Sri. N. Raghunath Rao Maanay Library & Information Centre is presently housed in the Auditorium Building with an adequate space to house the Circulation & Digital Library Section in Ground Floor, Reference & Technical Journals Section in 3^rd Floor and PG Library in 1^st Floor with a total seating capacity of 200 members at a time. The total collection of the Library is over 60,059 Volumes (Includes UG Library & PG Library 43,768, Dept. Libraries 2600 and 13691 E-books) of reference and textbooks with 11,855 titles. The Library & Information Centre subscribes to over 105 print Journals covering of all branches of Engineering and Management programme in addition to various e-Resource databases through VTU Consortium, Belagavi. Besides this, it has over 896 bound volumes, 2455 learning CD-ROMS, several Data Books, Project Reports,etc.,

The completely automated Library Management System has made it easy to all its activities through Bar-Code interface with an Web OPAC facility. The Digital Signature Pad is the unique one in its Circulation Section to obtain signature for every documents that are being issued to its members. All the documents have been classified as per AACR II of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and systematically shelved on Open Access.

The modern Library & Information Centre provides uncompromising information and intellectual requirements to its students and faculty members with a user friendly approach. It offers a fully integrated and dynamic environment for conducting academic study. Multiple copies ensure that resources are easily available in Reference Section and Circulation Section as well.  The Digital Library is set up by using open source Dspace Software to access the Institutional Repositories like e-books, e-journals, faculty publications, etc, by the students and staff members. Also, NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) facility is provided across the campus through the institute local network for unlimited access to Video Lecture and Web courses of eminent faculties from IISc and IIT’s in Engineering and Science subjects. In addition to this students and faculty members can access its peer contents directly from NPTEL website.

The Library & Information Centre has the CMTI Library & IIM-B Library Membership enabling MBA students and faculty members for refer to the other member libraries for additional information for their research/projects.

To cater to the wide range of information services to the users, BNMIT Library & Information Centre has highly qualified, rich experienced and trained competent staff comprising 9 Professional staff members to serve the students community and faculty members.

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