Archiving Collection in Architecture College Library: A Survey at KRVIA Library, Mumbai

Abstract

Pedagogy of architectural education and libraries are phenomenal in terms of teaching-learning and collection in their libraries. They typically refer to measured architectural drawings. Architecture teaching-learning systems generate innovative ideas and skills which are presentable in a better way with the help of various ICT tools, and the libraries need to archive all those for future reference. However, in the modern context, architectural institutes have initiated their studio performance in digital form. Old architectural handmade measured drawings have been shifted to a digital version, which becomes a readymade primary resource for a library to archive. The present article emphasizes on how an architecture college library can cultivate resources by archiving the institutional literature. Hence, a survey was conducted on Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) library users to know the types of research reports produced by using various ICT tools in the teaching-learning system as well as in the library to archive the same.