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OVERVIEW

Central Library plays a vital role in furthering the academic mission of SMIMS and facilitates creation and dissemination of knowledge. The ranges of services offered by the library are comparable to the best of libraries. Besides holding an excellent print collection of over 19842 volumes of books and 126 Indian & Foreign journals. The library continued to offer its services to students, medical professionals, faculty members and staff to 3160 members from SMIMS. SMIMS Library has a remarkable collection of digital documents both in physical and virtual forms and also and also an organized Digital Library providing effective information support to the users. 

Collection building is one of the important functions of the library that supports the academic and research work of the students, faculty, staff, and other users. Library collection comprising of books, journals, thesis, reports, standards, pamphlets, and other reading material in medical science, Nursing, Physiotherapy, technology, humanities, social sciences, and management is considered one of the best in the country and is its greatest asset. The total collection of library as on April 2024 stands as follows:

Collection

Total as on April 2024

Total No. of Books

19,842

Total No. of Print Journals (Indian)

38

Total No. of Print Journals (Foreign)

38

Total No. of E – Journals (Foreign)

01

Library Seating Capacity

350

The EPAC is one of the most used databases of the library and is accessible 24x7 via library web page. Besides listing all the documents available in the library it also indicates status of a particular book. EPAC is searchable by author, title, subject and several other fields.

Monday to Saturday : 09:00 A.M.  to 09:00 P.M.

Sunday : 09:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M.

 

  1. Reference, Consultation & Circulation
  • Reference service helps users to make full use of library resources and services. It provides necessary assistance to users in locating information or document of their choice.
  1. Printing, Scanning and Photocopy service
  2. Information Alert Services

The library continues to alert the users about the latest information of their interest by:

  • Additions, new arrivals
  • News items display
  • Useful articles Display
  • Faculty publications display
  • Display of Scholarship and fellowship information
  • Display of Forthcoming conferences, other national and international events, employment
  • Opportunities and prospectus of foreign universities.

LIBRARY STAFF

 ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN MR. ASHOK KUMAR SUNDAS
MRS. GEETA SHARMA
MRS. CHAMPA SHARMA
   
LIBRARY ASSISTANT MR. ANKIT KUMAR
  MR. PUSHPENDRA KR. PANDIT
LIBRARY ATTENDANT MISS JAMUNA GURUNG
LIBRARY ATTENDANT/CLEANER MR. TRITHA SUBBA
   
CLEANER MRS. HARI MAYA GURUNG

The library has a team of talented & dedicated officers and staff who perform their duties exceptionally well, and are always appreciated by our users.

Dr. Rajnish Trivedi

Head Librarian

Central Library