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Acquisition division (Books & Periodicals)

The Acquisition section of the library deals with the acquisition of books, ebooks, and e-journals for the library and makes them available for users at the earliest after the recommendation.

The section is responsible for cataloguing, tooling, and RFID tagging of print books and for the update and maintenance and renewal of ebook and ejournal records and their availability and accessibility to users.

The library acquires books through approved vendors.

To recommend the book, faculty and staff members can fill out and sign the indent form that should also be signed by the DLC, or the acting DLC, or the HOD, or the acting HOD.

Sub-Divisions

Acquisition [Books]

Acquisitions books is responsible for acquiring books & non-print materials (e-books) for the PK Kelkar Library.

Acquisition [Periodical]

Periodical acquisitions is responsible for acquiring journals, e-journals, electronic resources, including databases, for the PK Kelkar library.

Technical Processing

Main responsibility of this section is to classify and catalogue the reading materials and RFID Processing.

Dr. Sushanta Kumar Pathy

Dr. Sushanta Kumar Pathy

Assistant Librarian

I/c Acquisition Unit & Maintenance
(Books, journals & databases)

Opening Hours

Mon to Fri - 09:00 to 5:30
Sat & Sun - Closed

Location

Hall No. LIB 203, First Floor
P K Kelkar Library , IIT Kanpur

Contact Us

+91 0512 2597334 (Call Us)
libacq@iitk.ac.in (Mail us)

Book Recommendation

Library acquires books through approved vendors and non approval books by placing orders. The faculty and staff members can fill and sign the indent form. The form should also be signed by the DLC, or the acting DLC, or the HOD, or the acting HOD. In the indent form, title, author, publisher, edition, year of publication, no. of copies etc. will be mentioned besides the nature of the book whether text books/ general/references, etc.

For text books, the number of students enrolled is mentioned along with the name of the course and course number.

Online Purchase please click here to know more details.

Downloads

Name Download
Indent (Book) PDF
Online Purchase PDF
Approved vendors 2025-26 View
Book Purchase Verification (PostDoc) PDF

Usage Report

Journal Usage Statistics (2023-2025)

View Statistics

Books Usage Statistics

Year Download
2023-24 View PDF
2022-23 View PDF
2021-22 View PDF

Acquisition Team

Name Position Mail Us Phone
Dr. Sushanta Kr Pathy Assistant Librarian (I/c) spathy@iitk.ac.in 7334
Mr. Brij Mohan Singh Library Information Officer brij@iitk.ac.in 7707
Dr. Jyoti Verma Asst. Library Information Officer jyotiv@iitk.ac.in 6132
Ms. Rangoli Awasthi Asst Library Information Officer rangoli@iitk.ac.in 7707
Ms. Shahana Sultana Sr Library Information Assistant shahana@iitk.ac.in 6862
Mr. Durgesh Chandra Sr Library Information Assistant durgeshc@iitk.ac.in 7298
Mr. Suresh Chandra Sr. Assistant (Library) sureshc@iitk.ac.in 7331
Mr. Rohit Bhatt Jr. Assistant rohitb@iitk.ac.in 7223