Overview
We at NMIMS provide excellent library facilities for students willing to learn beyond books and their registered subjects. The Library Catalogue (OPAC), which is currently on intranet, gives detailed information about library sources including books (more than 45,000), Journals (153), E- journals (more than 5000), databases (16) and technical reports with different search tools for its users.
Users can access more than 5000 full text journals online. The library arranges regular awareness programs on the use of electronic resources.
The Learning Resource provides a number of innovative information services including Journal Content Service, News Clipping Service, Monthly Documents Additions Lists, Library Brochure, Manual giving a step by step guide to use of electronic resources, info alerts, etc. On a lighter side, the library runs a movie club through which all the NMIMS community enjoys a movie every month. The learning resource has resource sharing facilities with British Council Library and American Information Resource Centre.
NMIMS Library has transformed, from a traditional library with manual transactions to an Electronic library and is now heading to a Digital Library.
NMIMS University libraries reflect the complete world of scholarship and information. They acquire, disseminate, and preserve information in all the forms in which it is created. It is the work of the NMIMS libraries to provide the University’s faculty, students, and researchers—now and in the future—with comprehensive access over time to all of these materials.
The NMIMS University Library, named officially as ‘R M Desai Library’ after an illustrious Trustee Shri Rasiklal Maniben Desai, was established in 1982, with the focus of developing a library to cater to management education. With the growth of the institute to a deemed-to-be university catering to diverse fields of education, the library also grew.
Today, NMIMS has 7 libraries gathered into a single system. Library is well furnished and air-conditioned. The library has an extensive collection of 58 thousand volumes of books covering all aspects of business & management, Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Engineering, Architecture, Science and Commerce and also related areas like Economics, Behavioural Science, information Technology, Law, etc. The core of the University’s collections is found in the School of Business Management Library (Mumbai Campus)—and is acknowledged to be the University’s flagship library.
The Periodicals section is a vital source for academic research and up-to-date business information. Besides books and journals, the library also houses audio video material, newspapers, reports, case studies, news clippings, management games, and psychology & management tests.
Library users can access more than 5000 full text journals covering titles published by Elsevier (Science Direct), Springer, John Wiley, etc., and from aggregators like Ebsco and Proquest. Links to various corporate databases like CMIE, Capital Markets, ISI Emerging Markets are also made available to users. The library arranges regular awareness programs on use of electronic resources.
The entire Library collection including books, journals, etc., can be searched through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) through an integrated management software called Knowledge Management System (KMS). Users can access the OPAC to find out the real-time availability of library materials from their own computer terminals. Faculty and students can reserve items that are on loan. Faculty and students are also encouraged to send requests for new acquisitions in the Library through the OPAC.
Library is moving from an electronic library to a digital library. As a first step, the library has scanned all the question papers, which are live for users’ use through OPAC. CDs, VCDs and DVDs are also mirrored and kept on a dedicated server for users to access from the desktop.
The Learning Resource provides a number of innovative information services and electronic databases that facilitates research including Journal Contents Service, News Clipping Service, Monthly Documents Additions Lists, Info Alert Service and online CD viewing.
Library has an institutional membership with British Council Library and American Information Resource Centre wherein the user community can use the resources from both these libraries. Library also is a member of INDEST AICTE consortia. Library also has tie ups with Harvard Business School for cases for other Harvard products.
Library organises one seminar every year where Librarians from all over the country come together to discuss a particular topic.
Library conducts an Annual user survey to understand where the library is lacking and also helps it to improve and maintain services that are appreciated. The target users are the students and faculty members. The survey covers the users’ overall opinion about the library collection, services, timings, awareness level about e-resources and reading area.
NMIMS Library has transformed, from a traditional library with manual transactions to an Electronic library and now is heading to a Digital Library.
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