The role of library in any organization and in a research establishment is of paramount importance. Its efficient performance in making available various inputs with regard to knowledge, help its clients in using the data base in their regular research work and also in writing research papers and articles.

To achieve this goal, the library has increased its collection by adding 160 books, 12 Indian Standards and 79 back volumes of periodicals. Thus, the total collection of books with the Institute is more than 16,500. The library has subscribed to a total of 126 journals, out of which 101 are Indian and 25 are foreign.

The vast pool of information available with library serves as reference and information dissemination centre for staff and students of various courses, professors and research fellows from various Institutions including sugar and allied industries. In-house data base searches are carried out by using Compact Discs from CAB International data base for agriculture and related technologies. This plays an important role in dissemination of information within the industry.

The users are also provided with online facility of the important International Websites of sugar industry, such as F.O.Lichts, International Sugar Organization (ISO), World Sugar Research Organization (WSRO), etc.

The Institute is a member of various scientific and research organizations such as ASSCT (Australia), ISSCT (Mauritius), WSRO (U.K.), SIT (USA), ICSB, Society for In-Vitro Biology (USA), STAI (India), etc. The information received from these organizations is made available to the users.