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.

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.

CURRENT

AWARENESS NEW ARRIVALS

DISPLAY

ARCHIVES

PERIODICAL SECTION

E-LIBRARY

CIRCULATION

SPECIAL COLLECTION

J.X.MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY

REPROGRAPHIC

J.X.Miller Library functions with 12 Departmental Libraries & 12 special Libraries

DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Mathematics Women Studies

Physics Children's Library

Chemistry Center for Music

Botany Center for Christian Studies

Zoology International Study Centre

Computer Science Carrier Guidance

Commerce A.V. Room

Social Sciences Faculty Development Center

English Environmental Studies

Economics Entrepreneurship Development Centre

PGDBMD Physical Education

Physical Sciences Fashion Technology

• Centralized Technical Processing & Decentralized housing of Documents.

• General Library holds Humanities Collection & Centralized Periodical Section

and Book Bank Section.

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.

LIBRARY DIRECTOR

E-Library Section Archives SectionCirculation 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

INFORMATION SERVICESOFFERED BY JX MILLER

LIBRARY

Supporting Teaching & Learning

• Orientation on Library use to the Fresher• 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• 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 taken

Reviving the Night Library

Photo copying cost is reduced from Rs.1 to 0.50paise.

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 date

• Plagiarism Lecture (from 2012) till date

• 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

• Assist the college in getting ISSN & ISBN Numbers from National

Institute of Science Communication & Information resources

(NISCAIR)

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 – report

• India Stat

• DeLCON – ILL Inter Library Loan facility – quenches the Science researchers information needs .

UGC- INFLIBNET – MembershipList 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

Creative Activities• Library services as an outreach programme• Rainbow library

• Project Initiative – Digitalization of Tamil Literary Contribution

• Internship training centre for the M.L.I.Sc Students of

MaduraiKamaraj University.

Establishing Library at Village

Story Telling at Village

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.

IN PROGRESS

• Digitalization of

• Archives Records• News paper clippings

• Allocating dedicated storage space in thecollege main server for centralized access of e-resources.

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)

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)