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.
Acquisitions books is responsible for acquiring books & non-print materials (e-books) for the PK Kelkar Library.
Periodical acquisitions is responsible for acquiring journals, e-journals, electronic resources, including databases, for the PK Kelkar library.
Main responsibility of this section is to classify and catalogue the reading materials and RFID Processing.
I/c Acquisition Unit & Maintenance
(Books, journals & databases)
Mon to Fri - 09:00 to 5:30
Sat & Sun - Closed
Hall No. LIB 203, First Floor
P K Kelkar Library , IIT Kanpur
+91 0512 2597334 (Call Us)
libacq@iitk.ac.in (Mail us)
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.
| 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 |