LIBRARY INFORMATION

The Doon School Library known as the KILACHAND LIBRARY provides academic resources for all constituents of the school -students, faculty and administrative staff. The library strives to make resources readily accessible when and wherever they are needed to enhance and promote the total growth and development of the students. The library endeavors to provide students with opportunities to learn how to utilize materials in a variety of formats to access information so that they can continue lifelong learning. 

A library collections stand out around 18,000 documents consists of books and multimedia on variety of subjects. There are 32 computers with intranet and internet connectivity available in the library for academic use. Library provides reprographic services along with scanning and color printouts to its patron.  

LIBRARY HOURS

The Kilachand Library offers a number of specialized services and maintains a schedule of hours that is best suited and utilized by its members. 

The Kilachand Library is open to its members on all seven days, except on school calendared holidays and national holidays. Library operates as per under mentioned schedule till further notice: 

ONLINE DATABASES

• DELNET (http://www.delnet.nic.in/)

DELNET has been established with the prime objective of promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store, and disseminate information. IP based - Onsite access only

• JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/)

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. IP based - Onsite access only

• LITERARY REFERENCE CENTRE PLUS DATABASE ( http://search.ebscohost.com) 

It is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 179,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), nearly 450 literary journals, more than 644,000 book reviews, more than 71,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,800 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. IP based - onsite access only.

• SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTRE DATABASE (http://search.ebscohost.com/)

It is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. IP address restricted access. On site access only.

Click Here to view the list of magazines subscribed.

Click Here to view the list of newspapers subscribed.

LIBRARY COUNCIL

Library Council (LC) is the apex supervisory body of the library, which reviews and recommends library services and collections.

It consists of: 

• HM –Permanent Member
• DHM - Permanent Member
• Librarian - Permanent Member
• IB Coordinator – Permanent Member
• Master in-charge (Technology Committee)-Invitee
• Five teacher’s representatives- nominated by Librarian
• One student representative from Sc and S form - each house
• One student representative from A and B form - each house
• One student representative from C and D form - each house 

Reference resources:
   
Almanac

a.  Information Please Almanac (http://www.infoplease.com)
b.  Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com)

Books and Reviews
a. Bookbrowse.com  (http://www.bookbrowse.com)
b. New York Times Books (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/)
c. Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
d. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.in/)
e. Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)

Dictionaries & Thesauri
a. Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)
b. Free translation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com/)
c. WordReference.com (http://wordreference.com/)
d. Cliché Site (http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp)
e. Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/)
f.  Internet Anagram Server (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/)

Education
a. FreevideoLectures.com (http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
b. Online Education Database(http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
c. World Resources Institute (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)

General Searches
a. Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/)
b. ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/)
c. Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)

d. Google Things to do (http://www.google.co.uk/landing/thingstodo/)
e. Internet Archive /Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
f.  PolyCola.com(http://www.polycola.com/)
g. Shakespeare (http://nfs.sparknotes.com/)

Language
a. Modern Language (http://www.sas.edu.sg/library/hs/modern.html)
b. BBC-Learning English(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/)
c. BBC- Grammar & Pronunciation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/)

Poetry
a. The Academy of American Poets(http://www.poets.org/)
b. American Verse Project(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
c. Glossary of Literary terms (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm)

Quotations
a. Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/100/)
b. The Quote Garden (http://www.quotegarden.com/)
c. Quote World (http://www.quoteworld.org/)

Measures, Weights, Conversion
a. Convert-me.com(http://www.convert-me.com/en/)
b. Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com/index.htm)
c. Oanda.com (http://www.oanda.com/)

Weblinks to award winning books
a. American library Association-YALSA (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm)
b. The Man Booker Prize(http://www.themanbookerprize.com/)
c. Nobel prize-Literature(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/)
d. Pultizer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/)