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{{Infobox library
| library_name = IIT Bombay Central Library
| library_logo =
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| country = [[India]]
| location = [[Mumbai]]
| type = [[Special library]]
| established = 1958
| key_people =
| main_organ =
| parent_organization = [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]]
| affiliations =
| director = Dr. Manju Naika (Chief Library Officer)
| website = {{URL|http://www.library.iitb.ac.in}}
}}

The [[Library]] is one of the central support services of [[IIT Bombay]]. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to [[Bibliography|bibliographic]] and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and information needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community.

==Overview==
The library occupies an independent five-storey building and has several reading halls, an exhibit area and user spaces. The library offers circulation of books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parents' income falls below the taxable limit.

The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12,000 full text journals, 10 databases, 450 print periodicals, 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs, as well as a number of theses and dissertations, standards and reports and pamphlets. The Library supports electronic submission of theses and dissertations by postgraduate and doctoral students. During 2017-2018 year 749 Master's degree dissertations, 367 PhD theses and 239 dual-degree theses were submitted and approved by supervisor via this system.{{clarify|date=February 2026|reason=that is way too many theses and dissertations for just one academic year. is this the institutional total?}} The library also maintains Inter-Library Loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including [[IITs]], [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center|BARC]], [[NITIE]], [[Centre for Development of Advanced Computing|NCST]], [[IISc]], [[IIG]], [[TIFR]], [[IGIDR]], [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences|TISS]] and [[National Institute of Information and Communications Technology|NICT]].

Dr. Manju Naika is the current{{as of?|date=February 2026}} Chief library Officer.

== External links ==
*[http://www.library.iitb.ac.in//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26 Official Website]

== References ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120417121211/http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/download/ar11.pdf Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library] Annual Report of ITT Bombay Library 2010-11
*[http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/download/ar10.pdf Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2009-10
*[http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/download/ar09.pdf Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Annual Report of IIT Bombay Library 2008-09
* Ganpule S. R. and Waydande H. S."Computerization of IIT Bombay Central Library: Cost Benefit Approach" IN CURRENT TRENDS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: IMPACT ON INFORMATION SCIENCE IN INDIA ed by Kuldeep Chand., Society for Information Science, New Delhi.,1993, p.
* -46.
* Ghosh, Maitraiee. "Digital Infrastructure and attitude towards access and sharing: A case study of Selected Engineering Libraries in the Maharashtra State of India." International Information and Library Review 41, no.2(2009),
* Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Bamane, Niranjana J. "Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD): An initiative at Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Available at: http://docs.ndltd.org:8080/dspace/bitstream/2340/208/1/1074244208-text.pdf{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* Jadhav, Mahendra N. and Kulkarni, Shobha Electronic Security: A case study of IIT Bombay Central Library. Available at http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/181/03cali_12.pdf?sequence=2{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* Jotwani, Daulat (2005). Library portal – a knowledge management tool. In Multilingual computing and information management in networked
* digital environment. ed. Murthy T.A.V. et al. (pp. 612–620). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre.

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[[Category:Indian Institutes of Technology]]
[[Category:Academic libraries in India]]
[[Category:Libraries in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Libraries established in 1958]]

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