The library is a key to the world of knowledge and acquisition of knowledge will help enlighten the personality of an individual at the vital, spiritual and mental levels and will inculcate social virtues and foster intellectual development to make him a worthy citizen. Foundation stone of the library building was laid on 16th October 1960 by the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Yashwantraoji Chavan; it was inaugurated at the hands of President Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan on 25th March 1966. In May 1966 Library shifted to its new building on University campus. The large collection of 45,000 books acquired from Raje Shamraj Rai Rajwant Bahadur, Hyderabad, in the year 1960. Now library is having 3, 80,406 print reading materials. However, in the year 1971 the library introduced reprographic service. To achieve objective of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Library. In socio economic development of Marathwada region and to supplement formal education with reading material, its library known as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Library, was established to undertake the responsibility of providing reading by organizing and storing for its maximum use by its readers. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Library is the biggest University from the point of view of the strength of books and its services. It has occupied a central position in the socio-economic, cultural and educational development of the people of Marathwada region. The importance of this Library lies not only in its large collection of 3, 80,406 books and its periodicals, but its collection has certain peculiar feature. The priceless treasure of large number of manuscripts, covering a wide range of subjects i.e. Literature, social science, Philosophy, arts, photographs and painting, which gives it a place of pride. A well-housed and well-managed library is the foundation of modern educational structure. To keep pace with the ever-expanding field of knowledge the library is being updated from time to time. E-RESOURCES 15000+ E-Journals 1,37,839 E-Books & E-Documents through following Databases: e-ShodhSindhu Consortium  American Chemical Society  American Institute of Physics  American Physical Society  Annual Reviews  Economic & Political Weekly  JSTOR  Oxford University Press  Project Muse  Springer Link  Taylor & Francis  Web of Science  JGate  Online Database  ISID  Wiley Blackwell BAMUL has Developed 1. Electronic Theses and Dissertation Database (ETD) http://192.168.27.100/pdams 2. Digitized Rare Book Database 3. CD/DVD Library Database. EZPROXY (Remote Access Functionality): Library gives Remote access Facility of E-Resources to Ph.D Students, Faculty, and Affiliated Colleges by using EZPROXY remote access tool. EBSCO Discovery Service is used for Single Window Search for all E-Resources Library Print Documents with different facilities such as e-mail, Print, Cite, e-mail alert Service, Share, etc. URKUND (Preventing Plagiarism Software): INFLIBNET gives access of URKUND antiplagiarism Software to Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Library , Aurangabad . Library is going to apply Preventing Plagiarism Software to maintain the style of writing and to avoid copy paste practice by the researcher. Manuscripts: The library has more than four thousand manuscripts. Majority of the manuscripts (4000+) are in Mahanubhav Pantas and available in Sakal Script, however 200+ manuscripts of Devi Strotas are written by Raje Shamraj Rai Rajwant Bahadur, Hyderabad. It is under process of digitization. Digitization: All the theses and rare books of library are digitized and available forever in digital format and research scholars and book lovers who wanted to see rare collection can make a good use of digitization without damaging original copies. Around 1000+ rare books 4000+ Theses digitized in the first phase users can get this intellectual asset by a single click Subscribed Databases EBSCO Academic Search Complete EBSCO Business Source Elite EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete EBSCO Library and Information Science Source EBSCO Literary Reference Center Lexis Nexis PNAS SCOPUS SRELS Journal of Information Management ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India Current Science

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