Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro has a
Central Library service occupying accommodation completed in 1977. The
role of the library is to support the standing of Mehran University of
Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro as a center of excellence within
Sindh engaged primarily in first degree work, and to offer a significant
element in providing a high quality learning environment for students.
It also contributes to the related activities of postgraduate teaching
and research, consultancy and research and development, at a level which
supports but does not adversely affect undergraduate teaching.
Membership to the library is available to all students and faculty
members following courses at Mehran University of Engineering &
Technology All the library stock is available for loan with a few
exceptions such as reference works, current issues of journals and some
electronic media.
The library's lending stock attempts to offer standard texts in all
relevant fields as well as alternative and background reading and
important texts in peripheral subject areas. A Reserve Collection
contains heavily used course work and items from this collection may
only be used within the library. The Reference Section includes general
encyclopedias, single copy of every book available in the library and
many other general and reference works. The library staff performs
on-line searches of remote bibliographic and textual databases. An
increasing number of electronic services are available in the library
particularly in CD-ROM format. The library' s operation is fully
computerized, including the issue and return of loan, acquisitions,
cataloguing.