23 March 2021, Kathmandu
Free reading at Tribhuvan University library via Online
Tribhuvan University’s Central Library has made arrangements for students to read foreign books at home for free online.
The library has developed a remote access system that allows students to read books, papers, and journals from the comfort of their own homes. The library has made plans for people to read books from other countries by linking in-demand database software with a remote access service.
The software library was purchased from the United Kingdom for Rs 3.2 million. Purna Lal Shrestha, the library’s head, said that the library has made arrangements for students from other Tribhuvan University campuses and other universities that have entered into agreements with the library. In order to read books from the Procast Database software for free.
Students must fill out a form available on the library’s website https://www.tucl.org.np/. In order to read books, articles, papers, and other materials written by foreign world-renowned scholars for free.
He said that the library had made arrangements to read foreign books, papers, journals, and so on. By supplying the student’s email address on the basis of the same form.
The remote access system, which was launched last Mangsir, has created email addresses for 30,000 students. According to Vijay Sharma, Library Information Officer, famous foreign writers can read the contents of articles at home.
According to him, the request database includes
- Over 450,000 e-books.
- Over 5 million e-thesis dissertations.
- Thousands of titles of journals, magazines, and articles.
Nepal Open University, Far Western University, Hetauda College of Social Sciences, Sagarmatha Engineering College, and Baneshwor Multipurpose Campus are institutionally linked to the library’s database for the operation.
The library has recently entered into agreements on the use of e-resources with the Asian Development Bank and the National Digital Library of India.
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According to the agreement, 300,000 resource books from the Asian Development Bank and 45 million e-libraries from the digital library. As well as papers, theses, audio, and video, will be available for free reading, according to Information Officer Sharma. The library currently has 410,000 books.
In the age of science and technology, TU moves forward by bringing this facility into action. This facility will help students, researchers, etc more than one way.
As of now, 2,000 research papers have been digitized so far. The library will be creating its own digital archive of books, theses, dissertations, papers, studies, and historical records in the near future.
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