Digital library established at 145-year-old Pudukottai college
The Hindu
A well-equipped digital library has been established at the 145-year-old H.H. The Rajah’s College in Pudukottai for the benefit of the students of the institution. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated the digital library building through video conference from Chennai on Friday
A well-equipped digital library has been established at the 145-year-old H.H. The Rajah’s College in Pudukottai for the benefit of the students of the institution. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated the digital library building through video conference from Chennai on Friday. The swanky library building has been constructed by the Public Works Department at a cost of ₹6 crore.
Constructed on an area measuring 2,314.50 square metres within the college premises, the new library building has a ground and first floor housing a host of facilities inside. The ground floor has an office room, reading hall, periodicals room, stack area, new books arrival room, cloak room, librarian room, and a book issue counter. The first floor has, among others, digital library I, digital library II, committee room, periodicals room, research discussion room, and a reading hall.
The State Higher Education Department had issued an order in August 2022 for the establishment of a digital library building at the college following which the work commenced in 2023. The library will be equipped with thousands of books and journals both in the conventional and digital form.
The library has spacious halls where the students can sit and make use of the resources available. It has a separate hall for research scholars who can discuss and make presentations on their research. A function was organised at the new library building in connection with its inauguration in which Pudukottai Collector M. Aruna, Pudukottai Mayor Thilagavathy Senthil, college Principal B. Buvaneswari and government officials participated.
The college is a NAAC accredited autonomous institution catering to the higher educational aspirations of over 5,000 students with most of them hailing from the rural areas. The college has 14 departments with most of them offering higher education up to Ph.D.
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