Smt. Hansa Mehta Library University Library of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara E-mail : libmsu@gmail.com

Smt. Hansa Mehta Library www.hmlibrary.ac.in Established on May 1, 1950 Named after Smt. Hansaben Mehta, first Honorable Vice Chancellor of this University Library started with a collection of 25,000 books Total Present collection of books - 5,11,444 Using Library of Congress Classification scheme University Library System comprises of all the Faculty Libraries in the University Present collection of books in University Library System - 8,16,931

Vision & Mission Provide seamless and reliable access to scholarly, peer reviewed electronic resources to academic community Strengthen ICT infrastructure with value added services Create a virtual network of people and resources with an aim to provide effective and efficient access to knowledge. Increase awareness for use of e-resources available Develop resource guides for effective use of e-resources Create a digital collection of rare collection for posterity

Automation Using SOUL 2.0 software in all library functions 8 Libraries offer Library operations through a smart card Use of Bar Code Technology. Centralized Distributed Database Management System on a single server First University Library in the state to become Wi-fi compatible 

Collection(as on 31-3-2012) No of books – 5,11,444 (Smt. Hansa Mehta Library) No. of Books – 8,16,931 (University Library System) Journals subscribed – 287 (Smt. Hansa Mehta Library) Journals subscribed – 508 (University Library System) Journals received as Gratis – 188+ Theses and Dissertations – 12,804 300 plus daily transaction of books

Prof T K Gajjar Library Book Collection – 1,00579 Journals subscribed – 122 (74 Indian & 48 Foreign) Registered users – 3379 Average daily transactions – 90+ Can accommodate – approx – 475 readers Internet surfing centre – 42 nodes

Special Collections Baroda (State) Collection BARODA (STATE) COLLECTION of Smt. Hansa Mehta Library is a unique historic collection of Administrative, Legal, Educational & other documents and publications of the Baroda State of Pre-Independence Era. This collection is of prime importance for the study and research of the history and functioning of the various States of the Pre-Independence period, especially the Baroda State of Gaekwads. It contains some of the rare Administrative documents of the British Era. The available books are in printed form from early 19th century to the 1950’s.

Special Collections contd.. Prof. Balvantrai Kalyanrai Thakore (B.K.T.) Collection It is unique collections of 3985 titles of Prof. Balwantrai Thakore, an eminent literary figure in Gujarati Literature. This collection includes variety of literary forms such as Bhasha Shastra, Old ejoyanati, Kavya, Natak-Natika, Novels, Lekh-nibandh,Criticism,Vivechan, Praveshak, Charcha-Patra, Avlokan, Nivedan, and letters etc. by Prof.B.K.Thakore. Rare books Collection Rare books include books as old as dated back to Sixteenth Century. Approximately 3,500 books are preserved in this precious collection, which comprises of some noteworthy titles, which are Out of Print.

Journal Collection   Journals - 60% foreign and some as gratis including Indexing and Abstracting Journals Rich collection of bound journals out of which some are as old as nineteenth century like : Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Vol 1 (1834) – 2004 Annals - American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol 1(1890) –Till date Economic Journal Vol 6 (1896) – 2004 Geographical Journal Vol 2 (1893) - 2004   Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol 1- 1890 – 1991 till Vol. 91

Noteworthy Indexing and Abstracting Journals Biological Abstracts Current Contents: Life Science Dissertation Abstracts International Section A Chemical Abstracts (Now Scifinder) International Political Science Abstracts Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Section A Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Section B Physics Abstracts Psychological Abstracts Physical Reviews A Physical Reviews B Physical Reviews C Physical Reviews D Sociological Abstracts

Databases : Journals/Encyclopedias/Dissertation & Theses More than 50000+ online full text journals accessible across the campus(24x7) - 7500+ UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium - 250+ Journals through INDEST Consortia 14000+ EBSCO 6085 open access full text journals 100+ Online Encyclopedia (Sage Reference online Collection) 2.4 million E-thesis through PQDT (ProQuest Dissertation and Theses)

E- DATABASES Bibliographic Databases SciFinder MathSciNet (Through UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium) SciFinder MathSciNet Royal Society of Chemistry (6 Databases) Web of Science

CD ROM Databases Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)1965-2007 on DVD MathSci+ 1940-2008 on DVD Wilson Social Science Abstracts (1984-2000) EconLit (1969-2002) ERIC (1966-1998) CABSAC (1973-1997) IBID (1993-1999): India Business Insight Database

E- Resources Web version) MathSciNet(UGC-Infonet) SciFinder (web version ) (UGC-Infonet) Royal Society of Chemistry (6 Databases) (UGC-Infonet) ISID (UGC-Infonet) Web of Science (UGC-Infonet) Capitaline Plus (Subscribed) Taxmann (Subscribed) Academic Search Premier (Subscribed) Business Source Premier (Subscribed ) Prowess (Subscribed ) Business Beacon (Subscribed) IndiaStat.com (Subscribed) IBID(Subscribed) Indian Journals.com(N-List) SRO(Encyclopedia)(Subscribed) PQDT World E-book Library World Bank E-Library Company Annual Report FOAP Indian Standards(Till 2009) Cambridge books online (Physics)

Research Platform EJ-Server Global Periodicals Knimbus EOLSS J-Gate A to Z Resource Locator

E - Journals UGC Infonet Consortium Aggregated Databases Free Online journals against Print Subscription (FOAP) INDEST Consortium N-LIST

A to Z : E- Resource Locator EBSCO A to Z is a industry’s most complete web based tool for organizing and providing links to all the Library resources viz. e-books, e-journals and titles in full text databases and e-journal packages helps in locating library resources Alphabetically, Publisher wise, Subject wise and Title wise.

Open Access Journals Open Access: Open access is a publication model wherein neither a reader nor the reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. O p e n   A c c e s s   E - J o u r n a l s  Barnolipi http://www.reflectionedu.com/barnolipi.php Bioinfo Publications http://www.bioinfo.in/ Bioline International http://www.bioline.org.br/ BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/ HighWire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/ Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) http://www.ias.ac.in/ Indian Journals http://indianjournals.com/ Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) http://jodi.tamu.edu/ Journal of Postgraduate Medicine http://www.jpgmonline.com/ MedIND http://medind.nic.in/

Open Access Journals Contd… Medknow http://www.medknow.com/ Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) http://www.mdpi.org/ Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://www.plos.org/ PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Trials http://www.trialsjournal.com/ Versita Open Journals http://versitaopen.com/ O p e n   A c c e s s   D i r e c t o r i e s  Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) http://www.doabooks.org/doab Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org/ Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ Open J-Gate http://www.openj-gate.com/ Scientific Open Access Repository - OMA http://scoar.net/

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) ULS – University Library System IndCat – Online Indian Catalogue of Indian Universities DELNET –Developing Libraries Network username – gjtmsub password – tms2079 NUCSSI

Facilities Single largest Reading Room of 10,600 sq. ft. Can accommodate about 1100 readers at a time Open to readers from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm i.e. 14 hours a day throughout the year except National holidays Separate reading area for girl students, researchers and teachers Curricular collection consisting of recommended textbooks with latest editions ZoomEx Instant Text Reader for visually impaired and low vision Global Information and Communication Centre for browsing internet and e-resources with 14 nodes Web OPAC (apart from OPAC in the library building) Web OPAC

Reading Room It has a single largest Reading Room of 10,600sq. ft. which can accommodate about 1100 readers at a time. It is situated in the North Side of the building, in order to have a continuous natural light throughout the year.

Library Membership Students University Officers including Class IV Under Graduates & Post Graduates Research Scholars Ph.D. Student, JRF, SRF etc Ex- Students Non M S University fraternity - research scholars from other Universities and Institutes University Officers including Class IV Full time, Visiting, Temporary teaching and administrative staff Individual Membership Learned representatives of the Society and former Teachers and Administrative Staff of the University Corporate Membership Temporary Library Membership

Services to Readers Out of 13 constituent Libraries under the University Library System, 8 Libraries are fully automated. Provide Library operations through a smart card using bar code technology

Services to Readers Inter Library Loan Services Document Delivery Service Referral Service to its clientele. Access to University Research Reports and other material. Access to Rare books and Special books Collection and related services User Orientation programme to New entrants Visitors from outside The M S University of Baroda Compilation of Bibliographies and Webliographies on demand Services to Visually Disabled users Assistance to readers in the use of Library resources Information service based on CD and web databases E-information to the User community of MSU thru e-mail Photocopying services Internet Surfing

Document Delivery Service http://www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in Our University Library is designated as Inter Library Loan Centre under UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium Library provides article level access for all the journals available under UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium as well as journals subscribed by our Library

Please login to: www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in JCCC : A Gateway for E-journals + print journals Access with automated Articles Delivery System JCCC provides content-level access of all e-journals subscribed through the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium as well print / online journals subscribed by 22 selected universities libraries. JCCC acts as a gateway for Inter Library Loan Services for requesting documents from 22 ILL Centres (University Libraries identified based on their journals collections) Foremost purpose of JCCC is to encourage resource sharing amongst universities. Please login to: www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in

Benefits of JCCC 11,000+ E-journals Instant Access     11,000+ E-journals Instant Access Single Point Access to 1000+ Publishers site Find and download Articles of your choice Browse table of Contents   Request Articles not available online   Create Alerts to your favorite Journals

CCTV Library is under surveillance through closed circuit television 24 cameras are located strategically around various functional areas 8 Display units are placed on various Library locations

Seminar Room Library has a well equipped air-conditioned seminar room with multimedia facility, LCD, cordless microphone system having a capacity to accommodate 35-40 participants, revolving chairs.

Achievement University Library is recognized as Document Delivery Centre in terms of quality and quantity of collection with 21 other Universities of the country HML has been ranked no. 18 among 200+ Universities of India(2011-2012)(YTD) Provided 2157 pages during the year as a part of document delivery service

Year wise usage of e-resources

Awards Indian Library Association felicitated University Librarian as the ‘Best Librarian of the year 2004’ at the 51st All India Library Conference held at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Smt. Hansa Mehta Library accredited the ‘Best Library Award in the year 2006’ at 52nd All India Library Conference held at H N Bahuguna University, Srinagar, Garhwal

Organized National Workshops A series of National Workshops organized in 2006 under the theme “Empowering Librarianship in IT Applications” on Library Automation (May 1-5, 2006) Library Networking (June 5-9, 2006) Database Management and E-Resources (July 10-14, 2006) Web Designing and Virtual Library (August 21-25, 2006) Digital Libraries (September 18-22, 2006)

Seminar / Conference CALIBER organized with INFLIBNET in 1996. Workshop training Programme with NISSAT on CDS/ISIS and WINISIS in 1999. Two days National Seminar on “UGC Infonet Consortium: Access to scholarly journals and databases” during 25-26, October 2004 50th All India Library Conference on “Knowledge Organization in Digital Environment” during 1-4 December 2004. One day Regional Seminar on “Networking and DELNET services” on 4th April 2005 jointly with DELNET. One day awareness programme on E-resources available through UGC – Infonet Consortium on 29th January 2008 with INFLIBNET. One Day awareness program on DELNET Resources and KOHA on 4th Sept 2011   

Future Plan Increase in use of e-resources Remote access Networking and resource sharing with other Consortiums RFID and Total Automation 24 X 7 Access to HML Federated Search Cloud for HML Fully air conditioned Library

University Library System of Users' satisfaction is the Motto of University Library System of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara

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