BHAVAN’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE LIBRARY
About the Library
BIMS Library is an organized combination of both traditional and digital characteristics where user can access printed items as well as the digital holding in the form of e-Books and e- Journals. It is a repository of text and reference books, national and international journals, magazines, project reports, newspapers, CDs on wide range of subjects.
The Particular of Library collections are listed below (till 31/03/2025)
Printed Materials
Library contains huge number of text books, reference books in printed form and printed journals. The journal is of two categories – National and International. It contains magazines and newspapers also. Besides textbooks and journals; the library has a rich reference collection, like dictionaries, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, newsletters, thesaurus, handbook, directory etc. Our library maintains also e-reference in the form of CD and DVD. Our library keeps Project Reports of previous students and Previous Year’s Question papers which are arranged by three Semester mode. Library Keeps Syllabus of MBA and BBA course
| CATEGORY | TITLE | VOLUME |
| MBA | 6920 | 14319 |
| BBA | 358 | 1234 |
| CATEGORY | TITLE | VOLUME |
| MBA | 97 | 104 |
| BBA | 48 | 87 |
| SL. NO | JOURNALS/PERIODICALS | TOTAL |
| 01 | INTERNATIONAL | 04 |
| 02 | MAGAZINE | 04 |
| 03 | NATIONAL | 15 |
| 04 | BIMS JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT | 01 |
| 05 | NEWSPAPER | 06 |
| 06 | Exchanged Jounal | 04 |
| SL. NO | E-JOURNALS/E-BOOKS | TOTAL |
| 01 | JGATE E-JOURNAL | 32510 |
| 02 | PROQUEST EBOOKS | 28606 |
ILMS KOHA on Ubuntu Linux Server
BIMS library provides open-access, where the readers find out their required books from the library shelves. The BIMS library organized the retro-conversion of all the books and classified them under the scheme of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), Anglo-American cataloguing scheme.
The entire database of the library was initially kept in LIBSYS-4.0 which has now been converted to KOHA open source integrated library software (ILS) with the latest version. *All the books in the library are now catalogued, bar-coded and RFID tagged* for easy circulation and better security.
KOHA, the library management software is used for managing the different functions of library. The library has WEB-OPAC facility where all users including students, faculty members and others can browse through for information regarding library resources from anywhere within the campus.
