Library
INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE (IRC): |
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| Keeping in view the requirements of the student’s Information Resource Centre of the University is having more than 40000 books on different subjects, covering all topics of curriculum, professional and general reading material. Latest editions of the leading text books and reference publications are being continuously added in IRC to meet the HEC, PEC & users’ requirements. The Resource Centre has up-to-date record of Government publications relevant to the curriculum and is one of the best sources of secondary data for educational purposes. We subscribe numerous national and international journals and online databases entitled | |
| “EMERALD” | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ |
| “JSTOR” | http://www.jstor.org/ |
| “ScienceDirect’’ | http://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
| “Turnitin” | http://turnitin.com/static/index.php |
| “IEEE” | http://ieeeexplore.ieee.org/ |
| “ACM” | http://acm.org/ |
These online journals’ sources are widely used all over the globe and it gives access to the more than 10000 online journals. The students can access to these entire online resources through website (http://www.iqra.edu.pk/digital_library.asp) from Iqra IP address. The Library also subscribes IEEE and ACM journals via online as well as in the print format. We also subscribe more than 120 national and international journals for the students of Business, Engineering, Computer Science and Media Science. More than 27 international journals with more than 1 impact factor are also available in our collection. Ten English and Urdu dailies with additional copies are available in the Library for the students and the faculty members.
The Resource Centre is also having huge collection of selected Movies for Media Science students in Media IRC Server.
The Resource Centre is having text data of selected articles published in the local newspapers as well as in the bibliographic data of articles published in the national and international journals. Presently, there are more than 25000 articles stored in the IRC database and full text of articles can be retrieved and downloaded by using various searching techniques.
We have thousands of E-books related to different subjects which are also available in our Resource Centre Database.
The Library provides SDI service of the students & scanning local newspaper articles via e-mail for the faculty, PhD & M.Phill students.
Monthly mailing alerts for faculty.
The Library has 30 computers to facilitate the students for their routine work and research purpose.
The Library maintains the policy of continuous enhancement and updating its collection through nonstop acquisition of material.
We are in a process to provide on-line Library services by using the web base technologies.
BOOK BANK:
Book Bank for the Engineering Students has been established and all the students of the Engineering Department can get 03 books issued for the whole semester without paying additional fee. This facility will also be extended to the students of the Business Administration in future.
IRC FACILITIES:
Students, staff and faculty members of Iqra University can access these facilities to follow the mentioned procedures:
NEWSPAPERS ARTICLES:
My Network Places – Entire Network – Microsoft Windows Network – Iqra – Fileserver – Elibrary – Library – Library Articles – Subject wise folders.
MOVIES:
My Network Places – Entire Network – Microsoft Windows Network- Iqra – MEDIAIRC – Movies title wise folders.
EBOOKS:
My Network Places – Entire Network – Microsoft Windows Network – Iqra – Fileserver – Elibrary – Library – Ebooks – Subject wise folders.
IQRA NEWS & VIEWS:
My Network Places – Entire Network – Microsoft Windows Network – Iqra – Fileserver – Elibrary – Library – Iqra News & Views.
You can contact one of our Library staff members at the following email addresses:
| Contact Person | Ext. | Designation | Email Address |
| Bushra Zaidi | 1704 | Head IRC | Bushra@iqra.edu.pk |
| Mahwish Khan | 1705 | Librarian | mahwish.k@iqra.edu.pk |
