2. Lady Doak College Library Mission Statement The Lady Doak College Library’s Mission is to identify, acquire, organize, preserve and provide access to pertinent recorded knowledge to support teaching, learning, research and creative activities.

3. Lady Doak College Archives Mission Statement Lady Doak College systematically collects, organizes, describes, preserves, promotes and makes available official records (textual and non-textual) and personal papers of enduring historical, legal, administrative and fiscal value.

4. CURRENT AWARENESS NEW ARRIVALS DISPLAY ARCHIVES PERIODICAL SECTION E-LIBRARY CIRCULATION SPECIAL COLLECTION J.X.MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY REPROGRAPHIC

5. J.X.Miller Library functions with 12 Departmental Libraries & 12 special Libraries DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIESSPECIAL LIBRARIES MathematicsWomen Studies PhysicsChildren's Library ChemistryCenter for Music BotanyCenter for Christian Studies ZoologyInternational Study Centre Computer ScienceCarrier Guidance CommerceA.V. Room Social SciencesFaculty Development Center EnglishEnvironmental Studies EconomicsEntrepreneurship Development Centre PGDBMDPhysical Education Physical SciencesFashion Technology Centralized Technical Processing & Decentralized housing of Documents. General Library holds Humanities Collection & Centralized Periodical Section and Book Bank Section.

6. Technical Standards followed at J.X.Miller Library Open Access System Dewey Decimal Classification System Cutter’s system- for author’s “Sears List of Subject Headings” is used for subject keywords.

7. LIBRARY DIRECTOR E-Library Section Archives Section Circulation Section Automation Section Reprographic & Periodical Section Security & Stack Section Processing Section Reference Section Organizational Chart Skilled / Semi-skilled /unskilled Staff/Work scholarship students 2 1 1 · · Staff: Users: Collection ratio: 1: 618: 16157 Acquisition Section

8. INFORMATION SERVICES OFFERED BY JX MILLER LIBRARY

9. Supporting Teaching & Learning Orientation on Library use to the FresherFresher Assisting the faculty members for book searching Offering an elective course- Fundamentals of Library Science – LIS0421E Publishers Exhibitions – Encouraging Students for participation in literary writing – Ananda Vikadan Special issue- competitive examination books Special issue- Gifts Books and Journals from American Consulate Library. User Surveys are conducted to understand the learner’s Information access pattern Search Strategy is taught through -E-access procedure. Alternative search engines are recommended Academic Feedback Analysis Action takenAnalysis Reviving the Night LibraryNight Photo copying cost is reduced from Rs.1 to 0.50paise.

10. Supporting Research Ready reference service / On-line reference service from 1998 till date Courses on bibliography guidance in online searching and reference materials. From 1999 till dateguidance Plagiarism Lecture (from 2012) till dateLecture Member of British Council Library Delcon – Inter Library Loan Facility – ILL Inter Library Loan facility – quenches the Science researchers information needs. (2009) Academic Projects have been undertaken. (Library Software –Under the external guidance of Librarian) Library Management Software is designed by the librarian and five more application supportive software were designed by the Librarian and coded by the students Academic Assist the college in getting ISSN & ISBN Numbers from National Institute of Science Communication & Information resources (NISCAIR)

11. e-Journals ACQUIRED - Supporting Research (2007-15)  EBSCO Academic Search Elite -2,000 journals Literary Reference Centre--1,000 books and monographs Current Abstracts-9,800 scholarly academic journals ERIC-1,000 educational and education- related journals Library, Information Science--600 periodicals  JSTOR Arts & Science I -119 titles Arts & Science II -125 titles Arts & Science III -150 titles Arts & Science IV -one hundred titles Arts & Science Co-mplement-150 titles Biological Sciences- 100 Titles Business II -47 Titles Ecology & Botany – 50 Titles Health & General Sciences – 29 Titles e- Resources Access- Link http://ldcexam:1050/HomeLibrary.aspx e- resources access – reportreport India Stat DeLCON – ILL Inter Library Loan facility – quenches the Science researchers information needs. UGC- INFLIBNET – Membership List of E-resources under N-List Programme American Institute of Physics American Physical Society Annual reviews Cambridge University Press Institute of Physics Oxford University Press Royal Society of Chemistry Economic and Political Weekly Indian Journals H W Wilson MathSciNet Net Library – e-books Ebrary- e-books

12. Creative Activities

13. Best Practices Benchmarked by NAAC Student Participation Programme Library Science as an Optional course/paper Preparatory course for Students project(Information Literacy Programme) Free Browsing Unit.

14. IN PROGRESS Digitalization of Archives Records News paper clippings Allocating dedicated storage space in the college main server for centralized access of e-resources.

15. The J.X.Miller Memorial Library- Future Plan Standardization of Archives ( classification & Cataloging). Radio Frequency Identification System with Detection Antennas. (RFID) Library annexure Building Web Enabling User Access Logs Study – Behavioral Study Department of Library& Information Science – Feasibility study is conducted to offer – No takers through IGNOU Study Centre. Planning to offer Nationally recognized Certificate Course in Library Science. ( Eligible for Government Jobs)

16. SAFETY & SECURITY Termites treatment – once in five years Pest Control using naphthalene balls- once in a year. Fire Extinguisher Fire Alarm. CCTV ( closed circuit television)