This University is the proud possessor of a magnificent library which has as its nucleus 70,935 volumes of rare books, journals and manuscripts donated by the liberal Darbhanga Raj in 1975. It is gathered from oral tradition that the Raj library was built around the acquisitions made through auction purchase of the personal library of the former British Prime Minister Gladstone, whose signature and notigs can indeed be seen on the pages of many books. Besides these collections the University during the course of last over thirty years has acquired over 1,60,000 volumes of Books and Journals. Hawards British Parliamentary Debates, Gould’s sets of Pictorial Books, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volumes of the Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Asiatic Researcher, The Puneh are some notable collections in the Raj library.