About The Library

The central library of the university is known as Prof. Bhubaneswar Behera Central Library, which is located in the heart of the university. It Establish in the year 1970, Prof. Bhubaneswar Behera Central Library aims at selecting, acquiring, storing, retrieving and disseminating information for the benefit of academic community of Sambalpur University. The Library System comprises of a Central Library and 22 departmental libraries that collectively support the teaching, research, selecting, acquiring, storing, retrieving and disseminating information and extension programmes of the University. The Central Library houses a total collection of over three lakh documents comprising of books, theses, journals, video cassettes and compact discs in the fields of science, engineering, humanities, literature and management. All in-house operations in the library are fully computerized using the Soul software package that also provides web-based access to the online catalogue of Library. This library contains more than 160,000 books in various subjects, and also subscribes to a good numbers of periodicals in different disciplines. The library is partially automated using SOUL software. The library is also a member of UGC-Infonet.