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Central Library of Shri B M
Patil Medical College was established in 1986. Apart from
the main library it has also departmental libraries. The
primary mission of the library is to support the educational
and teaching programs of the college by providing physical
and intellectual access to information; the library aims to
develop a comprehensive collection of documents useful for
the faculty and student of the college and to serve as a
resource center for the Health Science Information. The
collection of the library which includes books, journals,
dissertation and WHO reports. The annual budget of the
library is over Rs. 60 Lakhs and The library currently
subscribed 129 periodical titles of which 85 are foreign
journals. The Library also become member of HELINET
consortium, through which Library has access to 360 fulltext
electronic journals and 780 ebooks.
The library has been
computerized using the NewGenLib open source Integrated
Library Management software with all the modules for the
library housekeeping
operations. The library OPAC database has more than 12
thousand records of books and 6000 back volumes of
periodicals. Using OPAC, users can search the Library
Catalogue by Author, Title, Subject, and keywords and also
know the latest additions of books and periodicals.
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