Library & Information Centre

Sri. N. Raghunath Rao Maanay Library & Information Centre is presently housed in the Auditorium Building with an adequate space to run the Circulation & Digital Library Section on the Ground Floor, Reference & Technical Journals Section on the 3^rd Floor and PG Library on the 1^st Floor with a total seating capacity of 200 members at a time.

The total collection of the Library is over 72,072 Volumes (Includes UG Library & PG Library 46,911 ans 25,161 E-books) of reference and textbooks with 12,563 Titles. The Library & Information Centre subscribes  over 88 Print Journals, covering of all branches of Engineering and Management Programme in addition to various e-Resource databases through VTU Consortium, Belagavi. Besides this, it has over 896 bound volumes, 2701 learning CD-ROMS, several Data Books and Project Reports.

The completely automated Library Management System has made it easy to all its activities through Bar-Code interface with an Web OPAC facility. The Digital Signature Pad is the unique one in its Circulation Section to obtain signature on every documents that are being issued to its members. All the documents have been classified as per AACR II of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and systematically shelved on Open Access.

The modern Library and Information Centre provides uncompromising information and intellectual requirements to its students and faculty members with a user friendly approach. It offers a fully integrated and dynamic environment for conducting academic study. Multiple copies ensure that resources are easily available in Reference Section and Circulation Section as well.  The Digital Library is set up by using open source Dspace Software to access the Institutional Repositories like e-books, e-journals, faculty publications, etc, by the students and members of staff. Besides, NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) facility is provided across the campus through the institute local network for unlimited access to Video Lecture and Web courses of eminent faculties from IISc and IIT are in Engineering and Science subjects. In addition to above, the students and the faculty members can access its peer contents, directly from NPTEL website.

The Library and Information Centre has the CMTI Library and IIM-B Library Membership enabling students and faculty members to refer to the other member of the libraries for additional information for their research/projects.

In order to cater to serve the wide range of information services to the users, BNMIT Library & Information Centre has highly qualified, rich experienced and trained competent staff, comprising 6 Professional members of staff to serve the students and faculty members.

List of E-Resources Subscribed through VTU Consortium, Belgavi for the Year 2019-20

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