The Central library has been established with state-of-art infrastructure to the International Standards, spreads over to four floors with built-in area of 2322.58 sq.m. It has provided with centrally air-conditioning system, well-protected with fire alarm, CCTV, and Flap Barrier. Reference and Textbooks of national and international authors, International and National Journals & Non-Book materials are available to cater various fields of Basic Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Law, Fashion Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences. VIT Chennai Library has a Digital library, Video Conferencing facility. Central Library is using Koha software for Library automation and has implemented RFID technology with self-issue and return kiosk, WEB-OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue), and online renewal facility.
Resources
Library Resources | Chennai campus |
Total Number of Books | 67,063 |
Total Number of Back Volumes | 4251 |
Print Journals | 268 |
National | 128 |
International | 140 |
Online databases/E-Journals :(On and Off Campus access facility) ABI Inform Complete (Pro-Quest), Bentham Science, CMIE Prowess for interactive Querying(IP) and Consumer Pyramids Household Survey Dx, EMERALD Management Journals, IEL Online (IEEE & IEE), Springer Nature Journals and , Scifinder Scholar, and ProQuest-Dissertation & Theses (ETD) Part A & B (Science and Engineering, Humanities and Social Science ) Web of Science, Web of Science – back-files (1997-2020). For Law Heinonline, JSTOR, LexisNexis, Manupatra SCC Online, and Westlaw India. | 13,538+ |
E-Book – (On and Off Campus access facility) | 17,550 |
Media Resources | |
CD / DVD | 4,305 |
Total Number of Magazines | 60 |
Services
- Circulation Service
- Reference Service
- Web OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue)
- Resource Sharing (Inter Library Loan)
- Multimedia Resource Service
- On-line Databases
- NPTEL e-Learning Facility
- User Education Program
- Tele / Video Conferencing
Membership
All students, faculty members and staff of the institute are membership of the library
Institutional Membership
- BCL, Chennai
- American Information Resources Center, Chennai
- DELNET, Delhi
- INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad
- MALIBNET, Chennai
- SERC – CSIR Library