Panjab University

The Panjab University (previously named University of the Punjab) was founded in 1882 at Lahore as the fourth teaching and affiliating University on the Indian subcontinent under British rule. After partition and initial dislocation, the University shifted to Chandigarh in 1956. Its red stone campus, designed by renowned French architects, came up within a few years. The University campus was designed by Pierre Jeannerret under the guidance of legendary Le Corbusier. It is spread over 500 acres in sectors 14 and 25, Sector 14 having the main academic and administrative building, besides a health centre, a sports complex, hostels and residential area. Its faculty includes some of the most distinguished scientists and academics in arts and humanities.  The University continues to attract celebrated scholars from abroad to visit and interact with the faculty and students. Panjab University, with its 55 teaching and research departments on the main campus located at Chandigarh, has 122 affiliated colleges spread over Punjab and Chandigarh, a Regional  Centre at Muktsar, a Regional Centre and an extension library at Ludhiana and VVBIS & IS (Vishweshavaranand Vishva Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies) at Hoshiarpur.With its modern laboratories and equipments, and one of the largest libraries in Asia, the Panjab University offers tremendous opportunities to its students, who interact with students from all over India and abroad. They learn from a faculty of national and international repute, and get exposure to a variety of academic, cultural and youth leadership programs.

About Library

The Central Library of the University is one of the largest libraries on the Indian subcontinent. Its five story building is centrally air-conditioned and has spacious reading halls and compact stack areas. The Library has a collection of nearly six lakh volumes - both rare and the latest, and 600 current periodicals with the back numbers going as far back as the nineteenth century. There also are 1500 rare manuscripts in classical and regional languages. This Library known after Professor A. C. Joshi, possesses all modern facilities and equipments to provide services to its clientele. The specialized library of the Indian Council of Social Science Research is too located in the Central Library. Besides, the National Board of Higher Education in Mathematics provides special support for the library of mathematics department. In addition, the Library is linked to and supported by fifty Department libraries geared largely to meeting the requirements of students. The University Library has been recognised as one of the six national centres for data-information-distribution in the UGCs INFLIBNET programme. For more details please visit website http:// http://www.puchd.ac.in

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