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The newly formed Joseph‟s Outreach program is a compulsory and envisages the
building of appropriate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes necessary for creating a
just and secular society across student community.

Infrastructure and learning resources
As College has added new courses, and increased the use of ICT, the infrastructure
has also seen many changes.
 Prayer/Meditation room, Music Room, Staff Reading and Recreation Room were
added.
 Three modern and well-equipped studios for audio recording and video filming
have been added to the infrastructure.
 The whole campus is Wi-Fi enabled.
 History Museum preserves archives of College history and photographs and
manuscripts of important landmarks in the history of Karnataka and Bengaluru.
 College has an observatory with a state-of-the-art telescope for studies in
Astronomy. Members of the public visit the observatory for night sky viewing.
 The College has installed CCTV Cameras in prominent locations to avoid any
untoward incident and make the campus safe. Closed circuit TVs and public
address systems disseminate official information and circulars.
 College provides elevators, ramp and wheel chair for physically challenged
students and staff members.
 In order to share information about various events and activities in the College
with all the students, three of our students designed the SJC mobile app. The app
was thus designed for one of the oldest institutions of the country paving its way to
leap into the world of technological advancement.
 All students have smart cards that are useful in economic transactions on campus,
which is also an innovative step to make the campus a cash-free zone.

Innovation in Library
 The library has undergone several changes during the last four years. Galileo
Digital Learning Centre- a digital library system has been introduced. It is connected
with LAN /WiFi to all the systems on entire campus and is available for the students
and staff. It has 6 TB (Tera Byte) storage capacity and it is on Ostillios platform. It
has a large collection of e-books, e-journals, PowerPoint presentations, video
presentations, biographies of eminent personalities, industrial case studies, language
labs, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
 The library staff conducts a Library Information Literacy Program in the beginning
of the academic year to all classes.
 The library organized a two day book fair which saw the participation of twenty
three publishers, distributors and suppliers.
 The library software has introduced EPAC to help the users to know the
bibliographical details and real time availability of books. The library has an assistive
technology from Freedom Scientific, JAWS for Windows, Focus 14, 40 & 80 Blue
for students with physical or learning disabilities.
 A Smart Gate Register is kept at the entrance of the library. Users have to show
their Identity Card or furnish particulars at the Gate Register for entry into the library.
The Smart Gate Register is helpful to get statistics of library users.

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