Facilities of St Mary's College, Shillong

Facilities of St Mary's College, Shillong

Library

The St Mary's College has a library facility for all students. Students are engaged in “active learning” because the college has an impressive library with a collection of innumerable books covering all subjects, important regional, journals, and encyclopedias. The College has automated its library and its services using an open-source and Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS) –Koha. Students get access to books through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) across the network in the College. Reprographic support is available in the library. The library has a Book Bank facility. A collection of Local Newspapers is being maintained.

I.T Infrastructure

The St Mary's College has an excellent IT Infrastructure facility for the students. With the requirement of the modern system of education, the College implements ICT in day-to-day teaching with free internet facilities, audio-visual systems, digital cameras, etc.

Cafeteria

The St Mary's College has a well-furnished Canteen that provides eatables for staff and students at a nominal rate to meet their thirst and hunger. The college canteen provides a platform for the students besides meeting their thirst and hunger, to discuss the topic of current interest involving themselves in activities such as group discussion, personality development, and communication skills.

Alumni Associations

The St Mary's College has a conducive family atmosphere, authority is decentralized and responsibilities are shared among the staff and students. Therefore even after the students have completed the course, they still have the family feeling and spirit projected in the form of the Alumni Association. A number of them hold prominent positions within the country and abroad. The alumni play important roles in different committees with different assignments given to their committees. The Alumni contributed much to the development of the institution; a number of them gave demonstration classes on different method papers. The activities of the Alumni Association conducted in the College are i. Demonstration classes. Orientation Programmatic. Workshop on Teaching Aids. The contribution of articles for the College Magazine. Other Developmental Activities.

Laboratories

Science Lab: The Science Laboratory is so designed to accommodate science students to carry out their theory classes and experiments when necessary with experimental facilities. Psychological Lab: Apparatus, Manuals for psychological testing, and observations are conducted in this room which can accommodate 20 students at a time.