The University Library is housed in its won multistoreyed building specially desinged to house various functions of a modern University Library. The Library building has adequate space to accommodate more than 2 lacs of volumes in stace-hall, about 450 readers in reading halls and about 100 Research Scholars in Cubicles on Different floors. The basement on its compietion will also provide space for a Museum, and Exhibition Room, bindery, Repographic Unit and Private Reading Room.

The Library has been organised into different reader services viz Main Lending Section, Text Books Section, General Reference Section and a Periodical publications Section in the subject field of Humanities, Social Sciences & border line disciplines and three Sectional Libraties in the subject fields of physical and Biological Sciences, Law and Education. Besides a separate Maps, Dissertations and Thesis, careers and Courses, Bibliographies, Microdocuments and moral and Spiritual Studies are in the process of being set up.

The Library maintains comprehensice collection of books and periodicals to suport University's formal programme of instruction and research in various disciplines and promote inter-disciplinary communications and research as well as general pursuits in the advancement of knowledge. The Library had a total collection of 1,82,738 books including bound volumes of periodcals upto 31-03-2001 (Excluding unbound periodicals and pamphlet literature). The number of current periodicals on the subscription list of the Library is 308 costing about 17,50,000/ during the year ie 2001-2002.

The reading materials have been organised on the shelves in a scientific and helpful order following the Dewey Decimal System of classification. A divided dictionary type of public Catalogue is also maintained in order to provide title, author and subject approach to reding materials. Besides the Public Catalogue,  a shelf catalogue containing entires in a classified order is also maintained.

Open access facility has been provided in Library so that Readers can go directly to the shelves and select the materials needed by them. But in order to meet specific demands of readers, reference and advisory service is also provided to them with the help of professionally qualified staff.

The University Grants Commission has been kind enough by selecting our university in their programme for Computerisation and Networking of Universities Libraries in 1995. Our university is one of the few which have been selected on priority for implementation of this useful progamme has connected us to INFLIBNET Library Networking programme at Ahemadabad. INFLIBNET is ingtended to be a multiple function networking to offer database services, communication services etc.

H.P. University Library purchased and got installed computer Hard / Software amounting to Rs. 4,30,836/-.

COMPUTERISATION OF LIBRARY RECORDS

Books which are procured currently i.e. 2000-2001 are being fed in to the database. Same is being done for the Theses.

The University Library will  be connected  with other University Libraries of the world through INTERNET soon.