The KAHER Institute of Physiotherapy Library established in the year of 1994, is located in third floor of the building. The Infrastructure of Library is developed in an approximate 3600 Sq. Ft. carpet areaand seating capacity of library is 160. The Library has Good Collection of Books (including text books, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedia, competitive books, General books (Novels, Stories and Biographies) and yearbooks etc…), Journals,Dissertation,Project Reports, CD Rom/DVDs, past question papersetc. are well organized by following Library Classification. This arrangement has helped in organizing information through systematic way and has helped users to locate documents easily. Library is following an open access system, where the books from the stock section are borrowed by the faculty and students. The circulation counter updates day to day borrowing and returning of the books and statistics are maintained.

Library is kept open to authorized members and entry/access is checked with user ID cards. Biometric is installed in the library for students and faculty which helps tracking the day to day visitors and duration of which they used the library. Membership card is issued to student to borrow the books. The book card is arranged according to dept. wise which is going to help to know the status of the book easily. Reader’s guidance and Ready reference service is provided to users. Library Staff help the users in searching their literature search. Regular watch and ward library staff monitor the proper control over the safety of library materials.

Digital Library provides 31 computers with WI-FI Internet connectivity extensively used by the students, and faculty members.

LIBRARY INFORMATION

Library Services:

Library provides reference and information services, reading room facilities and circulation services with open access facility, Photocopying service, and Inter-library loan facility. The digital library consists of 30 computers. All the Computers are Internet Connected. The internet connection is with 1 GBPS – NKN Connection + 20 MBPS internet Bandwidth. The operating system implemented is Windows Vista Business. The software implemented Microsoft Office-2007. Students and staff can access Institutional Repository of KLE University it contains thesis, dissertations, and previous years question papers, faculty publications, projects etc. Library subscribed Helinet consortia consists of 4 database (RGUHS) student can access E- Journals, E- Books & Articles, Practice Guidelines Drug Information, Practice Guidelines Drug Information, Printouts, CD – Writing, Scanning.
An Institutional Repository is a Database with a set of services to Capture, Store, Index, Preserve and Redistribute a University’s Scholarly Research output in Digitized Format. Institutional Repository is the digital archive of the research output of PG Dissertations submitted by PG Students, UG Projects, past question papers and Ph.D. thesis of under various faculties. Any One can browse the documents by Title, Author, Department, Date, Key words, etc…. Both simple and advanced search facilities have been provided.