The library – the treasure house of books and
periodicals – is a center of intellectual activity of any institution. The ASA Library
strives to its readers in the interest of creativity and innovation, the
predecessors of Research and Development. The library started along with the
institution in the year 2012.
It has a well-equipped library stacking more than 3202 volumes of choice books in various Architectures subjects, basic sciences
and general. The library subscribes to more than 16 periodicals in print.
Besides,
The services provided by the library includes Lending service, Reference
service, Internet Browsing, Current
Awareness Service(CAS), and Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
Service.
A separate Digital Knowledge Center has been established in order to enable
the users to browse the e-journals, e-learning materials, digital library
collections of this campus and other online journals. This facility is
available in the intranet of this campus. The library has one file server for
digital library and 4 nodes for the purpose of Information Retrieval system.
The library services have been automated with the software named "KOHA
software ". It is a menu driven, interactive, user-friendly package,
designed with utmost care to meet the student's information needs, such as the
availability of books, status of the books, user details etc. The library has
one file server and 5 computers for the automation. One system is placed at
circulation counter and another system is kept at the entrance of the library
for the purpose of searching Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC).
An open reading area of 2000 Sq.ft for the students has been
provided in the Library.
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