Lady Doak College Library Mission Statement The Lady

Lady Doak College Library Mission Statement The Lady Doak College Library’s Mission is to identify, acquire, organize, preserve and provide access to pertinent recorded knowledge to support teaching, learning, research and creative activities.

Lady Doak College Archives Mission Statement Lady Doak College systematically collects, organizes, describes, preserves, promotes and makes available official records (textual and non-textual) and personal papers of enduring historical, legal, administrative and fiscal value.

SPECIAL COLLECTION PERIODICAL SECTION ARCHIVES E-LIBRARY CIRCULATION REPROGRAPHIC CURRENT NEW ARRIVALS DISPLAY AWARENESS J. X. MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY

J. X. Miller Library functions with 12 Departmental Libraries & 12 special Libraries DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIES SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mathematics Women Studies Physics Children's Library Chemistry Center for Music Botany Center for Christian Studies Zoology International Study Centre Computer Science Carrier Guidance Commerce A. V. Room Social Sciences Faculty Development Center English Environmental Studies Economics Entrepreneurship Development Centre PGDBMD Physical Education Physical Sciences Fashion Technology • Centralized Technical Processing & Decentralized housing of Documents. • General Library holds Humanities Collection & Centralized Periodical Section and Book Bank Section.

Technical Standards followed at J. X. Miller Library • Open Access System • Dewey Decimal Classification System • Cutter’s system- for author’s • “Sears List of Subject Headings” is used for subject keywords.

Organizational Chart LIBRARY DIRECTOR Acquisition Section Processing Section Automation Section E-Library Section Circulation Section Reprographic & Periodical Section Archives Section Reference Section Security & Stack Section Skilled / Semi-skilled /unskilled Staff/Work scholarship students 2 1 · · Staff: Users: Collection ratio: 1: 618: 16157

INFORMATION SERVICES OFFERED BY JX MILLER LIBRARY

Supporting Teaching & Learning • • Orientation on Library use to the Fresher Assisting the faculty members for book searching Offering an elective course- Fundamentals of Library Science – LIS 0421 E Publishers Exhibitions – Encouraging Students for participation in literary writing – Ananda Vikadan • • Special issue- competitive examination books Gifts Books and Journals from American Consulate Library. • User Surveys are conducted to understand the learner’s Information access pattern Search Strategy is taught through -E-access procedure. Alternative search engines are recommended • Academic Feedback Analysis Action taken Reviving the Night Library Photo copying cost is reduced from Rs. 1 to 0. 50 paise.

Supporting Research • Ready reference service / On-line reference service from 1998 till date • Courses on bibliography guidance in online searching and reference materials. From 1999 till date • Plagiarism Lecture (from 2012) till date • Member of British Council Library • Delcon – Inter Library Loan Facility – ILL Inter Library Loan facility – quenches the Science researchers information needs. (2009) • Academic Projects have been undertaken. (Library Software –Under the external guidance of Librarian) Library Management Software is designed by the librarian and five more application supportive software were designed by the Librarian and coded by the students • Assist the college in getting ISSN & ISBN Numbers from National Institute of Science Communication & Information resources (NISCAIR)

e-Journals ACQUIRED - Supporting Research (2007 -15) Ø EBSCO • • • Academic Search Elite -2, 000 journals Literary Reference Centre--1, 000 books and monographs Current Abstracts-9, 800 scholarly academic journals ERIC-1, 000 educational and educationrelated journals Library, Information Science--600 periodicals Ø JSTOR • e- Resources Access- Link • • • Arts & Science I -119 titles Arts & Science II -125 titles Arts & Science III -150 titles Arts & Science IV -one hundred titles Arts & Science Co-mplement-150 titles Biological Sciences- 100 Titles Business II -47 Titles Ecology & Botany – 50 Titles Health & General Sciences – 29 Titles http: //ldcexam: 1050/Home. Library. aspx • e- resources access – report • India Stat • De. LCON – ILL Inter Library Loan facility – quenches the Science researchers information needs . UGC- INFLIBNET – Membership List of E-resources under N-List Programme • • • • American Institute of Physics American Physical Society Annual reviews Cambridge University Press Institute of Physics Oxford University Press Royal Society of Chemistry Economic and Political Weekly Indian Journals H W Wilson Math. Sci. Net Library – e-books Ebrary- e-books

Creative Activities • • Library services as an outreach programme Rainbow library • Project Initiative – Digitalization of Tamil Literary Contribution • Internship training centre for the M. L. I. Sc Students of Madurai. Kamaraj University. Story Telling at Village Establishing Library at Village

Best Practices • Benchmarked by NAAC • Student Participation Programme • Library Science as an Optional course/paper • Preparatory course for Students project(Information Literacy Programme) • Free Browsing Unit.

IN PROGRESS • Digitalization of • Archives Records • News paper clippings • Allocating dedicated storage space in the college main server for centralized access of e-resources.

The J. X. Miller Memorial Library- Future Plan • Standardization of Archives (classification & Cataloging). • Radio Frequency Identification System with Detection Antennas. (RFID) • Library annexure Building • Web Enabling • User Access Logs Study – Behavioral Study • Department of Library& Information Science – Feasibility study is conducted to offer – No takers through IGNOU Study Centre. • • Planning to offer Nationally recognized Certificate Course in Library Science. ( Eligible for Government Jobs)

SAFETY & SECURITY • Termites treatment – once in five years • Pest Control using naphthalene balls- once in a year. • Fire Extinguisher • Fire Alarm. • CCTV ( closed circuit television)