Library Sections

1. Introduction to Library Sections:
Lecture Delivered by: Miss Kiran
Government Graduate College (W), Chishtian

2.  Acquisitions Section:
 Technical Section:
 Circulation Section:
 Newspaper & Periodical Section:
 Reference Section:

3.  Acquisitions Section:
 This section is mainly responsible for acquisition of books.
This section acquire the documents by the following
process: by purchase, gift or exchange;
 At first, the library collects the recommendation from faculty
members of different departments. Based on the
recommendation, the library interacts and places order with
selected vendors. Then, the books are accessioned in this
section and transferred to the Technical Processing Section
for cataloguing, classification and indexing & database entry.

4.  Technical Section:
 This section is mainly responsible for processing of
obtain books and acts as a bridge between Acquisition
and Circulation Section.
 This section classifies the documents, catalogues them
and finally sends these books for display in New
Arrivals Display Area for a week.

5.  Circulation Section:
This section is mainly responsible for circulation of
documents to the users of the library. This section acts as
a bridge between users and books. The following tasks
are performed by this section:
 Membership Registration
 Issue/Return
 Reserve/Renewal
 Issue No Dues Certificate
 Overdue Fine Collection
 Alert Services such as overdue, collect notice etc.

6.  Newspaper & Periodical
The Periodicals Section is the place where needed
information could be found in journals, magazines,
newspapers, and other serial literature. There is a
growing demand in the areas of newspapers, journals and
magazines research.
The following tasks are performed by this section:
 Print Journals Subscription
 E-Resources subscription and its management (Full Text
& Abstract Databases)

7.  Reference Section:
 This section is mainly responsible for keeping
reference books in different stacks of the Library
subject-wise.
 An area of the library with materials that provide quick
and easy-to-understand information on a topic. For
example, a dictionary provides information on the
meaning of words.
 An example of reference sources is an encyclopedia,
Dictionary, Almanacs, Atlases.