The library which was initiated in the corner of the office of the First Vice-Chancellor Dr. G. S. Mahajani in Kesargarh (a fort-like structure on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, which now houses the offices of the popular Hindi newspaper Rajasthan Patrika).
Rajasthan University is close to the now-famous Bidla Mandir on the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg.
The building has been inaugurated on 16 November 2022 by Sh Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan government.
[clarification needed] The library holds a collection of more than 4 lakh documents, which includes books, bound journals, theses, reports, microfilms, etc.
The library has a rich collection of documents of historical importance to the State of Rajasthan.
This includes government reports, gazetteers and other publications dating back to early 19th century.
This collection of the library includes a variety of reports, for example, census of India publications of the earlier period beginning from 1872, a large number of gazetteers of India down to district level published during the British period.
The departmental libraries in the university are in the departments: Academic Staff College, Faculty of Fine Arts, Indira Gandhi Centre for Human Ecology Environment and Population Studies, History, Law, Library and Information Science, Philosophy and Podar Institute of Management.