22/APR/2014Saeed Ahmed,

Project supervisor & Course Instructor Iqra University

Dear Sir,

In the name of Allah, the most beneficent and merciful who gave us strength and knowledge to complete this report. This report is a part of our course IQRA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. This has proved to be a great experience. This report is a combine effort of Shariq Fareed and Ahad Altaf..It is being submitted to you on MAR,1, 2014.

The report is constructed by the group members if it lack something then we are sorry.

AhadAltafShariqFareed

(25808)(25544)

TABLE OF CONTENT

SERIAL NO

DESCRIPTION

PAGE NO

1

INTRODUCTION

1-7

2

INFORMATION RESOURSES

7-8

3

NEWSPAPER

8-9

4

Journals and MOVIES

9-11

5

NEWSLETTER

11-13

6

Books

14-15

7

Rules and Regulations

16-17

8

Subject Classification and Shelf Arrangement

17-18

9

Membership Process

18-19

11

Service and Facilities

21-20

12

Online Resources

22-26

13

Book bank and Document

26-28

14

IU Library Advantages

26-28

13

REPORT

28-29

14

28-29

15

DOCUMENT SOFTWARE

28-29

16

DIGITAL ARCHIEVE

29-30

17

LIBRARY COLLECTION

30-33

18

CONCLUSION

33-34

19

BIBLOGRAPHIES

34-35

IQRA UNIVESITY LIBRARY

Introduction:

The Library of the University of IQRA, apart from being an academic unit, serves as an educational and service centre of the University information system. The Central Library of the University of IQRA in MAIN CAMPUS, together with two libraries . It is available for all readers.

The Library offers increasing amounts of information on CD-ROMs and access through the Internet to full text databases, primarily electronic journals. The present collection has a universal character. However, special consideration is given to the disciplines represented at the University and maritime issues. The Library is particularly interested in acquisition of special collections concerning the history and culture of the Different Region, in traditional, as well as electronic forms.

Among the most precious are: manuscripts, rare books, cartography, art prints, along with audio-visual materials (records, cassettes, video-cassettes and other media).

The University Library is committed to sustaining and enhancing its capacity to treat and protect its important paper-based collections, with the majority of conservation and preservation-related investments focused on the care of its rare, unique, and otherwise valuable objects.

Library includes ,state of the art computing facilities, well equipped teaching labs, central air-conditioned classrooms equipped with the latest audio-visual aids, an auditorium, a seminar room, sports facilities and a prayer hall.

Library has an automated catalogue, which is available to librarian desk to search books and library holdings by author, title, subject, publisher and keyword. Library staff provides guidance in using catalogue and retrieving material from shelves.

Information Resources Centre:

Keeping in view the requirements of the students Information Resource Centre of the University is having more than 40000 books on different subjects, covering all topics of curriculum, professional and general reading material. Latest editions of the leading text books and reference publications are being continuously added in IRC to meet the HEC, PEC & users requirements.

The Resource Centre has up-to-date record of Government publications relevant to the curriculum and is one of the best sources of secondary data for educational purposes. We subscribe numerous national and international journals and online databases entitled.

The Resource Centre is having text data of selected articles published in the local newspapers as well as in the bibliographic data of articles published in the national and international journals. Presently, there are more than 25000 articles stored in the IRC database and full text of articles can be retrieved and downloaded by using various searching techniques.

The Library has 30 computers to facilitate the students for their routine work and research purpose

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NEWSPAPERS:

Varieties of various newspaper are available such as Dawn, jhang, ummat and so on.

Mostly all newspaper contains English and Urdu language

The Resource Centre is having text data of selected articles published in the local newspapers as well as in the bibliographic data of articles published in the national and international journals.

The Newspaper Articles contains of different types of articles such as Library Articles, Sports articles, Fashion Articles, Information Articles and so on.

JOURNALS:

The library also subscribes IEEE and ACM journals via online as well as in the print format.

IU also subscribe more than 120 national and international journals for the students of Business, Engineering, Computer Science and Media Science.

IU Library have more than 27 international journals with more than 1 impact factor are also available in our collection.

These online journals sources are widely used all over the globe and it gives access to the more than 10000 online journals.

NEWSLETTERS:

Newsletters, brochures and prospectuses received by the library are displayed in the magazines shelf.

Newsletters are in IU Library to inform Student about things that happen in that University.

Newsletters which are available in IU Library are consist of Avertising,Marketing.Events and so on

IU newsletters include news and upcoming events of the related organization, as well as contact information.

MOVIES:

The Resource Centre is also having huge collection of selected Movies for Media Science students in Media IRC Server.

Collection of movies are available in different languages such as English, Urdu, Subtitlesetc

These collection of movies are also showing during the IU Film Festival.

The IU Library have E-MOVIES facility .There are number of collection of movies with different categories.

The Movies are available in library computer .the movies contain title wise folder.

Movies are available in DVDs as well as in library computers(E-Movies).

There are different kinds of movies available in IU Library such as:

Comedy

Detective and Mysteries

Documentaries

Fantasy

Foreign

French

Historical

Horror

Romance

Romantic Comedy

Science Fiction

Thrillers

Television Series

BOOKS:

IU is having more than 40,000 books on different subjects.

IU has large number of books on different fields BBA, media sciences ,engineering , mba.

It provides several types of books on different languages

It not only provides educational information but also provide information on the basis of sports, celebrities, movies, dramas and so on.

The IU library have a Huge collection of dictionary books which have been translated into many languages.

Following are the URLs/websites from which IU students, faculty and staff members can download research articles, journals and books from within IU.

EMERALD

JStore

EBSCO Host

Pakistan National Digital Library

Wiley InterScience

Oxford Scholarship Online

Springer Link Online

RSC Journals

INASP eBooks and Articles

InformaWorld Journals

Google Scholar

These online journals sources are widely used all over the globe and it gives access to the more than 10000 online journals.

Library Collection:

Library has an automated catalogue, which is available to librarian desk to search books and library holdings by author, title, subject, publisher and keyword. Library staff provides guidance in using catalogue and retrieving material from shelves.

Rules and Regulations:

All library members must abide by the library regulations.

The Library Membership Card must be used for using library. At the end, members will be required to surrender the membership card to the librarian to get a `clearance. The membership card is not transferable.

In case of card lost, the new card will be issued against the payment of Rs. 50/-

Fine of Rs. 15/- per day will be charged for an overdue book.

Reference books, journals, reports and Newspapers are for use within the library only and cannot be borrowed.

CDs/DVDs cannot be borrowed.

The user is responsible for any loss or damage to library materials and will be charged the cost of the item plus 10% surcharge and applicable fine.

Library telephone facility is for the library staff only.

Silence must be observed at all times.

Eatable are strictly prohibited in Library.

Handbags, personal belongings must be left outside the library.

The librarian reserved the rights to suspend the membership if found in breaking the rules of library.

Do not write on or mark the library books. This damages the books besides causing inconvenience to the next user.

Do not shelf books. Leave them on the Librarian Desk.

Subject Classification and Shelf Arrangement:

All books on the shelves are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Scheme, and arranged alphabetically by subject from A to Z using the OCLC Cutter Scheme.

Subject Classification from Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Scheme.

000

Computer science, information & general works

100

Philosophy & psychology

200

Religion

300

Social sciences

400

Language

500

Science

600

Technology

700

Arts & recreation

800

Literature

900

History & geography

Membership Process

There are two major categories of library members;

1. Registered members

2. External members

Teaching staff, researchers and students are counts as Register Members. Registered once, they are allowed to use library and its services and facilities. They can also lend out library resources as per their checkout limits. All regular members will be given a library membership card that is compulsory for all library transactions. In order to obtain library clearance, a member has to surrender their membership card.

Visitors, students, researchers and teaching staff other then IUNC are categorized as External Members and they are limited to browse library resources for reference purpose only. No issuance of resources is allowed unless a library or librarian involved for interlibrary loan.

Services and Facilities

Reading Room: IUNC library and information resource center has a wide well-equipped reading area with sitting strength of over 100 users at a time for peaceful and comfortable study and learning activities while group study, loud discussion or making library a meeting place is strictly prohibited.

Archive Area: Library has an archive section to keep record of 3 months old newspapers; this facility is for research students to provide reference on time.

Current Awareness Service: Library and Information Resource Centre is providing Email based Current Awareness Service to IUMC faculty members and students to share new arrivals information, library updates and important news about database and websites.

Inquiries and Advisory Service: Professional staff is available to facilitate all aspects of library use. She/he will provide responses to general and specific queries on all research topics and related subjects, and provide help to users in literature search from resources available in print and other media.

Inter-Library Loan Service: This service is extended to a Faculty member if a required book or material is not available in this library. Books can be borrowed through inter-library loan from affiliated libraries.

Outreach Activities: IUMC Library and Information Resource Centre is offering a Library Volunteer-ship Program to provide free hands-on training about Library Management Skills to fresh students. IUMC Library is also actively coordinate with national and international libraries to share their resources and services.

Photocopy Service:Photocopying facility is available in the Library. However, a whole book/journal is not allowed to be photocopied, as per copyright rules.

Orientation Programs:One to one or group orientation programs are conducted to familiarize library members with the library services, procedures and resources. The students are of the effective use library resources (print and online).

Circulation (Issue/Return): Books are available for circulation to all regular library members for a period specified below;

ON-LINE RESOURCES

The library has compiled links to open access resources that are segmented into: 1) Pages from Pakistan 2) International Links.

Pages From Pakistan

FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE

Read and download taxation rules, customs acts, sales tax acts, income tax ordinances, federal excise act, finance act,sales tax rules, federal excise, etc.

MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND MANPOWER

Find Labor Policy 2010 in pdf.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

Read and download Economic Survey of Pakistan, Federal Budget of Pakistan, Debt Policy of Pakistan, Fiscal Policy of Pakistan, Year Book of Ministry of Finance, Poverty reduction strategy etc.

PAKISTAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS

Read and download Agriculture Statistics, Business Register, Demographic and Research Statistics, Energy & Mining Statistics, Foreign Trade Statistics, Industry, Labor Force Statistics, National Accounts, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement, Population Welfare Statistics, Price Statistics, Social Statistics.

E-BOOKS AT HEC, PAKISTAN

Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for eBooks.

E-JOURNALS AT HEC, PAKISTAN

Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for e-journals.

PAKISTAN RESEARCH REPOSITORY (THESES)

Read Research Papers (These) from different private and public sector Universities of Pakistan.

WWF PAKISTAN

WWF Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for e-journals on environment science.

LEARN PAKISTAN

The free journals are for developing countries like Pakistan, India and others. The High Wire-basedprogramoffers access to the countriesthat appear in the developing economies. These all journals arefree to download; some may require registration via email only.

KITAB GHAR

Kitab Ghar is the largest Urdu eBooks Library on Internet that provides free access to read and download Urdu eBooks.

URDU POINT

Urdu Point is an excellent website of Urdu lovers to read, and download Urdu eBooks .

International Links

ADELAIDE

The online library of the University of Adelaide, offers free classic literature, philosophy, science and medicine e-books.

BARTLEBY

Provides the encyclopedia of world history and Harvard classics .

BIBLIOMANIA

Offers over 2000 free electronic documents, as well as research results.

BOOKS BOON

Download free unlimited free textbooks, business books and travel guides.

DIGITAL BOOK INDEX

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS

536 sites that legally offer free books (e-books) for download or for online viewing.

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

The largest database that covers Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

EDUCATION RESEARCH GLOBAL OBSERVATORY

Maintains a complete and current directory of open access peer-reviewed journals in education.

FREE BOOKS LIBRARY

e-books available under free licenses such as GFDL, Creative Commons license, Project Gutenberg-tm License, other freedom to use and distribution licenses so feel free to download and use free e-books given in this site. Read the license text before you start downloading e-books from this library!

FREE COMPUTER BOOKS

Thousands of high quality computers, software books, available for free download.

FREE DATABASE BOOKS

Thousands of high quality database books, available for free download.

FULL BOOKS

Thousands of high quality full-text free books on multiple subjects for free downloading.

GLOBETICS LIBRARY

The Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users electronic access free-of-charge to 1,146,563 full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines. Registration is free and participants also have the possibility to submit their own documents to the libraries.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO) PUBLICATIONS

Great collection on statistics and labor economics.

INTERNET ARCHIVE

The largest digital library to download free 3,496,105 texts, 1,345,159 audios, 680,019 videos and 104,735 music archive.

MANY BOOKS

Add free library to download over 29,000 free e-books.

ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS JOURNALS

An excellent database that search and browse Online public access journals by COMSATS.

OPEN LIBRARY

Over 1 million classic literature free e-books to download.

PDF FREE BOOKS

In this database 37,280,459 free books are available in pdf format.

PROJECT GUTENBERG

Offers over 33000 free e-books to read online and download .

QUESTIA LIBRARY

The World's Largest Online Library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.

TECH BOOKS

Best free books on technology subjects.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA BOOKS

Lists over 1 million free books to read and download .

WTO DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES

Provides access to the official documents of the WTO's councils and committees as well as to a range of other resources, such as trade statistics, economic research, WTO publications, videos, audio and photos. Here you can also find the legal texts the body of WTO agreements that collectively form the legal framework of the WTO.

20 FREE BOOKS SITES

A directory of 20 free-books websites.

DOCUMENT:

Iqra university library provides DDS (Document Delivery Services) to those faculty members, who are making research in their respective fields. Required research papers are sent to the faculty members via email.

Book Bank:

Book Bank for the Engineering Students has been established and all the students of the Engineering Department can get 03 books issued for the whole semester without paying additional fee. This facility will also be extended to the students of the Business Administration in future.

IU Digital Library Advantages:

Traditional libraries are limited by storage space; IU digital libraries have the potential to store much more information, simply because digital information requires very little physical space to contain it. As such, the cost of maintaining a digital library can be much lower than that of a traditional library. A physical library must spend large sums of money paying for staff, book maintenance, rent, and additional books. Digital libraries may reduce or, in some instances, do away with these fees. Both types of library require cataloguing input to allow users to locate and retrieve material. Digital libraries may be more willing to adopt innovations in technology providing users with improvements in electronic and audio book technology as well as presenting new forms of communication such as wikis and blogs; conventional libraries may consider that providing online access to their OPAC catalogue is sufficient. An important advantage to digital conversion is increased accessibility to users. They also increase availability to individuals who may not be traditional patrons of a library, due to geographic location or organizational affiliation.

No physical boundary:. The user of a digital library need not to go to the library physically; people from all over the world can gain access to the same information, as long as an Internet connection is available..

Round the clock availability:A major advantage of digital libraries is that people can gain access 24/7 to the information.

Multiple Access: The same resources can be used simultaneously by a number of institutions and patrons. This may not be the case for copyrighted material: a library may have a license for "lending out" only one copy at a time; this is achieved with a system ofdigital rights managementwhere a resource can become inaccessible after expiration of the lending period or after the lender chooses to make it inaccessible (equivalent to returning the resource).

Information retrieval: The user is able to use any search term (word, phrase, title, name, subject) to search the entire collection. Digital libraries can provide very user-friendly interfaces, giving clickable access to its resources.

Preservation and conservation: Digitization is not a long-term preservation solution for physical collections, but does succeed in providing access copies for materials that would otherwise fall to degradation from repeated use. Digitized collections and born-digital objects pose many preservation and conservation concerns that analog materials do not

Space. Whereas traditional libraries are limited by storage space, IU digital libraries have the potential to store much more information, simply because digital information requires very little physical space to contain them and media storage technologies are more affordable than ever before.

Added value. Certain characteristics of objects, primarily the quality of images, may be improved. Digitization can enhance legibility and remove visible flaws such as stains and discoloration.

Digital Archives:

Physicalarchivesdiffer from physical libraries in several ways. Traditionally, archives are defined as:

1. Containingprimary sourcesof information (typically letters and papers directly produced by an individual or organization) rather than the secondary sources found in a library (books, periodicals, etc.).

2. Having their contents organized in groups rather than individual items.

3. Having unique contents.

Software:

There are a number of software packages for use in general digital libraries, for notable ones seeDigital library software. Institutional repository software, which focuses primarily on ingest, preservation and access of locally produced documents, particularly locally produced academic outputs.

Reports:

The library stocks various statistical, annual and research reports as well as directories, catalogues from local and international associations.

Research Work (Theses):

The Research work section contains about 500 standard research papers (theses) by students of IUMC on various topics of PhD, M.Phil, M. Ed and MBA.

Library Collection:

General Collection:

This is the main collection comprising high quality selective books related to the academic programs. The books on computer science, computer engineering, economics, public administration, science & technology, management sciences , philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, politics, law, language & literature, arts, and history & geography are housed at IU EDC-Library.

Reference Collection:

A significant number of current reference sources are available on reference shelves. Various electronic databases including micro data-sets produced by Federal Bureau of Statistics are distinct features of this collection. This collection also contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, yearbooks, atlases, bibliographies.

Multimedia Collection:

Multimedia section provides access to audiovisual material; CD-ROMs, DVDs, and videos. The section is equipped with Cable TV, VCRs, CD & DVD players, a Hi-Fi audio system, and microfilm and microfiche readers.

Course Reserve:

The library has a collection of course reserves/reading packages of the courses offered during last five years. These course reserves have been developed by the faculty to fulfill the textual/course needs of the students.

Electronic Database:

The library has access to a wide range of electronic resources including e-databases, e-journals and e-books accessible through internet, campus wide network and from the library terminals. A list of all databases/journals is available at library website.

Conclusion:

Libraries, many of their resources and services, and the information experts who

Work in libraries appear to be increasingly less visible in a universe of abundant

Information, but without data we could not say with any certainty how extensive this

Apparent shift has become. The Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources

Report provides this data.

The purpose of the report is to provide a clear picture of the perceptions of college

Attending respondents, for the benefit of IU Library. The report is the result of a need to

better understand the interests, habits and behaviors of college students using IU

librariesor notin a time of information abundance.

IU Library provide all kind of Library facilities to their students such as Journals, Reports,

Newspapers, Books, Computers, Newsletters, Electronic Database and so on.

IU Library Provide Online services to their students, staff and faculty Member.

IU Library is fulfilling the needs of their Students by providing them books on different Fields.

IU Library provides reading room which help student to study comfortably and Peacefully.

Bibliographies:

http://www.iqra.edu.pk/iuk/?page_id=273

http://www.iqra.edu.pk/iunc/?page_id=8633

http://www.iqra.edu.pk/iuk/?page_id=30

http://www.iqra.edu.pk/main/resources/library/

http://library.lums.edu.pk/atl_collections.html

http://library.lums.edu.pk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library

http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/reports/pdfs/studentperceptions_conclusion.pdf