Social Responsibility Of Academic Library: A Study On Role Of College Libraries In Assam

Abstract

Academic libraries are rich in terms of resources and infrastructure in comparison to the public libraries in Assam. The resources and infrastructure of the college libraries in Assam can effectively use in providing community service in the locality. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in its assessment guidelines clearly mentioned about the social institutional responsibility of the colleges. The college libraries as a part of its social responsibility should engage in activities such as extension of reading facilities to the general public and allowing them to use existing physical infrastructure, Internet facility, e-resources access facility of the college library. Extension of these facilities of the college libraries will definitely benefit the needy peoples of the society. The paper intends to identify the availability of resources and other infrastructural facilities in some randomly selected college libraries in Assam and observes how these large quantities of resources be effectively make open to the other needy people living in the society.