FTII-Gajanan Jagirdar Library

Collection of the library

FTII library houses total collection of 32000(appx) resources which includes books covering various subject areas like cinema and related subjects like Indian cinema, direction, cinematography, sound recording, acting, screenplay writing, theatre, visual art, paintings etc.

Resources are procured on the basis of recommendations received from the users of the library.

The book collection of the library consists of books, bound-volumes of periodicals and audio visual materail. Library follows open access system for most of the while some are preserved in closed stacks and made available only on request.

Types of Resources

1. Books

Resources are procured on the basis of recommendations received from the users of the library.

Display of New Books

At different intervals, new books that were added to our stock, are displayed in the New arrival section. A list of such new additions is displayed on all the notice of the institute as well as on the library OPAC available on intranet.

2. Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines

The library subscribes to 9 Indian and 10 International periodicals. All current issues are displayed on front display racks. Back volumes of journals are get bounded for future reference. Total 10 newspapers are subscribed by the library, out of which 5 are in English, 4 in Marathi and 1 in Hindi.

3. Audio Visual Collection:

AV collection of the library includes DVDs of films, CDs or DVDs accompanied with books and tapes of FTII student diploma films and projects, Short films, Documentaries in various formats like UMatic, Beta, Digi Beta, VHS, DV Cam, Mini DVs etc.

Total collection of Audio Visual resources is around 6500.

4. Digital Collection:

Digital repository of the library consists of around 500 digital resources which includes 37 e books with perpetual access, e periodical and digitized dissertations. Collection is accessed through the separate workstations provided in the digital library.

Membership of the library

Library membership is given to the members of the library which includes FTII Students, Faculty members (Contractual or Permanent), Administrative Staff (Permanent). Membership of to the students enrolled for the short courses is given against the approval of the Director with same circulation rules.

Circulation of the resources

Library resources are issued only to the members of the library which includes FTII Students, Faculty members (Contractual or Permanent), Administrative Staff

(Permanent) as given below:

Category of Member	Type of Resource	Entitlement	Lending Period	No. of Renewals	Fine (Rs.)
Director	Books (Gen/Ref)	10	1 Month	4	-
Group A	Books (Gen/Ref)	5	1 Month	4	-
Group B	Books (Gen/Ref)	4	1 Month	4	-
Group C	Books (Gen/Ref)	2	1 Month	4	-
Students	Books (Gen)	3	15 Days	4	Rs. 2 / day
Students	Books (Ref)	1	15 Days	1	Rs. 10 / day

Services

Online Public Access Catalogue

An OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) is an online bibliography of a library collection that is available on the intranet. Through the OPAC interface users can find the items (Books, & Audio Visual Materials) available in the library.

Reprography Service:

Photocopies of the library resources (maximum upto 20 pages of each resource) are provided by the library as per Rs.2/- per page.

All the FTII related news articles published in the newspapers are preserved by the library and circulated to the concerned authorities on regular basis.

Mailing Notifications:

All the users of the library are informed about all the transactions carried out by them through the notifications sent by e mails.

E renewals:

All the users of the library are informed about all the transactions carried out by them through the notifications sent by e mails.

Reservation facility:

Books on high demand can be reserved by the users through the claim system