To develop and empower women through education that fosters knowledge and skills, promotes values of equality, secularism and national integration, moulds character through discipline and rigour and creates an open mind capable of assimilating the best traditions of the East and the West.


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Gokhale Memorial Girls' College Library

The well-organized and well-maintained open-access Library is one of the unique features of the Gokhale Memorial Girls' College. Located on the second floor of the main college building, the Library has a collection of over 29,000 books besides e-resources, magazines and journals. Students may borrow books and use the reading-room as well. Teachers too may use the reading-room facility.

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Services offered:

  • Reference services to users

  • Automated circulation of library books

  • Photocopying facility

  • Bibliographical reference service

  • Internet facility

  • Online Public Access Catalogue

  • Question Bank

  • Information display board outside the library

  • Journal display cabinet.

  • Card Catalogue cabinet

  • Above all, reading room service.
     

 

Library Best Practices:

  • Open Access Library System.

  • User orientation program conducted for new entrants

  • Book Bank facility for needy and deserving students

  • New arrival display.

  • Career counselling corner with books to guide students in career-building

  • Library facility to researchers mainly the alumni against payment

  • Maintenance of newspaper clippings for interested students

  • Library Book collection for research use

  • Special reference collection of M.R.P. Books

  • Access to Electronic Resources through INFLIBNET (NLIST package)

  • British Council Library Access

  • Air-conditioning of the entire library for better preservation of books

  • Regular pest control measures to preserve the reading material

  • Time to time purchase of furniture to increase storage capacity
     


Rules of the Library

  1. 1. On production of the Identity Card, each student will be provided with Borrower's Cards against which books will be issued.

  2. Library Cards are non-transferable. Loss of this card must be reported immediately to the Librarian and a fresh card will be issued on payment of fine.

  3. Honours Course students may borrow two books at a time. Books must be returned within 15 days from the date of issue.

  4. If the books are returned after the due date, borrowing facility will be temporarily withdrawn.

  5. Any book lost, damaged or defaced must be replaced by the borrower. Till the damage is made good, the borrower will have no right to use the library.

  6. Books will not be issued on Saturdays. However, Reading Room will remain open for the students.

  7. Students must renew their library cards after taking fresh admission in the second year and third year.

  8. Students must return their library books before appearing for the Selection Tests (applicable to all years) or else their examinations results will be withheld.

  9. Students seeking transfer and students appearing in Part I, Part II and Part III Examinations must obtain a clearance certificate from the librarian before a transfer certificate or admit card is issued.

  10. Per day fine, (Rs 5) for defaulters.