A bookworm’s paradise, the library is well stocked with books on a wide range of management & Commerce literature. It has excellent collection of over 40,000 books on management and allied fields. A super selection of Indian as well as foreign Journals and periodicals in functional and general areas and surveillance is available. The library is automated. The users retrieve information on-line through the campus network.
The students of the Department have access to the university main library, which has collection of 5,21,259 books, periodicals, CD-ROMS and other audio - visual aids. In addition, students have access to the ASRC and enviable treasure to books.
The library has about 2,000 project reports submitted by the students from time to time. The stacks are arranged according to D.C. System with open access facility. A Dictionary catalogue is also displayed. The library has computer and also has periodical section.
The library subscribed to about 19 journals both on commerce and management of which 4 are foreign and 15 are Indian. Some of the important journals are:
Business World, Chartered Accountant, Economic and Political Weekly, Economic Times, Financial Express, Global Analyst, Indian Journal of Accounting, Indian Journal of Commerce, Indian Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting and Finance, Management Accounting, Osmania Journal of International Business Studies, Charted Secretary, The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vikalpa, IIMB Management Review from IIM Bangalore, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing.
The Library is open for 12 hours from morning 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the benefit of regular and evening students.
The information and Library network (INFLIBNET) is an autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) located at the Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad. Major activities and services of the Centre are geared towards modernization of academic libraries and information centres, to promote information transfer and access, to support scholarship, learning and academic pursuits. The centre acts as a nodal agency for networking of libraries and information Centre’s in universities, institutions of higher learning and R&D institutions in India. It was established as an independent autonomous inter-University Centre (IUC) of UGC in may 1996 and set out to be a major player for promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers across the country.
The technology being a driving force in the contemporary education system, the UGC had taken up two major initiative for academic community in universities under its purview. The first initiative, namely “UGC-Infonet Connectivity Programme” provides for networking of university campuses with state-of-the-art campus wide networks and Internet bandwidth, the second initiative called the “UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium” provides access to selected scholarly electronic journals and databases in different disciplines. The INFLIBNET is responsible for execution and monitoring of both the initiatives.