Hill Campus

The college has all the facilities conducive to provide an atmosphere for concentrated academic pursuits. Air-conditioned seminar halls and conference rooms, a well stocked and computerised library and a networked computer centre with broad bandwidth internet access, both open round the clock, a behavioural lab, and a retailing experimentation facility, shape up the academic environment in Rajagiri.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Fr. Moses Library 

TThe RCSS Library is named after Rev.Dr.Abraham Moses CMI, the first principal of the institution. The library is stocked with the rich collection of information resources suitable to the all kinds of its users. The Library is a specialized with focus on Social Work, Social Development, Management, Administration, Computer Application and Library Information Sciences.

The Library is fully computerized allowing functions like issue, return, OPAC search, and availability assessment of books, journals and periodicals, easy and user friendly. The Library is functioning round the year, except for 10 prescribed holidays.  

LIBRARY STOCK (as on 01-06-2011)

Total No. of Volumes

 25900

Journals

 100

Periodicals

 69

Newspapers

 10

CD’s

 390

PhD Thesis

 30

Dissertations

 715


ON-LINE RESOURCES

  • UGC INFLIBNET-NLIST

"National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for (i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and (ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre. 21000 e-journals and 51000 e-books can be accessed and download at free of cost from this NLIST .

  • QUESTIA

Questia is the first online library that provides 24*7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover.

  • DELNET

We have institutional membership in the DELNET. Delnet provides invaluable access to more than 70 lakh records of books, journal articles etc. The Inter Library Loan and Document Delivery Services are one of the most popular services provided by DELNET.

  • DSPACE DIGITAL REPOSITORY

A Digital Repository is a web- based database of scholarly material. It could be cumulative and perpetual (a collection of record). It must be open and inter operable. The Institutional Repositories collects stores and disseminate digital resources and long term preserves these digital materials.
This online institutional repository is built to save, share, and search Rajagiri's digital research materials! This includes,

Doctoral Thesis

UGC Major / Minor Research Reports

Students Dissertations

Previous Years University Question Papers

Official Documents

Conference, Seminars, Proceedings

New Arrivals 


FACILITIES

Members can borrow three books at a time for a period of 15 days. The back issues of several journals and project reports of research works are also made available for ready reference.

CD-ROM workstation
The Library has a CD-ROM workstation facility by which students can access CD titles related to their fields.

Documentation Centre
Documentation Centre of the Library serves as the source of current information on all branches of knowledge by proper classification and filing of relevant material available in newspapers and magazines. A new documentation centre on Non-profit and Development Organization is also fast developing.

Photocopying
There is a facility for photocopying of library documents, which are not lent outside the library.

Research Carrels
The library provides a separate cabin for research scholars of the doctoral centres of the college. The Carrels equipped with Wi-fi connectivity & computers to accommodate 12 research scholars at a time.

Other Services…
•    Open Access system for users
•    Reference Service
•    Reprographic facility
•    Book Bank facility
•    New arrival alert service
•    Conference alert service
•    Inter-Library Loan
•    Proficiency Enhancement Centre
•    Compilation of bibliographies on request
•    Document delivery service
•    Consultancy
•    Library Orientation Classes for users

ICT enabled services
•    Fully automated with Auto Lib software
•    Bar-Code technology for circulation of documents.
•    OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
•    On-line Database search facility
•    E- Gate Register
•    Multi-media search facility

Library hours
The Library is open from 8.00 am to 7.00 pm everyday except Sundays and Holidays. The working hours on Sundays and Holidays is from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm.

LAB

  • Computer Lab

The Computer Lab is one of the most modern, automated frameworks of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. This facility caters to the computing, information processing and multimedia requirements of the entire college. Fully air-conditioned and professionally set, this centre has 98 numbers of networked PCs.

Three high-end servers from HP support these workstations and provide domain logon for Windows and Linux platforms.

The internet facility is provided through broadband connectivity. The lab is completely equipped to conduct Multimedia Lectures and Online presentations. 

The lab functions from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. on all week days and 9 am to 5 pm on holidays and provides a unique login ID and share space to all members of the college.

  • Network Lab

The network lab consists of 5 PCs, and is managed by the students. The main objective of this lab is to provide in depth knowledge in network administration, security, hardware maintenance etc.

  • Microprocessor Lab

The Microprocessor lab is well equipped with adequate number of Micro EB 86/88 16- Bit Microprocessor Development System for training the students in hardware experiments based on 8086 Processor.

  • Psychology Lab

In 1995 the College started a psychology lab with the assistance from the University Grants Commission. The faculty members use this facility to provide periodical feedback to the students by administering various tests of intelligence, perception, learning, aptitude for the profession etc.

HALLS & AUDITORIUM
  • Alex Hall

An AC hall with a capacity of 100 has been the venue for numerous Seminars, Conferences or even informal talks with eminent persons.

  • Conference Hall

This is basically meant for the official use of the college like staff meetings, staff selection interviews, high level meetings with Government and other officials, important policy making meetings with management etc.  It is an air-conditioned conference room with a seating capacity of 30.

  • Golden Aureole Auditorium

It is a well furnished auditorium having State-of-the-Art facilities such as in-built Audio visual systems, podium, control unit cabin etc.  It is meant for the common programmes of the college like seminars, training programmes, competitions, common meetings, etc.  It has a seating capacity of 250 persons with cushioned chairs.

 

Hostels

The college provides separate double occupancy hostel facilities for men and women. The college also has a separate hostel for the international exchange students. Apart from this the college maintains a hostel for the participants of training programmes, seminars and conferences.

Mess

The College has a mess run by the Men’s hostel.

OTHER FACILITIES
  • Facility Centre

The facility centre at the campus has a snack bar with tea and coffee, an STD, ISD booth, facility for making calls from a one rupee coin, instant Photostat facility. There is also the facility for DTP training.

  • Matha Press

All types of papers of different quality and size files etc. are available in the press. Printing work of college is also undertaken.

  • SBI Extension Counter

SBI has been functioning at the outskirts of the campus. This has proved to be very useful for the students.

  • Post Office

Post Office is yet another facility available at the campus with its working hours from 9.00 AM to 2.00 PM

  • Sports Facilities

There is a football ground and a basketball court, Table Tennis table, badminton court and a cricket ground for the students to discover and develop their potential in those fields.