General Rules

1. Maintain silence
2. Please bring your ID card
3. No use of cell phones
4. No loitering
5. No smoking
6. No feet on the furniture
7. No bags and belongings allowed inside
8. No taking books and library belonging outside the library, Premises.
9. No mutation and disfiguring of pages by ink or pencil marks.
10. Drinks and food items are not allowed.
11. No pets allowed
12. Do not use the computers to play games and to listen music.

Resource Centre Facilities

Lending facilities:
Borrowing of reading materials facility is available to the staff and students of the Institute. Circulation of books is through computer system using bar-code reader.
Students:
Each student is issued two borrowers cards. The students can borrow two books from these cards for the period of two weeks. The books should be returned to the Resource Centre on or before due date.
Special book bank scheme was introduced during the academic years 2005-06 for the benefit of the students. Under this scheme all the students can borrow six books at a time, and can keep the books for one complete semester and should return at the end of the semester.
Special category book bank scheme is aimed for the benefit of SC/ST students only.

Staff:
For staff members eight cards are issued to borrow the books. Using these cards staff members can borrow eight books at a time from the resource centre, and they should be returned at the end of the semester.

Reservation facility:
Reservation can be done for a book, which is already lent out. Reserved books are kept separately in the circulation counter for two days only. The reservation lapses automatically after two days and the next person gets the chance.

Renewal facility:
Renewal facilities are allowed only when there is no claim by others. Phone renewals are not entertained. Students should bring the book to be renewed to the Resource Centre and get the due date stamped.

Library fines:
The book should be returned to the Resource Centre on or before due date stamped on the book. Otherwise an overdue charge will be levied at the rate of Rs.1.00 per day per book for one week Rs.2.00 per day per book will be collected in the subsequent week from the students.

Reference service:
The Resource Centre maintains a separate reference collection consisting of encyclopedias, dictionaries and directories etc. one or two copies of each title is kept in this section. Incase of emergency these books are issued overnight for staff only.

OPAC Service:
The resource centre offers computerized catalogue search service through OPAC [Online Public Access Catalogue]. The bibliographic records of all the books are available in the Resource Centre. The PC’s are placed in the user area for the students and staff to access the OPAC.

Xerox service:
Library books, journals and bound volumes are made available for Xerox. The Copying charges are very nominal rate ie Rs.0.50 per copy.

Cloak Room service:
Resource Centre has a clock room at the first floor to keep the users belonging in the shelves. One person has been assigned to look after the belongings of the users.

Journal Section:
Resource centre subscribes national and international technical journals which cater the needs of staff and students. The bound volumes of journals are also available for reading and reference in the journal section.
The student’s project reports of all branches are also kept for reference. The CDs added as supplements to the books as well as journals, magazines are kept in this section for the benefit of staff and students.

Digital library:
Our resource centre extends its service to provide the access for e-journals and internet. Resource Centre is subscribing enough number of e-journals from j-gate engineering and technology through INDEST; AICTE consortium is online access to IEE/IEEE ASME journals for the benefit of students and staff.

Institutional Membership:
CIT has taken following membership
1. British Library
2. DELNET
3. J-Gate Engineering Technology
Users are requested to make best use of the available facilities.

Question Bank
Old question papers of VTU are kept for the use of students and staff of the college. These are issued for photocopying. We have own question bank, the same can be browsed in the digital library.

Library Hours:
Circulation/Resources/Digital library
Monday to Friday - 9.00 AM to 7.30 PM
Saturday - 9.00 AM to 2.30 PM
The resource centre remains closed on Sundays and Govt. holidays and also on notified holidays.

Learning Resource Centre @ CIT

Vision:
To become premier Learning Resource Centre with a state of the art library resource and services to the users at right time to educate and nurture the students and staff using latest technologies to enhance their knowledge to get ­­­­­­­­fecundate career.

Mission:
The mission of the CIT Resource centre is to provide access to high quality information resources in all forms to the faculty, students and staff in support of reaching, learning, scholarship and research mission of the institute. With a commitment to excellence in services, the resource centre offers information resources and innovative services to support the intellectual inquiry, research and life long learning needs of CIT family.

Objectives:

1. To establish and maintain an effective relationship with the students, faculty researchers and staff of the institution to ensure an informed and integrated approach to the creation and delivery of information services.
2. To select, collect, create, organize, preserve, manage and provide access to information sources in print and digital forms, regardless of physical location, to support scholarly pursuit, learning, teaching, and research in the Institute.
3. To facilitate and promote access to the fast growing and expanding collection of digital sources of primary and secondary information.
4. To develop and provide quality collections/resources, user facilities and library staff, to maintain an environment conducive to study and research.
5. To create and deliver a range of networked information and document delivery services that encourage the study, scholarship and collaborative learning.
6. To manage the information resources effectively and actively promote the optimum usage.
7. To serve as a Learning Resource Centre for knowledge management development in the engineering related fields.
8. To collaborate with other libraries, networks and consortia to optimize the access to knowledge base.
9. To continually/ periodically evaluate services and resources provision to ensure relevance and cost effectiveness.
10. To serve as a community resource centre for professionals in and around the district and taluk.

Department profile:
Resource Centre was established in the year 2001 with the initial stock of 3102 volumes of books in three branches of Engineering and Basic Sciences. Year after year more number of books were added to the Resource Centre in all the branches. Presently Resource Center is having 37,321 volumes of books in all branches. There are 37,068 different titles of books are available. Resource centre has subscribed reputed national and international journals in technical fields. It also subscribes different magazines, news papers of different languages like English, Kannada, Hindi and Telugu.
Resource centre is aesthetically located in the first floor of the class room complex and is housed in a big and spacious building. The news paper and journal section is located here too. It also consist a large lobby at the entrance. Attached to this is a “Digital Library” which accommodates nearly 44 students. The floor consists of the stack section and reference section which can accommodate 164 students at a time. Attached to stack section a separate reading room where the students can bring their own books to study which can accommodate 100 students.

Collection:
Augmenting traditional print resources with expanding electronic resources and technologies, the CIT Resource Centre offers fully integrated and dynamic environment for conducting academic study and research work. It also boasts of an exquisite collection of 37,321 volumes of reference, general and text books pertaining to the syllabi. It also comprises of special category book bank meant of SC/ST students and general book bank for all category students. the collection also includes Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Hand books, journals, magazines, news papers, CDs, floppies, audio cassettes, bound volumes of journals, project reports, question bank and seminar report. For the most efficient use of the vast and extensive collection an automation process has been developed using library software Library Management System (LMS) which is developed to know the contents of our Resources Centre. All the books have been classified as per Dewey Decimal Classification and are bar-coded. The students & staff have open access to the entire collection available in the Resource Centre.

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

- J. A. Langford

Quotestion of the Day

Library Here is where people,

One frequently finds,

Lower their voices

And raise their minds.

— Light Armour. McGraw-Hill, 1954.