Centre for Women's Studies

Facilities

The Centre's library now has 1549 volumes on its shelves and subscribes to seven Indian and six foreign journals. The Library is open to all students and teachers (a register of the users is maintained), including undergraduate students of Women's Studies courses. The holdings are being computerized.

The Library aims at collecting all published books on women in India, with a selection of books on women in general and other parts of the world, and Government, ILO and non-official reports on surveys on women.

There is also full internet facility available to readers to consulte-journals and other digitized material.

Documentation

Newspaper cuttings on news related to women since 1.2.2003 are maintained in separate topic-wise files as aid to researches.

Digitised visual material comprising women as depicted in ancient Indians culptures, Medieval Indian Paintings and Photographs of Colonial period and contemporary times.

Computer and communication

a) The Centre has five Desk-top Computers (IBM Intel Pentium 4 with TFT monitors) and one Laptop (IBM ThinkPad P4 Processor). Two computers are used for office work, and one is reserved for Research Students, one for P.G. Diploma Students and one for under Graduates in Women's Studies. Laptop is used mainly for power-point presentation. All the five computers and Laptop are linked through networking and have internet facilities through Broad Band Connection (BSNL). The Centre has advance software support and full Desk-top printing facilities including Comb and Spiral-binding machines, Lamination Machine and other accessories.

b) The Centre has the following Printers and Scanners:

(i) HP Laser Jet Printer 1000

(ii) HP Laser Jet Printer 1022

(iii) HP Colour Laser Printing 2550

(iv) HP Photosmart (all in one) Printer/Fax/Scanner copier

(v)  2 HP Scanners, 3400 C and 5590

 c) Photocopying Machine:ToshibaE-Studio 160, with GDI Printing (A3 SIZE Laser Printer in built) with Automatic Duplexing unit

d) Offline UPS 2KVA which provides 4 hours battery back-up

e) LCD Projector: Toshiba TDRT91 with inbuilt document camera

f)  (i) P. A. Systems, Portable:(ii) Portable Amplifier-cum Cassette Recorder.

g) Compact Recorder (Sony) with 15 hours long recording time,(ii) Voice Recorder (Sony) 64 MB Built-in-Memory with PC connectivity and Digital Still Camera (Sony) 6 Mega Pixel with 32 MB Memory (for use in field Surveys)

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