Labs & Libraries

MCS Libraries

The Military College of Signals (MCS) Library is the fully computerized library that has been providing with excellent services and facilities to fulfill the information needs of faculty members as well as students. The library is equipped with state-of-the-art systems and technologies. It has a collection of over 55,000 volumes comprising printed and electronic information sources. The library is organized by qualified and experienced staff, dedicated to provide high quality innovative services. The library aims to encourage and support the academic and research activities of MCS faculty, staff and students. It provides a full range of services that include loans, online information searching, reference services, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, , access to virtual collections & digital resources, CD-ROM.

Library Timings

Note:  The library remains closed on public holidays.

Information Services

Membership:  All faculty members, students and staff members are entitled to borrow books. Lending privileges differ for various categories.

Reference Service:  Library provides efficient and reliable services under the supervision of professional staff. Users may make queries by telephone, fax, and e-mail.

CD-ROM & Online Searching:  Five terminals are dedicated for electronic and online databases searching including full-text information.

Inter-Library Loan :  If a particular item is not available in our Library , the library has arrangements to acquire it from other libraries, both within the country and abroad.

Resourses

General Collection:  This is the main collection comprising high quality selected books. This collection is organized according to Dewey's Decimal Classification Scheme and shelved subjects wise according to call numbers (100-999) pasted on the spine of each item.

Reference Collection:  A significant number of current reference sources are available on reference shelves. Various electronic databases including, Engineering valueable books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, yearbooks, atlases, bibliographies are distinct feature of this collection. The reference books can only be consulted within the library.

MCS Publications:  We are housing faculty and students research output e.g. UG projects, MS projects, theses, dissertations, research assignments.

Multimedia Collection:  Multimedia section provides access to audiovisual material, CD-ROMs, and DVDs.

Journal Collection:  The library has been subscribing to more than 75 national and international journals and magazines in print and online. A complete list is available with the circulation Desk. The current issues of the periodicals are displayed on special shelves in the main reading area. Back volumes of these periodicals are bound and shelved separately.

IEL (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library)

MCS library also has a data base of IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL). The IEEE and IEE are the world’s most respected sources for accurate, up-to-date information relating to electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, information technology, applied physics, and other related technical disciplines. From computer science applications to nuclear power engineering, the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library offers authoritative coverage of the world’s leading journals, conferences proceedings, and technical standards from 1988 to March 2005. The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library contains the powerful INSPEC database as an index to IEEE and IEE publications and links to full page images of Over 900,000 documents from more than 12,000 IEEE and IEE publications, also including:

Journals & Periodicals:   More than 120 Journals title

Conference Proceedings:   Over 600 conferences, workshops and colloquia proceedings

Technical Standards:   More than 875 IEEE technical standards