Digital Library

Digital Library – A Long Leap in the horizon of knowledge Farook College Library, the first of its kind among the colleges affiliated to the University of Calicut, is in the process of digitisation of its resources. The digital library is getting realized with a grant of Rs. 10 Lakhs sanctioned from the M.P. Fund of Sri. P.V. Abdul Wahab. The digital library will facilitate easy access to the electronic books and journals downloaded from the open access archives and other sources made available through internet and other on-line services like UGC, INFLIBNET, Info net etc. The institutional repository being developed in the digital library will have in its collection all the college magazines brought out since 1948 and souvenirs compiled on the occasions of Silver Jubilee, 40th Anniversary and Golden Jubilee Celebrations. This collection is hoped to be very attractive for the aged alumni of the college who will be looking curiously to go through their creative writings they had done in their adolescent days. The digital collection will also have in its stock the theses and research papers of the teachers and articles written by the staff of the college. Another remarkable collection in the digital library is CDs of National Geographic Magazine since 1888 and the complete plays of William Shakespeare. The CD collection of the Shakespeare literature was donated by Dr. Ahamed Kutty, an alumnus now settled in USA.

The digital collection in the library is being developed on a powerful server with a storage capacity of Nine Terabyte. A free digital library software known as Greenstone, developed by UNESCO, is used for the collection development. The digital library will be open to the teachers and students of the college on the occasion of the inauguration of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration.

Farook College Library now on N-List network

The facility to access to e-resources through programme entitled ‘National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-List) under National Mission on Education through ICT has been extended to Farook College by the INFLIBNET Centre Ahamedabad. A demonstration of the programme was conducted by Mr. K. Manoj Kumar, Senior Scientist, INFLIBNET, Ahamedabad on 09th June, 2010 at the Audio Visual Theatre of the College. The programme would provide access to more than 2100 e-journals and more than 51,000 e-books.