Vision
To be a centre of learning providing, organized, Comprehensive and timely access of Information and Knowledge from the Sources available.
Mission
To use new developments in Technology to expose the ever-expanding frontiers of knowledge to staff and students keeping Books as the base of Source.
Acharya Patashala College of Commerce is one of the oldest and most reputed colleges of Bengaluru. It is a subsidiary of the famous ‘Acharya Patashala’ group of institutions, founded by Late. Sri. N Ananthacharya in the year 1935.APS Commerce College, formerly a part of the ‘A P S College of Arts, Commerce & Science’, became an independent entity in the year 1986 to provide professional Commerce & Management education to students from South Bangalore under the nomenclature Acharya Patashala College of Commerce.
Our library having more than 25,000 Books, the college library collections has divided into several sections like Kannada, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Commerce, M.Com, BBA and reference sections. It has huge number of useful Encyclopaedia (World encyclopaedia, Britannica encyclopaedia), Dictionaries (Oxford, Webster’s, Subhas etc.), Thesaurus, Kannada Vishwa Kosha, Ghana Gangothri vishwa kosha and also Shreeman Mahabharata in Kannada.
Library Staff
| SL.No | Name | Qualification | Designation | Total No. of staff/faculty |
| 1. | Padma H.S | M.L.I.S (Master of Library information and science. | Librarian | 01 |
Library Advisory Committee of the College
- Principal
- IQAC Coordinator
- Heads of All the Departments
- Office Superintendent
- Two Students’ Representatives
Library Services
- Circulation
- Reference service
- OPAC
- Internet facility with 10 systems
- Current awareness service
- New Arrivals display
- Periodical service (Journals/Magazines)
- Newspaper clipping service
- CD ROMs services
- Reprographic service
- Repository of previous question papers
- Books Bank Facility for all Students
Library Subscription:
|
News Papers |
Kannada |
English |
Total |
|
05 |
05 |
10 |
|
Magazines |
Kannada |
English |
Total |
|
09 |
13 |
22 |
|
Journals |
National |
International |
Total |
|
11 |
05 |
16 |
Digital Database
- N-LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Contents) program of INFLIBNET. Electronic resources like e-journals (6293+) and e-books (3160809+) through INFLIBNET service in the Libraryfor their Project works as well as Assignments.
- Institutional membership of National Digital Library.
- Library Maintenance using Easylib Software-6.4a (Software Version)
- Computer and internet facilities are available for Teachers and students in the library to make use of above mentioned digital resources.