BooK Club
Reading is an individual activities and it evokes strong feelings in one’s mind. It is natural that everyone like to share his/her feelings, to talk with others who also read same book to see if they share same opinion or not. The Book Club of MDKG College Library is initiated on 10-01-2017 and it aims to provide an opportunity to talk about our reading experiences rather than the book itself. It helps the readers to read and broaden their world outlook and give them opportunity to express themselves.
Objectives:
- To promote love for books
- To establish reading habit
- To explore readers to a variety of literature
- To recognise need for information
- To develop information seeking behaviour i.e skills to search/ use required information
- To provide a social context for promoting literacy.
Organisation:
The organisational structure of the Book Club is as follows:
| Patron | Dr. Nibedita Phukan, Principal, MDKG College Dr. Utpal Sut, Coordinator, IQAC |
| Facilitator | Mr Jadavjyoti Saikia, Librarian |
| Coordinator | Dr Shekhar Purkayastha Asso. Professor, Dept of Bengali |
| Faculty Member | Mr Aniruddha Dutta, Asso. Professor, Dept of Assamese Dr(Ms) Rizia Begum Laskar, Assistant Professor, Dept of English Ms Shrutimala Bharali, Assistant Professor, Dept of English |
| Student Members | 25 numbers of Student members with a tenure of 3(three) years maximum. |
Activities:
The members of the club meet together at first Saturday of each month and discuss on predetermined book/topic/ story/poem/ article etc. All the members take proactive role on the discussion and there is a provision of lead critic for particular discussion. The club is engaged in activities like organising competition among students and popular talks inviting lecture from outside.
Question Bank:
Question paper: Question papers of previous year Final examinations are available for consultation in the library premises. Selected questions papers are also made available in PDF format in the library website.
Book bank:
Book bank facility is offered for the economically backward at the start of every academic session. User can borrow maximum 5 (five) books at a time and can lend these books till the final exam but they are have to produce the book before librarian or and when asked. To advent then facility user home to duly fill up the application form.
Book reservation:
Book reservation facility is available for the users to reserve their interested books which are issued. Users can reserve two (2) number of books at a time.
Reference service:
Reference service is provided to the users both in anticipation and on request.
The services are both general and user specific.
Clipping Service:
Newspaper Clippings service is meant to make aware the users about recent happenings around the world. It is updated regularly. Retrospective search facility is also entertained