“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
“To promote lifelong learning through information and knowledge literacy and enhancing
the quality of life by creating welcoming spaces that offer collections and services
to inform, inspire, enrich and entertain”
- To be a creative partner in the achievement of the institutions teaching,
learning and research goals.
- To promote continuous access to information and knowledge to the students
and faculty.
- To cerate a stimulating learning environment and to enrich learners cultural
and information literacy
- To provide qualitative library services and guarantee access to information
resources from now into future to all its users
- To prove to be a major share holder of their positive future life
In today’s high-tech learning environment, the library as a primary learning resource
is the fulcrum of support for the entire range of activities in an educational campus.
In present knowledge based society, the library as an Information Resource Centre
is an integral part of the education process and plays a pivotal role in promoting
and improving the education standards, research and in overall development of the
society.
The B.K. Birla College Central Library since its establishment in the year 1972
has been determined to satisfy the diverse information needs of its users. Today
with its finest infrastructure, rich collection and with ICT enabled functioning
the library has transformed itself into a hybrid automated system with online resources
and services.
The B.K. Birla College Central Library came in to existence with the establishment
the college in Kalyan in the year 1972. During its starting days the Library was
located in the main building of the college with a limited collection of 1824 books
and 100 members. It was shifted to its new separate building in the year 1990. Today
the B.K. Birla College is one among the few colleges under the University of Bombay
having a separate library building with a vast collection of more than 70,000 books
covering the various filled of interest in social sciences, humanities and pure
sciences. It has separate collection of more than 1000 Audio / Video Materials like
CD’s, DVD’s etc. It has subscription to over 120 periodicals which includes research
journals and popular magazines of general interest. The central library caters to
the information needs of more than 9000 students, 250 staff as well as 100 external
members. Our library has been a recognized study center for Bachelor of Library
& Information Science Course courses run by Y.C.M.O.U, Nashik. since 1996-97.
A library committee is an essential body required for the good governance and overall
development of a library. A eight-member committee consisting of the following members
is constituted.
Library Committee Members (2020-21)