GEC Central Library aims to serve the needs of faculty, students and other members of the library. The well- furnished library and is spread two floors, with a seating capacity for more than 150 students. The library provides a comprehensive collection of literature predominantly related to engineering and its allied subjects to meet the present and future information needs of it’s users. Complete catalogue of the library holdings has been created by using Koha, Integrated Library Management Software. Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is provided to the users

Orientation/User awareness programme

The librarian takes an active part in the orientation programme organized by the college for the benefit of new students in the beginning of academic year. They are taken around the library to familiarize them with various resources and services available for them.

Online catalogue

Online Search for Resources: 103.36.82.210:7001/
The library catalogue lists the books, Standards, book bank books, CDs, DVDs and other media available in all the GEC Central library.

• Circulation Section: - 10 am to 5 Pm.
• Five books for a period of 15 days. In case of late return students have to pay an overdue charge of Rs. 2/- per day/book.
• Once issued such books cannot be returned on the same day.
• The borrower is fully responsible for the books & other library material borrowed from library.
• Reserved books will not be reissued.

Student members of Government Engineering College, Daman will be issued a RFID Smart card, which will remain in force for the duration of the study year and shall not be transferable.

Library Section	Member	Entitlement	Loan Period
Home Issue	Students	5 Books	15 days
Book Bank	Students	6 Books	Semester

• The Book Bank service available for the Reserve categories (ST, SC, OBC) students.
• A Student may get a maximum of six books from the book bank at a time
• Books will be issued at beginning of each semester as per the schedule notified for the purpose.

• Circulation Section
• Reference Section
• Audio visual Section
• Digital Library
• Reading Section
• Periodicals Section

Total Vol. Of Books	11097
Total Titles	1850
Journals (International-35, National-19)	54
Newspapers	05
Magazines	21
Book Bank Books	2095
CD-ROMs.	150

DELNET

• objective is to promote resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries.
• It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information besides offering comput-erised services to users
• To coordinate efforts for suitable collection development and also to reduce unnecessary duplication wherever possible.

The library has adopted the Open Access System where in users can browse through the collection directly from the shelves as a result of which they are aware of the library collection.

Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initi-ated the National Digital Library (NDL) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facil-ity.

It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including research-ers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.

Library allows users to ‘Self Renew’ borrowed books through WebOPAC (Student - 2 time per book) on or before due date.

Overdue books are not allowed for ‘Self Renewal’.

• Reservations can be made through WebOPAC on books that are not currently available in the library.
• As soon as the reserved book returns, users will be intimated through an automatic email.
• The book will be kept reserved for one day.
• Books which have reservations are not allowed for ‘Self Renewal’.