A pathfinder is a bibliography on the author, subject, and known personality, to promote usage and to create awareness among the user community. It lists the various resources available in the Central Library and helps library users for teaching, learning, and research. Some of such pathfinder(s) compiled are given below which are being updated time-to-time:
- Aerodynamics
- Air Pollution
- Autobiographies and Biographies

- Biophysics
- Cancer Research
- Climate Change
- C++
- Cryptography
- Corporate
- Cyber Security
- Data Mining
- Dr. AmartyaSen

- DR. B. R. Ambedkar
- Econometrics
- Electrodynamics
- Electric Vehicles
- Entrepreneurship
- Game Theory
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Hindi

- IITD Faculty and Staff Authored Books

- Leadership

- Machine Learning
- Mahatma Gandhi

- Matlab

- Microeconomics

- Negotiation

- Open Access Resources

- Photonics

- Premchand

- Production Engineering
- Project Management

- Public Policy

- Python Programming
- Renewable Energy

- Research Methodology
- Risk Management

- Rural Development
- Sudha Murty

- Swami Vivekananda
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainability

- Textile Design and Fabrics

- Wastewater
- Waste Management
- Women Empowerment and Women Scientists
- Environment
- Yoga
