Stella Maris College Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Labs, Gym, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Ishani Mishra

Stella Maris College is acknowledged for its campus and residential facilities. The campus is equipped with a library, hostel, canteen, and more. Further details regarding the Stella Maris College campus are listed below.

• Hostel
• Banking Facilities
• DIP Centre
• Canteen
• Library

Hostel: The college has five hostels for resident students. The residents are treated as one large and happy family and engage in friendly rivalry in games and sports. The list of Stella Maris College hostels is mentioned below.

• Our Lady's Hostel
• St. Joseph Hostel
• Nava Nirmana Hostel
• Klemens Hostel
• Snehalaya Hostel

Banking Facilities: The Stella Maris College infrastructure has an Indian Overseas Bank branch within the campus and offers banking and other related facilities like an ATM, online payment and collection of fees (tuition/exam) to the students.

DIP Centre: The DTP centre provides stationery and services such as photocopying, lamination and binding for both faculty and students.

Canteen: The Stella Maris College has a canteen, a health food centre and a juice shop to cater to the needs of the students.

Library

• The Stella Maris College library is fully automated with a vast collection of the latest books, periodicals and CDROMs, expanded and updated every year. 
• It functions in a networked environment and maintains three servers and over 60 PCs to support its various operations and services. Electronic resources such as EBSCO host, NList, Sage online journals are made available via the internet and the College intranet. 
• The library also hosts DSpace, a digital repository of research that is the institutional repository of the College. It contains published articles, syllabi, conference papers, question papers, theses and other related documents, with full text. Faculty and researchers can contribute their publications for uploading in DSpace.
• The library has photographs, manuscripts, artefacts and ephemerals. It also houses rare books and articles authored by faculty and former college students.
• The air-conditioned audio-visual room in the library is used for orientation programmes, seminars and programmes on research methodology and training in various databases.
• The Stella Maris College library is a pioneer. It was the first to introduce barcoding among the city colleges.
• It has also subscribed to electronic resources like EBSCO, N-List, Sage Online Journals and American Economic Association Journals.