Controlling Officer :  Librarian

The Library of Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry is named after late Mr. Satyanand Stokes; a native of US who later became Indian national and heralded apple revolution in the state of Himachal Pradesh. It is a well-established modern library catering to the information needs of academic community of the university. It has developed many in-house databases in addition to providing global access to desired information. 

The library has a prestigious modular three-storey building with a plinth area of 3975 m² and a reading space of 665.60 m². It has a seating capacity for 326 users in the common reading area and 13 cubicles. The library is equipped with modern infrastructure and facilities.

The open access library has been providing computerized library services since 1990. The library has a collection of more than 50,000 books and subscribes to over 370 periodicals, both foreign and Indian. The facilities for inter - library loan, documentation and reprography are also available in the library.

Faculty

Phone (O): 91-(1792)- 52280

E-mail:  ulib@yspuhf.hp.nic.in

Facilities

On-line Public Access

• Catalogue (Books)

• Theses Database

• CD-ROM Databases

• SAARC Databases

• Serial Database

• Current Awareness Services  

Library and Information Services

Library has recently introduced many computerized services and is heading towards digital system. CD-ROM services were introduced as early as 1989 making CAB database available on CD-ROM, thus providing sophisticated searching capability to reduce searching time for the reference material considerably.

Databases on CD-ROM

The library has created bibliographical database on CD-ROM viz. HORT-CD, TREE-CD and CAB-CD databases. In addition to the above library has also acquired many other CDs relating to information technology which help the students and the staff to learn various important software packages.

In-House Database

Library is near to completion of its On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) providing electronic access to its collection. In addition to this, library has compiled its own in-house database. Some of these are given below:

• Regularly updated database on university M.Sc and Ph.D theses.

• Database on development of social and agroforestry in India.

• Database on serial holding of the library. Further, the library has also compiled the adhoc bibliographical databases on fruits and vegetable crops.

SAARC Database

Library has acquired many national and international databases from outside institutions. Following SAARC databases in computerized format are available in the library:

• Directory of agricultural institutions in SAARC countries.

• Directory of agricultural periodicals of SAARC countries.

• Database on biotechnology.

• Database on postharvest technology.

Internet and E-mail Facility

Under ARIS Programme of  ICAR, library has the unique facility of Global Information Access Through Internet which links the university to Master Earth Station of NICNET, Delhi. The library provides facilities to academic community to receive and send electronic mail, read electronic journals on line, communicate, disseminate and send information across the world on any topic of interest.

The university library was started with a total documents of 27,060 and with an annual average arrival of 1700 new documents, it is today a proud owner of 50,857 precious documents.

Contact for further details

Dr. A S Chandel,

Librarian,

Dr. Y S Parmar University Horticulture and Forestry,

Nauni, Solan, HP 173 230

 Phone ( O ) :  91-(1792)- 52280

                    ( R ) :  91-(1792)- 52499                         

Fax : 91-(1792)-52242

E-mail : asc@yspuhf.hp.nic.in , ulib@yspuhf.hp.nic.in เสื้อผ้า