The Library of the Indian Mathematical Society was started
in 1907 at the Fergusson College,
Poona, with Dr. R. P. Paranjape as the First Librarian
of the Society who served in this capacity from 1907 to 1922.
In 1950
the Library was
shifted to Madras
and was housed in the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai- 600 005, Tamil Nadu, where it continues to be located at present.
The IMS Library has rich collection of back numbers of reputed Mathematical Journals published all over the world and it provides useful service to the members of the Society. It mails Books/Journals/zerox-copies of the articles on request to the members of the Society all over India.
The Library also helps its members to locate articles that are not available in the IMS Library, but are available in other libraries in Madras.
At resent, the library is receiving some 84 periodicals on exchange basis.
| Sr.No. | The IMS Librarian | Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | R. P. Paranjape. | 1907-1922 | 2
| V. B. Naik.
| 1922-1936 | 3
| R. P. Shintre.
| 1936-1944 | 4
| D. D. Kosambi.
| 1944-1950 | 5
| T. Vijayaraghavan.
| 1950-1955 | 6
| C. T. Rajagopal.
| 1955-1970 | 7
| T. S. Bhanumurthy.
| 1970-1986 | 8
| V. K. Balchandran.
| 1986-1988 | 9
| K. S. Padmanabhan.
| 1988-2002 | 10
| S. Parvati.
| 2002-2007 | 11
| K. Parthasarathy.
| 2008 onwards |
|