1. Identity is required to check out books.
 Books loaned to IUB students would be:
BBA/B.Sc Hons etc. Three Books for Fourteen Days
Ma/Msc Three Books for Fourteen Days
Mphil/Phd Six Books for Two Months
 Issuance limit for IUB Staff will be according to following criteria:
Heads of Administrative Departments (HODs) Five Books for One month
Deputy Heads/Assistant Head Three Books for one month
Administrative Officers Three Books for one Month
Office Assistants/Clerks Two Books for One Month
Drivers/Peons/Attendants etc. Two Books for One Month
 Faculty and teaching staff will be eligible to barrow fifteen books for three months.
 Secondary/Primary School teachers can barrow three books for one month.
 Circulating books may be renewed once unless they are placed on hold by another or they are
overdue. Renewals will not be granted by telephone or email requests.
 A book urgently required in the library must be returned on receipt of notice from circulation
department even before of the expiry of the prescribed period.
 A hold may be placed on any book already checked out.
 Reference materials and CDs do not circulate.
Welcome to Technical Processing Section
Posted Thu, 02/12/2009 - 11:33 by cliitkgp
Location : Third Floor of Tower. Take the Steel Staircase and follow the steps beyond Hall 5 entrance.
Technical Processing Section plays a key role to function the library. It makes a bridge between the
acquisition of documents to the Circulation. The Technical Processing Section of IIT Kharagpur Central
Library also plays a vital role to run the functioning of this library services smoothly.
Technical Processing Work Flow Diagram Click

2. Classification of books following DDC latest edition (presently using 22nd ed.). Before consult DDC, we
check our database and provide the earlier class number in case of same title if found.
Cataloguing of books following AACR-II.
Prepare Subject Heading following Library of Congress Subject Heading.
Preparing / Update Database using Libsys 4.0 software.
Generating Bar-Code using Libsys 4.0 software.
Classify books as General, TBL, SC/ST, Gallery, Reference etc.
Update database for the classified books also for Binding, Lost Books etc.
Stamping and labeling barcode, spine-label.
Generate list of new arrival of books which includes bibliographic details including Abstract. New
Arrivals
Put hardcopy of new arrivals into display board (weekly). Simultaneously those books are kept for
'New Arrival' Display. During that week we restrict those books for any issue through Libsys database.
New arrivals with bibliographic details are updated on website. (weekly displayed).
Maintain archive for all books processed and shelved since the year 2004. This archive can be accessed
by clicking Here.
Send this list to the IIT Kharagpur community through g-mail (weekly).
Send all books for Circulation to the users (weekly).
Ph.D Theses Uploaded to IDR. (weekly displayed).