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Library
The state-of-the-art Library of the Institute is a learning resource centre of the Institute that meets the
requirements of the students and teachers with respect to the academic programmes and syllabi of WBUT.
The Library provides them with modern and technologically advanced amenities with respect to books,
journals, e-sources as well as live-coverage of special lectures and seminars.
The Library is situated in the heart of the academic complex of the Institute, in the Ground Floor of the
main building. The Library has a collection of over 2000 titles and over 39,000 volumes. Besides the
printed journals, the Library subscribes to 85 online IEEE and other journals and provides access to IEEE
online database. (See Annexure AI for the journals subscribed). The functions and services of the Library
are fully computerised. In addition, the Library provides with the digital library facility to students. Besides
the general lending, the students are also entitled to accessing books from the Book Bank of the Library
and retaining them for a defined semester. It has a well maintained stock of CD-ROMs, DVDs, Project
Reports and Thesis. The students are given access to fully automated circulation facilities through LIBSYS
Software package (an integrated multi-user library system). The Library remains open even beyond the
Institute hours for the benefit of students and teachers. Further, in order to promote awareness about the
Library among the users, the Library organises Exhibitions on various subjects on a regular interval.
The Library also has access to the most of the premier Journals of IEEE, IET, WILEY, etc. Students may
directly access not only print journals but also online journals including Scientific American, National
Geographic, Asian Journal of Control, IEEE Communication Society Digital Library, Proceedings of IEEE,
and many more. A list of journals available in the Library is provided in Annexure AI.
Computer Centre
The Computer Laboratory of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering provides the ‘Computer Centre’ to the
Institute. The Centre, in turn, provides the Internet facilities of
4Mbps bandwidth. The Wi-Fi service, provided through six
powerful antennas, is available for all the students and teachers
of the Institute, which covers the Institute Administrative Office,
the Departments, Boys Hostel, Girls Hostel, and Guest House.
Further, the Centre is equipped with the facilities such as High-
End Server, modern online UPS, 150 P-IV computers and 566
core i3 computers (Lenovo Think Centre) with 100 Mbps LAN
facilities for all the computer and supporting accessories like
Dot Matrix Printers, LaserJet Printer, DVD Writers, Scanners,
LCD Projectors, etc. The software’s of the Centre include 6
operating system Windows 2008, Windows 2007, Windows Vista,
Windows XP (all Windows operating systems under Microsoft
Campus License), Linux, Fedora and 36 application software:
Visual Studio 2010, Office 2007/2010, Turbo C++ 4.5, Java, Lab
view, Etap, My power, Multi Sim, Caspic, PiceSpice, Tech-MO ,
Tech-Term, Tanner, Code Composer Studio, Xilinx, etc.
Language Laboratory
Students have access to the Language Laboratory which is
equipped with the facilities as per the norms of WBUT, which
help students develop their skill in expressing their ideas. IIT-
STEP, Kharagpur has further updated the Laboratory to make it
one of the best of its kind in the country. In this Laboratory,
students go through intensive practice in listening, reading,
speaking and writing, (LRSW skills) which help them enhance
their interpersonal, business, and technical communication skills.
The course offered by the state-of-the-art Laboratory includes
the phonetic symbols which will augment their pronunciation
ability, the intonation and stress, through audio cassettes, CDs,
VCDs, prepared by the professionals on the subject such as OUP,
BBC and The British Institutes.
Students are encouraged to learn the language through creative
and innovative methods and activities such as Group Discussions,
Mock Interviews, Role Plays and Oral Power Point Presentations.
Their participation in the GD and Mock Interviews are recorded
and later shown to them as a feedback for the improvement of
the specific skills they lack in. Students are trained in this
Laboratory with the method of oral presentation of their research
papers at Conferences as well (see Annexure BI). Further, this
Laboratory encourages our students to take up hardware projects
on the development of the sensors for monitoring the noise levels
in verbal presentations, moods of speakers, etc.
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