About Us
The DHSK College library is named as Ashwini Charan Choudhury Central Library in honour of the visionary and the architect of DHSK College Late Ashwini Charan Choudhury. The library was established in the year 1945, the same year when the college came into being. The present library is situated at the North of the college campus. It is a two storied building with approximate floor area of 5000 sq ft. The whole building is organized in separate sections for text books, reference collection, reading area, bound volume, computer section, circulation section, reprography section, Digital Library section and librarian’s room. The reading hall and a part of the text book section is housed at the first flood of the library. The reading hall of the library is a large area with a capacity of more than 100 users.
The objectives of the library are
- To support the classroom curriculum and extra curriculum activities of the students.
- To promote literacy and dissemination of information.
- To provide lifelong learning facility to the authentic users of the library.
- To promote reading habit among the users.
This is the time of paradigm shift in the field of libraries at this information age. The DHSK college library has come a long way since its establishment in terms of collection of materials and providing services to the users. The library is now shifting towards automation and since 2012 circulation service is provided fully in automated process. The process of digitization of some of the rare and old materials are on process. The question papers in digital format are already available for use by the students
A Library is considered as the academic hub of the institution. Therefore, the library should strive to attract the users towards it with every possible means. The library building plays an important role towards it. Whatever be the collection of the library; until and unless the collection reach up to the users hand it’s of no use.
The DHSK college Central Library is a two storied building with approximate floor area of 7811 sq ft.. The whole building is organized in separate sections such as sections for arts and science book shelves, reference collection, reading area, bound volume, computer section, circulation and librarian’s room. A reading room with 100+(108) capacity.