Library PA College of Engineering, Mangalore
Central Library
P. A. College of Engineering Library and information center is not only mere treasure house of information but also laboratory
of knowledge and nerve center of intellectual activity of our institution. It is located in spacious Independent block with area
of 11,500 sq.ft.
Library Collection
At present the library has 30,264 volumes of books covering all branches of engineering and reference books like encyclopedia,
hand books, dictionaries, GATE, GRE books & literature books. In addition to the library 782 project reports, 1033 bound volumes
of journals and also ITDP Book bank collection of 1019 books.
E-Journals and magazines
The library subscribes following online journals and 136 printed copies of national and international journals and magazines,
which is useful for general reference as well as research works.
VTU - Consortium
Following e-resources are available under VTU- Consortium
- IEL ONLINE : Contains a comprehensive collection of full text documents, providing access to the worlds highest
quality technical literature in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science Engineering.
Web site: ieeexplore.ieee.org
- ScienceDirect : Engineering & Computer Science : ScienceDirect is a leading full text scientific database offering
journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
Web site: www.sciencedirect.com
- ASCE Online (American Society for Civil Engineers) : Contains full text technical literature in Civil Engineering
including 33 e-journals & e-books.
Web site: scelibrary.org/journals
- Springer e-Journals : Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books,
series, protocols and reference works.
Web address: Springer.com
- Taylor and Francis e-journals : Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 2100 journals and one of the world’s
leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, eBooks, text books and reference works..
Web address: www.tandfonline.com
- Proquest -e-journals (Engineering and management): ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly \
journals on engineering and management, videos, dissertations, working papers, e-books.
Web site: search.proquest.com
- KINIMBUS – OPEN : Knimbus open is a FREE product and the largest platform for Open Acess Content. It offers its
users full text access to more than 13,000 peer reviewed journals, over 3,000 ebooks and lakhs of theses documents
Web address : knimbus.com
Membership
The institution has ILL facility and also institutional membership of DELNET, VTU and e-VIDYA.
Library Systems
The library follows OPEN ACCESS systems. Books and bound volumes are classified and catalogued according to DDC 21 & 22 and
arranged accordingly.
LIBRARY AUTOMATION
The library is entirely computerized using Easylib Library Automation software to facilitate manage and search of library
resources. Computers are provided for OPAC, by using it readers can easily locate the title, author, location of the books and
also to know the status of the books, arrivals of journals and magazines etc. The books and readers cards are bar-coded to speed
up the circulation works.
Digital Library and Internet
The library has internet browsing area for browsing e-journals. The institute also has an intensive Digital Library consisting
of around 2767 CD-ROM's, 225 Floppies , which can be viewed in the library as well as copy the contents.
Web based Digital Library System is also functional in our college library by using Techfocuz Digital Library 4.0
Software. In
which staff and students can share their articles, downloaded files and utilize the Library repositories like Book CD/DVD’s and
journal CD/DVDs, Syllabus copy, Question papers, paper clippings, PACE photo albums and all other forms of digitized information
at whole college campus. This system can be accessed by pointing the Web browser 172.22.44.254 and CD
emulator software.
Library Facilities
The library has ample reading facilities with a seating capacity of 120 students. The library offers photo copying, duplicating
and binding, Document Scanning facilities to the readers at low nominal cost. College Book bank facilities provided to the
students and staffs and Book Bank facilities for SC/ST students also available.
Staff
The library is maintained by well qualified 12 numbers of staffs and supporting staff. Thus our library plays key role in smart
work of education and to build quality engineers. Having provided with abundant facilities to benefit the students, they are
encouraged to use them intensively.
| Name |
Designation |
Qualification |
| Mr. Balakrishna M |
Librarian |
BCom., MLISc., PGDC. |
| Mr. Pradeep K L |
Asst. Librarian |
BA., MLISc. |
| Mrs. Rajani A |
Asst. Librarian |
BA., BLISc |
| Ms. Shobha D |
Asst. Librarian |
BA., MLISc |
| Mr. Muralidhar |
Lib. Asst. |
BA., CLIS. |
| Mr. Kiran |
Lib. Asst |
M.A. Economics |
| Ms. Asma |
Lib. Asst. |
BA. |
| Mr. Abdul Rahim |
Lib. Asst. |
P.U.C |
| Mr. Zubair |
Lib. Security |
S.S.L.C |
| Mr. Batish |
Lib. Attender |
S.S.L.C |
| Mrs. Sujatha |
Lib. Attender |
P.U.C |
| Mr. Vishal Rai |
Lib. Security |
S.S.L.C |
