About the Library 

Bina Chowdhury Central Library, GCU Assam was formed by merging earlier GIMT Library & GIPS Library in the year 2018 with the loving memory of late Bina Choudhury, founder president of Shrimanta Shankar Academy Society (SSAS). It is located at the ground floor & basement area of the boys hostel of its campus and it occupies total carpet area of = 9503.68 sq. ft. in where main Library occupies the 3021.92 sq. ft. carpet area and Reading Room (120 seating capacity) has 3459.84 sq. ft. carpet area and basement area is 3021.92 sq. ft. The Central Library is full of different textbooks, reference books and other reference sources like encyclopaedia, dictionaries, novels, biographies etc. The library is divided into different sections that house the Reading Room Corner, Textbook Corner, Periodical Corner, Reference Corner, Internet Section, Dissertation Corner, Circulation Corner, Technical Processing Section and the Competitive Examination Corner. The library is playing a major role providing quality education to students, currently boasts over 50500 volumes of books serving near about 4000 students and 350 faculty & staff. These include textbooks, reference books, journals, and other study materials such as dissertations, CD-ROMs, and a number of electronic resources like E-Journals subscribed through DELNET Consortium. The library follows DDC 22nd Edition and AACR-II for the classification and cataloguing of the documents respectively. The library is partially automated with the Library Management Software KOHA.