Bai Jerbai Wadia Library
The building of the Bai Jerbai Wadia Library, comprising of two floors, was completed in May 1929 with a munificent donation from the Wadia brothers. The library was named after their mother Bai Jerbai Wadia Library. It is one of the three Main Heritage Buildings of the college.
The entire first floor of the Library serves as a Reading Hall for students and is spacious enough to comfortably accommodate around 400 students at a time. This is perhaps one of the largest Reading Rooms of any Library in the State of Maharashtra. The Main Library on ground floor more than 3,00,000 books and many research journals, also the library provides access to various e-resources. Many research scholars and book-lovers have, over the years, donated a large number of their own personal collections; the Library has become fabulously rich in its collection. The library provides extension services to students, teachers, scholars, research workers and senior citizens including scholars from abroad.
The library is blessed with a remarkable collection of statues and posters, dedicated to outstanding national leaders and educationalists. In the course of time, with an increasing number of students, the Library felt the need to acquire more space by extending the building. This was first done in 1955, with government grants and then in 1982 with UGC grants.
OBJECTIVES OF LIBRARY
- To Support and enhance teaching and learning processes by delivering and promoting the effective use of information resources and services.
- To select, evaluate and acquire library materials in varied formats to meet and respond to the needs of our diverse community.
- To promote literacy and disseminate useful daily information to the people and encourage lifelong learning through its reading materials and resources.
- To maintain, preserve and disseminate books, materials and resources with historical, cultural, social, economic and archival value, and other related materials in an organized collection.
- To assess and improve our skills in order to recognise and meet the continuous changing user needs.
Visitors
Eminent figures like Swatantravir Savarkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Dr. Radhakrishan, many more till Hon’ble ex-president Mrs. Pratibhatai Patil and Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri. Devendra Padanvis visited the Library. Ex-students visit the library with their family to cherish their old memories too.
PROMINENT FIGURES WHO VISITED THIS LIBRARY
- Swatantrayveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
- P. V. Narsimharao
- Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
- Rajiv Gandhi
- V. P. Singh
- N. V. Gadgil
- Yashwantrao Chavan
- Morarjibhai Desai
- C. D. Deshmukh
- Krishna Swami Iyyer
- Hon’ble Mrs. Pratibhatai Patil
- Hon’ble Shri Devendra Phadanvis – Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Jagdeep Dhankhar – Governor of West Bengal
- Richard Roberts – Nobel Laureate
Advisory Committee
| Sr. No. | NAME | DESIGNATION |
| 1 | Dr. Vijay Tadke | Offg. Principal and Chairman |
| 2 | Dr. Prakash Pawar | Vice Principal-Arts Faculty |
| 3 | Prof. Swati Joglekar | Vice Principal-Non Grant and Professor In-Charge Library, Secretory |
| 4 | Dr. Sujata Bamane | Head Department of English |
| 5 | Dr. Santosh Ghuge | Head Department of History |
| 6 | Dr. Sonali Joshi | Head Department of Biotechnology |
| 7 | Dr. Shyam Mude | Coordinator IQAC |
| 8 | Dr. Arti Nimgaonkar | Asst. Prof. Computer Science Department |
| 9 | Shri. Ankur Shukla | Asst. Prof. Computer Science Department |
| 10 | Smt. Kiran Ghadge | Assistant Librarian |
| INVITEE | ||
| 11 | Dr. Subhash Shende | Vice Principal-Science Faculty |
| 12 | Dr. Radhika Jadhav | Vice Principal-Arts Faculty |
| 13 | Dr. Anil Sawarkar | Deputy Coordinator IQAC |
| 14 | Smt. Vrushali Limaye | Asst. Prof. Department of Mathematics |
| 15 | Shri. Chetan Ankalkote | Registrar |
Services
1)Reference Service
2) Information Service
3) Web based service
4) Reprographic Service (Xeroxing, Printing and Scanning)
5) Internet Browsing
6) Newspaper Clipping
7) Library Orientation Programme
8) New Arrival Display
9) Extended Library Hours Facility (Reading Hall)
10) INFLIBNET –NLIST
11) Web OPAC& M-OPAC (Mobile App)
12) Online Access to e-Journals and e-books
13) Open Access for all bonafide students, Staff and Visitors
14) Departmental Library
15) Interlibrary Loan
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1 |
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce- Pune |
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2 |
Shri. Navalmal Firodiya Law College-Pune |
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3 |
Kirti College – Mumbai |
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4 |
Willingdon College – Sangali |
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5 |
Institute of Management Research & Development, Pune |
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6 |
Technical Institute, Pune |
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7. |
Brijlal Jindal College of Physiotherapy, Pune |
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8. |
Smt. Subhadra K. Jindal College of Nursing, Pune |
Library Staff
| Sr No. | NAME | DESIGNATION |
| 1 | Mrs. Swati Joglekar | Professor In-Charge |
| 2 | Mrs. Kiran Ghadge | Asst. Librarian |
| 3 | Mr. Rahul Ambhore | Asst. Librarian |
| 4 | Mrs. Neha Kadole | Clerk |
| 5 | Mr. Milind Mahajan | |
| 6 | Mr. Prashik Ushire | |
| 7 | Shri Jayant Bhuwad |
Library Attendants |
| 8 | Shri. Ravindra Salunke | |
| 9 | Shri. Chetan Bhumkar | |
| 10 | Shri Pradyumna Balkavade | |
| 11 | Shri. Arjun Bhuwad | |
| 12 | Mrs. Sujata Rawat | |
| 13 | Shri Deepak Waghmare | |
| 14 | Shri Siddheshwar Gutal | |
| 15 | Shri. Babu Hirve | |
| 16 | Shri. Rakesh Raskar | |
| 17 | Shri. Parshuram Pawar | |
| 18 | Shri. Suhas Salavi | |
| 19 | Smt. Mangal Joshi |