The NALANDA College Library functions as the General Library and Departmental Libraries. The General Library block has three floors. Ground floor is the OERC (Online Education Research Centre). First floor is the Stack Room and Computer Area. Second floor is the Reading Room and EDUSAT Centre. The College Library has a good collection of about 148000 books. The General Library subscribes 40 Periodicals and 11 Newspapers. The Library has a special collection of books for NET Exams on all subjects.

The Library provides: OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) for book search INTERNET browsing facility for Staff and Students NLIST e-resources (3000 +e-journals and 75000 + e-books) from the website www.nlist.inflibnet.ac.in. University College was one of the top 10 College users under NLIST Programme for the month November 2012. The collection of World e Book Library (Academic & Research Database of e-books available within the Library). Previous University question papers for reference The Website of General Library, University College, Thiruvananthapuram ( www.unicollibrary.synthasite.com) provides a collection of free online digital resources.

We can access Library Catalogue of five Colleges namely University College, Govt. College for Women, Govt. Arts College, Sanskrit College, and Govt. College Kariavattom from the Website of Cluster of Colleges www.thiruvananthapuramcluster.libsoft.org. The College Library consists of the General and Departmental Libraries. More than 11 News Papers and 40 Periodicals are available in the Reading Room.