Sri Vekataramana Swamy College library was started along with the establishment of the college in the year 1968. Since then, it has been playing a pivotal role in enabling the students of the institution to excel in their academic pursuits. The library has made steady progress over the years by enriching its collection of reading materials, automating the library functions and expanding facilities for its users.
At present the library has in its stock about 39,062 books, 1151 back volumes of journals, apart from CDROM / DVD’s etc, covering a wide variety of subjects. The library has computerized all aspects of library services and management like, acquisition, circulation, cataloguing and serials management.
Through computerized Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) the readers can search the entire holdings of the library. It allows searches for materials through several access points like author, title, subject, etc.
Working as Librarian at S V S College, Bantwal since 17 years. At present working on a UGC funded Research Project titled " The Use of Internet in Select Colleges of Dakshina Kannada Dist".
Qualification: MLIS, PhD (from Mangalore university).
This site is created with the objective of starting an e-magazine & to highlight the library activities and services offered by us. The contributions by the students including (in English & Kannada also) write ups.short essays, poems. pictures, etc will be published on this blog. Achievements of the students along with their photographs will also be published here.