National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai

The Library plays a key role in furthering the research mission of NIRT. Besides holding an excellent print collection of over 17000 Volumes of books and journals on health science, it also holds CD-ROMs, Gratis materials, photographs, reprints, slides, theses, video cassettes, and WHO Publications. During the last fourteen years, the Library makes significant investments in acquiring e-journals. It strives to keep pace with a dynamic and technology-enabled information environment to meet the expectations of its users. For providing access to the e-journal literature, a customized Digital Library portal has been established. It provides web-based access to the full-text journals and databases being subscribed by the library. It also provides gateway to ICMR consortium journals, ICMR Resource sharing portal JGate@ICMR, and open access resources. Further to, this portal provides an integrated gateway to access more than 41000 titles available globally. It enhances a customized integrated (24hrs) access (browse; search; locate; download) facility to our patrons; all it needs few mouse click.

The college has departmental based laboratories facility for the students. The laboratory functions as a National Reference Laboratory under the Revised National TB Control Program (RNTCP) and extends its technical support to ten states of India for training the program

The college has excellent IT Infrastructure facility for the students.