Best Practices

BEST PRACTICES

Benchmarking ‘Best practice’ as a means for continuous learning through sustainable innovations is familiar in the world of business management. The Best Practices followed by SVU Library in order to provide efficient and effective information services to our Stakeholders are given below:

Competitive Examinations Cell

The novel feature of S V University Library is the establishment of Competitive Examinations Cell with the main objective of providing reading material for student community preparing for various competitive examinations. The cell provides books and journals relating to Civil Services, Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission, TOEFL, GATE, GRE, GMAT, CAT, UGC-NET, SLET, Teacher Recruitment ( DSC ) and other competitive examinations. So far, we have procured about 12,500 documents relating to various Competitive Examinations.

Book Procurement Policy

• The Students preparing for various Competitive Examinations are encouraged to record their suggestions for procurement of new titles as per their requirement.
• Students are also involved in the purchase of books for various competitive examinations by spot selection.
• The Faculty Members will select books of their choice by spot selection in the book exhibitions arranged in SVU Library.
• The Faculty Members will select books of their choice by visiting Chennai and Bangalore.

Book Exhibitions

Book Exhibitions are arranged during important occasions in order to create awareness among student community about the latest books and also to ensure optimum usage of the library collection.

Display of New Arrivals

The newly purchased books are displayed for a period of 10 -15 days inorder to create awareness about the new arrivals.

Interaction with users

The librarian interacts in an informal way with users at the time of issue of No Dues Certificate to find out additional services required and also existing services can be redesigned inorder to meet their ever ending demands.

Interaction with experts

The professional staff working in SVU Library interacts with experts in the library and information field during their visit to the Library and Information Science Department/ University/ Darshan of Lord Venkateswara.

Access to E-Resources through SVU Library Homepage

The SVU Library Home Page provides a common gateway to access online journals under UGC-INFONET Programme, Online Open Access Journals, Digital Library of Ph.D. Theses, HDD on Chemistry, OAister Digital Depository, JCCC-UGCINFONET and SVUL OPAC.

Digital Library of Ph.D. Theses

A multilingual ETD of fulltext Ph.D. Theses containing 3,000 records is available for the benefit of research community.

Significant Features of SVU Library

• Library building – aesthetic look, functional utility and excellent design for good lighting and ventilation
• Competitive examinations cell
• User friendly Digital Library
• ETD containing more than 4000 Theses
• Insurance for library building and equipment .