A.C. Joshi Library, Panjab University was
established in the U.S. Club, Shimla in the year
1947. Presently, the library is housed in a five
storied building and has a rich collection of over 6.7
lakh documents including books, bound volumes of
journals, theses/dissertations, rare books, reports,
government documents, back files of newspapers,
and a prised collection of 1490 manuscripts. It is
also subscribing 660 current periodicals. Library is
subscribing a good number of e-resources and has
access to 225 online full-text journals as part of
print journals subscription. Library has also access
to approximately 5000+ online full-text journals
available through INDEST-consortium and UGCINFONET
Digital Library consortium. The Library
is fully computerised with RFID integrated library
management software ‘SLIM 21’.