Touted as country’s largest university, the Lovely Professional University (LPU) situated at Jalandhar in Punjab has launched what it claims as country’s largest high-tech campus library.
This nine-storey Central Library, with real equidistant approach for all the 25000+ students, has been erected spaciously on 1.5 lakh sq feet covered area, housing a rich collection of varied knowledge enhancing material. More than 1,02,846 text books, reference books, journals, magazines, audio, videos, CD-ROMs, research reports, online databases, data analysis software, in different areas and branches of all study-disciplines, are made readily available for its users, at present.
LPU Chancellor, Ashok Mittal informed that the knowledge center library is connected to research block which will make it very convenient for the researchers to utilize its strength. There are also separate group discussion rooms for students and staff members, which will provide all users an opportunity to explore world of knowledge in an environment of pin drop silence.
Ashok Mittal added that LPU wanted to develop reading habits amongst the students so that they become research oriented. Illustrative, the library is open 24/7 and has all basic facilities like cafeteria, washrooms, cloak room, xerox facility, Wi-Fi internet connectivity, reference service etc. All students and teachers, who join the University, automatically become its members.
The library is RFID enabled, where all the books have RFID tags, laced with multiple exits and entries, guarded by RF Gates. One step ahead, library has system for self check-in and check-out, where students can return the books, without any intervention of library staff. Also the software for this allows the students to check books, anywhere from the world; and, a request can also be made to hold the book for issuance.
Another unique feature is online resource-center with 400 computer terminals. Ashok Mittal said that this has been specially planned, as more information is readily available on internet, from where one can make extensive search. This can greatly help to generate information on-line and also to make access for on-line journals. Also, library being Wi-Fi enabled, the students can carry lap-tops too.
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