The IDOL Library is established to develop appropriate collection in various disciplines to satisfy the needs of the different reading communities of the institution. The IDOL Library is one of the important central facilities of the institution, currently having nearly 5000 volumes, including textbooks, reference books and non-book material such as CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, etc.
Following sections describe the features of the library
Working hours:
10.00 am to 5.00 pm in all working days
Membership:
The following persons are eligible to become members of the library-
The administrative staff,
The teaching staff
The students, &
The employees of the institution
Services
The library provides the following services-
Lending service which is restricted to teachers’ only,
Reading room service,
Reference & information service, &
Reprography (Xerox)
Library automation:
Computer is introduced in the library from the year 2009 in order to provide efficient services for converting the library collection into machine readable form using the SOUL software developed by INFLIBNET Centre, an autonomous body of the UGC. The database preparation of the library holdings is on process.
E-resources:
Gauhati University being a member of UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium
which provides current as well as archival access to more than 5000 core and peer-reviewed journals and nine bibliographic databases from 23 publishers and aggregators in different disciplines.