P K Kelkar Library (Formerly Central Library) is an academic Library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) with a collection of more than 3,00,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 1000 periodicals. The library was renamed to its present name in year 2003 after Dr. P K Kelkar, the first director of the institute. It is one of the best libraries in the nation housed in a three-storey building with the total 6973 sq. m. floor area. The Abstracting and Indexing periodicals, Microform and CD-ROM databases. technical reports, Standards and thesis are important part of this collection. Each year, on an average 4500 books and journal volumes are added to the collection. The total collection breakup is: Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the (then) industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. ...
Books (general and reference) 175,000
Cartographic materials 500
Machine-readable databases 25
Periodicals (back volumes) 135,000
Technical Reports 25,000
IIT Kanpur thesis 15,000
ISI standards 10,000
Periodicals on current subscription 1,200
Following is the area-wise breakup of the Library's collections: