Journals Requirement of a College Library

[Nagender Singh]

Dear all,

Kindly tell me what are the requirement of the Journals in a UG college, affiliated with GGSIP University, Delhi not recognized with AICTE/NCTE/ and other organisation.

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Sri Nagender Singh,

Thanks for your post.It seems that your's is a General Degree College under UGC and as far as I know , unlike AICTE, the UGC has no dictum for journal subscription to its colleges but, as I understand, the NAAC  provides specific points for journals in Libraries. But barring all these formalities, it is always advisable to keep certain magazines & Periodicals in the College libraries as they introduce the student community to fulfill their quest of knowledge and at times journals are regarded as felt necessity  if the College teaches certain specialized courses like Microbiology; Molecular Biology, Film Studies, sericulture etc. etc. to name a few.

However, in General the following journals/magazines seems to be quite befitting for general degree Colleges: (1) Current Science; (2) Science Reporter; (3) Yojana; (4) India & Foreign Review; (5) Economic & Political Weekly (6) Competition Success Review; (7) University News, (8) Time etc.

The first seven titles are Indian and they do not cost much. Never-the-less, some of them are open access in nature.  Besides, several popular magazines from Diplomatic Missions [like Span  (USA) , Nipponia (Japan),  Russia Today etc. etc.] are available free of cost upon request. Since you are in Delhi, you have easy access to UN offices & Diplomatic missions and many of them have their own magazines which are quite informative for students and teachers alike. Most important essence of such magazines is that they infuse the sense of global citizenship among the students!! They can co-relate themselves with their counterparts in other countries of this universe! can experience, share and exchange views with them!! This, as I believe, is the most important issue for keeping journals in the College Libraries. Admittedly, however, academic contents are in no way less important ,

For instance, the July 2012 issue of Science Reporter provided cover story on Higgs -Boson issue; & the 25th. October issue of Current Science bears an editorial on Scientists,Papers & Journals. The issue #47 of Economic & Political Weekly bear an important article on Bhupal Gas Disaster. The issues of Yojana are extremely relevant, The August 2012 issue of Yojana was a special issue  and it published sectoral analysis on India's 65th years of Independence. as such, you can easily understand that the diversity of subject matters in these journals enables students to have a holistic idea of contemporary issues.

I believe, with my own limited knowledge, I could explain the requirement of journals in a degree College Library.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, calcutta   

[Nagender Singh]

Thank you very much siddhartha Sir.

Sir, Kindly also tell me, how much Journals (National/ International) are required for a college library .

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear sri nagender Singh,

As I mentioned in my earlier mail. There is no directive (like AICTE) from the UGC regarding names/numbers of Journals in UG Colleges. As such it is rather flexible in your case. the best way is to consult your academic staff preferably with NAAC recommendations in this line (if any) and plan for the titles and numbers and act accordingly.

Good Luck!

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta