Central Library, IIT Bombay
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.
Building plan
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 from 9am to 11pm.
Library services
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