An educational institution without a library is just a house without a kitchen. – When students read in hi classes, their desire for knowledge increases. Desire knowledge is best satisfied when the students enter a room of books. In college libraries, there are rich varieties of journals and periodicals. It is rightly said that a library reservoir of knowledge.
Although many students go to library, it is a place of silence. There is no noise here. Every body treats it as a sacred place. There are different catalogues of books. There is a catalogue for all books of literature. Science books are catalogued separately.
Similarly, there is a separate catalogue for the commerce books. All the catalogues are kept at the counter of the library. It is easy for the students to consult the catalogue there. The librarian looks after the library. He is assisted by an assistant librarian and four junior clerks. There is a reading hall, and then the students enter there with books, their faces beam with joy. The silence of the reading hall is highly encouraging. It seems that in that silence the letters of the books become really eloquent.
The students remain so busy with their classes that they seldom find sufficient time for an adequate use of the library. Yet university education will be meaningless unless the students develop a broad out look. They should read books on a variety of subjects get suitable materials from reference books and be in constant touch with journals to keep themselves abreast of the current affairs. They will find the teacher.and the librarians helpful to them in selecting their books properly.
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It is really distressing to find that some students abuse the facilities offered by college libraries. Sometimes students seem to forget that even the slightest noise may disturb others and they gossip with fellow students. At times they disfigure the books or remove pages from them.
Some of the important books are rendered almost useless simply because certain chapters have been torn out. There are some students who eagerly borrow books from the library but they do not return these books within specified time- limit.
Thus, these students prevent the other students from deriving benefit from those books. There are some students who get an access to the shelves. They take out certain books but do not put them back in the proper place. So later on it becomes difficult to locate these books. Some other students are lulled into sleep by the profound silence of the reading hall and at times they start snoring. The sacred precincts of the library ought not to be abused by such vicious habits.
In some Colleges, libraries suffer from a lot of handicaps. They are ill-equipped and do not have trained librarians. In recent years the University Grants Commission is trying to supplement the resources of the State Government and the Governing Bodies for the development of College Libraries.