Aquinas College is named after the great Italian scholastic philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas and our College Library inherited the same name ‘Aquinas College Library’ from its parent Institution. The building up of a good library had a small beginning in the shelves in 1982 in the Principal’s room with a few new masterpiece works. Later a room of the present pastoral canter was separated as a Library. Mr. P.V. Xavier took charge of the Library as the first Librarian in 1984.He was not only an able and efficient Librarian but also a great social worker. He is greatly honored by the society for his palliative care works and he is still very actively engaged in caring for the sick. Our former Librarian stood as a backbone of the College library and was supported by Mr. Augustine V, Mrs. Karmaly K.K., Mrs. Regina Jacob K, Mr. Sebastian P.F and Mr. Ouseph V.R during different periods. These Library assistants have done their best to provide sincere and quality service to the staff and students.

The present College Library, the central Library is a hall with a total seating capacity of 60 seats. The Library stock was enriched with a scholarly collection of more than 500 books donated by late Rev. Joseph Kureethara, the then Bishop of Cochin. The Library Infrastructure was further developed with a fund of 27 lakhs gained from Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Italy CBCI by the efforts of our present College Administrator Dr. V. S. Antony. In 2004, SOUL an integrated Library Management Software which was designed and developed by INFLIBNET Centre was adopted in our Library. The Circulation Service was fully automated with this software. An online Library facility was provided for the staff and the students to access books and periodicals available at major online Libraries in the World. For this the Library was supported by 24 hour leased Line Internet Connectivity.

After the retirement of the first Librarian Ms. Gifi George took over the charge of the Library on 26th February 2014. With the full support of the Management, a new classification System of the books, ie Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC 23 rd edition) was adopted to classify the Documents in the Library and also a widely used integrated Library Management Software KOHA was installed in place of SOUL. This was keeping in mind the provision of a quality service to the users of the Library and looking forward the possibility of a consortium of University and College Libraries of MG University in the future.