Knowledge Resource Centre
Welcome to Durgadevi Saraf Global Business School (DSGS), where innovation meets leadership, and every student’s potential is nurtured. DSGS ranked among the Top-5 B-Schools in Mumbai in 2024 Established in 2020, DSGS is a proud initiative of the Rajasthani Sammelan Education Trust (RSET), a legacy institution committed to advancing education since 1948.
KRC is centrally air conditioned library, it is brightly lit with comfortable seating capacity of 100 users. It has Wi-Fi facility and all the e-resources are accessible in entire campus as well as remotely too with login passwords.
KRC is automated with Koha integrated library management software (ILMS) and users can access the catalog (OPAC) to search and reserve the books and other print resources of the library. All the books are classified with the help of DDC and are arranged in stack area subject-wise for easy access. It’s an open access library and all the books are barcoded.
Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC) aims to be one of the best Business School libraries in Mumbai. Its ever growing collection includes of some of the best resources on contemporary management thought. It includes books, journals, Magazines, newspapers in different disciplines of management and allied sciences. It also subscribe to good number of bibliographic, statistical and full text databases in digital format in order to meet the changing information needs of faculty members and students.
KRC Library is working from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M and remains closed on Public Holidays. During the exam time it opens for long hours.
About KRC Library
With generous donations offered by Shri Murlidhar Karwa, the institute has set up a commendable Knowledge Resource Centre, which has become a centre of excellence in collection building with high quality resources for post graduate education and research activities. The library has been named after Shri Murlidhar Karwa as ‘Muralidhar Karwa Knowledge Resource Centre’.
KRC aims to be one of the best Business and Management Science libraries in the country. Its ever growing collection includes some of the best resources on contemporary management thought, and it includes nearly 100 journals in different disciplines of management and allied sciences. It also subscribes to good number of bibliographic, statistical and full text databases in digital format in order to meet the changing information needs of faculty members and students. It continuously tries to add all documents as needed by the curriculum and aims to become a single hub to meet the needs of academic information.
Every day around 150 to 175 students visit the library to fulfill their academic requirements. Library staff tries their best to help users by providing the required information. Suggestion Box: Students can drop their recommendations for books and any other suggestions in this box kept near book counter. The suggestion box opens on every Saturday at 2-00 p.m.
KRC Library Committee:
Library has a advisory committee consists of the Director as a Chairperson, Area Heads of the Departments, Librarian and others included in the committee as an when suggested by the Director.
Following responsibilities are undertaken by the committee:
- To allocate appropriate budget to procure resources to meet the curricula of courses
- Formulation of rules and regulations for the users of the library
- To ensure relevant collection of books, journals and other information sources to support courses offered in the college
- To advise for the implementation of the library policies prepared by the Librarian
- To review and finalize the proposals of the librarian for the development of the library
- To offer library extension services to the students and teachers
Course Structure:
| Collection Type | Numbers* |
|---|---|
| Books (Volumes) | 98086 |
| Book (Titles) | 5523 |
| Journals | 22 |
| Magazines | 22 |
| Newspapers | 12 |
| Databases | 2 |
| Audio – Visuals | 630 |
| SIP Reports | 1356 |
| Capstone Projects | 1352 |
| *Data as of 05-08-2020 | |
Circulation of Resources:
Access to the DSIMS library is restricted to faculty, students and staff of DSIMS who are in possession of current valid identification card [ID] issued by DSIMS. The Circulation policy of library expects library users to adhere to following guidelines.
Borrowing Rights:
| Collection Type | Numbers* | Collection Type | Numbers* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Faculty | Books | 12 – 15 | 30 days |
| Back issues of periodicals / Newspapers / Project Reports / Audio-Visuals | 3 | 3 days | |
| Reference Books | 1 | Overnight | |
| Visiting Faculty | Books | 5 | 15 days |
| Back issues of periodicals | 3 | 3 days | |
| Students | Books | 2 | 7 days |
| Back issues of periodicals | 1 | 1 day | |
| Reference Books | 1 | Same day | |
| Staff | Books | 2 | 15 days |
| Back issues of periodicals | 1 | 1 day | |
| Alumni | Books | 2 | 15 days |
KRC Rules & Regulations:
- Members should have their Identity Card and Library Card whenever they visit the library.
- Members should keep their bags in the property counter only. They are advised NOT to keep any valuable in the bag.
- Members should issue the books on his/her Library Tickets.
- Members are requested to return all the books in time.
- Reference Books should be used within library premises; they cannot be taken out of the library without permission. If found Rs.50/- fine will be charged per day.
- Maintain Silence in the library, should keep their Mobile phones switched off as & when they visit the library. Else a fine of Rs. 100/- will be charged.
- Members should not bring any eatables and drinks inside the library.
- Members should use the library computers / Network only for academic purposes * Rules and regulations of the KRC are applicable to all the members.
KRC Library Services:
Reference Service:
Reference service is a personalized service extended to library clientele to assist them in finding the required information from the library resources, use of online catalogue, databases and other sources. This service in addition to providing assistance also addresses questions of users regarding finding brief information such as addresses, statistics, phone numbers, getting articles from other libraries etc. The library staff also suggests appropriate online and offline resources for consultation of library users based on their areas of research and teaching.
Bibliographic Service:
On the request of clientele, library provides bibliographic service by preparing a bibliography of articles, books and other resources available on their topic of research/teaching. This will help them in finding out relevant information.
Current Awareness Service:
In order to keep the library clientele abreast about latest developments in the field of management science and allied subjects, library provides current awareness service in the form of e-alerts informing about latest articles, books, news items, blog posts, tools etc over email.
User Orientation::
User’s orientation is provided to new library users such as students and faculty members as and when they join the institute. The orientation programme provides overall overview of the library, its services and resources, use of catalogue, location of resources etc to enable new library users make effective use of the library and its resources.
Literature Search / Inter-library loan:
Library has established contacts with different libraries to meet the varied information needs of library clientele. Library procures the resources which are not available in its own collection required for the clientele from other libraries on inter library loan.
Membership:
Apart from providing membership to its regular faculty members, students and staff KRC also extends membership facility to DSIMS Alumnae members and visiting faculty members.
Book Bank:
Book bank facility is a separate service of the library having collection on course specific text books. This facility is extended only to MMS students, who are economically backward. Membership to the book bank is granted on filling the prescribed application form and submitting necessary documents i.e. Parents income certificate to the admin department. Every year this facility is extended only to 5 students on first come first serve basis. Students are given text books for the entire semester.
E-Library:
KRC has an E-Library section, wherein members can access library catalogue, online databases, Journals and other e-resources related to Management sciences.
KRC Facilities:
Total Area of the Library in sq. ft – 174.82 (16.24 sq. meter), with the Seating Capacity of 100, is providing the following facilities:
- Reading Room: Users can read and write in this section
- Discussion Room: Students can discuss on class assignments and projects
- Circulation: Borrowing facility is provided through circulation desk
- Book Stack Area: Reference, Text and General books have been stacked by subject
- Periodicals Section: Display of Journals, Magazines and News Papers
- E-Library Zone: To access all the databases and library Online catalogue
KRC Library Portal:
To provide day to day updates to the users KRC has created portal, which can be accessed here -
https://dsimskrc.wixsite.com/library
Online Open Access Resources:
KRC Library Staff Member:
| Name of the Staff Member | Designation | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Sunita Pujar | Librarian | MLISc, MA, PGDT |
| Sneha Sawant | Asst. Librarian | MLISc |
| Prashant Joshi | Library Assistant | BCom |
| Mahesh Malap | Support Staff | 12th Std. |