SWAMI VIVEKANANDA LIBRARY

SATYAWATI COLLEGE

Accredited Grade A+ by NAAC

ABOUT US


The college library was established with the inception of the college that dates back to the nineteen seventies. According to Dr. Radhakrishnan, the library is the heart of an institution. It is also known as the "Information Centre" due to its indispensability in the teaching-learning process. It occupies a two-storied building inside the College Campus. It is a user-based centre of learning with necessary resources that meet all the academic and research needs regarding learning, teaching, research, and training programs. The Library is enriched with a vast collection of print and electronic resources in all areas of academic interest. The Library has a fairly large seating capacity of more than 120 users and a separate reading room section for faculty members.

IIt has a collection of more than eighty thousand and sixty one is ever-growing with new additions every year. The library has an impressive collection of reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlas, yearbooks etc. The Library subscribes to a total of 25 newspapers and 25 magazines/Journals. It has customized computers with internet facilities and learning aids like Braille reading material, KIBO XS Scanner Device especially catering to our differently-abled students. Apart from these, it is also well equipped with modern-day teaching-learning apparatus such as LCD projector and Computer Cabin.

The Library also provides access to high-quality electronic databases subscribed by Delhi University Library System (DULS) for its users. There are two reading halls in the Library, one each for students and teachers. The Online Public Access Catalogue OPAC) is in place to ensure easy access of books to the users.

In the present era, especially post COVID and the advent of the new age blended mode of learning, the role of electronic media to update users cannot be ignored. Hence, to cater to the needs of the college fraternity, the library has subscribed to some of the significant databases of e-books and e-journals viz. N-LIST. Apart from this, the users can access the online database subscribed to by the Delhi University Library.