About Library
Experience Life through Books
We were founded in the year 1958. The power to be found between the pages of a book is formidable, indeed.
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home”.
By Anna Quindlen
Meet Our Librarian
Dr. Sourav Chatterjee is presently the Librarian of Syamaprasad College, Kolkata. He has been working in this college since December, 2016. Prior to this he served in two other institutions in the substantive approved post. He was Librarian of Ranaghat College for almost six and half years and he also served Jadavpur University in the post of Assistant Librarian Grade- II. Before that he was Librarian of B.K.Roy Foundation, Kolkata and he also served as a Librarian of Jagadish Chandra Bose Sikshak Sikshan Mahavidyalaya (B.Ed. College) for few years as well. He is working in this profession for more than 15 years.
Dr. Chatterjee has B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics and he did his Masters , M.Phil NET qualified and Ph.D in Library and Information Science from University of Calcutta. He has more than 25 numbers of publications to his credit in different Journals, chapter of books, and conference/ seminar proceedings with ISSN/ISBN. He has attended a number of national seminars, conferences, workshops and webinars in his career. His interest areas of research are Information sources, systems and services and Community Information Services (CIS). He worked as an examiner of B.Lib paper under Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU).
He is life member professional bodies like Bengal Library Association (BLA), and West Bengal College Librarians’ Association (WBCLA). Currently he is an Executive Committee member of WBCLA for more than last three years.
Visit the Library
We have around 19000 books and more books are in the stage of inclusion which will be target the CBCS system introduced by University of Calcutta in the year 2018 in under graduate as well as post graduate studies.
Main Library: It is housed in the main Campus Situated at 92, S.P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata - 700026.
Annex Library: It is housed in Annex Campus situated at 5B, R Dasgupta Road, Kolkata - 700026. Books for students pursuing B.Sc are available here for reference.