Christian Dental College, Ludhiana Infrastructure Details

Ayesha Taneem

Infrastructure Facilities

LIBRARY

The Christian Dental College library came into existence to cater to the needs of the faculty and student community who are members of the library. The Library is air-conditioned and is housed on two floors. The first floor houses the property counter, the librarians counter and the references and post-graduate sections. The second floor houses the undergraduate section, the reading hall and the medical photography and audio-visual section. The library is kept open from 8:00 a.m to 10:00p.m. on all week days and 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm on Saturdays. Besides comfortable seating and reading environment, facilities such as photocopying, internet access, printing scanning and CD’s have been provided.  The Mission of the library is to acquire, manage, provide and disseminate health sciences information to student and faculty of the institution and constituent institution of the Christian Medical College Society

Resources:  
The library a collection of books covering the basic sections, all the specialties of dentistry, dental hygiene, dental machines and resource materials for postgraduate entrance and foreign examinations; Journals in both print and online forms are available; Compact discs; A number of periodicals and dissertations.

Services
Document Circulation Services
The books are issued to undergraduate students, postgraduates, research scholars and faculty members. Bound, unbound journals, audio-visual materials and CD are for use within the library only.

Reference Services
Reference services is a personal aid provided to the user by the library staff in interpreting library collection for study and research. The library staff assists the user to locate needs information from the available information resources including the central library of the Christian Medical College.

Photocopier Services
Through this services library provides photocopies of articles from journals and books to the users as and when there is demand.

CD-ROM Service
The CD-Rom collection of the library contains full text databases. Which includes back volumes of medical journal articles, medical text books etc.

Current Awareness Service
Library enables health science professionals keep current by: displaying of new books/journals and making available the same separately for the initial period.

Departmental Libraries
To carry out the hospital routine work, post graduate requirements and immediate or routine references, the department libraries help with central control from the main library. This service is usually limited to only reference.

Hostel

College Hostel is available for both men and women students, in the charge of a Warden. Both vegetarian and non- vegetarian meals are available in the Hostel Mess. There is a Recreation Room in the hostel where students can watch television. The Students' Council assists the Warden in the smooth running of the Hostel.