Bharathidasan Institute of Technology BIT, Tiruchirappalli

BIT Central library is the knowledge centre of the institute for an academic and research activities. It has been catering to the information needs of the intellectuals and ignited minds of the institute. Library has 24770 volumes covering all major fields of Science and Engineering. The library covers an area of 748 sqm spanning the ground floor and first floor with an ample study space (180 sqm). The ground floor is Air-conditioned. The Library has the following facilities for the faculty, staffs and the students: Multimedia, Internet, Reprography and a CD-ROM collection.

The college subscribes to most of the major technical journals including American Chemical Society, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald Group, IEE/IEEE, John Wiley & Sons, Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd, Nature Publishing Group, National Research Council of Canada, Sage Publications, SIAM, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor and Francis, Urban & Fischer Verlag journals. The total number of Print and Online journals subscribed is: 13,000. Total number of CD's is 763 and the total seating capacity is 300. A library committee headed by the Dean, comprising of all the Heads of Departments, and Student Representatives, meets every semester to discuss the functioning of the library.