Library Profile
SCERT Library is meant for Academic and other staff SCERT, Teachers of Dept. of Education, Kerala ( Govt & Aided ) , Research scholars, students and public. Library maintain rich collection of books on Education and allied subjects, collection also include books on subject areas of Social science, literature (Malayalam / English), Reference books ( Encyclopedia, Dictionaries etc.). Current collection of Books is 73000 and over Ten thousand titles covering different subjects. It subscribes to 30 Foreign Journals , 42 Indian periodicals currently. In the year 2018 Library shifted to open source software KOHA for automation.
Working Hours
Library is kept open on all working days from 10 AM to 5PM
Membership Fee (Annual)
Teachers (Category – I ) ₹. 400 ( 4 books)
Teachers (Category – II ) ₹. 250 ( 2 books)
Students ( B.Ed/ M.Ed/ Ph.D ) (Category-I ) – ₹. 300 ( 3 books)
Students ( B.Ed/ M.Ed/ Ph.D ) (Category-I ) – ₹. 200 ( 2 books)
Public – (Category-I ) – ₹. 500 ( 4 books)
Public – (Category-II ) – ₹. 300 ( 2 books)
Reference membership – ₹. 100 ( 3 months)
If a book is lost the borrower must replace it with its latest edition. If the user is unable to replace the books penal charge will be levied as per Library Rule.
As part of digital enabling, SCERT has digitized the text book kept in archive library from the year 1896 to 2019 . The purpose of digitization is to create a digital archive of the books physically housed in to PDF format, then to make necessary Metadata entry, to deployment of a simple online search application for the retrieval of digitized data through the following website.
Books – 73000
Periodicals
- Indian periodicals – 44
- Foreign journals – 30
- Reports – 2500
- Thesis – 1050
Open access resources
- ERIC ( Educational resources Information centre) eric.ed.gov
- NROER ( National Repositories for Open Educational Resourcess) nroer.gov.in
- Project Gutenberg ( gutenberg.com)
- DOAB ( Directory of open access books) doaj.org
- DOAJ ( Directory of open access journals ) doaj.org
- Pdfdrive – open access e-books pdfdrive.com
Open access Indian journals
- Indian Review of world literature in English
- Current science (ias.ac.in)
- Journal of physics (ias.ac.in)
- Resonance (ias.ac.in)
- Proceedings –mathematics ias.ac.in
- Indian journal of chemistry ( niscair.res.in)
- Indian journal of Traditional knowledge (niscair.res.in)
- Journal of Traditional knowledge (niscair.res.in)
- Science reporter (niscair.res.in)
Useful links
- National Digital Library of India ( iitkp.ac.in)
- Indian Theses ( www.inflibnet.ac.in)
- UGC CARELIST ( ugccare.unipune.ac.in)
- Research gate (researchgate.net)
- Academia ( academia.edu)