Jamia Millia Islamia adds barcode-based visitor entry to its library to dissuade "outsiders"

Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday replaced the manual attendance register in its central library with an automated system to curtail the entry of "outsiders", an official said.

The university has also launched an e-library mobile app that makes thousands of books available to students online. These two services were launched during the inauguration of an exhibition on the Holy Quran.

The e-library app and the "Automated In/Out Attendance System of Library Users" was launched by Jamia Millia Islamia registrar Prof. Nazim Husain Al- Jafri at Dr. Zakir Husain Library.

"The Automated In/Out Attendance System of Library Users will replace the earlier practice of manual attendance system... Library users have praised their experience of a quick and hassle-free attendance system using barcode technology. This will prevent the entry of outsiders," an official said.

"Along with this, we also launched the e-library mobile app, which will facilitate seamless and uninterrupted access to information anytime, anywhere to bonafide library users," he added.

Prof. Nazim Husain Al-Jafri also inaugurated the exhibition on the Holy Quran in the presence of deans, directors, faculty, staff and students of the university.

The exhibition includes a rare collection of manuscripts of the Holy Quran dating back to the 15th century. The exhibition also displays rarely published translations of the Holy Quran in several Indian languages, including Hindi, Kannada, and Malayalam, and in international languages, including Japanese, French, German and Russian.