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About Library :

 

Central Library

 

There is no friend as loyal as a book
 

- Ernest Hemingway

One best book is equal to hundred friends. But one good friend is equal to a library.

- APJ Abdul Kalam

 

The Central Library of BCKV housed in a four storied building in Mohanpur Campus was inaugurated in the present building itself in 1980. It is a unique façade of architectural design in the center of the campus, and considered  as the largest Agricultural Library of Eastern India. It has four stories encompassing total 5557 square meter floor space (in which planned area was 7342 square meter).


The ground floor stacks books and bound journals, section for old unbound journals, reports, a well equipped bindery and modern conference room.

First floor has spacious lending counter, huge reading room, newspaper enclosure, career, special collections, research cubicles, office, acquisition section and processing section. Photocopying facility, computer lab, officers’ rooms and a meeting room are available here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second floor houses current journals, thesis and dissertation and internet unit. The mezzanine floor is used for library exhibition

The University Librarian is responsible for the overall management of the library. He is assisted by the Deputy Librarian, Assistant Librarians and other professional and supporting staffs. The Library Advisory Committee advices for development of the library as a whole. The library also provides consultation facilities to outside scholars, teachers and students of other Universities as well as ex-students of this University on the basis of the Library Rules.