The S.M.S. Medical College Library was established in the Independence Year 1947. Dr. Robert Heilig, first Head of Medicine, had immensely contributed to the establishment, management and advancement of the Library and thus it was named as Dr. Robert Heilig Library on 14th September 1976 . Earlier, the Library was housed in the main college building occupying just one wing in the college .The new Library building was Constructed & inaugurated on 4th July 2001.

The library has a collection of over 1,00,000 Volumes of reports, documents , reference, text books and bound journals. It has amazingly rich collection containing Abstracts, Directories, Yearbooks, Biographical sources, Textbooks, Thesis, Dissertations, Encyclopedias and General books besides the hard cover bounded back issues of Journals which are being subscribed by the Library since its inception . Presently, the library is subscribing 140 Medical journals in hard copy and 243 online journals on different aspects of medical and health science. Recently, the library has subscribed UP-TO-DATE database towards digitization process. SMS Medical College is one of the few Govt. Medical Colleges in the country to have this facility for Faculty, Residents and Students.