The central library of Malabar College of Advanced Studies, Vengara was started in the year 2013. The library is named as SEETHI SAHIB MEMORIAL LIBRARY in memory of the great visionary Jb. K.M Seethi Sahib. Jb. Seethi Sahib was one of the greatest social reformers of Kerala. The library of the college is well furnished and maintained with a size of 1188sqft. The library has a collection of 6304 books and subscribing to more than 60 serials which include journals ,magazines and newspapers. The library offers its services to about 1200 users comprising students, teaching and non-teaching staff of this college. We are also providing computers and high-speed internet access in the library through which users can access various online resources. KOHA, Remote Access facility for searching books is made available in the library. Assistance for reading soft books is facilitated for the visually challenged students. 

The Library Advisory Committee is in charge of designing policy matters for the smooth functioning of the library. The committee consists of the Principal as the Chairman, the Librarian as the Convener, and the Heads of the departments as members. The committee meets every year and reviews the functioning of the library and recommends modifications and suggestions.

The library is equipped with an adequate number of signboards for locating the books easily. Working hours of the library are from 8.30am to 5.00pm from Monday to Saturday. The library is having a sizeable collection of previous question papers of university examinations as well as college internal examinations.

The library have fully power backup facility and are professionally set. We have the latest configured 10 Computers with - 8GB Memory; networked(Wifi) with high speed broadband internet access of 50 Mbps.

 

 

WORKING HOURS OF LIBRARY

8.30am -5.00pm (Mon-Sat)

 

LIBRARY COLLECTION

Total No. of books -  6304
Reference books -  1300
Newspapers - 07
Periodicals -                            20
Journals -                             27
Bound periodicals and Journals - 52
CDs/DVDs - 51
E-books Nlist - 799000
E-Journals Nlist - 6000

 

SERVICES

  1. Circulation
  2. Reference
  3. Remote Access to e-books and e-journals
  4. Document on loan
  5. Orientation programme
  6. Reprographics

 

FACILITIES

  1. Property Counter
  2. Barcode enabled entry and exit
  3. New Arrivals
  4. OPAC, Web OPAC
  5. Xerox
  6. Wifi Access
  7. Open access
  8. Laptop Plugin