There are eighteen departments in our college- Bengali, English, Sanskrit, Education, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Microbiology, Computer Science, Botany, Film Studies, Economics and Commerce as a stream. Among these all the science departments and the commerce have their seminar library in their laboratory area or in their sitting area. There is a space adjacent to the Staff room which has been converted to Seminar library for Arts. Here seminar library means one or two almirah of books. We maintain one issue register. We issue one book at a time for fifteen days usually from the seminar library. We have a stock book for each department where the details of the books are recorded. Departments do not purchase books, those books are borrowed from the Central Library.
Though there is a Central Library in our college, mostly all departments have Seminar Libraries or Departmental Libraries to provide easy access to books for students. It plays an immense role as an organization to provide better support for the departmental students. In Seminar Libraries books are kept to read there and to borrow also. Seminar Library fulfill the requirements of students along with the teachers. In our college, Seminar Libraries do not have many books per subject, generally all subjects have 100 to 150 books approximately.
Of course there are some limitations for Seminar Libraries. College do not provide any staff, do not allocate any budget for the Seminar Libraries. Still we are trying to improve the arrangements and service for Seminar Library to make it more resourceful and helpful.