L IBRARY O RIENTATION By Ms. Sandhya Pagare Librarian HACSE 1

Areas to be covered include: Library Operations General Rules and Guidelines Available Services and Resources Information Literacy 2

3 If you need Contact Ms. Sandhya Pagare Librarian.

4 Working Hours of Library Monday to Saturday : 09:00 am to 04:00 pm Circulation Hours 09:15 am – 10:00 am and 03:00 pm – 03:45 pm. Closed Sundays and 1 st and 3 rd Saturday of every month

Acquisition Section Technical Section Circulation Section Periodical Section Reference Section Reading Room 5

No Food or Drinks in the Library Please turn off ringer on your cell phone and set it on vibrate mode. Conduct cell phone conversations outside the library entrance. Any reader observing a defect, or damage to any book or manuscript shall point out the same to the Library Staff immediately. Borrowers must satisfy themselves about the physical condition of the book before borrowing. Otherwise they will be responsible for any damage at the time of returning. Books borrowed on a particular day will not be accepted for return on the same day. Books taken for reference from the stack area need to be kept on the table and not to be merged on the shelves. 6

OPAC Reference Service Referral Service User awareness Orientation Search techniques education Borrowing Service Book Borrowing Service Audio-Visual and Electronic Material Borrowing Question Paper Bank University of Mumbai Question Paper Internal Tests Question Paper Current Awareness Service Internet Browsing Newspaper Clippings Service New Arrivals alert Article Indexing Service External Membership Extension Services Always Open Reading Room Facility 7

No. of books- 2 Lending duration- 7 days Fine (First week) – 1.00 & (second week onwards) 2.00 The documents like Reference book, bound volumes of journals, loose issues of current journals are issued only to the Faculty as reference book Library Borrower’s Card is not transferable. The books which are already issued can be claimed/reserved at the issue counter. Loss of book must be reported immediately. In case of lost of book, the borrower has to give the new copy of that lost book as replacement. 8

 Class assigned projects have priority.  Do not change the workstation setup or software.  Report hardware problems and viruses quickly.  Use OPAC  Don’t use social networking sites 9

Books Bound volumes of periodicals Donated Books Teaching Aids Testing Materials Reports and proceedings of conference and seminars (Not available for check-out) Reference books Journals Loose issues of Journals Audio-Visual 10

Search for books in the following order  Subject-wise  Title-wise  Author-wise Boolean Search AND: Connecting your keywords with AND tells the search tool that all the words must be present. OR: Connecting your keywords with OR tells the search tool that any of the words can be present. NOT: Using NOT in front of a key word tells the search tool to exclude any page containg that word. Some engines require you to use AND NOT 11

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