The University Library is a central facility to support the teaching and research activities of the University. The library has been, over the years successfully catering to the information needs of all the academic community viz., teachers, research scholars and students of Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Communication and Management Studies.

The library has a collection of more than 3 lakhs books & back volumes of journals. The library subscribes to around 700 periodicals, popular magazines & newspapers in English and Indian languages. The library also subscribes to over 18,000 e-journals from several publishers with the help of UGC-INFONET. Important text books for students are kept in a book bank in a separate hall.

All the in-house library operations are fully computerised using VTLS-Virtua software, including a web OPAC and Electronic Security gate. The Library is one of the scanning centres under the Universal Digital Library project of the Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

The library has achieved several distinctions in IT applications in the country for application of IT. It is the first University Library in India to computerize all its in-house operations and services; the first University Library to subscribe to e-journals, the first in undertaking the computerization programs of other libraries on turnkey basis; the first to become the governing member of the OCLC, USA, the first in installing an Electronic security gate with magnetic detector, the first in starting a Post-Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (PGDLAN); and it is the First Library to start Digitization of books in India.