The University Library is housed in a three-storied building on the campus. Its shelf space and working space total 36,000 sq.ft., and is being extended by new construction. Three reading rooms, carrels, and an alcove for bound volumes of journals provide sitting accommodation for 500 readers. The stacking capacity is for 3,60,000 volumes. There is a separate library on the Second Campus.

Most Departments are also equipped with Departmental Libraries containing the books most commonly needed by students of the subject. Reading and borrowing facilities as appropriate are given in the Departmental Libraries to the staff and students of the Department.

At present, the Central Library has over 4,18,000 volumes of books on record (including those loaned to Departmental Libraries), 80,000 bound volumes of journals, 5,000 theses and dissertations, and 37,000 items of non-book materials such as reports, pamphlets, maps and micro-forms. In addition, the Second Campus Library has over 14,000 volumes. About 800 current journals are received regularly.

A considerable part of the Library's acquisitions consists of gifts from individuals and institutions, the largest book donations having been from Sri Uday Kumar Das, Kumar S. C. Nandy of Cossimbazar, the British Council, USIS, Asia Foundation, the late A.K. Chanda, Sri M.N. Mitra and others. The gift collections contain a good stock of old materials valuable for research in the humanities.

The Library has been organised into 13 working units. The Reprography unit has photostat and microfilming apparatus, a microfilm reader and 3 photocopying machines.