About Library
The PVDT College of Education Library serves as the intellectual hub of the college, fostering a vibrant students’ teachers. Library is a well-equipped space offering a rich collection of books, periodicals, newspapers, and digital resources. Our library is committed to providing access to the latest knowledge in the field of education and allied fields, and we regularly update our collection to reflect the evolving academic landscape.
PVDT college library was established with the college in 1959, it has been preparing Teacher educators for over six decades. It houses extensive resources including, books, reports, Theses and dissertations, Reference materials, Audio visual aids, and databases (shared with the University Library). The College library utilizes SOUL software for automation. The collection of books is more than 20000 including reference books (321), reports, thesis and dissertation (200), bound volumes (297) and educational journals (15). Our college is a constituent college of SNDTWU, so instead of NLIST, SNDT Women’s University is a member of E- shodh sindhu, therefore our college access the E-shodh sindhu e-resources through university library.
Our library is automated with SOUL Software. The circulation is carried out by Bar code facility. The footfall is also counted regularly. Library is having a separate website for library collections including, online videos of teachers, Online resources like, books, notes, ppts etc. Question papers and web-bibliography, CTET, TET resources, SET, NET Resources and so on.
We have a facility to access the SNDT Women’s University Library, which is having a huge collection of different subjects including Education as 230427 text books, 7666 reference books, 84000 e-books, 169 journals and 75 databases. The University library is having a SLIM LMS Software and also KOHA is been implemented recently. All databases are available with one platform i.e. MYLOFT application.
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PVDT College Library Manual – Click here
Librarian Desk
“Information is power,” as it is the basis of all planning, indeed of all activities, everywhere and for everybody. It has now become the base of modernization which, in turn, implies the application of new technologies for advancement in all spheres of human activities. Today, technology applications emerge as the most important task for libraries and information centres to collect, sift, process, and finally disseminate pin-pointed information to its users. The information provided shall be exhaustive, timely, accurate, and economical.
We are planning and trying to be the best among all college libraries in Maharashtra and for that, we expect a good response and cooperation from our library users.
If everything goes right and as per plan, we are confident enough that our library will touch new heights in the coming years.
With regards,
Dr. Bhupendra Bansod.
Librarian (Professor scale)