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June 15th, 2016, 11:56 AM
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IIT Madras Library Timings
Can you provide me official timing for opening and closing of Central Library of IITM or Indian Institute of Technology Madras? Also provide me the name of the Librarian of Central Library of IITM or Indian Institute of Technology Madras? The Central Library of IITM or Indian Institute of Technology Madras 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. It is placed in a separate building and caters to the information needs of the institute faculty, students, staff, research institutions & industries. There are smaller libraries in each department, which house books borrowed from the main library for quick reference. It has around 2 million Books covering all disciplines of Science, Engineering, Technology, and Humanities & Social Sciences. The 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 currently subscribes to around 1,000 Scholarly Journals in Sciences, Engineering and Humanities. Under the INDEST consortium, it 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. 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 activities of library are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals for searching books in the library. Librarian Dr. Harish Chandra Phone : +91 (44) 2257 8740 EMail : hchandra@iitm.ac.in Last edited by Neelurk; April 22nd, 2020 at 05:10 PM. |