Bina Chowdhury Central Library, GCU Assam was formed by merging earlier GIMT Library & GIPS Library in the year 2018 with the loving memory of late Bina Choudhury, founder president of Shrimanta Shankar Academy Society (SSAS). It is located at the ground floor & basement area of the boys hostel of its campus and it occupies total carpet area of = 9503.68 sq. ft. in where main Library occupies the 3021.92 sq. ft. carpet area and Reading Room (120 seating capacity) hasÂ
 
															 
															 
															 
															Rules for Lending Books:
| CATEGORY | NO. OF BOOKS | ISSUE PERIOD | 1ST TIME RENEWAL | 2ND TIME RENEWAL | 
| Student | 05 | 20 days | 20 days | 20 days | 
| Research Scholar | 05 | 20 days | 20 days | 20 days | 
| Teaching Staff | 10 | 180 days | - | - | 
| Other Staff | 02 | 20 days | - | - | 
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General Rules:
Library Opening hour:
Library remains open from 8.30 a.m. – 7.30 p.m. in all workings days.
LIBRARY COLLECTION (Engineering and Management)
The central library provides a huge collection of subject related books. Besides, it has numbers of other documents including educational CDs. The details are as follows-
| Name of Library Collection | Nos. | 
| Book (Title) | 7282 | 
| Book Volume (as per accession Register) | 50500 | 
| e-Book Volume (Online e-books from Delnet) | 2306 | 
| Print Journals (Current) | 18 | 
| Subscribed e-Journals Package (Delnet) | 911 | 
| Current Newspaper | 03 | 
| Current Popular Magazine | 16 | 
| Yearbook | 01 | 
| Educational CDs | 929 | 
A)Subscribed E-Resource:
Subscribed e-resources of Central Library include the resources that can be accessed by Central Library members only. These resources are fully IP based, so users are able to access these resources inside the college campus. For remote access of these resources users of the library are requested to contact the Librarian.
A1. DELNET ( http://www.delnet.in/ ): DELNET stands for Developing Library Network (formerly known as Developing Library Network). It was established with the main objective of promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries.
Open Access E-Resources are the academic articles (research outputs) which are distributed online, free of costs or other barriers, and, with the addition of an open license applied to promote reuse. The open access E-resources can be accessed by going through the link given below:
National Digital Library of India – NDLI ( https://www.ndl.gov.in/ ): Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library (NDL) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.
Directory of Open Access Journals- DOAJÂ ( https://doaj.org/ ):Â DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Open Access Journals Search Engine- OAJSE ( http://www.oajse.com ):Â The Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) service covers free, full text, quality controlled journals.
NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository ( http://nopr.niscair.res.in):Â Here users can access full test articles from research journals published by CSIR-NISCAIR. NOPR also hosts three Popular Science Magazines viz. Science Reporter (SR), Vigyan Pragati (VP) & Science Ki Duniya (SKD), and a Natural Products Repository (NPARR).
Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ ): Project Gutenberg offers over 49,000 free eBooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
Shodhganga (Indian ETD Repository  ( https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in ): Access to Full text Ph.D Thesis submitted to universities in India.
e-PG Pathshala ( http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in ): e-PG Pathshala contains high quality, curriculum-based interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages.
eGyanKosh ( https://egyankosh.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.
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