Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

The Srishti Manipal Institute, Art & Design Library serves as a reservoir of knowledge for the Srishti Community. The library collection is built to support the academic and research purposes of the institution. The library is well equipped with books, e-books, subscriptions to Journals, Databases, Magazines, Newspapers, and Research theses and is Wi-Fi enabled.

The major impetus of SMI’s Resources, in their continually expanding mode, is to create a space to encourage doctoral students, scholars, faculty and students to learn and to conduct research in areas that are of their choice, often connected to theories and reflections of artistic and design practices.

These areas include Art, Design, Social sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion and Mythology, Architecture, Textiles, Furniture, User Experience/Interaction, Art and Craft, Animation, Film and Photography, Literature, History, Performing arts, Biographies, Biology, Fiction, and related areas, among others.

Our resources are aimed at encouraging scholars to explore available resources in art and design and their possible disciplinary connections in areas as wide as technology and biotech to humanities and social sciences; this enables the scholar to devise a strategy to expand on the available resources using the Internet and various repositories that MAHE provides. In addition, using the pathways provided, one can browse through the various online resources of both SMI and MAHE. Remote access to online resources is also facilitated. Our Book catalogue and access to Online resources is available here:

All staff and students working/studying in college are automatically enrolled as members. However, UG / PG / B.Voc students, PhD. Scholars, or staff who want to use the borrowing facility need to register in the library with their ID cards issued by the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology.

Faculty and students can issue books on producing an Identity Card issued by MAHE.

The new arrival rack is kept at the entrance where the newly arrived books are arranged. After one week the books will be shifted to the stack section.

The entire library, especially the reading areas, are under constant CCTV surveillance.