Library

Monday – Saturday: 10.00 – 17.15 hrs 
The library remains closed on Sundays, Second Saturdays and on all Government holidays.

List of Government Holidays Kerala 2014

National and regional public holidays of Kerala in 2018

Library has always accorded high priority for books and journals. Every Monday 30 new books are put out on display and the users can borrow them the following week. The new arrivals thus get the attention of the public and reservation facility is also available. The list is available online.
The library follows Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme and the OPAC facility is available.
Every year nearly 10-15 lakhs are spent on books and about 20 lakhs on journals. The books are brought on approval basis and the Book Selection Committee makes the selection.
As of March 2012, we have the following information resources:

The electronic information materials available include full text journals and databases.

Computer/Network and other infrastructure
Library maintains a sub-LAN which in turn is connected to the campus LAN. All PCs in the library are with internet access.

Other Services
Lending; Reference; Internet Search; ERIC Search; Photocopy; Contents Page; Pressclips; SCERT Digest

TEXTBOOK ARCHIVES & STUDY CENTRE

SCERT

How the textbooks are arranged…

SCERT has devised its own ‘classification scheme’ for arranging the textbooks on the shelf.

Every book will have a number indicating the state (except in the case of Kerala), class, year & subject.

For eg. TB/VII/1990/400(E)

TB denotes ‘textbook’

VII denotes Std. VII

1990 is the year of publication

400 denotes ‘language’ and E stands for ‘English’.

Taken together, it means: Kerala English Reader (textbook) for Std. VII, published in 1990.

This way the books are arranged year-wise, and within that, by state, class, year and subject, in that order. For textbooks other than the readers, medium is indicated by giving the corresponding letter in the bracket along with the subject. For eg., Mathematics text in Malayalam (medium) is given as 510 (M), where 510 is the Dewey Decimal Class no. for Mathematics and the M in the brackets indicates the medium, which, in this case, is Malayalam.