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The Khandra College Central Library was initiated along with the establishment of the College in the year 1981, and since then, it has been an integral and indispensable part of the College for all its academic functionalities. At present, the Central Library has a total of around 18, 662 Text Books covering the discipline like Arts, Science and Commerce. Moreover, it has around 286 Reference Books and 120 Rare Books in its collection. The Library received grants from the government bodies like University Grants Commission (UGC), Eastern Coalfields Limited (E.C.L), Govt. of West Bengal etc.

With the gradual advancement of time and with the advent of modern, advanced and enormous applications of Information and Communicatin Technologies (ICT) in modern Libraries, there has been an everincreasing demand of scholarly information in digital environment. In order to face this technological challenge and Keeping in mind, the diversified facilities that an Automated and Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) offer, Library automation work using Library Management Softwares (LMSs) (KOHA) was undertaken by our College in early 2018. The automation programme was sucessfully completed in August, 2018. Our Library has been maintaining all its prime functions and rendering all major services through this ILMS since 2018

Now, the College Central Library is fully automated with major digital facilities using Cloud based Intrgrated Library Mangement System (ILMS) (KOHA)(Version : 23.11.06).