A MESSAGE FROM LIBRARIAN
kulmeet kaur
The central Library, Quest Group of Institutions Library is housed in an area of about –6000, sqr.feet and organized into various sections, which are manned by professionally qualified staff.
ADVANCE FACILITIES
We, at Quest Group of Institutions, Mohali believe in what Curl Trawn has said “ Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it ? Very little to be sure. But the real Question is , What it will do with You ? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes , and your ears , and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.” For that purpose we have rich collection Apx.9000 volumes in Engineering and MBA to the need of about 800 members (both staff and students). The Central library of college is situated in the heart of campus which is easily accessible by every visitors & readers. The Library has adopted open access systems which enables the readers to go to the book shelves and select the books & other resources to themselves .All the books are classified according to Dewey Decimal Classification & arranged in the classified order on shelves & are catalogued according to AACR II . Latest news about college is preserved in the library in the form of clipping services .To keep its readers abreast with the latest developments in Engineering and Technology, the library is subscribing to 60 National and 42 International Journals in Print form… Having separate reading hall for reticent to its readers.
OPAC Service: The bibliographical information of library are made available through OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue). The basic searches like author, title, author & title, keyword, publisher, subject heading, call no. etc are introduced.
Digital Library Service : Library has a separate digital Library . Apart from books it has a huge collection of Audio video material, CD’s & DVD’s.
Newspaper Clipping Service: Latest news about college is preserved in the library in the form of clippings.
Reference Service : Library users can consult the staff at the reference desk for help in finding information.
Referral Service : Referral service is also provided by Professionally Qualified staff of library.
Cataloguing Service : All the books are catalogued according to AACR -II.
Reprographic Service : There is different section for Reprographic facility
E-Library Facility
Library Blog Service : Library blog (http://questinstitutionslibrary.wordpress.com/) is regularly updated by library staff for library current information.
Online Membership of British library : The Library has also taken online membership of British library. This online membership provides access to electronic resources.
Library Automation
Quest Library is fully automated with Library Manger Software.
