The Central Library of IITM or Indian Institute of Technology Madras is located in a separate building and provide to the information needs of the institute faculty, students, staff, research institutions & industries.

In addition, there are smaller libraries in each department, which has books borrowed from the main library for reference. It has around 2 million books covering all disciplines of science, engineering, technology, humanities & social sciences.

The Books collection comprises printed documents such as books, reports, theses, standards, atlases, patents and journal back volumes.

Its non-book collections include material like micro fiche/film, audio/video cassettes and CD ROM discs.

It has a separate collection of prescribed textbooks under 'Book Bank' for the exclusive use of students.

It provides various services for its members such as - Lending of books and journal back volumes, reservation of books, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, DTP & offset printing, CDROM and Internet services & video screening.

All the library activities are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals for searching books in the library.

It currently subscribes to around 1,000 scholarly journals in sciences, engineering and humanities.

Under the INDEST consortium, the library provides on-line access to a large number of full-text journal databases from various publishers. These e-journals are accessible on intranet to campus users only.

Timing
The library working hours are from 9 A.M. to 11 P.M. on weekdays and 9 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. on Saturdays, Sundays & holidays. It is closed for 7 days in a year as per the institute's list of holidays.

Contact Detail:
Central Library
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - 600 036, INDIA
Telephone +91-44-22574951 Fax +91-44-22570509
e-mail: librarian or jadhavm[@]iitm[.]ac[.]in