In the midst of its excellent setup of academic activities, the library acts as a nerve center catering to the needs of the students, researchers and faculty members of the Arts, Science and commerce departments. The SJM library has been shaped as a centre of excellence for academic and research pursuits, keeping it open to the changes brought about by information Technology. Today the library is housed in independent building.

Collections

Users

Student Memberships
This type of membership is open to all the students who got their admission to B.A., B.Com., and B. B. M., course in our college.

Teacher membership
This type of membership is open to all the permanent and guest faculty of the college

Research scholar Membership
This type of membership is open to the research scholars who registered for Ph. D., in our Research Center.

Administrative Membership
The Library facilities are also made available to the administrative staff of the college. So that they can make use of general books and general magazines of the library.

Facilities and Services

• Borrowing Facility

Document delivery service is being provided for the user community to dissimilate right information at right time to right user for right purpose. The users of the SJMC library can borrow books for a period of 15 days. Two borrower’s tickets will be issued to students and for Non - teaching staff and can borrow two books at a time. Fifteen tickets will be issued to the Faculty and Research Scholars to borrow the books from the library and return the same after period of 15 days. Users are informed to return / renew the borrowed books on or before due date to prevent the penalty of overdue charges. Special library services will be provided to the meritorious students of the college.

• SC / ST Book Bank Facility

The student who belongs to SC / ST and Other Economically Weaker can avail SC / ST book bank facility. Fair number of text books will be issued to each student for a period of one academic year in the cognitive subjects.

• Photocopy Facility

The library members can avail the photocopy facility within the library building at nominal charges. Extra book facilities to meritorious students. An extraordinary boosting service is provided to the students by taking special risk by the library. Under this scheme, the top scorers in each class in a semester will get extra 4 to 5 Books. Our library is providing this service to 50 to 60 students every semister

• New arrivals Display

Some selected titles of new books acquired by the library are displayed on “New Arrival Stand” for the benefit of the readers

• Bulletin board/ Wall Magazine (C A S)

For the benefit of the students, information broachers of institutional for further studies, employment opportunities, personality development skills, News Papers clipping etc., are put on the bulletin board. The library has a ‘Wall Magazine’ where the student can exhibit their talents by writing some articles and cartoons etc.,

• Reference Service

The Library is extending reference and referral services to the users of the library. Most of the reference oriented Text books and General books have been kept in reference and active stack area for reference only by the users of the library.

Library Staff

Sri. Sathish Naik M.Lsc. NET (Ph.D.,) Librarian Department of Library & Information Centre , SJM College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Chitradurga

Sri. Nagaraja K.H. C. Lib