The University Library serves as the academic heart of the university to support teaching programmes, research activities, extension and outreach services. It also advances the success and impact of the university community by providing access to information and recorded knowledge by investing in environment conductive to study, research and learning. The library was established in 1960’s and was first housed in directorate of research building. Later in 1984, it was opened in a grand five-story building having a lower level and four upper floors. The floors are divided into service areas, collections and offices and can accommodate 500 patrons at a time. On the main floor the students can check out books, get research help from a librarian at the reference desk, use Online Catalogue and reference resources. The library is centrally located facing the administrative building and all colleges surround in a semicircle. The library houses nearly 4.25 lakh volumes and provides electronic access to thousands of periodical titles besides books and databases. It is managed and operated by 10 faculty librarians and support staff. The library has special place in the country owing to the fact that it supported the university in heralding the green revolution in 1960’s and imparting quality education to students in Agriculture and Technology.

The University Library has been driven by ethos of continuous improvement to meet the challenges of information explosion and the paradigm shift that the libraries have gone through globally in providing access to information/ e- resources through remote servers. The library is member of Union Catalogues like World Cat of OCLC, US and AgriCat of Indian Agricultural Libraries. The entire collection of the library is accessible every time of the year through Web PAC. Besides the library is a member of collaborative digital repository called Krishikosh and provides access to rare digitized books and theses submitted by the university students.

Expert teacher librarians are available in person and online to help in access and to navigate through our rich world class collections. Students can also avail assistance in preparing research papers, plagiarism check etc. The library has inviting ambiance and spaces for group study, quite reading, a smart class room, study carrels for solo study and research.

COLLECTION

University Library has a highly specialised collection of 3.9 Lakh documents in the field of Agriculture, Veterinary Sciences, Animal Husbandry, Home Science, Fisheries, Basic Sciences, Humanities, Technology & other allied subjects. The collection includes Books, Theses, Periodicals, Standards, Reprints, Maps, Toposheets, Globes, Microfilms, Microfiches, Records, Tapes & CD-ROMs. The collection grows at an average rate of 4000 Volumes per year.

MEMBERSHIP

Students, teachers, & other staff of the university are eligible for the membership of the University Library. Library membership is also available to outsiders as "Special Guest Membership" against a security deposit of Rs.500 per book and a local guarantor.

Library Advisory Committee (LAC):

LAC is a statutory body which decides the plans & policies for the Library. LAC consists of following members

Vice-Chancellor - Chairman

Deans/Directors/Heads of Departments/Comptroller - Members

University Librarian - Secretary

Faculty Librarians

The library provides following services:

• Reference & Information
• Rental Text Book/Book Bank Scheme
• CD-ROM Based Bibliographical Search
• Indian Agricultural Index
• Reprography
• Inter Library Loan / Resource Sharing
• On-line Full Text e-journals
• OPAC (On-line public access catalogue)
• User Education

Rental Text Book Scheme

In this scheme UG/PG students are given textbooks for the semester on rental basis @ Rs. 50 per semester, Rental collection has 50,000 multiple copies of the textbooks

Book Bank Scheme

In this scheme SC/ST students are given prescribed textbooks free of charge for a semester.

Reprography

Photocopying Service is available to users @ Rs. 0.50 per page

Overnight Issue

Urgently required books/magazines are issued for overnight

CIRCULATION

The following categories of members are entitled for borrowing publications from the Library as per the details given below

Overdue Charges: Rs. 1.00 per book per day, Rs. 1.00 per book per hour for overnight issue

CD-ROM DATABASES (Bibliographic)

Documentation Section of the University Library provides CD-ROM Database search facility .The following databases are available in the Library

Consortia e-Resources

CeRA

ASCE Journals Online

ASME Journals Online

South Asia Archive (SAA)

e-Databases

CAB Abstracts

EBSCOhost

J-Gate Social & Management Sciences

Indiastat.com

e-Journals

Annual Reviews

CSIRO

Oxford Journals

Springer

Taylor & Francis Online

e-Thesis

Krishikosh

Shodhganga

Trial Access

Trial access through CeRA is currently available for following Journals

Briefings in Functional Genomics 

Journal of Animal Science 

Insect Systematic & Diversity 

Off Campus Remote Access Remote Access through Informatics under trial is currently available for the off campus bona fide users of this University. This facility may be availed by sending written request with complete credentials at librarygbpuat@gmail.com

• OPAC
• OPAC (for External Users)
• FAQs

Rental Textbook Scheme:

• Schedule for the Issue of Book-Bank / Rental Text Books (First Round) - 
• Book Requisition Format
• New Titles Added - Rental Text Books
• RENTAL TEXT BOOKS (Author Catalogue)
• RENTAL TEXT BOOKS (Title Catalogue)
• BOOK-BANK TEXTBOOKS