Borrow & renew
Students borrow up to eight titles for fifteen days; renewals through the student portal or at the counter.
Central Library
The library is the second campus.
The Banasthali Central Library is a two-storey open-stack collection in the heart of the residential campus. Sixteen hours a day, seven days a week — a working library for the Panchmukhi day.
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2.4 lakh volumes
Print monographs across arts, sciences, home science, management and education.
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340 e-journals
Full-text access via DELNET, INFLIBNET N-LIST, JSTOR and Springer Nature.
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Reading, 06:00–23:00
Two reading halls open sixteen hours a day; hostel-level annex rooms open through the night.
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Founders' archive
Papers, letters and photographs of Hiralal and Ratan Shastri — open by appointment for researchers.
What the library offers
Six ways in.
Circulation, inter-library loan, digital resources, a reference desk, an archive and visitor access — each with its own service window and staff on the floor.
DELNET & INFLIBNET
Request titles from six thousand partner libraries — arrives on the weekly courier from Delhi.
E-resources
Off-campus access via the student portal — sign in with your Vidyapith ID.
Reference desk
Two accredited reference librarians on duty; sessions on Zotero, EndNote and literature search each week.
Special collections
Manuscripts, rare Sanskrit texts and the founders' papers — accessed in the reading room only, gloves provided.
Alumnae & visitors
Alumnae receive a lifetime library card; visiting researchers apply at least a week ahead of the visit.
Catalogue
Search the collection.
A sample of a dozen titles below — the full catalogue with 2.4 lakh volumes lives at OPAC. Sign in with your Vidyapith ID to place holds.
12 titles
The Discovery of India
954 NEHJawaharlal Nehru · 1946
Available4 copies · History
Introduction to Algorithms
005.1 CORCormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein · 2022
On loan6 copies · Computer Science
The Second Sex
305.42 BEASimone de Beauvoir · 1949
Available3 copies · Gender studies
A Brief History of Time
523.1 HAWStephen Hawking · 1988
Available5 copies · Physics
Principles of Economics
330 MANN. Gregory Mankiw · 2020
On loan8 copies · Economics
Molecular Biology of the Cell
572.8 ALBAlberts et al. · 2022
Reserved4 copies · Biology
The Argumentative Indian
954 SENAmartya Sen · 2005
Available3 copies · History
Sanskrit-English Dictionary
491.2 MONMonier-Williams · 2011
Available2 copies · Linguistics
Design of the Everyday Things
745.2 NORDonald Norman · 2013
Available3 copies · Design
Half of a Yellow Sun
823 ADIChimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
Available4 copies · Literature
Thinking, Fast and Slow
153.4 KAHDaniel Kahneman · 2011
On loan5 copies · Psychology
The Argonauts
813 NELMaggie Nelson · 2015
Available2 copies · Literature
Full catalogue at opac.banasthali.in ↗
New arrivals
On the shelves this month.
History · 2023
Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
Health science · 2022
The Circadian Code
Satchin Panda
Data & society · 2023
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
Technology · 2024
The Age of AI
Kissinger · Schmidt · Huttenlocher
Sociology · 2023
Poverty by America
Matthew Desmond
Literature · 2024
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
Biology · 2023
Immune
Philipp Dettmer
Biology · 2024
The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Research databases
What the licence covers.
Off-campus access is provided through the INFLIBNET portal — students sign in with the Vidyapith Single Sign-On.
Study spaces
Reserve a room.
Two silent rooms and four discussion rooms — bookable in two-hour slots. First-come through the day, held for you if you show up within fifteen minutes of your slot.
Reserve a study space
Silent rooms are for solo work; discussion rooms are for groups. Two-hour slots, up to one booking per day per student.
Borrowing rules
Limits, durations, fines.
Undergraduate students8 titles · 15 days · ₹2/day overdue
Postgraduate students12 titles · 21 days · ₹2/day overdue
Doctoral scholars20 titles · 30 days · ₹2/day overdue
Faculty & staff25 titles · semester loan · no fine
Reference / rare worksIn-library only · not for loan
RenewalTwice online, unlimited at the desk (subject to holds)
Lost bookReplacement cost + 10% processing fee
Skill workshops
Coming up at the reference desk.
27 Sep 2026
UG II & IIIZotero for literature reviews
Two-hour hands-on in the digital lab; laptops provided.
02 Oct 2026
PG & PhDAdvanced Boolean search
Structured searches across JSTOR, Scopus and Web of Science.
10 Oct 2026
History majorsReading the archive
A guided walk through the founders' papers with the archivist.
18 Oct 2026
All studentsReferencing in APA · MLA · Chicago
Three styles, one sitting — bring a draft paper.
Meet the team
Who to ask.
Hours
When the doors are open.
Monday – SaturdayReading halls 06:00 – 23:00 · Circulation 09:00 – 20:00
SundayReading halls 08:00 – 20:00 · Circulation closed
Public holidaysReading halls 08:00 – 18:00 · Circulation closed
Examination weeksReading halls open through the night — hostel wardens organise chai runs.
For researchers