The freshers are formally introduced to the library sources and services at the beginning of every academic year departmentwise. The students of each department are taken to each and every section of the library by the library staff and are introduced to the diverse sources and services, so as to make them familiar with the library to gain maximum use of the library.

Usually the library remains open from 9 AM to 9 PM on all working days whereas it functions from 9 AM to 2 P.M. on second Saturdays and Sundays. However, there will be change in the schedule depending upon the need.

The greatest advantage that a library can offer to its readers is its “openshelf” system. This system enables the users to have direct and easy access to the book collection providing good opportunity and freedom to examine and browse the books. It encourages the users to develop a closer acquaintance with the diversity of information sources available in the library.

The users are eligible to borrow only one book against each borrower ticket for a period of 15 days. The books kept in reference section, and the periodicals normally will not be issued. However under certain conditions the reference textbooks are issued to the faculty for overnight reference and return. Those who fail to return/renew the books within a specified due date will be levied an overdue charge of Rs. 0.50 paise per book per day.

Some selected titles of new books acquired by the library are displayed in ‘New Arrivals Display’ racks for the benefit of users. These books will be on display for atleast one week and after that they will be made available to borrow.

t is not possible for any institution, however rich its resources, to buy all the books published even in a discipline. Hence, it is inevitable to depend on other organisations to share information sources for the mutual benefit of users, the privilege of Inter-Library loan is restricted to faculty members and to those engaged in research. Books not available in Kuvempu University Library but required by faculty members and research scholars will be procured from other university libraries on inter-library loan. The INFLIBNET’s database on Internet is used for the location of the university library, where the book in demand is available.

The library regularly compile and publish the latest additions list of books and is circulated among the principals of Constituent colleges and chairpersons of P. G. Departments. The library is also subscribing the Current Contents in life science. The library also subscribe Indian Science Abstracts and Guide to Indian Periodical Literature, and few other indexing and abstracting journals. These sources help the researchers and the faculty members to keep themselves abreast of the latest developments in their areas of specialisation.

Press clipping service is one of the most important service in a library. The press clipping means the cutting of news items etc., daily from newspapers in an organisation and sending them to officials, decision-makers etc., who will find them useful. Kuvempu University Library has also undertaken such service. We browse the leading National Newspapers and cut the news item in relation to the Higher education, University administration, news on universities in Karnataka and news on Kuvempu University and are clipped in the form of files. These files are sent to the Vice-chancellor regularly and to other administrative staff of the University on demand, and finally these are kept open for use by the library users in CD form.

Kuvempu University Library is having a sound reference source collection. Reference service means " Process of establishing contact between a user and his requirements in a personal way". It is a personal service, which involves various activities, aimed at making information available to the users as easily as possible. In order to provide information, our professional staff make use of resources of the library as well as those resources available outside the library. Either our staff may give the information which is required by the users or they guide them to browse the documents which contain the required information, depending upon their requirements.

In ready reference service library staff will answer the users queries with the help of Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Yearbooks, etc. Which are more or less fact-finding services. On the other hand library staff also undertake long range service for the benefit of the users community. In this service library will offer the users the list of books on a given subject on demand which are available in this library as and when they require.

The library provides reprographic service to the users on priced basis. This saves the time of the users to a great extent.

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