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.