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Introducing Ourselves.... Welcome to the Home of the Goa University Library. The home of more than 1 lakh books, and 200 journals of both, technical and general interest. The library also houses special interest collections and rare and antique manuscripts. The Library is currently in the process of revamping and revitalising its collection so as to make it useful to the community of researchers that it was set up to serve. The Goa University Library and Information Centre was set up in 30th. of June 1985 around the nucleus of the Library of the Centre for Post Graduate Research and Instruction, University of Bombay. The initial collection numbered 37,678 books and several bound volumes of periodicals. Today, our holdings have crossed one lakh books covering a wide range of disciplines under Humanities, Social Science and Pure and Applied Sciences especially Microbiology, Marine Science, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Geology, Management and other disciplines including a special collection on Latin America and The Caribbean. The Library also has a large collection of titles in Konkani, the state language of Goa and a foreign language section which includes titles in Portuguese, French and Spanish. Our Library acquires around 2500 books and over 400 periodicals every year. It also receives more than 150 periodicals gifted by various organisations and institutions. Goa University Library is a designated repository Library of United Nations publications since 1996. In addition to these, our Library has a collection of rare books on Indo-Portuguese History and Culture donated by the late Dr. P. S. S. Pissurlekar (about 5000 books in various languages). Mr. Nuno Gonsalves of Portugal and numerous others have donated their collections to the University for the use of scholars of Goa and the neighbouring regions. The Goa University Library is the single largest centre of academic resources in the State of Goa and caters not only to the needs of the academic community of the state but also serves many scientific, historical and social science researchers from neighbouring States. Our Automated Services....With the successful completion of computerising its stocks and automating its services in a phased manner, our Library is on the threshold of embarking on its new role that of an information resource centre at the service of the academic community of this region, in addition to its traditional function of holding and disseminating of books. The
Library has presently 1,04,651, books whose particulars are already
stored on magnetic media. Teachers, Students and Scholars in and
around Goa now have access to this vast
database from their departments over a campus wide network. In
addition to this, we have also made available on this site, a
regularly updated searchable
database of the abstracts of papers published in over seven
hundred journals in Science and Technology under the COPSAT
(Contents Of Periodicals in Science And Technology) program of the
INFLIBNET --- a project under the UGC. We also have an electronic browsable
repository of the full text papers published in over one hundred
journals in the area of Social Science and Humanities. With
electronic versions of general reference material like the
Encyclopedia Britannica, the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology,
the World Book Encyclopedia, the Oxford English Dictionary,
electronic, archives of the National Geeographic magazine, the
Manorama Year Book, complementing our formal holdings, we have now
become a major resource centre for scholars in this region. The Goa University Library plans to set up an automated database of periodicals comprising of more than 12 lakh articles spread over 50,000 bound volumes. We also propose to provide Hypertext links to the first page of every article and publish and distribute this database on a compact disc with a web-browser based search engine. It is expected that this database would be an extremely valuable resource for other Universities and Research Institutions in India. Goa University Library has an unique collection of Historical documents gifted by Prof. Pissurlekar and Mr. Nuno Gonsalves, some of which date back to 16th and 17th centuries. A bibliography of these resources is currently available in print form. We propose to set up a cross-referenced version of this collection with hypertext links between the indices of each document thus enabling researchers to request for photocopying specific pages of these rare documents. Since this collection is of great academic interest to historians from countries such as Portugal, the Library plans to distribute this cross linked and indexed database overseas. |
