Guide to IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre

by Furrukh Hussain Zai Senior Librarian

Contents
Topic Page No.

Introduction ................................................................... 3

Resources

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Services and Facilities ...................................................... 4

Membership Process 5

Subject Classification and Shelf Arrangement 5

Library Catalogue . 5

Digital Library 5-11

Rules and Regulations 12

Useful Tips 12 Library Timings .. 13

Ask a Librarian ... 13

Contact Information 13

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IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre Introduction The Library and Information Resource Centre (LIRC) is the central part of Iqra University Gulshan Campus (IUGC), which has been established to support the intellectual needs of University members. However, outsiders are also allowed by the permission of authorities. IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre is of academic nature; i.e., University Library, which provides a wide range of print and electronic resources to its users. It has currently 10,000 print books and 50,000 electronic books with subscription of 16 print journals and access to 10,000 electronic journals and 6 most citied databases. The LIRC has an oracle based automated database to record bibliographic data with facility to search library holdings; while construction of an OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) is in progress. Resources Books, theses, reports, journals, magazines, bulletins, reference works and non-print materials are included in the holdings of IUGC LIRC. All resources are available in an open-access environment with instructions to shelf-guide. CCTV cameras and RFID security gates are installed for the security of library collection. Books: IUGC Library and Information Resources Centre is consists of 10,000 high quality informational, educational and recreational books and has a separate reference section for ready reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, yearbooks etc. All books, except reference material, can be circulated to all registered members. The automated catalogue, which lists all items available in the library, can be searched by author, title, subject, or publisher of the book / report. There is also a keyword search option. The catalogue can be viewed at the librarians desk. Research Work (Theses): The Research work section contains about 500 standard research papers (theses) by students of IUGC on various topics of PhD, M.Phil, M. Ed and MBA. Journals: There are 16 print and 10,000 e-journals in subscription of IUGC Library and Information Centre from all over the world on business, economics, education and management. Reports: The library stocks various statistical, annual and research reports as well as directories, catalogues from local and international associations. Newspapers: The Library subscribes to five newspapers titles and maintains an archive of newspapers published in the last three months. Newsletters: Newsletters, brochures and prospectuses received by the library are displayed in the magazines shelf. The library is on the mailing list of several international institutions with memberships of some leading databases. Page 3 of 13

Electronic Resources: IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre provides access to a wide range of e-resources such as Ebrary, McGraw Hill Collection, Project MUSE, University of Chicago Press, INFORMS, DUKE University Press, Springer Link, Taylor and Francis Journals, World Bank e-Library, Wiley Blackwell Journals, Emerald Insigne, EBSCOHOST, available at http://www.iqra.edu.pk/iuk/?page_id=273 Services and Facilities Reading Room: IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre has an extensive reading area with seating arrangements for over 120 users for purposes of intellectual activities. However, the library may not be used for group study, loud discussion etc. Archive Area: Library has an archive section to keep record of 6 months old newspapers; this facility is for research students to provide reference on time. Current Awareness Service: Library and Information Resource Centre is providing Email based Current Awareness Service to IUGC faculty members and students to share new arrivals information, library updates and important news about database and websites. This service has been appreciated by many library members. Photocopy Service: Photocopying facility is available in the Library. However, a whole book/journal is not allowed to be photocopied, as per copyright rules. Inquiries and Advisory Service: Professional staff is available to facilitate all aspects of library use. They will respond to general and specific queries on research topics and related subjects. They will also provide help to users in literature search from resources available in print and other media. Orientation Programs: One to one or group orientation programs are conducted to familiarize library members with the library services, procedures and resources. The students are of the effective use library resources (print and online). Inter-Library Loan Service: This service is extended to a member if a required book or material is not available in this library. Books can be borrowed through inter-library loan from affiliated libraries. Outreach Activities: IUGC Library and Information Resource Centre is offering a Library Volunteer Program to provide free hands-on training about Library Management Skills to fresh students. IUGC library also actively coordinates with national and international libraries to share their resources and services. Circulation (Issue/Return): Books are available for circulation to all regular library members for a period specified below: Category Faculty Members Students Staff Books 4 Books 2 Books 2 Books Period 2 Weeks 1 Week 1 Week Page 4 of 13

Membership Process There are two major categories of library members: 1. Registered members 2. External members Teaching staff, researchers and students are counted as Registered Members. Once registered, they are allowed to use services and facilities of the library. They can also borrow library resources as per their checkout limits. All regular members will be given a library membership card that is compulsory for all library transactions. In order to obtain library clearance, a member has to surrender their membership card. Visitors, students, researchers and teaching staff other than IUGC members are categorized as External Members. They are allowed to browse library resources for reference purposes only. No issuance of resources is allowed unless a library or librarian involved during interlibrary loan of books etc. Subject Classification and Shelf Arrangement All books on the shelves are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Scheme, and arranged alphabetically by subject from A to Z using the OCLC Cutter Scheme. Subject Classification from Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Scheme. 000 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Library Catalogue Library has an automated catalogue, which is available to librarian desk to search books and library holdings by author, title, subject, publisher and keyword. Library staff provides guidance in using catalogue and retrieving material from shelves. Digital Library The Library and Information Resource Centre (LIRC) has a huge collection of e-resources categorized into: 1) on-campus and 2) on-line resources; Computer Science, Information & General Works Philosophy & Psychology 200 Religion Social Sciences Language Science Technology Arts & Recreation 800 Literature History & Geography

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On-Campus Resources As a matter copyright, these databases are protected by the public IP of Iqra University; they may only be accessed within constituent campuses of Iqra University, Outsider are not allowed to library resources for use for commercial or illegal activities. EBRARY (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/iqra) ebrary is the world largest e-book library by ProQuest USA, which currently hosts 527,881 documents with 9,596 added in the past 30 days. Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the worlds most trusted sources for academic content. Click here for Journals List Emerald is a dynamic database comprising over 150 titles in the fields of Management, Information Science and Engineering. The Emerald fulltext collection features over 58,000 articles from titles published by Emerald. Click here for Journals List More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences. Over 780 journals are listed in the 2010 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports. Click here for Journals List Online database containing over 1,234 journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. Click here for Journals List SpringerLink provides access to 503 full-text Springer-Verlag Journals and 738 full-text journals formerly published by Kluwer Academic Publishing. It is one of the worlds leading information services for Science, Technical and Medical journals. Click here for Journals List Project MUSE provides access to 430 full-text journals from 108 publishers in humanities and social science. MUSE pricing meets library needs around the world. Click here for Journals List

JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/)

EMERALD (http://www.emeraldinsight.co m/)

TAYLOR & FRANCIS JOURNALS (http://www.tandfonline.com/) WILEY-BLACKWELL JOURNALS (http://www3.interscience.wiley .com/)

SPRINGER LINK (http://www.springerlink.com/)

PROJECT MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu/)

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WORLD BANK E-LIBRARY (http://elibrary.worldbank.org/)

The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Banks full-text collection of books, reports/working papers, journals and other documents on social and economic development. E-Library is fully searchable by subject, region, keyword, title, author, abstract, or year of publication.> The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.).>Click here for Journals List The Duke University Press publishes more than thirty periodicals that span a range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. Disciplines within the humanities and sciences: from East Asian cultural studies to French history, from lesbian and gay studies to mathematics and the history of economic thought, from feminism, culture and media studies to medieval and early modern studies.>Click here for Journals List The Journals Division of the Press distributes nearly 50 journals and hardcover serials, presenting original research from international scholars in the social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences.>Click here for Journals List

INFORMS (http://journals.informs.org/)

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (http://www.dukejournals.org/)

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (http://www.press.uchicago.edu /journals.html) MCGRAW HILL COLLECTIONS McGraw-Hills Access Science McGraw- Hills Access Engineering (http://www.digitallibrary.edu.p k/mcgraw.html) On-Line Resources

McGraw-Hills is an innovative online resource that provides students, clinicians and researchers with instant answers to their clinical questions from the most trusted sources. Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanding continuously.

The library has compiled links to open access resources that are segmented into: 1) Pages from Pakistan 2) International Links. PAGES FROM PAKISTAN FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE (http://www.fbr.gov.pk/) Read and download taxation rules, customs acts, sales tax acts, income tax ordinances, federal excise act, finance act, sales tax rules, federal excise, etc.

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MINISTRY OF FINANCE (http://www.finance.gov.p k/) PAKISTAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS (http://www.pbs.gov.pk/) E-BOOKS AT HEC, PAKISTAN (http://digitallibrary.edu.p k/OAEBooks.html) E-JOURNALS AT HEC, PAKISTAN (http://digitallibrary.edu.p k/OAJournals.htm) PAKISTAN RESEARCH REPOSITORY (THESES) (http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/ ) MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND MANPOWER (http://www.eobi.gov.pk/ announcement/labour+po ilcy+2010.pdf) WWF PAKISTAN (http://www.wwfpak.org/ edrc/free_electronic_jour nals.php) LEARN PAKISTAN (http://www.learnpakistan .com)

Read and download Economic Survey of Pakistan, Federal Budget of Pakistan, Debt Policy of Pakistan, Fiscal Policy of Pakistan, Year Book of Ministry of Finance, Poverty reduction strategy etc. Read and download Agriculture Statistics, Business Register, Demographic and Research Statistics, Energy & Mining Statistics, Foreign Trade Statistics, Industry, Labour Force Statistics, National Accounts, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement, Population Welfare Statistics, Price Statistics, Social Statistics.

Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for eBooks.

Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for e-journals.

Read Research Papers (These) from different private and public sector Universities of Pakistan.

Find Labour Policy 2010 in pdf.

WWF Pakistan has listed a number of open access websites for ejournals on environment science. The free journals are for developing countries like Pakistan, India and others. The High Wire-based program offers access to the countries that appear in the developing economies. These all journals are free to download; some may require registration via email only.

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KITAB GHAR (http://www.kitaabghar.c om/) URDU POINT (http://www.urdupoint.co m/books/) Urdu Point is an excellent website of Urdu lovers to read, and download Urdu eBooks . Kitab Ghar is the largest Urdu eBooks Library on Internet that provides free access to read and download Urdu eBooks.

INTERNATIONAL LINKS ADELAIDE (http://ebooks.adelaide.e du.au/themes/) BARTLEBY (http://www.bartleby.com /) BIBLIOMANIA (http://www.bibliomania.c om/) BOOKS BONE (http://bookboon.com/) DIGITAL BOOK INDEX (http://www.digitalbookin dex.org/) DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS (http://www.techsupporta lert.com/content/50places-free-booksonline.htm) DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (http://www.doaj.org/) 536 sites that legally offer free books (e-books) for download or for online viewing. The online library of the University of Adelaide, offers free classic literature, philosophy, science and medicine e-books.

Provides the encyclopedia of world history and Harvard classics .

Offers over 2000 free electronic documents, as well as research results. Download free unlimited free textbooks, business books and travel guides. Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.

The largest database that covers Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

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EDUCATION RESEARCH GLOBAL OBSERVATORY (http://www.ergobservato ry.info/ejdirectory.html)

Maintains a complete and current directory of open access peerreviewed journals in education.

FREE BOOKS LIBRARY (http://ebooksgo.org/)

e-books available under free licenses such as GFDL, Creative Commons license, Project Gutenberg-tm License, other freedom to use and distribution licenses so feel free to download and use free ebooks given in this site. Read the license text before you start downloading e-books from this library!

FREE COMPUTER BOOKS (http://www.freecomputer-books.us/) FREE DATABASE BOOKS (http://www.databasebooks.us/) FULL BOOKS (http://www.fullbooks.co m/) GLOBETICS LIBRARY (http://www.globethics.ne t/web/ge/library/librarieshome) INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO) PUBLICATIONS Great collection on statistics and labour economics. (http://www.ilo.org/global /publications/lang-en/index.htm) INTERNET ARCHIVE (http://archive.org/index. php) The largest digital library to download free 3,496,105 texts, 1,345,159 audios, 680,019 videos and 104,735 music archive. Thousands of high quality database books, available for free download. Thousands of high quality computers, software books, available for free download.

Thousands of high quality full-text free books on multiple subjects for free downloading. The Globethics.net Libraries are digital libraries that offer registered users electronic access free-of-charge to 1,146,563 full-text documents on ethics and related disciplines. Registration is free and participants also have the possibility to submit their own documents to the libraries.

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MANY BOOKS Add free library to download over 29,000 free e-books. (http://manybooks.net/) ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS JOURNALS (http://ww3.comsats.edu. pk/journals/) OPEN LIBRARY Over 1 million classic literature free e-books to download. (http://openlibrary.org/) PDF FREE BOOKS In this database 37,280,459 free books are available in pdf format. (http://pdfsb.com/) PROJECT GUTENBERG (http://www.gutenberg.or g/) QUESTIA LIBRARY (http://www.questia.com/ ) TECH BOOKS (http://www.techbooksfor free.com/database.shtml) UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA BOOKS PAGE (http://onlinebooks.library .upenn.edu/) WTO DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES (http://www.wto.org/engli sh/res_e/res_e.htm) 20 FREE BOOKS SITES (http://www.hongkiat.co m/blog/20-best-websitesto-download-free-ebooks/) A directory of 20 free-books websites. Provides access to the official documents of the WTOs councils and committees as well as to a range of other resources, such as trade statistics, economic research, WTO publications, videos, audio and photos. Here you can also find the legal texts the body of WTO agreements that collectively form the legal framework of the WTO. Offers over 33000 free e-books to read online and download . The Worlds Largest Online Library that provides 24/7 access to the worlds largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. Best free books on technology subjects.

An excellent database that search and browse Online public access journals by COMSATS.

Lists over 1 million free books to read and download .

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Rules and Regulations All library members must abide by the library regulations. Silence must be strictly observed in the library. Discussion/group study or making library a meeting place is strictly prohibited. Mobile phone should be switched off or kept on silent mode. Drinks & other edible items are prohibited in the library. Leave your personal belongings such as bags, parcels, coats & etc. at the provided storage facility at the entrance of the library. The library will not be held responsible for the loss of any personal belongings of users. Library telephone facility is for the library staff only. Do not shelf books. Drop the books in the collection carts. All registered members will be given a library membership card. Membership Card must be used when borrowing and returning books. The membership card is not transferable and must be surrendered to the Librarian at the end of the programmes and get a clearance. In case of card lost, the new card will be issued against the payment of Rs. 50.00 Books are available for circulation to all regular library members for a specified period. Library books must be returned on or before the due date or if recalled by the librarian. A Fine of Rs. 10.00 per day will be charged for an overdue book and after Recall Rs. 50.00 per day Books may be renewed once only provided if they are not required or reserved by other user. No book will be issue during examination. However, photocopy is allowed,. Any member who lost or damages the library material will pay the current cost of replacing the item plus 10% administrative charges or replaced the same title with applicable fine. Do not write, underline or mark any book. Library books are carefully examined on return and the borrower will be held responsible for the damage. Readers bear all the responsibility of the borrowed items and cannot borrow books on behalf of other library users.

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Theses, DVDs, Reference books, Journals and Reports are for use within the library only and cannot be borrowed. A student can review only one thesis at a time against his/her I.D. Card. Whole book/journal is not allowed to be photocopied, as per copyright rules. The librarian reserves the rights to suspend the membership if the rules of library are breached. Useful Tips Students are encouraged to use digital resources of IUGC Library and Information Centre available at http://www.iqra.edu.pk/iuk/?page_id=273 Ask when you need help; we will be happy to assist you Always bring your card when you come to the library. Know when your materials are due. You can check on your Library Membership Card or on the due date slip paste at the end of book. Library Timings Monday to Saturday: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm Sundays: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Ask a Librarian Furrukh Hussain Zai Senior Librarian & Advisor furrukh.hussain@iqra.edu.pk Uzma Zabeen Librarian library@iuk.edu.pk Muhammad Ashfaque Library Assistant Postal Address: Library and Information Resource Centre, Iqra University Gulshan Campus, Abid Town, Block-2, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi-75300 Tel: 34800671-4 Ext. 325 Fax: 34987806

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