About Library
The Western Regional Library
The Western Regional Library, established in 1983, is located within the premises of the campus. The area occupied by the building is about18265 square feet. The library is arranged under two storied building, providing a wide range of congenial study environment for 250 readers with a spacious well-furnished reading room. It provides email and internet facilities to the readers since 2000. Similarly, it holds a stock of over 83,000 volumes of books, a number of national and international journals, as well as varieties of newspapers.
With the passage of time, the increase in the number of collections and other activities of the campus, the library felt an urgent necessity to have its own building. In 1982, the then Vice-Chancellor of Tribhuvan University Ram Chandra Bahadur Singh laid the foundation stone for a new building of the library.
Now, the library has become a leading library in research activities and a main resource for faculty members, students and other researchers in the western region. Many readers and donors have contributed in developing this library. In this development, a Peace Corps Volunteer Dorothy Mierow, Asia Foundation, American Library Kathmandu, British Gorkha Welfare Service, Michigan State University, ICRC and ICIMOD, etc. are some examples to enhance the collections in the library.
The library continues to strengthen its collection of resources and services in order to become more attractive and reliable library. This is one of the main goals of the library.
Collections
The library’s collections encompass a rich and varied universe of printed volumes, digital resources, maps, media and archival materials. The library holds over 83,000 books in total and over 2,800 dissertation of Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. With close to 60 national and international journals and more than 5 national daily newspapers are in the collections. The library’s digital collection continues to grow at a rapid pace. The library has the following general and special collections: Nepal collection, dissertation collection, ICRC collection and ICIMOD collection.
Opening Hours:
6 am – 5 pm (summer)
6 am – 4 pm (winter)
Sunday – Friday (except public holidays)