LIBRARY AS A LEARNING RESOURCE

College has a Library Sub-Committee having nine members under Teachers’ Council.

The composition of the sub-committee is provided below:

• Principal - Chairperson
• Librarian - Convener
• Secretary, Teachers’ Council - Ex-officio member
• Members (Teaching staffs from Arts, Commerce, Science Departments)

For departmental seminar library, respective departmental teaching staffs are appointed as Seminar Library-in-charge.

Library Sub-Committee organizes meetings for planning the development of Central as well as Departmental Seminar Library. A few Departments have developed Book Bank for providing Books to the poor and meritorious students. The books for books bank are obtained from the teachers’ specimen copy.

Total area of the library (in Sq. Mts.)

4160 sq. ft.(approx.).

Total seating capacity :

Approximately 100 readers can sit at a given time in the Central Library, being a College situated in hill area we have some difficulties for providing more spaces in library.

Working hours (on working days, on holidays, before examination days, during examination days, during vacation):

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday)

10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (on Saturday)

The working hours are same for all working days.

During vacations the Library remains closed as all the departments remain closed during winter vacation of Darjeeling.

LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Sl. No	Name	Department
1.	Sri Binay Barman	Bengali	Convener
2.	Sri Bhupen Tamang	Nepali	Member
3.	Jannat Alom Miah	Philosophy	Member
4.	Md. Wakil Hossain	Commerce	Member
5.	Sri Kishore Biswas	Botany	Member

Md. Rakibul Hasan Mondal

Librarian

Highest Qualification: M.L.I.Sc. with UGC NET

Contact details:

• Email-id: (official): dgc.librarian@gmail.com
• Phone No.: (+91) 8699559353
• Office address: Central Library, DGC, Lebong Cart Rd, Richmond Hill, Darjeeling, West Bengal- 734101.

Teaching experience in years, months: 8 years 5 months

Date of joining to this institution: 14th February, 2022

Date of Joining to this service: 14th February, 2022

Previous positions held:

• Worked 2 years as Intern at Indian School of Business- Mohali
• 3 years as Assistant Librarian at Akal University- Bathinda and
• 3+ years as Junior Manager at IIT-Delhi.

Fellowships, Awards and Honors:

First class with Distinction in M.L.I.Sc.

Research area/interest:

Library services, library product management and library technologies.