The Central Library is a three storied building situated in the eastern side of the Administrative Building, University of Kalyani.

Gr. Floor:

• Property /bag deposit counter
• Registration section,
• Open access stack room cum reading room,
• Circulation section
• Stack rooms (closed-I & II)
• Data entry section
• Processing section
• Room of the Assistant Librarian
• Gents wash room.

1^st floor:

• ETD Lab
• Computer Lab –II
• Periodical & thesis section,
• Bound journal section
• Stack room-III (closed)
• Bound periodical Section
• Room of the Librarian
• Office of the Central Library
• Ladies wash room

2^nd floor:

• Open reading area with small garden,
• Reading room (AC), Thesis Section & Meeting room,
• Seminar Room,
• Store Room
• Reference Section,
• Stack Room-IV, V, VI (Closed)
• Two Gents Washrooms 

Library hours:

• Monday to Friday- 9:30am-7:30pm
• Saturday- 11am-5pm

Central Library extends its services towards University students (UG & PG), research scholars, teachers, officers, non-teaching staff members, ex-employees and others.

Users need to fill up the Membership form properly and submit it to the Central Library in order to receive the Membership Card.

CL- Membership Form

Central Library is having its healthy collection of physical as well as electronic/online resources to satisfy the need of its user community. Collection of the Central Library mainly covers

Physical Resources

• Books
• Journals
• Bound Journals (Old issues)
• University Thesis
• Special Collections
• Other printed resources

Electronic/Online Resources

• e-Books
• e-Journals & Databases

• Open access stack room including reading area with all subject collection of books.

• Automated circulation facility.
• Access of e-resources, browsing of Internet, downloading and computer printout facility from the computer laboratory along with photocopying facility.
• Reference services with huge reference collection, reading of rare books.
• Access of theses of the University and current and old print journals from the periodical sections and bound Journal Section.
• Daily Newspapers service.
• Air conditioned open access reading room with carrier guidance book collection.
• Plagiarism checking of the theses contents, research articles or book chapters through URKUND software.
• Institutional Repository of theses of the University under the Shodhganga Project, INFLIBNET Centre, UGC and institutional repository of old question papers using D-Space software
  • Institutional membership with the other renowned libraries, associations, consortium & library network like British Council Library, Kolkata, American Library, Kolkata, Indian Library Association, New Delhi, Bengal Library Association, Kolkata etc..
  • Air conditioned auditorium with 70 seating capacity for academic discussion, exhibition, seminars and other important activities.
  • Reading facility for the external users.
  • Resource Sharing/ Inter library loan service.
  • Property counter.
  • CCTV Surveillance.
  • Wi-Fi Facility.
  • Ramp and wheel chairs for differently abled person.
  • Filtered drinking water.

Average no. of library users during the period– 5842

Average footfall at the Central Library daily– 98-114

Circulation history :

 Average numbers of books issued and returned daily -125-142

• To ensure the continuous cycle of digitization process in future, fully air-conditioned well designed and well equipped EDT lab has been created, with the assistance from the University and financial support from UGC. Institutional Repository has also been created with the DSpace software which covers presently the old question papers (PG level), Ph.D theses of our University.
• Presently more that 2500 numbers of Ph.D theses of University of Kalyani have already been uploaded on Sodhganga and efforts are being continued to complete the digitization of balance theses within a short period. The digitized data is available through link http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/.
• Plagiarism checking of the research contents like Ph.D theses, research articles, book contents etc. is being done through the Ouriginal (previously known as URKUND software) to maintain the academic integrity.
• With the aim to digitize the doctoral theses (Ph.D. theses on different subjects), of the University of Kalyani, MOU was signed between UGC-INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar and University of Kalyani, Nadia on 24^th March, 2015 under Sodhganga and Sodhgangotri Project. Financial assistance of an amount of Rs. 21,50,000 (Twenty one Lakh Fifty Thousand) has been granted by the UGC on 15^th March 2017 out of which Rs.11,50,000 for Digitization of Theses and Rs.10,00,000 for setting up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Laboratory.

• Professional (Officer) staff – 1
• Professional (Non-Officer) staff -1
• Non-professional staff – 8
• Contractual library assistant – 5
• Casual staff – 5
• Sweeper -2

Book Exhibition

A book exhibition on Swami Vivekananda’ was organized by the Central Library, University of Kalyani from 17^th -20^th January, 2017 in order to celebrate  the 154^th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. It was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Vice- Chancellor, University of Kalyani, Professor Sankar Kumar Ghosh. Swami Atmapriyananda, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor; Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University was present as Guest- in- Chief and delivered a valuable lecture on the topic of ‘ Swami Vivekananda’s Vision of Rejuvenated India’.

Libraries, Associations, Consortium & Library Network

1. British Council Library, Kolkata
2. UGC INFONET Digital Library Consortium, Gandhinagar
3. Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Gandhinagar
4. Developing Library Network (DELNET), New Delhi
5. National Digital Library of India

• Web OPAC.
• Could based library service
• Preservation of rare documents through Institutional Repository.
• Betterment of the library security system through RFID technology.
• Green Library.

Remote Access( Off Campus)

List of e-Books & Research Monographs Subscribed by the University of Kalyani 

Cambridge Companion Online Literature Collection- upto 2019-2020- https://www.cambridge.org

Subscribed list of Foreign Journals (print copy) for 2018