LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES CENTERS
Resources & Collections
Since the establishment of the Library and Information Services Center in 1994, the Institute has spent more than 65 million baht to develop the library collections and library facilities. The Library at Rangsit has a total floor area of 2,518.5 square meters with a seating capacity of 490. A branch library of 1,319 square meters with a seating capacity of 250 was set up for SIIT at Bangkadi in October 2004.
At present, the SIIT Library (at Rangsit and Bangkadi) has in total 42,321 volumes of publications and 548 titles of periodicals (technical journals, magazines, and newsletters) with 66 titles (English – 43 titles, Thai – 23 titles) are currently subscribed. The Library also subscribes to 30 titles of ASCE online journals.
In addition, SIIT students, faculty members and staff can access 14 databases: ABI/INFORM Complete, ACM Digital Library, IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL), ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global, SpringerLink, Web of Science, American Chemical Society Journal (ACS), Academic Search Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, EBSCO Discovery Service Plus Full Text, Education Research Complete, H.W. Wilson, Emerald Management , and ScienceDirect, which have been subscribed by the Office of the Commission for Higher Education for universities in Thailand. Library users can also access SCOPUS and IET InspecDirect through TU Library.
Integrated Library System and Computer Facilities
The Library implemented the VTLS Integrated Library System in 1995 and the library system was migrated from Classic Version to Virtua Version in October 2004, lasted software upgraded was changed from original OPAC into CHAMO Social OPAC in January 2016. The library database is now accessible 24 hours via Internet.
The Library at Rangsit has 15 computers and the Library at Bangkadi has 15 computers for users to access the library catalog, online databases, and worldwide information resources.
Library Services
The main services provided by the Library are as follows:
Bibliographic Instruction/ Library Orientation: Introducing library resources, services and information searching strategies to SIIT students and interested users.
Reference and Referral Services
Book Circulation
Reading Room Services
Inter-Library-Loan Services
Online Library Services
Library catalog searching
Renewing and reserving library items online
Book Delivery Service between RS-BKD
Checking your library record
Library notifications by email
Only students and staff of SIIT, faculty members of SIIT, and faculty members of Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Thammasat University are entitled to make use of the facilities in the Library and Information Services Center.
Users who are dressed inappropriately would be asked to leave the Library.
Eating, drinking, smoking and noise making are prohibited in the Library.
Only the users with SIIT student card are allowed to check out publications from the Library. Users who have not returned overdue publications are not allowed to check out any additional publication.
FINES for overdue publications are: 10 baht per item per day for publications from the main collection and 20 baht per item per hour for the reserved publications. Users are to reimburse for the loss or damage of materials they checked out from the Library.
The Library is not responsible for the loss or damage of any personal items left in the Library. Users who violate the Library's regulations would be asked to leave the Library and would not be allowed to make use of any Library's facilities.