An Institutional Repository for Undergraduate Students: a Case Study at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi (India)

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STEPHENS'S COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF DELHI: A BRIEF HISTORY

n numerical terms, J.B.G.Tilak²identified that there were some 421 universities, and 18,000 colleges, in existence across India. St. Stephen's College in New Delhi is one of the premier Institutes established by the Cambridge Mission and is the oldest college in Delhi. The Cambridge Brotherhood arrived in Delhi in 1877 to reinforce the teaching strength of the school run by the S.P.G (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) Mission. The College was housed in the Shish Mahal in Katra Khushal Rai in Kinari Bazar from 1881 to 1890. In 1891 it moved into its own beautiful building designed by Colonel (later Sir) Samuel Swinton Jacob, the Chief Engineer of Jaipur State. Currently, the College has 13 departments and 90 staff who are teaching 1,400 students (including many law students) in the college. The College awards degrees in the arts and sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Shikha Kaushik

The University of Delhi is regarded as the premier institution for higher education in India. The University was established in 1922 at a time when only three colleges existed in Delhi; there are now 83 colleges that are affiliated to the University. The North Campus of the University has some 16 faculties and 84 departments and that is where the three original colleges, plus others, are located - these are St Stephen's College, Hindu College (founded in 1899) and Ramjas College (founded in 1917). The colleges of the North Campus centre round the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Law. Whilst St Stephen's College does not enroll law students, resources such as the Institutional Repository of the St Stephen's College can be accessed by law students from the law Faculty. In fact, the IR is on the local area network of the Delhi University and can be accessed anywhere from within the Delhi University campus for interdisciplinary research.

ST STEPHEN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY

St. Stephen's College has a well established library housed in a separate wing with approximately 85,000 books, 3,000 online journals and a separate archival section which holds records pertaining to the history of the college. The college library is...