New Initiatives

  1. Subscription of magazines for competitive examination aspirants

With the aim of facilitating the rural students to get access the leading English magazines and motivate them to participate the national level competitive examinations, 61 leading magazines have been subscribed for 32 District Central Libraries, 34 magazines for 241 full time branch libraries, 19 magazines for 320 branch libraries with the financial assistance from Tamil Nadu Text Book and Educational Services Corporation for a cost of Rs.2 crore.

 

  1. Increase in number of Print, online books and journals

The collections of Anna Centenary Library increased by subscribing national and international magazines and journals and also by purchasing books in print as well as online with the financial assistance from Tamil Nadu Text Book and Educational Services Corporation for a value of Rs.1.30 crore.