SGOU LIBRARY

 

The university contributes significantly to the growth of higher education by offering the need based academic programs on the basis of the accessibility, quality, flexibility and the relevance. The University motto “Higher Education to Everyone Everywhere” is being realized through three-tire student support services. At present the university has over Thirty One PG Departments on various subjects including faculties from Arts, Commerce, Science, Management, Education, Law and Humanities. The University Library was established along with the Karnataka State Open University in 1996. The KSOU was carved out of the Institute of Correspondence Course and Continuing Education (ICC & CE) of the University of Mysore is a pioneer institute in the Asian continent. Earlier, the Library was housed in the Academic Block of main building of the KSOU where the University offices were also working. From 1996 the library resources were made available to the readers, and the library has follows open access right from the beginning. The Library is housed in an independent and spacious building in 18,850 sq. ft area since 2007.

 

Other important factors include Open Access and Open Science initiatives, Public-Publisher conflicts in monopolizing sharing of data and products, the economics of info storage & dissemination, etc. The process of optimization of user needs vis-à-vis the delivery of matching services will decide the choice/design of the appropriate models.

The unlimited possibilities of the application of new technologies in the info handling processes are also being explored.
Yet another factor is the changing trends in the concept of physical space and info intermediaries/work force in real life libraries.

The transformation envisaged in the ultimate functioning of the Knowledge Centre will depend on this incisive thinking and constructive application.

Thus the structure of the resources, products and services as enlisted below will be undergoing a transformation to a system that is better suited for the given environment and possibly as a model to emulate too.

   

RESOURCES                                                                                      

In-House Databases including

  • Books : e-Versions & p-Versions
  • Periodicals/Journals/Magazines : e-, p- & Integrated Versions

Institutional Repository covering

  • Scholarly Publications
  • PhD Theses
  • Academic Project Reports
  • Academic Courseware & Syllabus
  • Question Papers Bank

Externally Accessible Resources covering

  • Subscribed e-Resources including IEEE Xplore, ACM DL, TURNITIN, etc.
  • Access to National Facilities including INFLIBNET, NDL, etc.
  • Open Access Databases including Arxive.org, DOAJ, WIPO, etc.