About Library
January 9, 2025 2025-01-16 4:41About Library
About Library
Welcome to the Central Library of the SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, hub of knowledge and learning. The library, established in July 2004 is centrally located on the ground floor of the College building, ensuring easy access to academic departments, classrooms, hospital, and student hostels. The library is well designed and known for its aesthetics, ambience and functionality.
The Central Library is integral to supporting the institution’s academic and health care endeavors. Over the years, unwavering support of the administration and the users has helped the library to develop a comprehensive and high-quality collection of information resources in medical sciences and allied subjects in print as well as digital media. With the state-of-the-art infrastructure and well-trained staff, the Central Library has established services which focus on the needs of every single user.
The library has automated its functions using Easily integrated library management software to increase efficiency in routine activities and enable easy search of the bibliographic details of the holdings. Off-campus access is enabled to the digital content including e-journals and online databases. Wi-Fi supported access is provided in the library premises and across the campus. The library conducts at regular intervals hands-on training which helps the users to access subscribed online resources and run searches to find authentic and accurate information accessible from the Web. In order to ensure high quality service, the library collects feedback from the users on regular basis and updates the resources, services and facilities accordingly.
Mission
Working Hours
Monday to Friday | 8:00 am to midnight |
Saturday | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (8:00 am to midnight during annual exams) |
Sunday and Public Holidays | 9:00 am to midnight |
The library is closed on the following Festival Days | Ganesh Chaturthi and Bali Padyami |
Note: Open reading area outside the library remains open round the clock during the examination times |
To partner with the SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital in creating high quality medical personnel and providing excellent patient care through developing a vibrant information hub.
Objectives
- To develop a comprehensive collection of information resources in medical sciences and allied health sciences both in print as well as digital media based on the requirements of the academic and health care programs conducted by the Institute.
- To establish need-based services that would satisfy the library users and optimize the utilization of information resources that includes both physical and electronic resources.
- To create infrastructure necessary to offer high quality services to the users.
- To enable access to information resources from both workplaces as well as homes by adopting appropriate technology.
- To develop a team of motivated and well-trained staff who will be instrumental in providing quality services.
- To educate, train and help library users to access information resources available in different formats and prepare them for lifelong independent learning.
- To frame policies necessary to provide satisfactory services to the users.