Library
St Joseph’s University Library is one of the well-stocked university libraries in Karnataka. It regularly subscribes best and top national and international journals, periodicals/magazines and daily newspapers. It caters to the needs of more than 9000 undergraduate, postgraduate and research-level staff and students. The library is fully automated; it has two spacious reading halls and can accommodate two hundred and fifty users at any time. The library operations are managed by the latest version of Koha Integrated Library Management System Software, and the digital library using DSpace software for digital library and institutional repository. The library is upgraded with barcode and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. The library is well equipped with all the modern facilities and resources (print and electronic) in the form of CDROMs, DVD-ROM, video cassettes, books, journals, etc. The library follows the Dewey Decimal Scheme of classification, AACR-II cataloguing code, and MARC-21 format for bibliographic data. Books are arranged on the shelves in numerical order from 000-999.