Government Engineering College

Govt. Engineering College, Hassan (GECH) - Library and Information Center is the heart of an academic Centre at GECH. It has a collection of over 10,000+ Volumes and 1000+ titles that supplement the teaching, research and development of the Institution. The Library is a membership of VTU Consortium. Through this consortium, GECH is being received an access to National and International peer reviewed e-Journals from IEEE, ASCE, Science Direct, Springer, J-Gate, Taylor and Francis, EBSCO, McGraw Hill database & Turnitin platform is based on  IP access within the college campus. The Library is also enabled cloud based remote access service to all its students and faculty for accessing content from out-side the college or off campus. Library's Online Catalogue, generally referred as "OPAC" was inaugurated / launched by Dr. Karisiddappa, honourable Vice Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi on Sunday, 18-12-2016 at College Auditorium. (On the occasion of felicitation to the honourable Vice Chancellor, VTU) Sri. HU Talawar, Director, Dept. of Technical Education (DTE), Karnataka, Dr. Chidananda Gowda, Retd. Vice Chancellor of Kuvempu University, Shimoga had graced the occasion along with honourable Vice Chancellor and appreciated the library work. GEC Hassan Library is the first Government Engineering College in Karnataka for having chosen and implemented Open Source Koha- ILMS (Integrated Library Management System) for automation of library's day-to-day activities.   In the Library, books are bar-coded and offer many services to its user/patrons such as - Automated Circulation System, Online Public Access Catalogue, Online Purchase Suggestion, Patron Management, SC/ST Book Bank Facility, News Paper Service, Selective Dissemination of Information, Cloud based Remote Access to (VTU-Consortium based) e-Resources, etc. Library OPAC URL: www.library.gechassan.ac.in Library Blog: https://librarygechassan.wixsite.com/library Govt. Engineering College URL: www.gechassan.ac.in   Contact Librarian: SATISHA MV, M.Sc.(LIS), PGDCA, UGC-NET