JAMIA HAMDARD LIBRARY
LOCATION OF CENTRAL AND FACULTY LIBRARIES
Jamia Hamdard Library system consists of Central Library and six faculty libraries. The Central Library of the JAMIA Hamdard was named as Hakim Mohammed Said Central Library in 1992 after the name of younger brother of the founder Late Hakeem Abdul Hameed Saheb. Since then, the library has been acquiring quite a large number of resources in conventional and non-conventional forms.
The Library is fully automated and extensively coverage modern technologies in delivering its services. Collection is searchable through online catalogue. The library is very rich in oriental collections on different languages including Urdu, Arabic, Persian, etc. Computerization of all the Urdu, Arabic and Persian books has been completed by using UNICODE interface module of LIBSYS Software.
Library Sections
The Library has been divided into different sections for its smooth functioning:
- • Acquisition Section: The acquisition section acquires books and other reading material selected by the faculty as well as recommended by the Chairpersons of various Departments.
- • Circulation Section: The circulation section provides open access for issuable books to its students, faculty and staff. Users can get themselves enrolled as member of the Library and they can directly go to stacks for selection of the desired books and after selection can borrow them. The timings of issue and return of books are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- • Periodical Section: The Library subscribes print journals, magazines and newspapers. The Periodicals Section located on the Third Floor of the Library, makes available these current sources of information.
- • Manuscript Section: The section, has two kinds of holdings i.e. Manuscripts and the rare books. A total of 113 manuscripts are in English and History script.
- • Reading Hall: There is a large size reading halls apart from reading rooms with a seating capacity of about 100 students at a time.
- • Reprographic Section: Reprographic facility, for limited number of pages, is available inside the library with the prior permission from the University Librarian as per the copyright law.
- • Membership Section: Besides students, teachers and other staff of the University, all members of the University are eligible for membership. The University Librarian is authorized for providing membership to any other person as well.
- • Book Bank Section: The Library has Book Bank facility for students. The Books from the Book Bank are issued for the whole semester and every semester. Student members can borrow books for whole semester from the Book Bank.
- • Technical Processing Section: The Technical Processing Division is a subsequent section of the Collection Development Division, and it is charged with responsibilities of classification, cataloguing, physical processing and RFID related activities like tagging, re-tagging and other activities like a bar code, spine label generation, and associated activities etc.
- • E-resources Cell: The Library provides campus wide access to online resources through a well-equipped Computer Lab having 26 nodes. This Centre provides access to the subscribed as well as open access resources available to the University.
