About Library
Welcome to VIDYACHETANA: PROUDHADEVARYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY.
May I call upon all bonafide library users to dedicate time and make effort to visit our physical and virtual library in order to benefit from the wealth of information resources available in various formats.
The library plays a vital role as a one-stop place in meeting your information needs. It facilitates access to all the information you need to complement your academic and research activities. Like all Academic Libraries of the 21st century, we have hybrid facilities, preserving past knowledge while offering the latest electronic resources, information services and enabling technologies.
Reliable access to scholarly resources and provision of timely information services to the students & faculty remains our primary goal.
In coming years, library will be delivering much more user focused and technologically sophisticated services, designed to meet the contemporary information needs of the students and the staff.
May I invite you to be a part of this exhilarating experience. I wish all the students a pleasant and memorable experience at our library and I am confident that you will find a pathway to a bright future in chosen career. Looking forward to interact with you in the library.
VIDYACHETANA: A Treasure Trove of Information
VIDYACHETANA, the 'Learning Resource Center' is the proud central library of the Proudhadevarya Institute of Technology, Hosapete. The Library caters to the educational and research needs of the academic community, since 1997. A well stacked, aesthetically spaced, fully automated and open access central library is located in the first floor of main block, occupies over 1023.67 sqm. of area with the sitting capacity for more than 250 students at a time. It is pride taking thing to note that it has won accolades for its infrastructure, teaching learning resources and steady progress and made it as model library in the Hyderabad Karnataka Region. Within a short span of time this small library has grown up to a smart one, with over 53,265 volumes of books, 75+ subscribed national and international journals in addition to numerous E-resources like online journals and e- books provided by VTU Consortium, and many educational video courses & cassettes and CD-ROMS etc,. Catering quality services to more than 1500 under graduate students, research scholars and their teaching band of reputed faculty.
The Vidyachetana is automated with integrated library software package KOHA. This technology offers fastest, easiest, most efficient way to track, locate and manage library materials.

Sri. Basavaraj M. Hadagali
B.A., M.LISc.,ICT
Librarian
Contact
Ph: +91 988 685 3308
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Support the parent organization to improve its academic excellence, preserve information across all formats and ensures effective storage and delivery systems to serve future users and develop the college community as self-learners and lifelong learners.
The library’s mission is to provide comprehensive resources and services in support of the research, teaching, and learning needs of the College community. To fulfill this mission, the library commits to: Build global standard information collection; create hospitable physical and virtual environments for study, teaching and research. Develop collaborative culture to enrich the research and learning community. Educate users about the library’s sources and services and develop professional sills in its library staff.
Reliable access to scholarly resources and provision of timely information services to the students, faculty, and staff remains our primary goal.
PDIT Library is committed to
- Creativity and innovation Collaboration and teamwork Individual and organizational learning Diversity
- Academic and intellectual freedom
- Meet the library users’ expectations by provide value added library services.
- Optimum usage of allocated budget and mobilize financial resources.
- Improve the efficiency of the library housekeeping operations.
- Improve the library internal process speed, accuracy and transparency, develop zero inventory control system and zero footprint library service delivery system by integrated. Information and communication technology.
- Encourage and motivate to develop sustain expertise, skills, commitment and an innovative spirit in its library staff.
- Consider the voice of the library stakeholders to review and redesign valued added library services.
- Automated Circulation System
- Online Public Access Catalogue
- Digital Library
- Reference and Information Services
- Database Orientation Program
- User Awareness Session
- Referral Service
- Book Bank Service
- Reprographic / Scanning Service
- Procurement of Books for Personal Use Service
- Interaction Service
- Improve the effectiveness of the library services.
- Improve the financial performance and economic growth of the library.
- Improve the efficiency of the library housekeeping operations.
- Develop the library wide work culture, professional skills of the library staff and develop the library staff as strategic thinkers.
- Safeguard the interests and benefits of the library stakeholders.