NPL Library has been providing library and information support to scientists for R&D pursuits.

Over the years it has developed a rich collection of scholarly books and journals for the purpose, specifically in the field of physics and related sciences.

During the current year library subscribed to 109 scholarly journals ( 90 foreign journals and 19 Indian journals) and added 167 S & T books, 54 Hindi books. Library provides library services such as photocopying service, electronic document delivery service, inter library loan service, reference service and literature search.

The library offers online access to more than 4500+ full text journals under the e-consortium project of CSIR. It facilitate access to journals from various publishers i.e. Science Direct (Elsevier), Blackwell, Springer, AIP, APS (American Physical Society), Wiley Inter science, John Wiley and sons, Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society as well as to their archives going back to 1995 in case of Elsevier science and 2000 onwards in the case of other publishers. From this year, the Library has started providing access to intranet edition of Indian Standards.

This Service was made operational in NPL on 31st July 2002 with the access to Science Direct (Elsevier) group of journals and others w.e.f. February 2005 onwards.

This year, library has also installed 7 (Seven) dedicated computers in the library reading hall to provide access to electronic journals for walk-in users (Who are mostly from the various  educational & research institutes). Library Reading hall is also having the high-speed wireless internet area (hot spot) where one can have wireless connectivity for their wi-fi enabled laptops.

The Library has a KSK Library site on the NPL intranet providing latest information on its activities such as additions to its collection, current subscribed journals, new journals received during the week, links to electronic libraries, publishing houses, and papers published by NPL scientists. The library continued to update this site throughout the year.

The Library also maintains NPL website (http://www.nplindia.org) on Internet. It is provides latest information on activities of NPL such as its role; thrust areas of research, facilities, services and achievements.