The library of the Institute holds about 412,000 items: textbooks, scientific and technical literature, standards (GOST, API), dissertations of the Institute, the reports of the Iradneft association 1951-1993 and the Institute's own publications. Director: Lyudmila Karpenko.
Opening hours
| Loan desk (main building, 1-40) | Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-15:00 | students: by student card |
| Reading room No. 1 (general) | Mon-Fri 9:00-20:00, Sat 10:00-16:00 | |
| Reading room No. 2 (technical literature, standards, past papers) | Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00 | |
| Electronic reading room (12 computers) | Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00 |
Closed the last Friday of the month (sanitary day).
Readers from outside
Graduates and engineers of Nurzhan may use the reading rooms with an identity document: day pass 50 som, year card 400 som. Interlibrary loan with the National Library of Irad (Talas State University) and the libraries of Nurzhan; delivery from Talas in 5-10 working days.
Electronic catalogue
New acquisitions, autumn 2026
- Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, 3rd ed. (2 copies, reading room No. 2)
- Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining (5 copies)
- Higher Technical Education in Irad, 1951-2020, Talas State University Press, 2021
- Standards of the ISEZ for pressure vessels, 2025 edition