Library Mission Statement

The mission of the ABP Library is to gather, organize, preserve, and provide access to information resources necessary for the ABP, to achieve its educational and service goals. To improve and expand access to information in all forms, using innovative technology thereby having a broadly based collection, to assist in meeting the needs of Students, Faculty and Staff of ABP.

Library staffs are committed to maintaining a quality study and research environment, protecting the rights of users and sustaining the integrity of collections.

The Library's mission is accomplished through the following goals:

a.Identify, acquire, organize, preserve, and provide access to pertinent recorded knowledge to support teaching, learning, and creative activities.

b.Recruit, hire, and retain, quality faculty and staff committed to delivering excellent services in response to the rapidly changing needs of the user community.

c.Offer formal and informal instruction to promote information literacy.

d.Provide an easily accessible, user-friendly and safe environment that fosters teaching and learning for the users.

e.Apply appropriate technological innovations to achieve productivity and efficiency, as well as provide library services to the users.

f.Communicate library services to raise awareness and promote partnerships with university organizations, other libraries and educational institutions, and local communities.

g.Continue to improve the effectiveness of the Library through systematic, ongoing outcome assessment, evaluating and improving, on a continual basis, the Library's collections, services and programs.

Collection

The library collection includes Books, Journals, and Magazines, Audio / Videos and Electronic books. The library also subscribes to some of the popular online databases to support the teaching learning process. The library collection is currently little over 11,000 and growing. The scope of the library collection extends beyond the subjects taught in the ABP viz, English, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computers and includes Information sources that help in the overall development of the students.

The LRC

At the heart of the ABP lies the Learning Resource Center (LRC). This is where students gather to work at computers, meet in small groups to work on cooperative learning projects, or simply sit comfortably and study. The LRC leads via a staircase on one side into the ABP Library, and doors on the other side of the room lead into a mahjlees tent - yet another area popular for group activities or a relaxing read. The English Room, next to the LRC, is where students can find EFL faculty to help them with advice and support about all aspects of English language learning throughout every day, while the same advice and support for other areas of the curriculum is available in the main LRC area. The LRC remains open on Saturdays and late into the evenings to provide ABP students with a constantly available study facility.

The LRC arranges periodic Mini Courses targeting public exams such as IELTS, SATs and ACTs, and is frequently used for meetings, presentations and myriad other student-focused activities.