The library began its journey with the establishment of Sri Chamarajendra Samskrit College in 19th century which was greatly patronized by His Highness, Sri Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar, the then King of Mysore. The mission of the University Library is to preserve and maintain ancient manuscripts that have significant scientific, historical or aesthetic value and to acquire, organize and disseminate new knowledge based information resources pertaining to Samnskrit Language including books, manuscripts, thesis and journals, to satisfy the information needs of the academic fraternity. At present, the library has the great stock of 8000 rare books on Vedas, Upanishads, Dharmashastra, Puranas and Mahakavyas (literature) written in Sanskrit Language. Apart from rare books, the library is equipped with 2300 books written in Sanskrit, Kannada and English language. The library also houses many manuscripts which are written in a number of different scripts like Telugu, Grantha, Devanagari, Halegannada script available on different disciplines like Shastra, Vyakarana, Puranas, Veda studies etc. The library has adopted Koha Library management software to carry out library activities and all the books have been bar-coded.
Library Staff Members
 Sri Arunkumar H.S. Asst Librarian |  Sri Ramesh S.Puttannanavar Asst Librarian | |
 Smt. Kavita Biradar Asst Librarian |  Sri Prashant D Radaratti Library Assistant |