About Us

The library, initially set up in 1965, has grown in size, collection, and services. Presently, NIT Kurukshetra has a very spacious library with a good collection of documents, which includes text and reference books, CD-ROMs, and a large number of print and online journals and e-books. With its growing resources, space, and services, the library caters to the needs of faculty, researchers, scholars, and students.

Library Collection
(as on 31.03.2024)

Total Floor Area & Reading Space : The Library is a growing organism. To meet all the requirements, sufficient space has been added for stacking, reading and other services. The Library has a reading capacity for 500 readers and sufficient space for stacking new documents, digital library and Audio Visual Centre. The total area of the library at present is 36711sq-ft.

Book Bank Facilities :  The Library Book Bank is one of the richest Book Banks in the country. All B.Tech, M.Tech, MBA and MCA students are given 6-8 books for full semester from Book Bank.

Library Hours

Library Facilities

Library Automation System, Web-OPAC, and Circulation: The library is providing automated services in all sections of the library using KOHA software. All the books are bar-coded, and members are also given Bar-Coded membership cards for smooth circulation of documents in the library. The database of the library is updated regularly, and readers can search the documents using : Web-OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) at: http://172.16.101.63

Audio-Video Center: The library has a fully air-conditioned audio-visual centre for seminars, conferences, guest lectures, user awareness programs, etc. with a seating capacity of 100 participants. It is also equipped with a videoconferencing facility.

J-Gate Plus: J-Gate Custom Content for Consortium (JCCC) is a virtual library of journal literature created as a customized e-journals access gateway and database solution. It acts as a one-point access to 7900+ journals subscribed currently under UGC INFONET Digital library consortium as well as university libraries designated as Inter Library Loan (ILL) Centers besides index to open access journals.

NPTEL Web & Video Courses: The Library has procured NPTEL Web & Video Courses designed & developed by IIT, Chennai in various discipline of Engineering & Sciences for the use of Faculty Members, Research Scholars and Students. Users can access these video courses through Library storage server http://172.16.0.50/localguru.

Remote Access Service: KNIMBUS : To provide the off-campus access to subscribed e-resources, the library has subscribed to the KNIMBUS service. The users can create their account either by visiting the URL nitkkr.knimbus.com or by writing to us at librarian@nitkkr.ac.in. After creating the account, the users can log in and access all the e-resources from anywhere.

Anti-Plagiarism Software (Turnitin): The library has subscribed to anti-plagiarism software Turnitin for all the Faculty Members, Research Scholars and Students. The users can check the plagiarism of their research papers, articles, theses, dissertations, etc. using this facility

Forms and Proforma

• Exclude paper form for plagiarism
• book_ recommendation_form

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