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Reference Service
The Library maintains a separate Reference Section consisting of Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Monographs, Project Reports, and Question Banks. Users may approach the library staff for information or any assistance in the use of the library collections and services.
Book Lending Service
Open access facility is available to the users. Borrowing limits and loan periods vary according to category of users. The various categories are as follows:
Categories | Number of Books | Time Period |
B.E. students | 03 books | 10 days |
M.E. students | 04 books | 10 days |
Non-teaching Staff | 02 books | 1 month |
Senior Technical Staff | 05 books | 1 month |
Teaching faculty (contract) | 07 books | 1 semester |
Teaching faculty | 10 books | 1 semester |
Online Email Alert Service
Library provides periodically email alert service to the users which facilitate access to full-text articles and abstracts of current topics based on requested Keywords given by the users. Under this, the faculty and students have the provision of requesting full text articles/journals of a particular topic/subject, by sending an e-mail to arun@pccegoa.org, and the request will be duly attended to.
Periodicals
Library subscribes to a rich collection of nearly 71 print national journals and magazines and more than 400 international e-journals and 07 Newspapers which facilitates users to access current information.
Online Resources
The Central library has separate digital library section with 10 computers exclusively for e-resources. Digital Library with an infinite knowledge of resources made available online to the users. IEEE- IEL digital library facilitate to users to access 950,000 IEEE documents from over 12,000 publications, including 497 full text journals, 29508 – conference proceedings, and 3918 – IEEE Standards.
Photocopying Services
Library provides Photocopying services to users at nominal charges.
Library Networking
The Central Library is networked with DELNET. Under the membership of DELNET, the users are allowed to borrow the books under the scheme of ILL (Inter Library Loan) and also can access other reference sources from other member libraries. Username and password to login DELNET databases is display on notice board. Students and faculty can have access to many e-books, e-journals and many more e-documents like Project Reports, Thesis etc. through DELNET. Thus, the faculty and students of PCCE have access to abundant knowledge resources.
Book-Bank Books
Library maintains separate collection of book-bank books for OBC, SC/ST students with financial support from Government of Goa. Students can borrow maximum seven books for the period of one semester.
Current Contents
Under this service, the faculty and students can access the 28 latest journals contents, as recommended by the Heads of their respective departments. The Current Contents will be updated regularly and displayed in the periodicals section.
OPAC (Online public Access Catalogue)
OPAC is window of library collection. Patron can search the required books from anywhere within the college campus. Search by Title, Author, keywords gives detail about books and its location as well its availability. Students can renew their books before the due date through OPAC without coming to the library. And also the reservation of the book can be done if all books of particular title are issued out. The list of new arrival is automatically displayed on the OPAC periodically as we procure the new books. Now students can search project reports of BE and Me-IT on OPAC.
Library on Your Mobile
Access library from your Android Phone/Tablet. Students/staff can download the Android App from your Phone/Tablet from http://www.verussolutions.biz/android