About The Department
With a long tradition of remarkable combined efforts of all the staff members of the library, the library is striving hard to meet the pressing demands of the users by rendering various services both through manual and IT based system. We are progressing steadily towards fuller automation using both the non-digital and digital information sources, but definitely not without a human touch.
History of Department
In 1872 Vidyasagar College Library was established. It started functioning in the main building which is at present our Geography Department at 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane Campus.
In the year 1926 after construction of Vidyasagar Hall (Hostel Building at 8, Cornwallis Street; at present 17, Bidhan Sarani Campus) library & common room was shifted to its first floor. The library & common room used to remain open from 10-45 A.M. to 9 P.M. on all working days. At that time there was almost 80 seating capacity in the reading room.
It is a matter of unique distinction for Vidyasagar College that four undergraduate colleges, namely, Suri Vidyasagar college, Nabadwip Vidyasagar college, Vidyasagar college for Women and Vidyasagar Evening college have taken their origin from this college and books were shared among Suri, Nabadwip and Vidyasagar Evening college (at present Vidyasagar Metropolitan College). It is also worth mentioning that the Dawn Society, which was established in 1902, from which The Jadavpur University developed subsequently, operated from this college building. At present carpet area of the library is more than 3000 sq.ft. comprising more than 50,000 documents. Moreover, the library maintains an archive (Bhagabati Devi Archive), developed a library blog (https://vclibrary.wordpress.com/) and also subscribes e-journals and e-books.
