Library Membership and Borrowing Facilities

The Veterinary Library provides membership to the teaching staff, undergraduates & postgraduate students wide range of readers in the University and outside with varying degree of facilities. All prospective library users should apply for library registration. The categories of readers, venues of registration, documentary evidence and facilities provided are as follows:

Academic and Academic support Staff of the Faculty of VM & AS

Category	Venue of Registration	Documentary evidence required	Entitled facilities
All permanent members of the Faculty.	Library Counter	Letter of appointment issued by the university.	Borrowing up to a limit of 4 lending books for one month. 01 reference book for overnight at the Veterinary Library. 25 books for 3 months at the Main Library.
Temporary members of the Academic staff.			Borrowing up to a limit of 01 books for 2 weeks.
Permanent members of Academic support staff.			Borrowing up to a limit of 1 book for 2 weeks.

Administrative and Non Academic staff of the Faculty of VM&AS

Category	Venue of Registration	Documentary evidence required	Entitled facilities
Administrative staff	Library Counter	Letter of appointment issued by the University	Borrowing up to a limit of 1 book for 2 weeks
Senior Staff Technicians			Borrowing up to a limit of 1 book for 2 weeks

Students the Faculty of VM & AS

Category	Venue of Registration	Documentary evidence required	Entitled facilities
Full-time undergraduates	Library Counter	Letter of admission to the Faculty of VM&AS / Name in the class list of the Faculty of VM & AS	01 Lending book- Borrowing period - two weeks. 01 Reference book for overnight. 02 library tickets from the Main Library, Borrowing period of two weeks. 01 library ticket - Borrowing period of two weeks from the Agriculture Library.
Post Graduates of the Faculty of VM&AS		Letter of admission issued by the University and payment of library fees Rs. 1500.00 and refundable library deposit of Rs. 1000 per library ticket.	Number of library tickets and the borrowing period depends on the course.

Renewals

Books borrowed by users can be renewed for another two weeks if another user has not reserved the items. To renew such a book the user should produce the item at the circulation counter on or before the due date. If the user is unable to attend the library for renewal, he may send a letter or a post card with the following details;

• Author.
• Title.
• Accession No.
• Class No.
• Date of return.
• Ticket No. if any

Renewal of material will be done only once. Overdue books or the materials from the reference collections will not be renewed.

Reservations

• Reserving can be done at the counter with providing the students or Staff Library ID Card.
• Requesting books which are not found on the shelf - This is a service provided by the library to its users when a particular material is not found on the shelf. The staff will take immediate action to find the material through various procedures when a check slip is filled and given to the circulation counter.