In the year 1966, Library was established in the institute and after a decade it is renamed as Resource Centre with enhanced facilities. The Resource Centre building is spread over in 1187 sq. mt. space and it is completely furnished to cater the reading and lending facilities. The entire independent building is Wi-Fi enabled and designed for laptop use. The Resource Center has 4,000 back volumes 30,700 books, e-books, e-journals and other OER.
Rules and Regulation
Services are provided to the members only. Non-members will be allowed with permission
Books must be returned on before the due date and books will be renewed if there are no reservations.
Loss of Books, if any, shall be reported immediately to the resource centre on the prescribed form.
If the borrower is unable to replace the lost books, the cost is recovered, price of the book plus procurement charges 20 %
Members are requested not to bring their belongings inside the resource centre.
Use of edibles in the Resource Centre is strictly prohibited.
Reference materials should not be taken outside from the Resource Centre.
Patrons are responsible for complying with the limitation of copyright act while photocopying a resource centre book.
Strict silence must be observed in the Resource Centre.
Readers should not write in, mark or otherwise disfigure/damage books, furniture etc.
Duration of Loan
Books Eligibility
Loan Period
Faculty & Group ‘A’ Staff
10 books / 1 Month
Non-teaching Staff
5 books / 1 Month
Students
5 books / 1 Month
Long Term Trainees
5 books / 15 Days
Research Scholars
5 books / 15 Days
Short Term Trainees
2 books / 5 Days
Library Services
Circulation (Issue/Return/Renewal)
Current Awareness Service
Reference Service
Digital Reference Service
Plagiarism Checking
Orientation Programme to Users
Document Delivery Services
Research Assistance
QR Code for e-Resources
Collections
Printed Resources:
The Resource Centre holds a good number of learning and teaching materials including books, periodicals, and reports.
Books - 30,679
Journals - 6 titles
Magazines:
Sports Star - 1
India Today - 1
Newspapers:
English (The Hindu) - 1
Tamil (Dinamani) - 1
Hindi (Navbharat) - 1
Employment News - 1
The Resource Centre also includes a large collection of reference books.
The Resource Centre, NITTTR Chennai has been offering training in modern library practices to library professionals and educators since 2007. The programme includes digital library conversion, information security, and historical preservation. So far, 14 batches have completed training.
