TU students can Read books for free at home

TU ONLINE LIBRARY The Central Library of Tribhuvan University TU has made arrangements for students to read foreign books free of cost at ho...

TU ONLINE LIBRARY

The Central Library of Tribhuvan University TU has made arrangements for students to read foreign books free of cost at home through online.The library has developed a remote access system for reading books, documents and journals at home.The library has made arrangements to read books abroad by connecting in-demand database software with remote access service.

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The software library was purchased from the UK for Rs 3.2 million.

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Purnalal Shrestha, head of the TU library, informed that the library has made arrangements to read books free of cost from the ProQUE database software to the students of the affiliated campuses and other universities that have signed an agreement with the library.

To read books, journals, essays, etc. published by foreign world-renowned scholars for free, TU students have to fill the form available on the library’s website www.tucl.org.np.

He informed that the library has made arrangements to read foreign books, documents, journals etc. by providing the email ID of the student on the basis of filling the same form.

Email IDs of 30,000 students have been created in the remote access system which was started last December.

Library Information Officer Vijay Sharma told the students that famous foreign writers can read the contents of the articles at home.

According to him, there are more than 450,000 e-books, more than 5 million e-thesis dissertations and thousands of titles of journals, magazines and articles in the request database through the remote access.

For the service, Nepal Open University, Far Western University, Hetauda College of Social Sciences, Sagarmatha Engineering College, Baneshwor Multipurpose Campus are institutionally connected to the database purchased by the TU library.

The library has recently entered into agreements and collaborations with the Asian Development Bank and the National Digital Library of India on the use of e-resources. According to the agreement, the Asian Development Bank will have 300,000 resource books and the digital library will have 45 million e-libraries, journals, thesis, audio and video, free of cost, said Information Officer Sharma. At present, the library has four lakh 10 thousand books.

Separate e-library

Shrestha informed that with the age of technology, the library has also put forward a plan to create its own separate e-library database.

According to him, the construction of e-library has been started by keeping the research papers of postgraduate level, philosophy teacher and doctorate level online.

So far, 2,000 research papers have been digitized. He said the library would soon create its own digital database of books, theses, dissertations, journals, reports and historical documents.

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