All the students and faculty members of UAP have full access to the central library, located in the
9th floor of the main building. The library hosts a vast and diverse collection of books, journals, monographs and periodicals of academic interest. Each book is labeled and arranged in such a manner that any individual can get access to his preferred book, departmental or otherwise, without any inconvenience.
For borrowing books, one has to make a library card and can make the book issued by the librarian. The books in the central library are managed by using ADLIB Library software.
The total number of books (all subjects) is just below 20,000 with subscription to 32 online journals in all subjects. The library is constantly growing with ample allocated budget per semester only for library development. Daily newspapers are provided.
The library remains open from 9am to 9pm each day except Friday and Saturday. Saturday open time is 9am to 5pm and Friday is closed.
The library floor area is more than 7,500 square foot and 150 students (200 maximum) can use the library at a time.
In all, 9 officials and employees run the library.
As the Central Library has been established to facilitate greater control and convenience for its readers, the needs for seminar Libraries for individual departments have subsided significantly. However there are still requirement for some seminar libraries for specific departments due to their unique needs.
DBA has its own seminar library containing 1939 books which can accommodate around 50 students. Additionally daily newspapers are subscribed in the library. Borrowing facility is also available for the students and faculties for their convenient time period.
The CE Department has established a small minuscule library with reading corners within their department with a collection of 340 books and 170 other items. The dissertations (both undergraduate and M.Sc.) are available in both central library and department.
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For the convenience of the students, the Central library gives an access to 32 online journals.