Digital Library


A Digital Library with an excellent infrastructure has been setup at the Library and Information Center building of Gogte Institute of Technology campus.  This has been a classic setup designed by our Computer Center with latest Computers on Wireless LAN in accordance with IEEE 802.11B.  The D-Link make access point and Wireless LAN Cards have been used.

 

Objectives / Goals

Primary objective has been to promote a Research oriented attitude in students and to help the Faculty members in their Research Activities.

This facility would support the students both of Under Graduate and Post Graduate levels, to a greater extent, in their project assignments.  The available internet bandwidth will be used to access various net based libraries available on World Wide Web.

The Goals are:

  • Access to Net based libraries and e-books
  • Access to various National and International Journals of different disciplines through e-Subscription.
  • Access to various CDs shared on the set up.
  • Enable the users take the hard copy or soft copy back-ups of papers / articles.

The library has been the part of GIT’s Intranet with Internet connectivity of 10 Mbps.           e-Access is available to more than 35 lakh records of books, periodicals, articles, etc. and more than 20,000 National and International Journals.  This has been possible as GIT has been a member of BITES (Govt. of Karnataka) and INDEST-AICTE Scheme,    a programme promoted by Government of India.  The faculty and students can browse through the ocean of Information and also order for the hard copies of the articles too.

BITES (Board for IT Education Standards)

Gogte Institute of Technology has become a member of BITES (Board for IT Education Standards) an autonomous non-profit society set up by the Government of Karnataka, IT industry and academia.  BITES is offering membership to engineering colleges, Corporates, students, faculty and IT professionals under five categories.

As part of BITES Knowledge Management Initiative, BITES has created an Electronic Library (Digital Library – access through web) facility for engineering colleges.           E-brary, comprehensive collection of more than 20,000 books, case studies and reports.  This collection known as academic collection covering the following subjects:

  • Business, Economics and Management
  • Electronics, Computer Science and Networking
  • Life and Physical Sciences including Bio-technology
  • Humanities
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Education and career advancement like interview handling and presentation skills.

BITES is also providing an excellent collection focused on manufacturing and engineering (Society for Manufacturing Engineering – SME) which has hand books, titles on Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Production and Journals.

Benefits of BITES E-brary

With BITES one can have multiple access licenses that is, each student can access it independent of the other.   Faculty, PG Students and research scholars can access the titles any where any time on a 24x7 basis, which means that an extended library with multiple copies.

Apart from this GIT is also a member of All India Council for Technical Education – IEEE E- Journal that is, IEL Online.  This provides quality journals available to approved institution at affordable cost for the benefit of students and faculty.  The access is available on an annual subscription basis. It provides access to more than 50,000 technical papers from the various journals, magazines and conference publications, covering a wide range of information in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, Computing, Power, Control, Radar, Circuits, Materials, Bio-Engineering, IT and much more fulfilling the journal requirements of almost  70% of the students and faculty.