Central Library

A library encompasses a collection of information, sources, resources, books, services, and the physical structure that houses them.

Al-Falah University Library started in 1997 with a collection of about 4,000 books. The collection of books grows from time to time, year by year. Now, its collection has reached 62703 books. To maintain a standard, the books are mainly acquired from India, the world’s leading publisher. Now that the library has been considered one of the most popular libraries in the region, its popularity is not only due to its huge collection but also to its world-class services.

Indirectly, our library services are spread over the NCR region. Particularly, students of neighbouring colleges as well as faculty members are also getting benefits from its collections.



Library Staff

S.No Name of Library Personnel Designation
1 Khalid K. Faruqi Librarian
2 Ferhan Ahmed Documentalist
3 Amjad Ahmad Khan Cataloguer
4 Irfan Khan Library Assistant
5 Dharmveer Singh Library Assistant
6 Akhtar Husain Daftaries
7 Abdul Rahman Peon

Library Timing

Days Opening Time Closing Time
All Days
(Including Saturday & Sunday) Excluding Gazetted Holidays
08.00 am 08.00 pm

Lib Opening Time Closing Time
Monday – Saturday 09.00 am 09.00 pm
Circulation Hours 09.10 am 06.00 pm
Library Users Per Day approx                              245

Library rules for Circulation of Books

Users can register themselves for membership in the library. All students, faculty, and staff members are issued bar-coded patron cards. Their entitlements, in terms of the number of books that can be borrowed by them, are as below:

Category of Member No. of Books that can be issued Duration of Issue
Faculty 06 30 day
Admin. Staff 04 14 day
Research Scholars 08 30 days
Postgraduate 06 14 days
Undergraduate 04 14 days
Undergraduate 04 Book Bank For one Semester

Online Networking for Knowledge Sharing

DELNET (Developing Library Network) is a registered society, being promoted by the NIC National Information Centre, the Ministry of Information & Technology, the Government of India, and the India International Centre, New Delhi. The main objectives of DELNET are to promote resource sharing of millions of bibliographical records among the member libraries through various union catalogues and databases, develop a network of libraries, and collect, store, and disseminate information.

With the facility of DELNET, the students and faculty members of the college can obtain books from other libraries on a loan basis through DELNET.

Information resources are bibliographic and full-text in nature. DELNET facilitates the delivery of physical books by inter-library loans as and when required by member libraries and photocopies of Indian journal articles and foreign journals through its Document Delivery Services.

Library Computerization: The library is fully automated with the library software Nettlib. Acquisitions, periodicals, circulations, OPAC, and the generation of reports are controlled by this software.

Book Bank Facility: This is an optional program for every student. Rupees 25/- per book, per semester, are charged to the student who is willing to avail of the book bank facility at the time of their registration in the new semester. The maximum number of books issued to students is limited to up to eight books for one semester.

Parent Collection
S.No Summary Quantity
1 Total Number of Volumes in Library 62703
2 Total Number of Books in Engineering & Technology 40009
3 Total Number of Books in Education & Training 8523
4 Total Number of Books in Physical & Molecular Science 2206
5 Total Number of Books in Commerce & Management 3621
6 Total Number of Books in Humanities & Languages 2208
7 Total Number of Books in Computer Science 1632
8 Total Number of Books in Social Science 2372
9 Total Number of Books in Polytechnic 2132
10 Total Number of e-Journals (Cengage Learning) 1408
11 Total Number of e-books in Library (DELNET) 1206
12 Total Number of News Papers in Library 12
13 Total Number of Magazines in Library 25

Special Collection Gifted by Late Prof. Abdul Mubeen

Thesis/ Dissertation/ Reports: 58

Newspaper Collection

1. Times of India

2. The Hindustan Times

3. The Tribune

4. Economic Times

5. The Hindu

6. Dainik Bhaskar (Hindi.)

7. Amar Ujala (Hindi)

8. Nav Bharat Times (Hindi)

9. Employment News

10. Inqalab (Urdu)

11. Rashtriya Sahara (Urdu)

12. Azizul Hind (Urdu)

E-Journal

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has always been at the forefront of innovation in online references. Our line of periodical resources provides the following:

♦ The largest and most comprehensive aggregations of digital periodical content available, with nearly 18,000 titles and 62 collections

♦ Fewest embargos on average Whatever the needs of our library, Gale provides the solution, from general interest periodicals specifically suited to the needs of public libraries to full-text titles found in our academic databases.

Whatever the needs of our library, Gale provides the solution. From general interest periodicals specifically suited to the needs of public libraries to full-text titles found in our academic databases.

Access link is :

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/afu.

DELNET – Developing Library Network

DELNET: Developing Library Network DELNET was established with the prime objective of promoting resource sharing among libraries through the development of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information besides offering computerised services to users, coordinate efforts for suitable collection development, and reduce unnecessary duplication wherever possible.

Access link is :

http://164.100.247.17/