''Knowledge is a best wealth as it can not be stolen nor can be divided it is not a burden the more you expend, the more it expands'' The objectives of the N.S.S. College of Commerce & Economics Library is to fulfill the information need of the college students and the staff to achieve their highest academic potential and help them acquire research skills necessary for lifelong learning. To support in teaching learning process of Teaching faculty, and administrative staff and to participate in cooperative information exchange within the wider library / educational community. The library of the college is located on the D wing 5th floor of the college building with air-conditioned. The library has separate room for teaching staff. Library is fully automated with SOUL software since 2009 and in the month of January 2022 we switched to new version i.e SOUL3.0 from SOUL2.0. The SOUL software is library ILMS software, state-of-the-art integrated library management software designed and developed by the INFLIBNET centre Gandhinagar. The entire collection of the library is fully barcoded and the transaction of the books are done using barcode scanner. The students and staff can search the library catalogue or holding of library with the help of OPAC (Online public access catalogue) and Web OPAC on computer and also on mobile application N.S.S. College of Commerce and Economics library has more than 20,000 books on different subjects. The library collection includes text books, reference books, and Marathi books, Hindi books etc. The library has good collection of reference books like encyclopaedias, dictionaries and subject reference books. All these books are arranged according to D.D.C 22nd edition. The library is subscribing to many physical journals and magazines. The periodicals include international and national journals and magazines.

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Library reading room is fully air conditioned with Wi-Fi facility with sufficient and comfortable seating arrangement for students. for reading and referencing. We are separate air conditioned staff reading room for teachers. The staff reading room has four computers with internet connectivity and they can take print out also. The main moto of UGC Network Resource Center is to provide ICT facility to the students.The students have access to 4 computers with internet connectivity. The students are using this facility for their information needs and for general usage. The students are accessing e-resource like NLIST data base and also web OPAC from these computers.

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SEARCH LIBRARY BOOKS
WEB OPAC

The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) can be accessed in the college library through the intranet. It can be accessed online through the internet by following the link SOUL WebOPAC. Access to WebOPAC is available 24 X 7. If you are using your mobile phones to For access access MOPAC, Download SOUL m-OPAC from Google store and get it activated from library. For accessing online use the above link. "SEARCH LIBRARY BOOKS"

The Users can search the books/collection of the library's through WebOPAC. The following are the some of the search strategies to search books. can be searched by 'Title', 'Author', etc through the tab 'Search Books'. Simple Search and Boolean Search options are available for searching. Students can also check the books that they have borrowed through the 'Member Status' tab available through the WebOPAC. They should use their Control ID in the 'Enter Member Code' field to access this information.

1.Basic Search

• Title
• Author
• Accession Number
• Class Number
• Publisher
• Year of Publication

Basic search can be done on
Contains, exact phrase, Begins with or ends with 2.Free-text search (Title or Author or Subject heading Contains)
Search can be done freely on words in title, author or publisher 3.Boolean Search

Advanced search it allow users to combine keywords with operators (or modifiers) such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results.

For example, a Boolean search could be "Advertising" AND "Vaz" AND “2024”. This would limit the search results to only those documents containing the three keywords. Advertising books authored by Vaz and published in 2024

4.Advanced Boolean Search 5.Alphabetic Browse The Displayed records can also bedownload in MS Excel, PDF or MARCXML

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1. Mr. Rahul R. Hiremath, B.Sc. M.L.I.Sc., NET & SLET Librarian
2. Mr. Vithal Mirashi, Library Attendant
3. Mr. Bharat Kadam, Library Attendant

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Library is subscribing to National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) funded by Ministry of Human Resource development under its National Mission on Education through ICT. Through this Staff and students of our college can access to more than 3,600 e-journals (including current issues with 5-10 year back files) and more than 3, 00,000 e-books.
The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website. (N-LIST)
The full text and back issues of following journals can be accessed online at Publishing India Using login ID and Password provided.

1. Drishtikon: A Management Journal
2. International Journal of Financial Management
3. Journal of Strategic Human Resource Management
4. Journal of Commerce and Accounting Research
5. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Management
6. International Journal of Marketing and Business Communication
7. International Journal of Banking Risk and Insurance
8. International Journal of Business Analytics and Intelligence
9. Indian Journal of Sustainable Development

If you require login details you can contact Library at library.nsscomm@gmail.com

Open Educational Resources (OER) as defined by UNESCO'' ''OERs are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others''. About Us NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), is a joint venture of the IITs and IISc, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Government of India, and was launched in 2003. Initially started as a project to take quality education to all corners of the country, NPTEL now offers close to 600+ courses for certification every semester in about 22 disciplines. ''https://nptel.ac.in/''. National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and College students and job aspirants. Services for Researchers and general learners are also provided. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. It is developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. ''https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/'' Spoken Tutorial is a multi-award winning educational content portal. Here one can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by oneself. Our self-paced, multi-lingual courses ensure that anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of their choice. All the content published on this website are shared under the ''CC BY SA license.'' ''https://spoken-tutorial.org/'' FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project promotes the use of FLOSS tools in academia and research. The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. Below is the list of projects which are promoted by FOSSEE. ''https://fossee.in/'' Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the Ministry of HRD (now renamed as Ministry of Education) has formed e-ShodhSindhu merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium.The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act. ''https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/'' eGyanKosh- a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated. https://egyankosh.ac.in/
NMEICT
NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION THROUGH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY https://nmeict.ac.in/ OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
https://oercommons.org

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The staff and the students of N.S.S. College of Commerce & Economics can only become a member of the Library. Each student gets one library card and they can issue one books against the library card for a period of 7 days. Teaching and non-teachingstaffs of the college are by default, members of the college library, however they have to get register themselves in the library. The college as a social asset, it is our extended responsibility to outreach to the general public so we are extending our library services to general public along with enrolled students and staff members of our college. We have started giving services to general public and alumni members by charging nominal charges. Under this scheme alumni members and the general public can become the members of our college library and get access to library. The members can refer our reference books, journals and magazines etc. and they can lend the library books, and photocopying services is also provided to them. A student permitted to borrow 1 book for a period of 7 days, reaching staff can issue as many as books they wish and non-teaching staff members can also issue the books from the library. The Librarian reserves the right to call back any issued book at any time. Thinking of green initiatives we are providing old question papers through green mode to students through digital media i.e. through google classroom, so that students can have access to these collection online any time anywhere it saves paper and the time of the students.

To motivate the student for using library resources we are giving BEST LIBRARY USER award to the student/s who make use of library and library services at most. Following is the list of Best Library User.

1. Ms. Payal Kalulal Jain 2023-24
2. Ms. Mitali Ramdas Nirmal 2022-23
3. Mr. Aman Santosh Kadam 2022-23
4. Ms. Shingate Varsha Tukaram 2021-22
5. Mr. Patil Mitesh Sushant 2021-22
6. Ms. Ashwini R Bharane 2019-20
7. Mr. Adepu Nikhil Shankar 2018-19
8. Miss. Sugandha T. Chougule 2017-18
9. Mr. Adepu Nikhil Shankar 2016-17
10. Miss. Bhargude Shweta S 2015-16
11. Mr. Vijay R Kubal 2014-15
12. Ms. Shanaj B Shaikh 2013-14
13. Mr. Vijay R Kubal 2012-13
14. Mr. Arjun R. Shelar 2011-12
15. Miss. Prachi Aagvekar 2010-11
16. Miss. Prachi Aagvekar 2009-10
17. Mr. Pawan Kumar Jain 2008-09
18. Mr. Omkar Kadam 2008-09
19. Mr. Shrivardhankar 2007-08
20. Mr. Mahesh Tapase 2007-08

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We are providing the book bank facility to the students of F.Y., S.Y. and T.Y B.Com students. The criteria for book bank scheme are on the basis of merit and Physically Handicapped students. Every year we provided at least 5 to 10 parent of the student strength of F.Y.B.Com., S.Y.B.Com.and T.Y. B.Com.students. We have special collection of text books which are purchased from the grant received for Students Welfare, University of Mumbai for providing book bank facility to back ward class students. The sanctioned grant was fully utilized for purchase of text books to provide book bank facilities to backward class students of our college. The students of F.Y.B.Com, S.Y.B.Com and T.Y.B.Com are benefiting from thisfacility.

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Special Services
1. News Paper Clipping
2. Inter Library Loan Services
3. Referral Services
4. Current Awareness Services
5. Selective Dissemination of Information
6. Wi Fi and Internet Services

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1. Only confide students are allowed to enter the college library on the strength of a valid identity card, which must be produces as and when it is demanded by the library staff.
2. All the students should sign in register at the entrance of the Library
3. Complete silence must be maintained in the library, Discussion, Arguments, Whisperings are strictly prohibited.
4. Using cell phones, I-pods, Walkman, etc are strictly prohibited in the library.
5. No reservation of seats is permitted in the library under any circumstance.
6. Eating is not allowed in the library
7. Group discussion is not allowed in the Library
8. Students are not allowed to disturb the seating arrangement in the library. While going back keep the chair to its original position
9. Infringement of the library rules will result in the withdrawal of the library facility from the students.
10. All cases of the violation of rules will be reported to the Principal for suitable actions.
1. Library books will be issued to the regular students for home lending only during the prescribed hour in every academic year.
2. One book will be issued per students for a period of 7 days against their Library card.
3. Check carefully the due date of the book before leaving the counter
4. The book/s should be returned on or before due date. If a book is not returned by due date then Rs.10 per day per book will be charged.
5. Strict action will be taken against marking, underlining, and damaging the book.
6. Book has to be produced physically for renewal of book.
7. Reference books like Dictionaries, periodicals, question papers, news papers are strictly reference in the library not to be taken outside the library. If any of these book/s are required for Reprography (Xerox) permission should be taken from the Librarian.
8. Students are advised to examine the book issued to them before leaving the circulation counter. They will be responsible for any damage to the book. 9. Student/s are responsible for any misuse of ID card or Library card lost by them.
10. Exchange of library card or ID card is strictly prohibited.
1. The reference books are arranging according toDewi Decimal Classification system.
2. Students can issue the reference books against their I D cards.
3. Reference books are strictly referring in the library premises only.
1. The Computers and internet provided for the purpose of research and other educational use only.
2. Downloading, installing and running of software are not allowed in UGCNCR
3. Mobile phones and other devices which may cause disturbances to others should not be used in the UGCNCR.
4. The library reserves the right to ask any person to stop using computer and internetif the student/s is misusing the facility.

Reading Week Report 2023-24
Library Activities for the Year 2022-23
Library Activities for the Year 2021-22
Library Activities for the Year 2020-21
Library Activities for the Year 2019-20
Library Activities for the Year 2018-19

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Librarian
N.S.S. College of Commerce and Economics,
NSS EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX
"B" Wing, M.P. MILLS COMPOUND,
TARDEO, MUMBAI 400034.
E-mail : library.nsscomm@gmail.com