About Library

IIMB library is housed in an independent building of 55,000 square feet spread across four floors with a reading area that can accommodate more than 200 users. It is open from 9 am to 10 pm on all days except three national holidays.

Its collection comprises predominantly literature pertaining to Business, management apart from other allied areas. Its collection development policies and information services are mandated by Institute's teaching; research and training objectives. All house-keeping operations are automated using State - of - the- art - library management system.

The library has a total collection of 2.35 lakh documents (books, back volumes of journals, government publications, technical reports, conference proceedings, non-book materials etc. The library has access to 72 e-resources and 884 e-books from Elsevier Science & Cambridge University press and subscribes to 2330 print and e-journals, and 27 newspapers. Apart to from this more than 35,000 full text journal titles are available in the databases subscribed to by the library. It also receives around 200 Newsletters and has 2200 Annual Reports from public and private organizations and about 1289 multitmedia resources.

Online Catalogue Link :   (http://libopac/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon)

Functional Divisions

Collection Development -
Books/AV resources / Non-book materials

Location                   2nd floor
Telephone                3782/3118
Incharge                  Usha S
Assisted by:             Mathias SA
                              Mihir Ranjan Panda

Technical & Physical Processing

Location                  2nd floor
Telephone               3296
Incharge                  Usha S
Assisted by              Gaddi YN

Journals subscriptions: Print & Online

Location                  1st floor
Telephone               3288
Incharge                  Anuradha N
Assisted by              Prema A

Circulation / Reference Services

Location                Ground floor
Telephone             3113
Incharge                Anuradha N
Assisted by             Manjunath S
                             Kathyayini Lingaiah

E-Databases:

Location                  Ground Floor
Telephone               3296/3782
Incharge                 Usha S
Assisted by             Aruna Jaipal
                             Venkatesh V

Micro-Documents / Institutional Repositories
(Working papers, Occasional papers, Journal articles, Annual Report, thesis (submitted to IIMB), summer project reports etc.)

Location                  2nd floor
Telephone               3328
Incharge                  Usha S
Assisted by              Niranjan CN
                              Joel David

Audio - Visual / CD Collection/ Books with CD:

Location                  2nd floor
Telephone              3118
Incharge                 Mathias SA 

Library Team

Working Hours

Library is open on all days from 9 am to 10 pm except three national holidays.

1. Republic Day - 26th January
2. Independence day - 15th August
3. Gandhi Jayanti - 2nd October