THE NEW CENTRAL LIBRARY OF MUET

By Saad Kalwar


A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. The term can mean the collection, the building that houses such a collection, or both. The library may be public or institutional.
In almost every institute of world, students are provided with the facility of
library. That has two main purposes, first and most important is that students may have some place to spend their leisure in studying or some research work. The other purpose is that the students may get the books issued from there for a particular time.
Talking about the old Central Library of MUET, many of the students had even not bothered to get the library card due to few reasons. One of the reasons was that they had seen the crowd inside over each other trying hard for getting books. The amount of books was also very small as compared to the number of students. If any one had to get the books issued, he would have to get at the cost of leaving his classes and be in library for whole day. There was also a very good and silent room for studying and passing leisure in reading books or any other creative activity for the hard working students.
But the main problem with that library was its location. One can say that the library was located in a corner of campus. Only the students of Electrical, Civil, Mechanical and C.R.P could use it regularly. For the students of other departments it was not so easy to go to library and use it at any time because they had to cover a long distance to reach there. This was one of the major reasons that most of the students of IT departments did not use the library.
Now as the new Central Library has been inaugurated, it is located in the centre of campus so students from any department can come and use their time in some creative activity. There are various floors dedicated for each work. Ground floor is only for book returning. 1st floor is dedicated for the students who are interested in reading books. There is a huge hall with separate portions for boys and girls. A very good number of books on almost every subject are available with electronic catalogue system. Now students don’t need to rush towards mid-point after being free from classes because it’s a very good place and students will really love to sit there and utilize their time. 2nd floor is for book issuing. Book issuing system is also new and nice. Now students don’t need to wait whole day for their turn to get
the books but they just have to go and search for books themselves. If some one finds the books, can get issued easily.
As the library has just started working, its timing is 9am – 2 pm. But we hope it will soon be opened in evening as well so that the hostellers can utilize it more effectively. There is no any photo copying, printing and scanning facility at the moment. We request higher authorities to please consider such things so that students may get as more as possible from the Library for which they had been waiting for years.