The Rev. B M Pugh library, being the knowledge centre on agriculture and allied areas was established in 1969, located in the Head Quarter of the university at Jorhat. It serves the students, teachers/scientists, research scholars and other staff of the colleges, viz., College of Agriculture and College of Community Science as well as staff and students of newly established College of Horticulture and College of Sericulture in particular and the entire community of the university in general.
It has its branch libraries at the College of Veterinary Science, Khanapara; College of Fisheries Science, Raha; Biswanath College of Agriculture, Biswanath Chariali; Sarat Chandra Singha College of Agriculture, Dhubri and Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science, Lakhimpur.
After the establishment of the University library in 1969 the Chief Librarian Post held by various renowned Professors of Assam Agricultural University & Librarians since 1975. The details are given below.
8.00 AM - 8.00 PM
9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
The current strength of the books, periodicals etc. are listed below ( as on March,2020).
| Item | AAU, Jorhat | CVSc, Khanapara | BNCA, B. Chariali | CFSc, Raha | SCSCA, Dhubri | LCVSc, Lakhimpur |
| Library Building | 2100 sq meter | 691.02 sq meter | 120 sq meter | 200 sq meter | 625.69 sq meter | 62.43 sq meter |
| Staff | 17 | 09 | 02 | 02 | 0 | 02 |
| Printed Books | 1,88,327 | 32,388 | 6,806 | 12,600 | 3,978 | 2,704 |
| Printed Journals | 60 | 08 | 02 | 08 | 02 | 02 |
| E-Books | 3,801 | 3,801 | 3,801 | 3,801 | 3,801 | 3,801 |
| E-Journals | 3,856 | 3,856 | 3,856 | 3,856 | 3,856 | 3,856 |
| News Paper | 13 | 09 | 05 | 03 | 02 | 03 |
| Computers/Laptop | 32 | 22 | 04 | 05 | 04 | 01 |
| Printers | 13 | 06 | 03 | 03 | 03 | 0 |
| Scanners | 03 | 02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Users | 2,239 | 817 | 300 | 279 | 155 | 174 |
| Other Print Collections of AAU Libraries | ||||||
| Thesis & Dissertations | 3,590 | 1,428 | 51 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 7,950 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Back Volumes | 16,911 | 9,318 | 210 | 250 | 0 | 0 |
| Popular Magazines | 06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Newspapers | 13 | 09 | 03 | 05 | 02 | 03 |
This section provides minimum five to six books to every enrolled students for the semester and number of borrowed books depend upon availability of books in this section
The internet browsing facility is available in the library premises on the basis of a user account created in the AAU Captive Portal which is strictly provided by the System Administration i.e. AKMIT cell of the AAU. There is also the provision of access to the internet by the visitors on request of a guest account created by AKMIT accordingly.
The RBMPL, apart from providing dedicated user service, is also acquainted with extending quality user education programmes.
Library orientation is one of the most common user education programme that is provided to the users of AAU, in particular the under graduate patrons, maintaining a proper discipline wise streaming in the early part of their formal vocations
Education on Library and Information Service in the form of a non–credit compulsory course (PGS 501) is also conducted to impart appropriate knowledge in the field of information retrieval and dissemination, technical writing stressing more on literature review and citation analysis as well as the proper techniques in browsing the different resources present in the library.
Rev B. M. Pugh Library has implemented automation of library at KOHA LMS under ICAR library strengthening project. The library functions are operational at Koha LMS for the library users. The bibliographic database of the library’s collection is well functioning through the OPAC module on Koha.
URL of Library OPAC of Rev. B.M. Pugh Library, AAU, Jorhat: http://asuj.bestbookbuddies.com
Rev. B.M. Pugh Library is fully covered under CCTV security and surveillance System which helps in security of library resources as well as library management.