THE LIBRARY

College Profile : ----- Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women Model Town, Gujarkhan Campus is one of the premier institutions of learning. This post graduate college was established in the year 1969, in commemoration of the 500 th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Devji. The founder architects & stalwarts of the institution were Sardar Bahadur Bishen Singh and S. Sant Singh Gujarkhani the president and General Secretary respectively of Guru Nanak Education Trust(Gujarkhan). The Trust had its roots in the Rawalpindi(Pakistan) since 1919 and in 1954, after partition, again dedicated itself to the cause of education and spreading the light of knowledge among the ignorant masses which in itself was challenging, taking into consideration ,the social and economic conditions of those days.The real strength and inspiration behind the institute are highly enlightened and spirited members of the Governing body , under the stewardship of S. Paramjit Singh Sarna as its President and Prof Gurbir

Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women, Gujarkhan Campus, Gujarkhan Road, Model Town, Ludhiana has emerged as a premiere multi-facility women institute in the region. GNW fraternity is committed to qualitative improvement everyday at the institute. The students who join the institute are chiselled well by our dedicated and talented faculty to meet the challenges of their professional careers. Quality assurance and enhancement are our watchwords. The contents of all our programmes of study are reviewed to ensure their excellence. Generally, our students have found studying at GNW to be both rewarding and enjoyable. The degree of acceptance gained by GNW is reflected in the increase of admissions and approval of new departments by Punjab University (PU), Chandigarh every year. With all these achievements, our institution has become one of the leading institutions of Punjab. Our major focus has been that our students graduate not only with the blend of general and specific skills that they w

Librarian --- Mrs Balbir Kaur Pandher (M.A.,M.Phil) Economics, M.Lib.I.Sc(Gold Medalist) ,MCA(Masters in computer applications)and,Pursuing  Ph.D.(in Library Science) Library Staff -- Mrs. Harvinder Kaur (Library clerk) (B.A, Diploma in Library Science) Mrs. Daljit Kaur (Library clerk) (M.A,,Diploma in Library Science) Mrs Manju Gosai (Photostate operator) Mr Joginder Singh (Peon)

This library consist of more than 30,000 books and 52 journals, 40 magazines & 14 newspapers. The library staff do the best to reach every student through library committee of students as well as of staff Members. In the library there are - Reference Section (Encyclopaedias,Dictionaries, Year Books) Autobiographies & biographies section Career section( includes all books on career ) Languages Section ( English, Punjabi,Hindi +Audio tapes) Home Science Section( includes books on Home Science and Fashion Designing) Fine-Arts Section Commerce Section (inclues books on UG(under graduates and post graduates) Psychology Section Sociology section Public Adminstration Section Physical-Education Section

Our library consist of more than 30,318 books and 37 journals, 38 magazines ; 19 newspapers. We the library staff do our best to reach every student through library committee of students as well as of staff Members. In our library we have Reference Section (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Year Books) Autobiographies and  biographies section Career section( includes all books on career ) Languages Section ( English, Punjabi, Hindi +Audio tapes) Home Science Section( includes books on Home Science and Fashion Designing) Fine-Arts Section Commerce Section (includes books on UG(under graduates and post graduates)) Psychology Section Sociology section Public Administration Section Physical-Education Section Mass Communication Section

Books on languages Punjabi--- 6784 English--- 7274 Hindi --- 2343 Books on Commerce Commerce---- 2633 Books on Social-Sciences HIstory---1222 Economics---1659 PoliticalScience---1245 PublicAdminstration---502 Sociology---344 Books on Fine-Arts & Music Fine-Arts---505 Music---535 Books on Psychology, Physical-Education &Env. Psychology---154 Physical -Education---502 Environment---36 Books on Home-Science,Office-management & Other General Books Home-Science---1991 Office_management---319 General-Books---241 Books on Computer-Application,Travel-Tourism BCA---863 Travel-Tourism---36 Journals University News Pc Quest Data Quest Living Digital Express Computer Economic &Political Weekly Far Eastren Economic Review The Economist Business Weeek Business Today Bank Management Organisational Behaviour Corporate Governence Infrastructure Banking law System Management Insurance Law Banking law Money & Finance Market

Acquistion of Books We ordered the books on the recommdations of faculty according to the requirement of the students .We also buy books which are for extra study and also in the interst of students and fraternity. Classification & Cataloguing After receieving the books ,these are accessioned in the accession register .when accessioning is compeleted ,classification of books started on basis of Deway Decimal Classification.AACR2 (Anglo American Cataloguing Rules) are followed for cataloguing purpose. Then these books are placed in the almirahs according to the ir classification number. Issue-return of Books Any student of the campus can read while sitting in the library as well as get issued these books whenever they want. Book-Bank To help the needy students we are having a book-bank in the library.These books are issued to the students for full session. Library Committee To reach every student we are having a committee of students.These students work daily with us and spend two