History
The Central Library: In its report The Nepal National Education
Commission, appointed in 1954,
recommended as saying "A strong central library should be established as a
center for study and research". As a result, an agreement between the Government
of Nepal and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was signed on
April 30, 1957 to establish a Central Library in Kathmandu. Consequently, a
Central Library at Lal Durbar, Kathmandu was established under the guidance of
Dr. E.W. Erickson on June 1, 1959 , through the effort of Mr. John L.
Hefenrichter, the US Library Advisor at US Aid Nepal.
The T.U. Library: In July 1959, the Tribhuvan University Act was passed and the
University itself came into existence. This same year, Tribhuvan University
Library was established. This library originally suffered from inadequate book
collection and facilities. At that time the library had only 1200 books,
shelved in stacks made out of bricks and planks of wood in a very limited
space. With the absence of a trained librarian, the collection could not be
organized in a systematic manner.
Merge of two
libraries: After three years, in
1962, the Central Library at Lal Durbar was handed over to Tribhuvan University
Library in accordance with a decision of HMG of Nepal, and thus, after the
merge of the 3 years old Central library (having a collection of 15,000 volumes
of books) with the Tribhuvan University Library (having a collection of 7813
volumes) it came to be known as Tribhuvan University Library (TUCL) and the
collection reached 24,813 volumes of books. In 1977 (2033 B.S.) it became the
T.U. Central Library. Now, by May 2009 the library has altogether 300,000
volumes of books and other documents.
Objectives
The Tribhuvan University Central Library being
mindful of the University objectives and the expectations of the nation’s
intellectuals and the general public, enshrines the following items as its
objectives and strives to attain them for the benefit of the nation and its
people.
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To fulfill the teaching
and research needs of the University.
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To provide materials
both in conventional and e-formats and furnish an environment conducive to
study & research.
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To encourage membership
and promote information literacy, readership and life-long learning.
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To promote resource
sharing, networking and exchange of databases.
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To provide documentation
and information services and bring out relevant publications.
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To help develop
libraries and promote standards, guidelines and best practices.
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To promote professional
expertise in information management and conduct trainings in librarianship.
Acquisition of
Materials
Acquisition involves acquiring of library
materials keeping in view of the requirements of the curriculum of the Masters'
Degree programmes of Central Departments of Tribhuvan University and according
to the need of the teachers, students and research scholars. Every year,
besides purchase, the library also receives books as gifts in the form of.
Donations. Usually the donors are national and international persons as well as
institutions. The donation has helped the library to a great extent in terms of
collection building and sustaining the library.
Collection Development The essence of a library is the collection. Long ago, American
scholar Carlyle said. that true University is a collection of books. Being an
academic library’s its prime objective is to serve the academic community of
the University. But people of all walk of life use this library. Therefore,
there is a need of collection of materials to serve the diverse nature of our
users. The library develops the collection in the following ways:
1. Purchase
2. Gift
3. Exchange
4. Depository library
5. ISBN National Coordinating Agency
1. Purchase: Library allocates budget to the Central
Department of Tribhuvan University each year After the receipt of the budget
from the T.U. Central Office. The Heads of each Department provide the
recommendation of the required titles to the library. The acquisition section
completes the ordering process. The librarian selects books on Nepal, books
published from Nepal, Reference books and some bestseller's books. Unless
specified all books are purchased single copy.
2. Gift: The library receives Books, Thesis,
Dissertations, Reports, Government Publications and electronic materials as
gift from individual collection, authors, local institutions, Research Centers,
Embassies, etc. Exchange: The library receives books, documents and other reading materials
from different local institutions and international organizations on exchange
programme.
3. Depository library: Library receives documents from different
national and International origination like United Nations, Asian Development
Bank, International Development Research Center, Asian Productivity
Origination, IBRD, etc. These origanisation have declared our Library as a
Depositary Library for their publication
4. National ISBN Agency: The library as a National ISBN Agency for Nepal
receives one Copy of each publishers publication. as a ISBN copy
Organization of
Documents The documents are
arranged on shelves by subject according to Dewey Decimal Classification
scheme. Different categories of books are arranged in different location as per
the following sequence. General books in general section, reference nooks, text
books, books on Nepal and United Nations Collection etc. The sequences are as
follows.
R
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= Reference
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CS
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= Close Section
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T
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= Text Book
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UN
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= United Nations
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D
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= Dissertations and Theses
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P
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= Periodical
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AS
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= American Studies
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JS
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= Japanese Studies
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SC
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= Singha Collection
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The Asia Foundation ia a non profit
non-governmental organization to the development of a peaceful, prosperous and
Asia Pacific region in the past fiscal years, the Foundation is providing
grants, education materials and books to different non-governmental
organization in Asia. Under this programme the library has received books for
several years and is still continuing.
The Asia Foundation, then in Bangladesh
supported two Deputy Librarians to visit Singapore for one month in 1988.
IDRC has supported TUCL to start the Academic
Course in Librarianship in Nepal. Under the programme two years training
programme as a Pilot study for academic course was conducted. Upon completion,
of this training programme IDRC supported for Nepal Collection Projects under
the project following programme are completed for details of the project
please refer to: Karki, Kalpana : A study of Nepal Collection of
Tribhuvan University Central Library, A thesis submitted to Central Department
of Library and Information Science, 2008.
Tribhuvan Uiversity
Central Library (TUCL) is the national coordinating institute for International
Network for the Availability for Scientific Publication (INASP). INASP, a
programme under International Council for Science (ICSU) was established in
1992 to provide access to scientific information particularly to the developing
nations.
Background
International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system was developed out of the book numbering system introduced in the United Kingdom in 1967 by J. Whitaker & Sons, Ltd. and in the United States in 1968 by R.R. Bowker.
International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system was developed out of the book numbering system introduced in the United Kingdom in 1967 by J. Whitaker & Sons, Ltd. and in the United States in 1968 by R.R. Bowker.
Objective
The objective of the international standard is to coordinate and standardize the international use of ISBN to uniquely identify on title or edition of a title published by one specific publisher.
The objective of the international standard is to coordinate and standardize the international use of ISBN to uniquely identify on title or edition of a title published by one specific publisher.
Advantage of ISBN
Library has closed relationship with Japan
Foundation since 1976. The Foundation has provided approximately 1000 expensive
valuable books on Japan and on others subjects. Similarly this Foundation has
also provided one scholarship to the professional librarian of this library
under Japanese Language programme for librarian.
Tribhuvan University Central Library (TUCL)
recently signed a MOU with the library of University of Miyazaki Japan for a
period of five years. Following five major activities are included in MOU:
TUCL is compiling and publishing Nepalese
National Bibliography (NNB) since 1981 with the financial and technical support
from Nepal Research Centre, Germany.
NNB includes the bibliographic database of all
documents published from Nepal available in TUCL except periodicals and
newspapers, maps, musical scores, textbook, schools books, ephemeral
materials.etc
Academic Voices: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Administration and Management Review
Agronomy Journal of Nepal
Asia Pacific Journal of Environment Ecology and Sustainable Development
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
Banking Journal
Banko Janakari
BIBECHANA
Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Botanica Orientalis: Journal of Plant Science
Bulletin of the Department of Geology
Bulletin of the Department of Plant Resources
Conservation Science
Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
Administration and Management Review
Agronomy Journal of Nepal
Asia Pacific Journal of Environment Ecology and Sustainable Development
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
Banking Journal
Banko Janakari
BIBECHANA
Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Botanica Orientalis: Journal of Plant Science
Bulletin of the Department of Geology
Bulletin of the Department of Plant Resources
Conservation Science
Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
Library Development
Committee
Tribhuvan University Central Library (TUCL) is
governed by the University Library Development Committee under the chairmanship
of Rector of the University. The committee has the authority to formulate
policies to improve the overall conditions of the University library; Campus
libraries, Research Center libraries and T.U. affiliated campus libraries.
Members of this committee are selected by Vice Chancellor of TU according to
the recommendation of the Rector
A. The formation of T.U.
Library Development Committee is as mentioned here under.
Rector, Tribhuvan University
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Chairperson
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Deans, Tribhuvan University (any five)
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Member
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Directors of Research Centers, Tribhuvan University (
Total 4)
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Member
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Director of Curriculum Development Center, TU
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Member
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Head of the Departments, TU Central Depts. (any three)
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Member
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Campus chiefs, TU campuses (any two)
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Member
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Campus chiefs, from TU affiliated campuses (any one)
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Member
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Library chiefs from TU libraries (two members)
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Member
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Library chiefs from out of TU libraries (two members)
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Member
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Chief, TU central library
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Member-secretar
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B. Duties and responsibilities of the Library Committee:
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To make and implement,
plan, policies and programmes for libraries of TU.
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To provide and regulate
funds and equipments for development of libraries.
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To provide supervision
and direction for library development.
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To make and implement
the work plans.
This committee also
forms a Special Committee and allocates its duties and responsibilities. The
formation structure of the Special committee is given below.
Rector, Tribhuvan University
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Chairperson
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Dean,
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Member
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Executive Director,
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Member
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Head, Department of Political Science, TU Kirtipur
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Member
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Chief, TU Central Library
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Member-Secretary
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