CENTRAL LIBRARY

Mission: To keep the people updated at all times with the dynamic and knowledge based globe.

In the present age of information explosion libraries have attained the Central position in all Educational and Research organizations. Central Library of BIT was established in 1986 to supplement classroom teaching and to boost Research. Since then this center of self-learning has been playing an important role in supplementing academic activities and boosting research in the college. The library established from the inception of the institute is a well managed one and provides the following categories of service to its readers:

• Routine issue of books
• Reference service
• Reprographic service
• Reading room service
• Internet surfing
• Online accessing of various International journals
• Adorning of the Departmental libraries
• SC/ST Book Bank
• Scholar Book Bank for meritorious students

It is adjacent to the administrative block having a separate reading hall, periodical section, processing section and a small binding unit. The spacious reading room with 250 capacities is stocked with encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and textbooks numbering around 8000 volumes.  Newspapers, weeklies and magazines of diverse fields are subscribed.

The stack room is well stocked with over 23,000 volumes of books and an adequate number of journals of repute in various areas of Engineering and Applied Sciences.  The students can avail the facility of  the "Book Bank for Meritorious students" with approximately 3,000 books for the general students and 2,500 for the SC/ST.

In the e-library section, a stock of around 1000 e-books, Downloaded articles of IEEE and World Scientific, CD/DVD Writer, Scanner/OCR are used extensively by its users.

Additional facility of free Internet Surfing Zone with 16 clients through SIFY Broad band Services with 512 KBps leased port are available for use. The library has its own LAN system and which is connected to BIT W-LAN. The central library is proud to be a member of DELNET and AIRC. For monitoring the activities, CCTV based monitoring system has been installed. The library is open for 13 hrs. (8:00 AM to 9:00 PM) during the working days. Library staff includes Librarian, Assistant librarian, Book lifter and security personnel. Prof. In-charge, Library looks after the effective mobilization of the resources.

Future proposals for expansion of Central Library includes development of Full Library Automation, E-Library, Separate PG Library, PG Reading Room, Teacher’s reading room.