College of Veterinary Science, GADVASU, Ludhiana

The University library has modern facility to collect, evaluate and organize information resources that adequately support the curricula of the colleges, the research programmes and the general informational needs of the university. The library is computerised and automated of its operations. The library allows open access to its collection and provides services to its users. The Campus Wide Local Area Network has been developed and a lease line of 100 Mbps with 24 hours connectivity provided under NKN Project. The State of art IT services have been used/utilised to provide a single point online access to various digital resources and other library services to its users. The library provides access to about 3400 journals in the broad spectrum of Agricultural Sciences including Veterinary Sciences, Animal Husbandry, Livestock Management & Poultry Sciences, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Dairy Technology, Biotechnology, Animal Nutrition and allied subjects through the Consortium for electronic Resources in Agriculture (CeRA). Access has been provided to KrishiPrabha, a database of doctoral dissertations and theses submitted to Agricultural Universities in India. In addition links have been given to various open access electronic information resources. The Library provides the facility of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) not only inside the library but throughout the campus vide intranet. Library has procured 20 e-books for the academic community of GADVASU. The university library has also subscribed to 11 foreign journals, 7 Indian journals and two databases (Veterinary Science Database and Indiastat.com) during the year 2013 14.