Ist Year Syllabus For

ICAR has established 33 KVKs in Maharashtra State out of which 13 are located in Vidarbha Region.

Mandates

1. Collaborate with the subject matter specialists of the State Agricultural Universities/Scientists of the Regional Research Station and the State Extension Personnel in “On-Farm Testing”, refining and documenting technologies for developing region specific sustainable land use system.

2. Organize training to update the Extension Personnel within the areas of operation with emerging advances in agricultural research on regular basis.
3. Organize long term vocational training courses in agricultural and allied fields for the rural youth with emphasis on “Learning by doing” for generating self-employment through institutional financing.

4. Organize Front Line Demonstrations in various crops to generate production data and feedback information.

KVK Profile

* CVZ = Central Vidarbha Zone, EVZ = Eastern Vidarbha Zone, WVZ = Western Vidarbha Zone

Library Holdings

The University Library possesses books (Reference books, textbooks, & other recreational books), theses, back volumes of periodicals, proceedings of the conferences, seminars, workshops, research reports, special publications of research organizations, institutions, educational bodies such as FAO, WHO, ILO, UNESCO, ICAR, AIU, UGC, AICTE etc.

Special Collection

University Library has maintained special FAO Repository collection received from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. This University Library is amongst 15 FAO Depository Libraries in India. It has been recognized as Depository Library for FAO publications since 1987.

Online eBooks

University Library is providing online access to more than 687 eBooks published by CABI which can be accessed from http://www.cabi.org/  and 65 books from EBSCO Host Services which can be accessed from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/. The access is provided to all colleges in the campus and off the campus.

Periodicals Subscribed

To provide the latest information to the students, staff and research scholars and to abreast with the new developments taken place in their field of interest University Library subscribes to various national and international level periodicals. Foreign : 33 Indian : 42 On Exchange : 180 Total : 255

University Library is subscribing to 14 online journals and also providing access to CAB Abstract Database which covers all the abstracting journals published by CABI and can be accessed from http://www.cabdirect.org/

 University Library has also provided access to 10000-15000 online open access journals from online journals link.

Online e-Journals

From Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) University Library has provided access to more than 3,951 journals and can be accessed from (http://www.jgateplus.com). University Library has also provided access to 41 online journals published by Wiley and can be accessed from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/. At the same time access to 625 online journals published by various publishers is also provided and can be accessed from http://web.b.ebscohost.com/. The access to all theses online journals is throughout campus, and also from all colleges off campus. University Library has also provided access to more than 15000 to 20000 online open access journals available in open access system from various publishers, aggregators and institutions.

Lending Facility

University Library provides the facility of issuing and returning of books for home reading and for reference in the reading room also. University Library has issued 7804 books for home reading and issued 357 books for reference in reading room during the year.

Reading Room Facility

University Library has provided reading facility in reading room as well as in different Section also such as Periodicals sections, Theses section, Reference section, Back volumes of periodicals section. 200 students can be provided accommodation at a time. During the year under report 1935 students have used the reading room facility.

Reference Section

University Library is having rich reference collection, which includes Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Manuscripts, Maps, Directories, Gazetteers, Yearbooks, etc.

Reprography Section

Users of the library are always in need of Xerox copies of articles published in peer reviewed journals and other published materials from books, reports etc. To provide them efficient and effective service photocopying facility is made available. 13312 Xerox copies have been provided to 321 users during the year 2013-14.

Services

Library use to provided following services to its users.

1. Reference & Information Service
2. Lending Services
3. Reprography service
4. Bibliographical Service
5. Current Awareness Service
6. Selective Dissemination of Information Service
7. News Paper Clippings Service
8. Inter-Library-Loan Service
9. Computerized services:

• Consortium for e-resources in agriculture (CeRA) more than 2000 journals (http://www.cera.jccc.in)
• Krishiprabha e-theses
• Bibliographical database Search Service
• Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
• CD-ROM Database Search Service
• Internet Search Facility
• Current Awareness Service (new arrivals)

Document Delivery Services

For providing CD-ROM database search services university Library posses following CD-ROM Databases

Membership

The University Library provides  Membership to  members of different authorities of the university, teaching staff of university, students of different under  graduate  and post graduate departments, research scholars,  officers and  employees  of the  university,  teaching staff and students of constituent colleges of the university.

At the same time, Casual Membership is also provided to the users from non-affiliated colleges and other universities without charging any type of fees. The University Library has provided membership to 2013 users during the year 2017-18.

A detail category wise membership is as follows.

Introducing Ourselves….  

Welcome to Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Central Library. The library is distinct in its mission to acquire information, process, organize and make it available for the present generation and preserve for the future. The home of more than 1.57 lakh books and other reading materials, and 255 journals of agricultural, technical and allied science interest. The library also houses special interest collections and rare books. The library is continuously revamping and revitalizing its collection so as to make it useful to the community of students, researchers and faculty that it was set up to serve.

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Central Library and Information Centre was set up in the College of Agriculture in the year 1969. Later it was shifted to the main library building in the year 1980 around the nucleus of the Centre for Post Graduate Institute of Research, Instruction and Extension Education of University having the area of 72,825 sq. ft. of which carpet area is 52,435 sq. ft. Today, our holdings have crossed one lakh fifty seven thousand books covering a wide range of disciplines under Agriculture sciences, Animal sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Biotechnology, Pure and Applied Sciences, and other allied disciplines including a special collection from FAO. It also receives more than 150 periodicals gifted by various organisations and institutions.

University Library is a designated Depository Library of FAO publications since 1987.

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Central Library is the single largest information centre of agricultural information resources in the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra and caters not only to the needs of the agricultural academic community of the region but also serves many scientific, historical and social science researchers from the State.

Our Automated Services….

With the successful completion of computerising the database of bibliographic details and automating its services our Library is on the threshold of embarking on its new role that of an information resource centre at the service of the academic community of this region, in addition to its traditional function of holding and disseminating of books.

The Library has presently 1,57,066 books and other reading material such as these, bound volumes, and its bibliographic details are stored in an Open Source software KOHA in a designated server at the University Library and also on Cloud Computing Network. This database is now available on the Internet under the url http://pdkvopac.ourlib.in/