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Welcome to

Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad

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Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Education Commission -1948)

“The library is the heart of all university’s work; directly so as regards its research work and indirectly as regards its educational work which derives its life from research work. Scientific research needs a library as well as its laboratory while for a humanistic research the library is both library and laboratory in one.”  

(National Knowledge Commission - 2005)

 "Libraries have a recognized social function  . . . serve as local centres of information, learning and gateways to national and global knowledge".  

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IGM Library is one of the important central facilities of the University catering to the information needs of faculty, research scholars and students in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Management, Sciences and Engineering. This library building was inaugurated by his Excellency late Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma the then Vice President of India, on 21-10-1988 and named after late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Mission

The main objective is to make the Library the most effective Learning Resource centre to contribute to the quality of higher education. The library also created learning environment  by establishing Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) Searching Area, Laptop zone with Wi-Fi facility.

Distinctions

The library with its excellent IT infrastructure facilities has achieved several distinctions in the country.

• IGM Library is the first University Library in India

  • To fully automate all its housekeeping operations

  • To undertake turnkey projects for computerizing other libraries and to provide network facilities in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad and City Central Library (City Grandhalaya Samstha, Ashok  Nagar), Hyderabad.

  • To offer one year Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (PGDLAN) under Distance Education mode from 1998 with greater emphasis on practices and projects.

  • To subscribe online search databases since the year 1998 and full text databases from 2001

  • To become one of the governing body member of OCLC (Worldcat)

  • To install electronic surveillance and security system

  • The National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) has recognized IGM Library as their Regional Library for South Zone from the year 1993 to provide resources to mathematics/statistics faculty and research scholars.

• One of the initial 6 resource centres identified  for Document delivery by INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmadabad (Other 5 resource centres are from - BHU, JNU, Punjab University, Indian Institute of Science, TISS)

• One of the 26 resource centres for nation-wide Document Delivery Services to all universities.

• Conducted 4 weeks Refresher Course in Library and Information Science in 2005

• One of the participating libraries of the one million book project of Carnegie Mellon University, USA for creating a Universal Digital Library.

• Received best usage awards for electronic databases – ACS, RSC, Scifinder, Wiley, IEEE, JSTOR

• Formed as beta platform to SCOPUS (2005) and currently to EBSCO Discovery.

• Contributed university theses to UGC INFLIBNET’s Shodhganga Project. Click to view University Theses

EVENTS

Conferences/Seminars/Webinar

• CALIBER  (1995)

• SIS (1998)

• NACLIN  (2001)

• OCLC Seminar (2002)

• One Day Seminar on Open Access (2011)

• National Conference on Management of e-Resources and Institutional Repositories (NACMIER 2014)

• National Seminar on Digital Resource Management &  Celebration of Librarian's Day on 27-28, August 2016.  Jointly Organized by IGM Library, UOH and TSLA at Univ. of Hyderabad.  Click for Seminar Brochure

• International Conference (I-KOAL-2018) on "Participation of Academic Libraries in Knowledge Economy" on 26^th & 27^th November 2018  organized by IGM Library, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad in collaboration with Library Professional Association (LPA), New Delhi. Brochure , Registration form ,I-KOAL 2018-PROGRAMME-TENTATIVE, click for PHOTOGRAPH,  INAUGURATION VIDEO

• Webinar on Turnitin- Antiplagiarism awareness programme was conducted on April 8th, 2021, Thursday. About 250  Faculty members and Research scholars participated.

• Online Webinar on Grammarly, was conducted on Sept 29th, 2021 - Brochure

• A Webinar on Knimbus, the Remote Access Tool to access IGML's E-Resources,  held on Friday, Dec 3rd 2021, at 3.00 PM 

• Webinar on National Librarian Day - "REFLECTIONS OF RANGANATHAN'S CONTRIBUTIONS"  by A R D  PRASAD, DRTC BANGALORE. 12TH AUG 2022. Friday.     CLICK FOR FREE REGISTRATION

• Grammarly awareness Workshop on Sept 30th 2022, Friday, 3.00 PM to 4.00 PM.

Refresher Course

• Refresher Course in Library and Information Science (2005) 

Workshops / Lectures

• What is Plagiarism and how to avoid it? Experiences at Jawaharlal Nehru University", Talk on  by Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian, JNU Delhi. Date/Venue-  March 5, 2014 11.30 am to 12.30 pm  @ Conference Hall, School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad.

• Detection of Plagiarism in Research Documents using Anti-plagiarism software - Turnitin, by IT Section, IGM Library, University of Hyderabad. Date/Venue -School of Social Sciences, UOH  

• JSTOR INDIA USERS FORUM 2014 (Growing set of the E-Resources on JSTOR platform)

• Turnitin (The Anti-plagiarism Software) - Training  cum Orientation Program with Turnitin Technical Team (Shri Arjun, Balani iGroup, India ) for university students, research scholars and faculty on Oct. 4, 2016 at 9.30 am - 12.30 pm and exclusively to the registered faculty from 2.00 pm - 4.30 pm @ Raman Auditorium, UOH. 

• Elsevier Workshop on Book & Journal Publishing and eBook Awareness 2017.  Dt. 15.2.2017 10.30 am to 12.30 pm.  Venue: Management Building, opposite to IGM Library.  Register to attend the program.

• Workshop on Mandeley with Elsevier Publishers, Dt. 9.3.2017 (10.30 am - 12.30 pm). Venue: Conference Hall, School of Management Studies

• WORKSHOP ON DIGITIZATION AND ITS TECHNIQUES, on 26th & 27th August 2017, Venue: IGM Library, Online Registration.  For details click the BROCHURE.  Workshop  Picture Slides.  Click for  Slideshow  

• Lecture on "Digitization, Digital Preservation & Access To Indian Cultural Heritage" by Dr. Ramesh C Gaur, on February 22nd 2019, (Friday) at 2.00 PM. Venue :- IGML

• NDLI Club Telangana State Workshop in Collaboration with IGM Library, University of Hyderabad, held on 23-04-2019, Tuesday  at Raman Auditorium, UoH, Click for PHOTOS

• One Day Workshop on Indian Research Information Network System (IRINS): Adoption & Promotion on 24-01-2020 @ Raman Auditorium. From 10.00 AM to 4.00 PM.  Brochure,    click for photos

ICT Infrastructure

Since its inception, the library has taken visible measures in making use of the ICT advancements for improving library services. The library has -

• 1 GB National Knowledge Network for accessing on-line databases

• Wi-Fi connectivity with 11 instruments. Soon will be updated with MHRD infrastructure

• New IBM Data servers were installed in May 2013, with 600 GB hard disk capacity, Data base server and backup server 600 GB with the storing capacity of 3 TB and tape library for auto back up.

• CD/DVD mirror server

• 2 HP Servers for maintaining Institutional Repositories

• Web OPAC  and IGM Library Website for Public Wide Access

• OPAC Terminals (exclusively) in Right and Left wings of the library (8)

• 30 PCs provided for professional staff in working areas

• Electronic surveillance

• 3M Electronic Security System (Gate, Work station and Tags)

• Barcode Printer for Acquisition Section

• Barcode Scanners (3) for Circulation Counter

• Network Printers (3), Printer + Scanners (2), Printers (     )

• PGDLAN Lab with LAN facility with seating capacity for 60 students and equipped with 30 PCs for students Desktop, Multimedia Projector

• 5 scanners, 5 computer workstations for visually challenged students with special software - JAWS with 10 user license, document reading software Kruzwel, to listen to printed books Zoomex using scanner/with OCR facility. 2 additional systems and a special Braille printer is also available.

• LAPTOP Zones (2)

• ETD LAB is equipped with high endDigital  Book Scanners   - i2s/Zeutschel/ATIZ   for the digitization of theses/dissertation/rare books and university publications, 10 computers, OCR software , image cleaning software, OCR (Abbey Fine Reader)  etc.

Building Area

• Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.) 57000 Sft.

• Total seating capacity 400

• Individual Reading Carrels: 30

• Lounge for browsing and relaxed reading: 2000 Sft

• Lounge area for browsing and relaxed reading, IT zone for accessing e-resources

• Library has a separate Air-conditioned Annex Building with 2 reading halls in 2 Floors with 200 + seating capacity. It is kept open all the days round the clock (365 days 24 hrs.)

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