Central Library

• Introduction of the Library
• • The Central Library supports the teaching and research programmers of the Institute and provides facilities for general reading and disseminates information according to the requirement of the users. It is housed in a separate building with a carpet area of 3345 Sq.M Sq.ms, reading space 504.68 sq. ms.. It has around 59507 including, books, back volumes of technical national and international journals, technical pamphlets, standards, CD-ROMs,DVD’s. The Library has online journals and access to e journals databases etc. It is provided through Internet Bandwidth 1 Gbps. All e resources are accessible in Digital library. The database of entire library acquisitions was created using Library Application Software Called KOHA software.
• • The College Central Library caters to the needs of the user community i.e., UG and PG students, Research scholars, staff and faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru technological University college of Engineering (Autonomous), Ananthapuramu. The College Central Library was fully automated with bar coding of the books with KOHA Library Software package. The main features of the KOHA Software are OPAC, Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, Serial Control etc
• • Under-Graduate & Post-Graduate students, faculty members are making use of the Library facilities. The mission of the Central Library is to provide Digital e-resources, information services and access to bibliographical and printed resources to support the scholarly and informational needs of the University user community. Central Library caters to the needs of all the departments of JNTU College of Engineering, Ananthapur viz, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science, Chemical, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English & Management. At present catalogue cards are arranged in catalogue cabins are available for manually searching data

•      Building: 3345 Sq.M sq m plinth areas extended in 2 floors
•      Ground floor: Thesis, Xerox room ,Staff room, Circulation counter ,Digital Library ,News paper reading room , Magazine section.
•      First floor : Journal section, Ready reference section Back volume of Journals, Staff room, UPS room


• Library Staff:
• Professional Staff – 5

•   (i) Dr. R. Bhavani   -    Professor & I/C – Library
•   (ii) Sri.S. Sridhar   -   Asst. Professor & Library coordinator
•   (iii) Sri. A. Sreedhar   -    Librarian
•   (iv) Smt. A. Bhagyam   -    Library Assistant
•   (v) Smt. S. Suneetha   -    Library Assistant

•   (i) Senior Assistant - 1
•   (ii) Junior Assistant - 1
•   (iii) Record Assistant - 1
•   (iv) Junior Lab Assistant - 1
•   (v) System Adminstrator - 1
•   (vi) Lab Subordinate - 1
•   (vii) Watch Ward - 2
•   (viii) Sweeper - 2

•   It is kept open from
•   Monday –Thursday : 8.00 A.M. To 8.00 P.M
•   Friday –Weekly Holiday
•   Saturday & Sunday : 8.00 .A.M To 8.00.P.M.

• Different Sections of the library:
•   Circulation section
•   Acquisition section
•   Processing section(Classification section& Cataloguing)
•   Periodical section
•   Digital library section
•   Internet cell
•   Reference section
•   Dissertations & Back volumes section
•   Stacks etc.

• Services of the central library are:
•   Charging and Discharging of books and non book material
•   Reference service
•   Inter Library Loan (ILL)
•   DELNET
•   E-access of e-resources
•   Reprographic service and
•   Referral service to the users.
•   Wi-Fi network Facility

• Books:
• Total volumes : 59507
• Total titles: 14562
• No. of Reference books : 12523
• Donated Books : 3393

• Journals, Magazines& News papers

• E-Journals Packages
•   DELNET
•   IEI free e journals membership
•   NDL
•   NPTEL VIDEOS
•   Knimbus