Bahauddin Goverment Arts Collage’s Library is the hub of the collage and plays a vital role in supporting, teaching and learning activities, and provides the main source for individual demand. Library is helping the faculty to keep abreast with the latest developments in their area of activities and to provide information support for regular study and academic activities. At the same time for students, library is a source to get information support for their course curriculum as well as for their self-development. A well-arranged with the latest books and magazines on fiction, non-fiction, biographies, personality development, core subject books and competitive exams material. Library has a rich collection of different subject like History, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati and general books. There is a wealth of material to support learning and research at the College with collection of over 65000+ books, 30+ Magazine & journals and 6 newspapers. The Library is constantly active in building up rich collection of books. Library facilitates its clientele by providing E-Resources through NLIST, INFLIBNET Centre. The library is fully automated with SOUL software. The software facilitates issue -return of books, a web-based catalogue to access the books (OPAC) and reservation of books. Bar-coding system is used to computerize the bibliographic details of the books.

  • Monday to Saturday 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM
  • Library remains close on all public holidays and Sunday.


Name: Amitkumar C. Vaghela

Designation: Librarian

Education Qualification: BA, BLISc, MLISc, GSET.

Mail ID: vaghela.amit81@gmail.com
  • Entry is permitted with ID card only.
  • Members are requested not to bring their belongings inside the library.
  • Use of edibles and mobile phones in the Library is strictly prohibited.
  • Reference materials should not be taken outside from the Library.
  • A student can borrow maximum three books for the period of 15 days.
  • Overdue charges Rs.1 par day will be applicable for books returned after the due date.
  • If an issued book is lost or damaged, the borrower is supposed to either provide the latest edition of the same book or has to pay the price of the book three times of the original book.
  • Silence must be observed in the Library.
  • Violation of these Rules will call for punitive action against the erring student.
  • Library building is under CCTV surveillance.
  • Library Remain Close on Sunday and Public Holidays.
  • On leaving the Library, all users are requested to extend their cooperation for the inspection of all books and items taken out of the Library.
  • The Library has rich collection of Print resources.
  • The print resource includes Books, Periodicals, Newspapers and Magazines.
  • Books: 65000+
  • Periodicals / Magazines: 30+
  • News Paper: 06

The Library has provided E-Resources through NLIST, INFLIBNET Centre.

  • For Username and password contact to Library Staff

E-Journals (Fulltext)
American Institute of Physics (18 titles) http://journals.aip.org/
Annual Reviews (33 titles) http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) (1 titles) http://www.epw.in/
Indian Journals (180+ titles) http://www.indianjournals.com/
Institute of Physics (46 titles) http://iopscience.iop.org/
JSTOR (2500+ titles) http://www.jstor.org/
Oxford University Press (206 titles) http://www.oxfordjournals.org
Royal Society of Chemistry (29 titles) http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals?key=title&value=current
H. W. Wilson (3000+ titles) http://search.ebscohost.com
Cambridge University Press (224 titles) [2010-2016] https://www.cambridge.org/core
E-Books
Cambridge Books Online (1800 titles) https://www.cambridge.org/core
E-brary (125000+ titles) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks
EBSCoHost-Net Library (936 titles) http://search.ebscohost.com
Hindustan Book Agency (65+ titles) https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/
Institute of South East Asian Studies(ISEAS) Books (382+ titles) https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/
Oxford Scholarship (1402+ titles) http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/
Springer eBooks (2300 titles) http://link.springer.com
Sage Publication eBooks (1000 titles) hhttp://knowledge.sagepub.com
Taylor Francis eBooks (1800 titles) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
Myilibrary-McGraw Hill (1124 titles) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks
World -ebooks Library (30,00,000 titles) http://community.ebooklibrary.org/?AffiliateKey=WEL-NDL
South Asia Archive (though NDL) http://www.southasiaarchive.com

Services

To make Library Happening Place, Library is offering User Friendly Environment & Services.

  • Circulation service
  • Reference Service
  • Referral Service
  • Library Orientation Program
  • Reading Room Facilities
  • Current Awareness Service (CAS)
    • New Arrival Books
    • New Arrival Periodical
  • Newspapers clipping service
  • Back dated magazines/Journal circulation
  • New arrivals display
  • Webopac Service

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