Humanity has always turned to excellence as a flower turns towards the sun. Quality thus perceived, is an abiding interest in, and a desire to develop, whatever is regarded as excellent in Arts, scholarly pursuits of Sciences, Engineering, Technology, and Humanities. The need to educate and train young men and women, to hone them into professionally competent, rounded personalities has been their burning passion. It was Richard Mulcaster of Elizabethan England who declared: “It is not a mind, not a body that we have to cultivate, but a man, and sastra cannot divide him”. 

SASTRA University, committed to excellence, with a holistic approach has consistently maintained the highest standards in “a man-making education” in the immortal words of Swam

Humanity has always turned to excellence as a flower turns towards the sun. Quality thus perceived, is an abiding interest in, and a desire to develop, whatever is regarded as excellent in Arts, scholarly pursuits of Sciences, Engineering, Technology, and Humanities. The need to educate and train young men and women, to hone them into professionally competent, rounded personalities has been their burning passion. It was Richard Mulcaster of Elizabethan England who declared: “It is not a mind, not a body that we have to cultivate, but a man, and sastra cannot divide him”. 

SASTRA University, committed to excellence, with a holistic approach has consistently maintained the highest standards in “a man-making education” in the immortal words of Swami Vivekananda which can only be ensured by quality teaching of the finest calibre. SASTRA here in SASTRA believes in Tagorean concept of “The Home and the World”, keeping in mind, the vital importance of empowering women, by giving them their rightful place in national development. 

SASTRA believes in the motto ‘urbi et orbi’ – the city and the world. As the earth is fast becoming a global village with amazing technological advances, transcending national barriers, their educational goals are geared towards nation-building on the one hand and their involvement in the process of globalization on the other.

Saraswathi Sadan, the aptly named library of the university is an architectural elegance over an area of about 47,000 sq ft with modern study area, audio visual room, internet and reprographic facilities.

Saraswathi Sadan is the nerve center of the entire campus catering to the needs of the staff in full measure. Saraswathi Sadan contains over 78,000 books valued at Rs 3.5 crores, the library subscribes to 300 journals and periodicals; including IEEE publications. The library also subscribes to online journal database like Science Direct, IEEE, ACME, ASME, SCE, EBSCO, SCOPUS, DELNET, ebrary etc. providing access to over 3200 scientific, technical and management journals and bibliographic database of over 17,000 journals. It also subscribes to PROQUEST Digital Dissertation d

Saraswathi Sadan, the aptly named library of the university is an architectural elegance over an area of about 47,000 sq ft with modern study area, audio visual room, internet and reprographic facilities.

Saraswathi Sadan is the nerve center of the entire campus catering to the needs of the staff in full measure. Saraswathi Sadan contains over 78,000 books valued at Rs 3.5 crores, the library subscribes to 300 journals and periodicals; including IEEE publications. The library also subscribes to online journal database like Science Direct, IEEE, ACME, ASME, SCE, EBSCO, SCOPUS, DELNET, ebrary etc. providing access to over 3200 scientific, technical and management journals and bibliographic database of over 17,000 journals. It also subscribes to PROQUEST Digital Dissertation database which offers access to over 550,000 PhD dissertations.

SASTRA University Library is the only University in India to purchase the entire suite of Springer's Electronic collection of over 8,000 e-Books.  The Library also subscribes to e-Brary which provides access over 35,000 full text books.  The networking of entire campus provides a seamless access to all the online databases for simultaneous use by unlimited number of users.

Constant addition of titles and volumes in all fields of Engineering. Management, Basic Sciences and Humanities is a regular feature.

The transactions of the Library are fully automated and automation covers the entire gamut of library activities, such as Acquisition, cataloguing, circulation with provision for renewal, reservation, Serial Control, Online Public Access Catalogue [OPAC] and generating various types of Reports and Statistics.

The multimedia section is equipped with state-of-the-art computer systems, plasma screen Television, DVD, Video and Audio players and over 1800 educational and informative CDs.

The library has reprographic facilities and attracts an average of over 600 students a day. On-line access to the library's collection in a networked environment and outstanding collections of books and research materials provide a salubrious environment for learning. The entire library is automated making searching, issuing and returning easier.

Besides the central library, each school has its own library with technical books and journals.