WORK ACTIVITIES OF THE SUB SECTIONS
OF THE LIBRARY OF TPSC
1. Administrative Sub Section: Acquisition of books,
journals and documents for the use of the Commission as well as the other Govt.
departments as and when required.
2. Circulation Sub Section: Circulation of
reference books, journals, old question papers and official documents as and
when required by the Commission, general candidates and other Govt.
departments. Every day, large no of candidates, appearing for different
competitive examinations are visiting the TPSC library for collecting the
question papers and other related information. The Library of this Commission
is providing the question papers and other documents to the user community
without losing the time of the users to meet the user needs by and large. The library of the
Commission circulates the books and related journals to the Hon’ble Members of
the Commission and staff of the Commission’s secretariat. Besides this, daily 50
to 60 no of candidates visit the library of TPSC for collecting the old
question papers.
3.
Stack Sub Section: Preservation of books
and journals for easy access.
4. Reference Sub Section: TPSC library has a wide
collection of reference books.Total
no of Reference books of the reference Section is 15, 000. This
section has a special collection of books as mentioned below:
i. Tripura Corner: A special collection of
books related with Tripura. The Library of TPSC continuously trying to equip it
with the books written by the authors of Tripura, books published from Tripura,
books related with the Historical, Cultural and Geographical aspects of
Tripura.
ii. Service matter books
collection: This type of Collection development is only single one in Tripura.
TPSC library constantly trying to improve this books collection to help the
Govt. employees, working under Govt. of Tripura by providing related
information and as when required.
iii.
Books on General knowledge
and Current affairs: For tuning up with the current events and general knowledge, the
library is consistently trying to collect the up to date books, journals and
important Govt. documents such as notifications, memo, office orders etc
related with the different Govt. departments of Tripura.
5. Journal Sub Section: TPSC Library has a wide collection of Journals of National
level and state level, Law journals, Tripura Gazette, India Gazette, Journal
related with current affairs.
Total
no of subscribed Journals (online and
off line mode):
300
[Out of 300
journals, 200 (approx) in bound volume].
6. Data entry Section: The Commission’s Library
has started the process of digitization which is now running successfully
running. In comparison to other Libraries of Tripura, TPSC library is doing the
digitization process more economically and scientifically. As a result, a wide
digital collection is gradually developing in the library of TPSC.
TPSC library has separate computer cell for data entry of all the
holdings of the library. E-granthalay software is running for library service.
Bar-coding of the books and journals, tagging, recording, keeping all the works are done
automatically for better library
service.
7.
Permanent Record Cell: One separate cell namely ‘Permanent Record Cell’ has been opened
in the Library as an extension service. In total 5000 files are so far archived
in this cell as permanent records and are kept scientifically and securely.
8. Old Question Paper Archive
Section:
For creating awareness regarding scheduled and Non- scheduled examinations
conducted by TPSC, the Commission decided to circulate the copy of the old
question papers to the candidates. The library of TPSC collects, preserves and
circulates the old question papers to the candidates for their awareness of
examination systems of TPSC.
9. Technical Sub- section: This section performs the
duties like classifications, cataloguing (manual) of books and journals.
Technical section of the TPSC library also implemented the software DSPACE for
permanent record keeping which is also first time time in Tripura.
10.
Digital Processing Unit: For digitisation of the
documents, a studio with high resolution camera is installed. After taking the
snap shot, the image is turned in to PDF file and stored in the particular
location of the computer. This project is first in Tripura also implemented for
digital preservation of the documents without hampering the hard copy .
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