Library:-Capital University (India)
The library serves as a backbone to all academic activities on the campus. Our library house a collection of text and reference materials, journals, magazines, audio-videos, CDROMs and research reports which have been carefully selected from a number of national and international professional institutions. All students have direct access to library resources not only of their own faculty but also of other faculty to promote interdisciplinary interaction. The library of NIILM University offer workshops and courses outside of formal, graded coursework, which are meant to provide students with the tools necessary to succeed in their programs. These workshops may include help with citations, effective search techniques, journal databases, and electronic citation software.
The library provides a quiet study space for students on campus; it may also provide group study space, such as meeting rooms. The library provides a “gateway” for students, faculty members and researchers to access various resources, both print/physical and digital. The university’s library has subscribed to electronic journals databases, providing research and scholarly writing software, and usually provides computer workstations or computer labs for students to access journals, library search databases and portals, institutional electronic resources, internet access, and course- or task-related software (i.e. word processing and spreadsheet software). They are increasingly acting as an electronic repository for institutional scholarly research and academic knowledge, such as the collection of digital copies of students’ theses and dissertations.
Benefits for students:
- Greater awareness of themselves as learners and researchers.
- Greater understanding and confidence with research.
- Consistency of approach.
- Predictable pathway to completing a research task.
- Incremental development of research skills within the curriculum to a context of relevance.
- Research skills are made explicit rather than implicit.
- The development of a set of transferable skills.
- Clearly articulated assessment task expectations.
- Enables self-assessment against explicit criteria.
- Quality, timely feedback.