We are pleased to welcome our newest client partner ESI-PGIMSR (Joka) Library to our cloud-hosted Koha ILS platform.

About ESI-PGIMSR

ESI-PGIMSR, Kolkata, also known by its full name Employees State Insurance Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research & Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College, Kolkata, is a MCI recognised medical college established in 2013 under the aegis of the ESI Corporation, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India.

About the library

The library is located at the 2nd Floor of the Academic Building with floor area of more than 3000 sq. ft. Users have facility of for easy browsing, reading and borrowing of Books and Journals. The library caters to the need of M.B.B.S. students, Research Scholars, Post Graduate Students, Senior Residents, Junior Residents, Medical Teaching Faculty and other Doctors and Paramedical Staff of the Institute. The library follows open access system with books arranged using the Decimal Classification (D.D.C.) scheme.

The 126-year old heritage library of Bangiya Sahitya Parishat (aka Bangiya Sahitya Parishad) chooses L2C2 Technologies as their Koha hosting service provider, and it is with great joy admixed with a sense of greater responsibility that we welcome our newest client-partner. The OPAC is available at https://library.bangiyasahityaparishat.org/

About Bangiya Sahitya Parishat

Originally founded on 23 July, 1893 as the “Bengal Academy of Literature” literary society, the institution renamed itself as “Bangiya Sahitya Parishat” in 1894 with Romesh Chunder Dutt as it’s first president and Rabindranath Tagore and Navinchandra Sen as vice presidents. With the study and development of the Bengali language and literature as its main objective, the society has over the years, has delved into the cultural, historical, archaeological, sociological and other scientific studies and researches with special reference to Bengal. The society moved into its present address in 1908. The land the building stands on was donated by Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandy of Cossimbazar Raj. In 1997, Kolkata Municipal Corporation notified the building as a Grade-I heritage building.

About the library

Established in 1894, the Bangiya Sahitya Parishat Library was the brainchild of Archarya Ramendra Sundar Tribedi. From its early beginning with a handful of donated books and periodicals, the library today in its collection has 1,01,719 books and 17,558 journals. The collection includes very rare and valuable books as well as many rare 19th century periodicals in Bengali and English such as ‘Digdarshan’, ‘Samachar Darpan’, ‘Samachar Chandrika’, ‘Friend of India’ etc. [1] The library has several important collections, the most important highlight being the “Vidyasagar Collection” donated by the erstwhile Maharajah of Lalgola. Given the richness of its collections, the library attracts readers and researchers from both India and abroad.

References: [1] https://bangiyasahityaparishat.org/library/

We are happy to announce that Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha has chosen to L2C2 Technologies for migration from a legacy proprietary software to Koha on our hosted Koha on the cloud platform.

About Nirmala College

Established in 1953, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha is a first-grade college affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. It is a minority Christian institution governed and managed by the Corporate Educational Agency, Syrian Catholic Diocese of Kothamangalam. In strict compliance with the vision of the founding fathers, the college has served the community, irrespective of caste, creed and colour and has contributed to the world quite large a number of value-based Nirmalites. Her performance in academic and non-academic activities has been acknowledged by the NIRF rankings 2017 in the form of its position on the 91st among the list of colleges in the country. In addition, the college has been bestowed with the prestigious ‘Star College’ status by the Department of Bio-Technology (DBT), Government of India, in recognition of the advancements made by the college in the field of science education, with a handsome financial grant. All science departments of the college are supported by the DST- FIST scheme.

The college is located on a hill top at the doorstep of high ranges in the western ghats. The campus is spread over 53 acres of land with state of the art facilities for a constructive learning experience. The college has now grown to become a centre of learning that offers graduation in 16 disciplines, post-graduation in 14 and research facility in six. The college also runs 17 certificate/ diploma programmes. The IGNOU Study Centre, functioning in the college, offers 11 UG and 04 PG Programmes. The Nirmala Civil Service Academy, functioning in the college, caters to the needs of civil service aspirants.

From : http://nirmalacollege.ac.in/welcome-to-nirmala-college/

About the Library

The Library has a collection of over 80,000 volumes. The Library subscribes to 190 journals and periodicals both national and international. The entire legacy data was migrated over to Koha ILS. The OPAC is available at https://nirmala-opac.l2c2.co.in/