Any donations or gifts to the Library must be consistent with the Library's collection policies, goals, and objectives.
Books will be gratefully accepted provided they meet the Library's collection development, selection policies, and procedures and should enhance the Library's collections' value.
Donated books are evaluated according to the same criteria applied to purchased material. Donated materials that have not met the Library's collection development policy criteria will be used for the Book Donation Drive of the Institute at the discretion of the Library.
The Library prefers the following types of books for inclusion in its collections:
Non-fiction books
Novels for recreational reading
Subject books of recent editions
Children's books
General reading books and Good Indian language books
01. THE LIC WILL NOT ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF BOOKS
Outdated informational books
All kinds of textbooks
Outdated encyclopedias, yearbooks
Complementary or not-for-sale copies of books
Books without price information
Books already available in the library collection
Books with torn pages or missing covers or that are written in
Books with editorial comments either written or typed in them
Any books the Library deemed not fitting into its collection development policy.
02. DISPOSITION OF DONATED BOOKS
Accepted books will be integrated into the regular library collections with a new accession number series and available to all library patrons.
The Library retains ownership of accepted books. Once conveyed to the library, no gifted books will be returned to the donor.
The Library reserves the right to decide the display conditions, housing, withdrawal, and access to the materials.
The Library will not notify the donor when gift items are withdrawn from the collection. The Library will not automatically replace worn-out, damaged, or lost gift items.
The Library is not obligated to keep donated materials for any time. The Library reserves the right to decide on the disposition of any gift books.
03. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GIFT BOOKS
The Library shall acknowledge all the gift books through email.
