The freshers particularly students newly admitted to post-graduate courses of the University, are formally introduced to the Library sources and services at the beginning of every academic year. The students are invited (department-wise) to the library and taken to each section by the Library staff and are introduced to the diverse sources and services so as to make them familiar with the library to gain maximum use of the Library. This will help them to have acquaintance with the library resources and ICT tools and techniques used for usage of resources
Under e-ShodhSindhu (formerly UGC-Infonet E-Consortia Programme) Kuvempu University Library has been availing more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines. For effective usage of these e-resources by academic community, the Library has been frequently arranging e-resources awareness and training programmes by inviting resource persons from concerned service providers and experts in the field.
The University Library has been providing training to the candidates those passed Library Science courses viz., Diploma in Library Science and , B.L.I.Sc. The selection of candidates from the above courses is with appropriate proportion. For this, the University has been availing financial and other assistance from the Apprenticeship Board, Govt. of India.