The Library plays a vital role in promoting Teaching, Learning and Research particularly to the academic communities. The academic programmes of the college are well supported by the Library. The library’s role includes Identification, Evaluation, Procurement, Processing and making these learning resources available to the students and faculty members. The location of Santhigiri College Library is ideal ie, at ground floor in the main campus, with total area of 1200 sq.m., spacious with a total seating capacity of 102 and with 9702 print books, including reference books, journals, periodicals, and newspapers so that it provides easy access to the students and staff members.
The college library uses Dewy Decimal Classification (DDC) scheme for classifying the books. Classified Catalogue Code is used to prepare the catalogue entries in the library software. The library is fully automated and the open source library integrated system KOHA Software provides user friendly interface. The library has 24 hours OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) facility for searching documents regarding books in the library, including their circulation statistics. Our college library has greatly benefited from the e-resources and services. Login passwords are provided to the users for accessing UGC INFLIBNET N-LIST ;DELNET platforms through computer or mobile phone. The extensive collection of e-journals, e-books database and other scholarly materials have been instrumented in supporting the research and academic endeavours of our faculty and students. We try to work keeping in mind, what Padmasree Dr. S. R Ranganathan, father of Indian Library and Information Science has famously said ‘Library is a trinity of Learning resources, Users and the Library Staff’.