The Central Library provides access to text, bibliographic information and links to various web resources. The WAN connection connects the faculty members and student community to exchange knowledge in their fields of interest. The library has a comprehensive collection of books in all branches of engineering, applied sciences, IT, literature, humanities and social sciences. The library has a good collection of CD-ROM materials. The library also subscribes to a wide variety of national and international journals. The library has a collection of 24000 volumes. Moreover, the library also subscribes to around 100 periodicals, which include several reputed international and national journals. Around 1200 CD-ROMs supplement this collection. Each year, on an average 3500 books are added to the collection. The library also holds a rich collection of books in humanities.

The Library uses Amrita University Management System (AUMS), which is an in-house software developed by the institute to support all in-house operations of the Library. The AUMS software consists of modules on cataloguing, circulation, and OPAC with all the books being bar-coded. This library is also linked to the Ettimadai campus library though which faculty and students can access multifarious journals through the national library network, DELNET.

Digital Library - Vidya

An on-line knowledge archive named VIDYA brings in quality teaching and learning material from some of the best universities and organizations in the world. The current archive volume of over 1.5 TB comprising of learning material in 22 core areas, including an extensive collection of Audio / Video lectures by renowned personalities. It is also being constantly updated. Amrita Digital library (VIDYA) which is organised and maintained by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai campus, Coimbatore is accessible through ISRO-Edusat link. Online books and journals are available which includes IBM Journal of Research and Development and IEEE – ACM Archive.

Institutional Repository

The Digital Repository collects preserves and disseminates the research output of the faculty, staff and students of Amritapuri Campus. It enables the Amrita community to deposit their pre-prints, publications, lecture notes etc. Using a web interface it organises these publications for easy retrieval. It is running on DSpace, an open source software which complies with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) framework allowing publications to be easily indexed and searched by web search engines and other indexing services

Working Hours
Library offers *10 hours of service on all days from *8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. On Sundays and other holidays the timing is 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.