University of Peradeniya library

History

• Library, Ceylon University College
• Library, University of Ceylon
• Library, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
• Library, Peradeniya Campus, University of Sri Lanka
• Library, University of Peradeniya

Main Library

Branches

• The Agriculture Library was created in the 1960s and was amalgamated with the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture in 1980.
• The Allied Health Science Library was created for the youngest faculty in the university – the faculty of Allied Health Sciences – in January 2007.
• The Dental Library was created in 2008 and is the 9th and the youngest member in the university library network.
• The Engineering Library was created in 1964. A new two-story building was granted to the library in 2000.
• The Medical Library was established in 1973. It served all three Medical, Veterinary Science and Dental faculties by the 1980s, before they got independent libraries.
• The Science Library was established in a new building in 1993.
• Veterinary science students were served by the Agriculture Library up to 1973. Thereafter the Vet students were served by the Medical Library up to 1994 till the Veterinary Science library was established in that year.
• Mahailuppallama Library

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Special collections

• Donations from A. Pathmanabha, Charles Batuwantudawe, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Rev. Rambukwelle Siddhartha, A. C. Sulaiman, Andreas Nell, Lucian Janz, E.J.Thomas, George Grierson, H.R. Hamley, Albert M. Fehring, C.W. Nicholas and George H. Wickramanayake, W. A. Silva, Henry de Mel
• Map collection
• Ceylon Room
• Legal Deposit Materials Collection – More than 226,453 publications printed in Sri Lanka and registered in the National Archives Department.
• Collection of palm leaf manuscripts – Over 5000 palm-leaf manuscripts, which have been catalogued, accessioned and microfilmed. It is the second largest palm-leaf manuscript collection in Sri Lanka.
• Collection of microfilms of rare materials
• Collection of stamps of the world prepared by the journalist and writer Carl A. Muller.
• Bound periodical collection