IIT GUWAHATI

Indian Institute of  Technology  GUWAHATI

Official website: http://www.iitg.ac.in/

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG) is a public institution established by the Government of India, located in Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology established in India.
The campus of IIT Guwahati is on the northern banks of Brahmaputra and abuts the North Guwahati town of Amingaon. It is often considered as the most beautiful campus in India.

The campus is on a 700 acres (2.8 km2) plot of land around 20 km from the heart of the city. It has the Brahmaputra on one side and hills and vast open spaces on others.

        Some important Locations in Campus:

1. LAKSHMINATH BEZBAROA CENTRAL LIBRARY :

Named after much renowned literary figure Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa.

Consists of four floors,7500 sq. meter each. 

A home to 1,54,564 printed volumes and 2291 subscribed current journals.

Provides necessary supports for teaching, learning, research activities of the Institute by offering innovative services to the academic community. Several e-books and online full text and abstract database, across all domain of academic pursuit through the campus network. 

Being a member of INDEST-AICTE Consortium and DBT eLibrary Consortium (DeLCON), the Library provides access to 12835 e-journals. The database for the entire collection is available through web-based On-Line Public Access Catalogue (WebOPAC).

2. COMPUTER CENTRE :

The CC is the high speed backbone of all the LAN connections across the campus.
Built in 7500 sq.meter of area.
Solely responsible for keeping Computation related facilities available to each and every member of IIT Guwahati.
Open for 17 hours a day i.e. from 8 a.m to 12 a.m.