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| Country | India |
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| Type | Special library |
| Established | 1958 |
| Location | Mumbai |
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| Director | Dr. Manju Naika (Chief Library Officer) |
| Parent organization | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Website | www |
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The Library is one of the central support services of IIT Bombay. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and information needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community.
Overview[edit | edit source]
The library occupies an independent five-storey building and has several reading halls, an exhibit area and user spaces. The library offers circulation of books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parents' income falls below the taxable limit.
The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12,000 full text journals, 10 databases, 450 print periodicals, 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs, as well as a number of theses and dissertations, standards and reports and pamphlets. The Library supports electronic submission of theses and dissertations by postgraduate and doctoral students. During 2017-2018 year 749 Master's degree dissertations, 367 PhD theses and 239 dual-degree theses were submitted and approved by supervisor via this system.[clarification needed] The library also maintains Inter-Library Loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT.
Dr. Manju Naika is the currentTemplate:As of? Chief library Officer.
External links[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library Annual Report of ITT Bombay Library 2010-11
- Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library[permanent dead link] Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2009-10
- Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library[permanent dead link] Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2008-09
- Ganpule S. R. and Waydande H. S."Computerization of IIT Bombay Central Library: Cost Benefit Approach" IN CURRENT TRENDS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: IMPACT ON INFORMATION SCIENCE IN INDIA ed by Kuldeep Chand., Society for Information Science, New Delhi.,1993, p.
- -46.
- Ghosh, Maitraiee. "Digital Infrastructure and attitude towards access and sharing: A case study of Selected Engineering Libraries in the Maharashtra State of India." International Information and Library Review 41, no.2(2009),
- Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Bamane, Niranjana J. "Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD): An initiative at Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Available at: http://docs.ndltd.org:8080/dspace/bitstream/2340/208/1/1074244208-text.pdf[permanent dead link]
- Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Kulkarni, Shobha Electronic Security: A case study of IIT Bombay Central Library. Available at http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/181/03cali_12.pdf?sequence=2[permanent dead link]
- Jotwani, Daulat (2005). Library portal – a knowledge management tool. In Multilingual computing and information management in networked
- digital environment. ed. Murthy T.A.V. et al. (pp. 612–620). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre.