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SBK women's University central library was started in May 2004. In a short span of two years the library has been transformed into deep treasure of knowledge and information. The library has a stock of books of latest edition. It has a staff of six members operating selflessly to quench the thirst of our readers for knowledge.830 students, 70 regular faculty,15 visiting faculty and all admin staff are regular members of the library. It has a quantity of text and resources material to satisfy its reader from all departments.

The Library has been organized into different reader services vise Main Lending Section, Text Books Section, General Reference Section and a Periodical publications Section in the subject field of Humanities, Social Sciences & border line disciplines and three Sectional Libraries in the subject fields of physical and Biological Sciences, Law and Education. Besides separate Maps, Dissertations and Thesis, careers and Courses, Bibliographies, Micro documents and moral and Spiritual Studies are in the process of being set up

It has the honour to circulate 80 books in a day. To meet the demands of our readers our library is divided into two halls and one large reading Rooms. passage.

It is qquippead with its own photo copier, facility of Digital library has been provided linking with other libraries of Pakistan and world through internet.

Establishment of Audio and Visual library is also in the offing.

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The access to library is provided to readers from all aspects of life ,which include students ,teaching faculty, administration ,visiting faculty, it is a vast resource of saturated knowledge and information for the above mentioned readers.

The management has also provided facility to organize various book exhibition to enhance the diversity of books in our library. Five daily NEWS papers and periodicals are regulated with our utmost sense of responsibility.

ORGANIZATION OF READING MATERIALS

The reading materials have been organized on the shelves in a scientific and helpful order following the Dewey Decimal System of classification. A divided dictionary type of public Catalogue is also maintained in order to provide title, author and subject approach to reading materials. Besides the Public Catalogue, a shelf catalogue containing entries in a classified order is also maintained

REFERENCE SERVICES

Open access facility has been provided in Library so that Readers can go directly to the shelves and select the materials needed by them. But in order to meet specific demands of readers, reference and advisory service is also provided to them with the help of professionally qualified staff .

RULES

The following is the summary of Rules and Regulations for use of Library:

Membership and Loan Privileges: The University library is primarily meant for use of teachers, students, research scholars and staff of the University. The period of loan and number of books they can borrow vary depending upon their category of membership.

Inter-Library Loan: The Library has established contacts with most of University and research Libraries of the country for providing inter-library loan service on reciprocal basis. As such books can be procured on inter-Library loan from other Libraries in case the same are not available in the Library.

Library Pass Book: Each Library member is given Library Pass Book to enable him/her to borrow books from the library. Text Books are issued to the students and teachers only.

Loss of Books and Overdue Charges: In case of damage or loss of a book, the borrower is required to replace the book or pay the cost as per library rules. Overdue charges for the late return of books are levied at the rate prescribed in "Library Rules".

The members shall obtain a clearance certificate after returning all books clearing outstanding dues, if any, and returning Library Pall Book on the expiry of his/her membership or termination of his/her connection with the University. The security deposited shall be refunded by the Finance Section, a month after the issue of the Clearance Certificate from the University Library.