It is home to one of the largest and oldest collections in Sri Lanka, with its roots dating back to 1870 with the establishment of the library of the Ceylon Medical College.
[1][2][3] Following completion of buildings at Peradeniya Arts and Oriental Studies faculties were moved in the early 1950s.
Following re-transfer of the departments of Law and Education, as well as the re-establishment of the Arts faculty, a new collection began to support these faculties as well as other centers and institutions that began emerging in the Colombo Campus of the University of Ceylon from 1952 to 1972, thereafter the University of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978.
University of Colombo library was changed its name from time to time as follows: The newly built library building is located at Reed Avenue flanked by the arts and law faculty buildings along with the gymnasium.
This e-Repository serves to manage, preserve and make available the academic works of the faculty, postgraduate students, and research groups.