Kinnaird College for Women Library
Kinnaird College for Women Library
Kinnaird Library acquires high quality instructional and other learning materials to enrich the perspective of its ever-increasing users and to get the measure of growing needs for research and teaching at university. The objective is to facilitate users’ requirements and demands of the curriculum and provide access to the information that can be utilized in all spheres of the academic as well as the professional lives. These resources foster lifelong learning, support innovation and creativity, helping knowledge development, and improving decision making process. The Library holds 28000+ collections of books, required readings, comparative analysis and other learning materials on academic as well as on various disciplines of general interest of the utmost importance.
General Collection
In addition to supporting course requirements and research needs, the general collection supplement the wide variety of patron’s interests.
Reference Collection
The library maintains comprehensive reference materials. These include both general and specific subject reference materials. Reference collection includes basic research tools such as, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, Year Books, Atlases and bibliographies on several topics.
Theses and Projects
The library acts as a depository for KC research and maintains a collection of theses/dissertations/projects produced by students of final years graduating classes.
Text Books Collection
These are books that are on high demand and there are limited copies in the library. They are usually reserved and borrowing of these books is limited to some definite period of time. Normally these resources are consulted within the library. It consists of the textbooks, read-outs and photocopies of the articles recommended as course readings.
Government Publications
Library acquires Government Documents related to the study and research needs of its users. Theses documents highlight important statistic, budgets, Census Reports, economic surveys and other materials published by the provincial & federal government agencies, ministries & divisions.
Urdu Collection
Library maintains separate collection of books published in Urdu. This collection consists of Urdu Literature, Seerat-un-Nabi [PBUH], Islamic philosophy, theology, clash of civilizations, and translations of the Holy Quran.
General Collection
In addition to supporting course requirements and research needs, the general collection supplement the wide variety of patron’s interests.
Reference Collection
The library maintains comprehensive reference materials. These include both general and specific subject reference materials. Reference collection includes basic research tools such as, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, Year Books, Atlases and bibliographies on several topics.
Theses and Projects
The library acts as a depository for KC research and maintains a collection of theses/dissertations/projects produced by students of final years graduating classes.
Text Books Collection
These are books that are on high demand and there are limited copies in the library. They are usually reserved and borrowing of these books is limited to some definite period of time. Normally these resources are consulted within the library. It consists of the textbooks, read-outs and photocopies of the articles recommended as course readings.
Government Publications
Library acquires Government Documents related to the study and research needs of its users. Theses documents highlight important statistic, budgets, Census Reports, economic surveys and other materials published by the provincial & federal government agencies, ministries & divisions.
Urdu Collection
Library maintains separate collection of books published in Urdu. This collection consists of Urdu Literature, Seerat-un-Nabi [PBUH], Islamic philosophy, theology, clash of civilizations, and translations of the Holy Quran.
