Acharya Ramanuja Devanathan Central Library

Library is the heart of any educational institutions or universities, it has basic functions of collects, storage, organize and dissemination of information in readily available to library users. Central Sanskrit University, Shri Ranbir Campus has a separate library building is situated besides the main building of the campus. Shri Ranbir Campus Library is the main unit of the campus and plays an important role by providing a platform for readers to interact with books. The library was established with Shri Raghunath Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya established by the former Ruler of the Jammu & Kashmir was taken over as one of the constituent Vidyapeetha by the Sansthan on 1st April, 1971 and was named as Shri Ranbir Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha. On declaration of the Sansthan as Deemed to be University, the Vidyapeetha was renamed as Shri Ranbir Campus. Later on the campus was relocated to new place in 2007. The library is surrounded within 8472 sq. ft with main duplex entrance which consists of main office at ground floor. The ground floor consists of toilets, one publication room, store room and two hall rooms out which one is research scholar room and another room is under administration. At the first floor two main hall room of library collections, toilets, one book bank room, store room and one staff room The library has rich collections nearly 44,058 of different subjects which includes Philosophy, Sanskrit Sahitya, Veda, Jyotish, Education, Political Science, Hindi, History Vyakaran, Dharamshatra, Manuscript and etc. apart from Journals, Periodicals, Magazines. We also have manuscript collection in digitized form and all books are arranged by subject wise in library. On date 13.12.2022 vide letter no.8-4/के.सं.वि./षैक्ष/BoD/2022/758 date 12.12.2022 the Ranbir library has renamed to Acharya Ramanuja Devanathan Library.

Every educational institutions aims to meet the educational, social, cultural and economical need of the region and to create information explosion near surroundings with the help of library. The library vision is to provide welcoming and supportive environment in library. Whereas each and every users ensure that they are in vast of collection of library near his/her surrounding and will be able to meets the desired reading materials. To gather around at one place and explores information through collaboration, research and thinking critically. The primary mission of the library is to actively support, the teaching and learning and also Research and Development activities in campus.

• To develop the collection development of reading materials and make it available to users.
• To develop information society.
• To provide reference assistance to users for reaching their desired books for fulfilling his/her information needs.
• To support in Research and Development activities which include scholarly communications, teachers learning.
• To support in functional growth of parent organization and helps in developing the quality resources of learning.

• Academic Writing, Anti-Plagiarism and Citations by Kanvaria, Vinod Kumar (Year : 2022)
• Coalition Politics in India by Bhambhri, C.P. (Year : 2022)
• Indian Women: Socio, Economic & Gender Perspectives by SK Kashyap (Year : 2018)
• Political Sociology: Theories & Concepts by A Baruah (Year : 2018)
• Wellness, Skill Development and Women Empowerment by Gopinath, T. & Sindhu K.K (Year : 2022)