Thecentral library of North Kamrup College was established in the year

1979on 17th August along with the college and since then has remained as anintegral part

ofall accomplishments of academic excellence and endeavorof the college. As the library is

thesoul of an academic institution, so the college authority gives much emphasison the

developmentof the library to nurturing our students. The college library building measures

80feet by 30 feet  (lengthand breadth). The library is governed by certain rules and

instructionswhich are notified in the library notice board from time to time.

Membership

Each prospective member shall give inwriting an undertaking to abide by the rules of

the library. The membership is open tothe bonafide students and staff of the college. A

student member will have to pay a cashsecurity of Rs. 100 /- as caution money which is

returnable aftercompletion of the course.

The details of memberships are:

Category of Members Number of Cardsissued

H.S. classes 02 Nos.

TDC (Honours) classes 04 Nos.

TDC (General) classes 02 Nos.

Teacher (Regular) 10 Nos.

Teacher (Contractual) 02 Nos.

Office staff including library 02 Nos.

Principal and Librarian 10 Nos.

[N.B.: The duration of membership shall be for one academic semester/year andshall have

to be renewed every semester/year.]

Loan Privileges

Each member shall be provided as manyCards, called Readers Ticket, as many

volumes of books he / she is entitled toborrow at one time. All books on loan shall have to

return in case of Teacher, Principal andLiberian within 30 days (one month) from the date

of issue and in case of student andadministrative staff member within 15 days from the

date of issue. The borrowers shall haveto return all the library books before each

semester/annual exams for clearance.

Library Building Consists of

Ø A Stack Room

Ø Librarian’s Roomcum Book Processing Section.

Ø CirculationSection.

Ø Reference Section.

Ø Students’ ReadingRoom

Ø Teacher’ ReadingRoom

Ø E –Resource Centre.

Thelibrary of the college has a collection of 21,600 books of differentdisciplines. The library also consists of Newspapers, Journals, Magazines,Encyclopaedia of North East, Asomiya Biswakosh various Dictionaries, Women’sEncyclopaedia and Guidebooks for Research work and competitive exams. It hasseparate reading rooms for students and teachers. The college library providesfacility of Book Bank to the poor students in their studies.

Library Holdings

Categories Volumes

Books 14,300 Nos.

N-LIST Online books and Journals

Newspapers 05 Nos.

Journal / Magazines 03 Nos.

Reading RoomSittings capacity 50 Nos.

Significant Collections

Ø EncyclopediasBritannica.

Ø Various Dictionaries

Ø General studentsfor civil Service / competitive exams.

Ø Guide books forentry in services.

Ø Guide books for NET/ SLET exams.

Ø Encyclopedia of NorthEast India.

Ø Encyclopedia ofGuidance and Counseling.

Ø Women’s Encyclopedia.

Ø Books on Triballife in India.

Ø Books on Gandhi

Ø Books on Folklore

Ø Complete works ofL. N. Bezbarua

Ø Complete works ofJyoti Prasad Agaurwal

Ø Completeworks of Bishnu Prasad Rabha

Complete works of MaheswarNeog

Ø Complete works ofBhupen Hazarika

Ø Books on Sankardev / Madhabdev

Ø Books of R. N.Tagore

Ø Books of M.R.Goswami

Ø Books of Journalism/ Sports /Research Methodology.

Ø Special collectionon English literature

Ø Previous year’Question papers.

Book Bank

The college library has the facility ofBook Bank to encourage the meritorious and

poor students in their studies.Preference will be given to those students belonging to ST,

SC, OBC and physically challengedcategory.

Privileges Under Book Bank

Ø No need to paylibrary caution money.

Ø Books areissued for one Semester / Year with the

the internal of three months.

Ø Maximum 04 (four)books are issued at a time

Other provisions of original libraryrules are equally applicable to such Book Bank reader

also.

Best Reader Award: The College hasintroduced a Best Reader Award for the students (per year) in fondmemory of Late Paresh Sarma. A Certificate and bookwill be presented to the student. The award is sponsored by KukumoniSarma, Assistant Professor, Department of Assamese.