Introduction

Gujarat university library was started along with its parent body the Gujarat University. The University Library moved to its newly constructed building in May 1967. The Library have more than 3,35,000 books. The Library adds about 5000 books every year and subscribes to about three hundred periodicals in various subjects. This library caters to the needs of the students and teachers of the University at large. In addition, there are small libraries attached to each school / department in which house texts and reference books on courses being currently offered by the respective school / department are provided. These books are issued from the Central Library on long-term basis to each school / department. The department and school libraries offer books and reading-room facilities to their students and teachers. Also there is a reading room attached to the Central Library. The reading room can accommodate 600 readers. They can sit and read at the same time. For those students who find the Central Library away from their residence, nearer centres are provided by the university in the Ahmedabad city, such as centers at Hajipur, Saraspur and Khokhra-Mehemdabad.

 Staff Details

Professional staff

Chief Librarian	Shri.Ramanlal L. Patel
Asst. Librarian	Smt. J.K.Pandit
Asst. Librarian	Shri.Rakesh Parmar
Asst. Librarian	Shri.Yogesh Parekh
Technical Asst.	Smt. J.B.Shah
Technical Asst.	Smt. M.B.Patel
Technical Asst.	Shri.A.N.Bhavsar

Administrative Staff

Section Officer	Smt. B.B.Jani
Senior Clerk	Smt.V.D.Vyas
Senior Clerk	Smt. N.A.Shelat
Senior Clerk	Shri.J.S.Panchal
Junior Clerk	Shri. N.A.Raval
Junior Clerk	Smt.P.M.Dama

Functions

• To acquire and collect books, manuscripts, Journals and other reading materials and organize them.

• To collect the all kinds of None Book Materials which may be useful for teaching and research.

• To provide reading materials for use.

• To adopt new techniques of classification and cataloguing, makes bibliographies and checklists and provides reference service to readers.

• To make available resources to the students and teaching as well as non teaching community.

•  With the help of heads of the department of various subjects, a library should co-ordinate its library activities which are related to teaching and curriculum programmes of a university.

• There would be a proper co-ordination between seminar libraries, department library and university library.

• To arrange study material on specific regions in the form of area studies Development.

• To collect the all kinds of literature which may be useful for teaching and research.

• To inform the teaching faculty about the university activities to bring books, students and scholars together and create a situation in which curiosity about knowledge, research and reading is aroused.

Services provided

§         Circulation Service

§         Reference service

§         Reprographical Services

§         Inter Library Loan Service

§         Internet Service

§         Reading Services

Present Scenario

§         Library Automation by "INFLIBNET".

Future Planning

§         Online Public Access Catalogue

§         Book Reservation

§         Bibliography & Display

§         Article Awareness Service

§         Online Database Service

§         Online Reference Service

§         Syllabus & Paper set

§         Periodical Bound Volumes

§         Audio Visual Collection (For Blind Persons)

§         Ph.D Thesis Abstract

§         English to Gujarati Translation

§         Rare Books Distinction

§         Abroad Study Information Centre

§         Current Content Service