The Library is the backbone of the teaching-learning process, catering to various stakeholders by providing a variety of materials such as books, reference books and e-Resources. The college library was established in 1965 with limited facilities. The New Library building was inaugurated on 15th March 2021 by the college. New Library building offers more seating capacity, separate sitting sections for students and staff. Since its inception, the library has made tremendous progress in various fields like extension of building and increase in its collection of books. Circulation and collection of books are the main services rendered by the library. Lunglei Government College has one of the biggest libraries among 30 colleges in Mizoram and has been a good source of information for students, teaching staff and gets consulted by students who are preparing for various examinations. At present, the library has the following employees viz. A Librarian, An unskilled labour and a Female Intern. For accessing various kinds of books at the library, OPAC (Open Public Access Catalog) and designated Bar code has been activated. Library automation has been initiated, and is using SOUL (Software for University Libraries) provided by INFLIBNET for book’s keeping. Sl No ILMS SOFTWARE PARTICULAR 1 Name of the Software SOUL 2 Status of Automation Fully 3 Version 2.0 4 Year of Automation 2016 E-Resources: The college subscribes to the National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST). The Library is spacious and provides adequate reading space for students and faculty. Besides this, the reprography section of the library makes provision for photocopying facilities within its premises at a nominal rate for the student community. Charging of fines and disbursing of books, documents and other resources is also done through Student’s Library Card embedded with Barcode Scanner. For maintaining security, safeguarding and tracing movement of users within the library, CCTVs are installed at different places of the library. Grievance Box and Suggestion Box are also installed. The library also maintains a register book for visitors. The library has a total collection of 20257 books. The library also subscribes to a number of magazines, journals, newspapers etc. The library collection includes Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Geography, English, Mizo, Economics, History, Pol Science, Education, Geology, Philosophy, Generalities, Reference, Environmental Science, History of Science, Career & Counseling,Entrepreneurship etc. The college has set up an e-resources center at the Library with a capacity of 4 desktop computers for males and females separately. All the faculties of the academic departments are informed to put their relevant materials and e-books at the e-resources. To improve the reading habits among students “Best Library User" prize is awarded to students in every semester. An Orientation Programme was held in the library for newly admitted students. They are given instructions regarding how to use the library resources and oriented with regards to the arrangement of books and journals.
