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Library

Central Library occupies a place of pride in KLU and is an essential component of the institute’s outstanding research and education mission.

It is a most lively place on the campus providing a safe, comfortable and friendly environment that enables learning and advancement of knowledge, and promotes discovery and scholarship. The mission of the Central Library is to facilitate creation of new knowledge through acquisition, organization and dissemination of knowledge resources and providing for value added services. The Central Library system consists of Central Library and 13 departmental libraries, which collectively support the teaching, research and extension and employees of the Institute are permitted to make use of library facilities. The library has a huge collection of books on Engineering, Management, Science and Humanities and has been offering library services through its various divisions.

Library Resources

The Central Library has an excellent collection of Books, Journals and Non Book Materials is Science, Engineering, Technology, Humanities and Management.

ResourcesNumbers
No. of Volumes 90000+
No. of Titles 27500+
Back Volumes 2900+
Project Reports 2900+
No. of CDs & VCDs 5660
No. of Reference Titles 13500
No. of Reference Volumes 17525
Journals / Magazines / Proceedings Online / Hardcopy 6706
E-books 1200
Online Lectures (NPTEL, SONET, etc.,) 300
Online Courses (ACM) 2500
Subscriptions: ACM, IEEE, ASME, ASCE, Springer Link, EBSCO, DELNET, PROWSE

Library Computerization

The Central Library has computerized all its activities including Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, and stock verification using in – house software. The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) can be accessed on Internet and Intranet. The Central Library used Barcode and Biometric technology for computerized circulation system and stock verification. The Central Library has developed in-house facility for bar coding of books and ID cards.

Video Collection and Video Viewing

The Central Library has a collection of 300 video lectures. The Central Library is equipped with video viewing facility through FTP.

The Central Library remains open on all days of the academic year.

Major Services in the library include Reference Services, Photocopying service, Resource sharing (Inter – Library Loan), Information Alert services – New Arrivals.

Digital Library

Digital Library is a part of the Central Library with network built up of fiber optic Giga-byte Ethernet backbone. Digital Library has 60 computer terminals to access Internet/E-Learning material. It also has a CD server with 1000 CD capacity.

The Central Library is a member of DELNET, ASME, IEEE, ACM, MAA, MIS, EBSCO and Bio pharma International, Geotechnical Engineering, Nature, IE, Computer Society of India, SPRINGER LINK, EBSCO, and PROWSE.