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IIT Bombay Central Library | |
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Location | Mumbai, India |
Type | Special Library |
Established | 1958 |
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Director | Dr. Manju Naika (Chief Library Officer) |
Parent organization | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
Website | www |
The Library is one of the central support services of IIT Bombay. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and information needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community.
The library occupies an independent five-storey building.
Renovated Library with a beautiful entrance lobby and exhibit area, reorganized reference and periodicals reading halls, provided a variety of user spaces for individual studies with wifi and laptop plugging facility. Improved staff work area and a large reading hall open for 24×7.
The library offers circulation of books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parent's income falls below the taxable limit.
The library maintains Inter-Library Loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassette
The Library receives 450 print periodicals. Apart from this it has books and theses and dissertations, standards and reports, pamphlets which are approximately 5 lakhs. There are 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs. The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12,000 full text journals and 10 databases 24 x 7 on institute-wide network as per the following details.
The IIT Bombay Institutional repository is an electronic collection of research produced at IITB, including full-text book chapters, conference/proceeding papers, technical reports, journal pre prints & post-prints, working papers, Patents and annual reports.
The Library supports electronic submission of theses and dissertations by postgraduate and doctoral students. During 2017-2018 year 749 Master's degree dissertations, 367 PhD theses and 239 Dual degree theses are submitted and approved by supervisor via this system.
Dr. Manju Naika is the current Chief library Officer.
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