Library Rules

An open access system (which is not available in many of the Medical Colleges in Kerala) is provided in the Central Library of Pushpagiri. In this system, you are free to go to the shelves, browse the collection, select the right books of your interest, and take it to the reading hall for study. This gives you ample choice of documents and helps you lay hand on the most appropriate material. The open access is made available on trust and belief, a mature behaviour, a feeling of responsibility, the willingness to abide by the rules, and above all a readiness on your part to maintain discipline and decorum. As such, the tentative �rules� given below may be taken as a guideline for helping yourself and others inside the library.

• Admission to the library is limited to students, members of faculty, and other members of staff of the Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre including all the colleges, schools and institutes in its purview on production of ID cards.
• "Silence is Golden�. Once inside the library, keep silent as far as possible, and help maintain a noise-free, serene, and conducive atmosphere there.
• Do not carry any of your personal holdings like bags, books, overcoats, files and folders to the library. Make it a practice to leave such things at the Property Counter - in the pigeon holes of the shelves provided at the entrance - as soon as you step in to the library.
• Photography is strictly prohibited inside. Do not take camera, mobile phone, or any other electronic/audio-video instruments into the Library.
• Do not bring in any floppy disk and use on any of the computers in the library. When necessary, floppies may be purchased from the Reprographic Unit in the library.
• Particulars regarding your visit to and use of the library contribute to the statistics regarding many an information pertaining to the library and its use. Therefore, do not hesitate to record your name, position, time-in, and time-out in the �Visitors Register� kept at the entry point to the hall. This has to be repeated every time you make a fresh entry to the library.
• If at all you bring in your personal textbook for studying in the library, use the �External Reading Room� for the purpose. That means no personal book shall be taken to the main reading hall and no library book to the External Reading Room.
• Do not place any book taken out of the shelf back on the shelf; however careful you may be, replacement might end up in misplacement. Remember the well-known library slogan: "A Book Misplaced is a Book Lost". Books once removed shall be left flat at the vacant space on the same shelf or the nearby one; and those taken for reference in the hall shall be left on the tables for the library staff for proper replacement later.
• Do not underline or mark any text; do not fold pages of any book or in any manner cause damage to the physical body of the text. Handle books with extreme care; they are to be preserved for posterity.
• Never attempt to steal any book or other document or part thereof from the library. This tantamount to a serious social offence of theft and the person will be liable for summary dismissal from the institution.
• Once provided, the conditions governing use of internet shall strictly be adhered to. Misuse in any manner of this facility would not be tolerated or condoned.
• Group discussion or combined study is quite a good method of study, but outside the library only.Combined study, or congregation for discussions, or �round-table� of any sort is not allowed inside the library.
• Do not take food or beverages to the library hall.
• Facility of having drinking water through an electronic filter is provided in the External Reading Room. Please make hygienic use of it and keep the premises clean.
• Always seek help from library staff for any service especially those pertaining to your reference requirements or any of the facilities.
• Loan facilities and Membership: As a policy, the institution does not favour issue of books. This primarily is to encourage every reader to get his/her book and every book its reader. This appears to be the best practice in a Medical College Library where no institution can afford to keep multiple copies of all standard medical books. Yet considering a multiplicity of problems faced by some of the members of faculty and other staff, issue of books would be made to them in a limited number and for very short durations against separate library membership. Further details about it would be made available to them at the circulation counter of the library.
• Non-Liability Certificates: The Principals of all colleges, schools, and other institutes under PIMSRC shall require the students of their institutions to produce a Non-Liability Certificate from the Central Library to the effect that they have cleared all dues before they are admitted to the final university examinations or are issued transfer certificate whichever is earlier. Similarly, the Principals and other Heads of institutions/Departments shall require all staff under their control to produce similar Non-Liability Certificates from the Central Library for having returned all books and cleared all dues in the event of their resignation, termination or retirement before their last salary is disbursed.

• Monday - Thursday: 10.00 - 20.00 Hrs
• Friday - Sunday: 10.00 - 17.00 Hrs

Closed on Public Holidays declared by Pushpagiri

Vacation and other public holidays:

• Monday - Saturday: 10.00 - 17.00 Hrs