About Central Library

The Central Library is housed in a two-storied building in the Golapbag campus. Being in the middle of the campus it is easily accessible from all departments of the university. It has a carpet area of about 12,000 sq ft. The library opens from 8 am to 7 pm except Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturdays, it remains open from 10 am to 5 pm. Library remains closed in Sunday. There are 19 departmental libraries in the Golapbag campus attached to the respective departments. The library provides consultation facilities to out side scholars, teachers of the affiliated colleges and students of other universities as well as ex-students of our university on the basis of the Library Rules.

Useful Links

Off-Campus (Remote) access to online resources provided by e-Shodh Sindhu
Online resources for providing support to researchers in COVID-19 Situation
Remote Access of E-resources of Central library, B.U.(Contact respective departmental head for additional information)
SHODHGANGA (e-Theses and Dissertations)
National Digital Library of India
Central Library at a glance
Know your Library
e-books (perpetual access of 8 reference books)
knimbus remote access
Central Libray OPAC Service
DELNET

Faculties

NameDesignationQualifications
Dr. Kanchan Kamila
University LibrarianM.Com.,M.L.I.S.,Ph.D.  
Ms. Moumita Bose
Assistant LibrarianM.L.I.S.  

Officers

NameDesignationQualifications
Dr. Bikash Mukhopadhyay
Senior Information Scientist (Inflibnet Programme)M.C.A.,Ph.D.  

Librarian, Central Library

Name:
Prof. Sumanta Bhattacharya
Designation:
Professor
Department:
Chemistry
Qualification:
M.Sc.,Ph.D.
Academic Profile:
Click here to view detailed profile.
Vidwan URL:
https://buruniv.irins.org/profile/240582
Sumanta Bhattacharya
Address:
Department of Central Library
The University of Burdwan
Golapbag, Bardhaman - 713104
West Bengal, INDIA.
Email   : librarian@buruniv.ac.in

Membership related Information

The University offers membership to the teachers, scholars, students, officers, non-teaching staff and retired persons of our University, academic staff of affiliated colleges, ex-students of ours and other Universities, and other academicians. Individual membership can be obtained by presenting proper identification in case of ex-students of other universities, other academicians and teachers from affiliated colleges on payment (Rs.100=00 for ex-students, Rs.2000=00 for other categories). They will be entitled to get library services according to the Rules of the Library.

Library Collection

CategoryCount
Books1,58,962
Books (Research/Project)8,170
Journal (Bound Vols)24,812
Reprints918
Thesis/M.Phil dissertation2,365
Reports1,983
Microfilms500
Rare Books (Raj Collections)8,000
Donation of Books (gifted)20,794
CD ROMs1,111

Periodical Section

300 Indian & foreign journals are subscribed by the University.

Online E-Journals & CD ROM Searching

Under the INFLIBNET project of the UGC access to online E-Journals through UGC Infonet Programme as well as offline CD ROM searching of abstract databases are provided to the users. At present E-Journals of the following publishers are available under the UGC-Infonet.

Reference Section

This section has a rich collection of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, year books, atlases, directories etc. Readers can consult these books to meet their queries. It has also a display board where new arrivals are displayed regularly.

Thesis Collection

In this section the theses of Ph.D/D.Sc/D.Lit. degrees and M,Phil dissertations awarded by the university are kept for reference use by researchers and others.

Report Section

Census reports, World Development Reports, Govt Publications, Reports on Education, Reprints of research papers published by the scholars and teachers of our university, NET, SLET, GATE preparatory documents are available.

Archival Cell

The present acquisitions by the unit are 2500 nos. of very old and valuable Sanskrit Manuscripts and 8000 nos. of old and rare books received from the Burdwan Raj Family Library.

e-Resources Subscribed for University of Burdwan

No.Name of the PublisherJournals countWebsite
1.e-Resources Subscribed for University of Burdwan https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/eres.php?memID=96

EJournals subscribed by University

No.Name of the PublisherJournals countWebsite
1.EPWRF India Time Series Database https://www.epwrfits.in
2.MATHSCINET https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html
3.Scopus https://www.scopus.com
4.Ecological Economics https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ecological-economics
5.Aquatic Toxicology https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/aquatic-toxicology
6.EBSCOHOST BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE DATABASE https://search.ebscohost.com/
7.IEEE ASPP collection https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/periodicals/title
8.Capitaline AWS https://awsone.capitaline.com/
9.India Data Portal https://indiadataportal.com/

Free EJournals

No.Name of the PublisherJournals countWebsite
1.Internationally Indexed Open Access
Research Journals		 https://www.ijrcm.org.in

Automaton related Information

Computerized library activities and networking of the central library has been undertaken under INFLIBNET Programme of the UGC. The Central Library has started automation of the library activities using SOUL Package, a user’s friendly software developed by the INFLIBNET Centre. The library has its own local network connecting different sections of the library to the SOUL server. BUCL has migrated its data from SOUL software to Koha software during further course of innovation. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) service of the library provides databases of books, list of journals, theses. The OPAC service is extended to all the departments in the campus through LAN.
Databases of library books, theses:
  • Book database
  • Theses database
    • List of journals subscribed:
  • Indian journal
  • Foreign journal

    • Library Collection

    Ground FloorFirst Floor
    Librarian's RoomReference Section
    Assistant Librarian's RoomPeriodical Section
    Library OfficeStudy Centre
    Property CounterThesis Section
    Controlling GateAcquisition Section
    Membership Registration CounterProcessing Section
    Old and Rare Book CollectionsUniversity Publications Display
    Main Book Stack AreaBack Volume Journals
    Reading RoomSystem Room
    Manuscripts SectionComputer Section under INFLIBNET Programme
    Circulation Section