Services and Facilities Available

Individual and Group Orientation

OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)

Material support for programmes

Job and Competitive Exam Alerts

Question Bank (Bound and e-format)

Internet Browsing & Downloading Facility

Printing and Reprography

Section For IAS Books - Reference

Online Resources : INFLIBNET

( INFormation LIBrary NETwork)

Book Bank

Earn While You Learn Programme

Institutional Membership

Renewal through SMS for M.Phil students

Braille Section

Readers Club

SAGE Management Journals (Print & Online)

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College Library

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Sembium, Chennai –11

Librarian

Dr..Sumuki Padmanabhan

Library Assistants

Mrs.Sridevi. R

Mrs. Kokilavani. M

Annual News Letter

Volume V I March,2015 E-Mail: cttelibrary@gmail.com

The library Annual Newsletter for the academic year 2013-14 was released by our Managing

Trustee & Correspondent Thiru. Palamalai, IAS(Retd) on 29 March 2014 and the first copy

was received by our Principal Dr. Hanifa Ghosh.

LIBRARY COMMITTEE

Dr.Hanifa Ghosh

Principal

Dr.R.Meenakshi

Vice Principal

Dr.Sumuki Padmanabhan

Librarian

Mrs.R.Kavitha

Asst.Prof.,Dept.of Mathematics

Mrs.V.Suganthi

Asst.Prof., Dept.of.Computer Science

Ms.E.Yogitha

Asst..Prof., Dept.of Commerce

LIBRARY STATISTICS AS ON 5/03/2015

S.NO DETAILS STATISTICS

1 Total No. of Books 18046

2 No of Magazines 36

3 No. of Newspapers 9

4 No. of Journals ( National & International) 24

5 No of books Purchased 229

6 No. of Complimentary books 300

INDIA TODAY

KALKI

PUTHIYA THALAIMURAI

PUTHIYA THALAIMURAI- KALVI

SPORTSTAR

THE WEEK

AVAL VIKADAN

DOWN TO EARTH

FRONTLINE

WOMEN'S ERA

PUTHIYA VAZHVIYAL - MALAR

MAGAZINES IN OUR LIBRARY

WEEKLY FORTNIGHTLY

AYURVEDAM TODAY

BANKING CHRONICLE - SERVICES

CHRONICLE

CIVIL SERVICES TIMES

COMPETITION REFRESHER

COMPETITION SUCCESS REVIEW

COMPETITION WIZARD

DIGIT

GK TODAY

INFINITE THOUGHTS

KALAI MAGAL

MANGAIYAR MALAR

MOOLIGAI MANI

PC QUEST

PODHU ARIVU ULAGAM

PRATIYOGITA DARPAN

PRATIYOGITA KIRAN

READERS DIGEST

RENU GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

SCIENCE REPORTER

TAMILARASU

UNIVERSITY NEWS

MONTHLY

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Sembium, Chennai –11

ICT ACT JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

INTERNATIONAL JNL OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET SECURITY

INTERNATIONAL JNL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DATABASE SYSTEMS

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

JOURNAL OF WEB APPLICATION

JOURNALS

KISAN WORLD

TODAY ITHAZH (TAMIL)

UNIVERSITY NEWS

GENERAL

CUCKOO

INDIAN LITERATURE

JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES

THE CARAVAN

DEPT OF ENGLISH

HUMAN CAPITAL

ICFAI – JNL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

INDIAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING

INDIAN JNL OF TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

SEBI & CORPORATE LAWS

INDIAN JNL OF MANAGEMENT

INDIAN JNL ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS

DEPT OF COMMERCE, , B.B.A & ACCOUNTING

&FINANCE, CORPORATE SECRETARYSHIP

DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & COMPUTER APPLICATION

CURRENT SCIENCE – JOURNAL OF

RESEARCH

INTERNATIONAL JNL OF

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

MATHEMATICAL NEWSLETTER

PROCEEDINGS OF MATHEMATICAL

STUDIES

RESONANCE - JOURNAL OF

SCIENCE EDUCATION

DEPT OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Sembium, Chennai –11

“A book is a device to ignite the Imagination.” - ALAN BENNETT

Some of the New Arrivals……

A Book Exhibition and Membership Drive were organized as a part of

Library Day celebrations. Inaugurated on 1st September, 2014 by our

Managing Trustee & Correspondent Thiru L. Palamalai, IAS (Retd). The

event attracted participants’ attention towards the benefits of inculcating

good reading habits. The second day witnessed a frenzied rush as

participants wanted to enroll as members in various libraries like the

Govt. Branch Libraries, British Council Library.

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L I B R A R Y E X T E N S I O N A C T I V I T I E S

BOOK EXIBITION AND MEMBERSHIP

RALLY

To promote the awareness on importance of Reading Habits , the

students participated in the “Vaasippom Nesippom 2014- A Grand Rally

for promoting Reading habits”. It was organized by the Society for the

Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) along with

Puthiya Thalaimurai Mandram, held on 15th November, 2014 at 7 different

places in Tamil Nadu.B.S. Abdur Rahman University, is the main sponsor

for this event. Our students from various disciplines participated in this

rally accompanied by staff members and they were given participation

certificate. The students were taken to Kamarajar Salai and they had a rally

from Anna square to Light house between 3pm to 5pm. The chief guest for

the event was Dr.Prof.V.Thandavan, Vice Chancellor , University of Madras.

LIBRARY TOUR

As a part of readership enhancement Programme, Library tours were

organized and the students were taken to the following libraries :

American Library – 06/11/2014

Madras University Library – 29/11/2014

Anna Centenary Library – 12/12/2014.

Totally 300 students were taken to all these libraries accompanied by the

staff members. Students send their feedback through library mail.

Reading is a habit - a life long habit, a life enriching habit, a life - supporting habit

and a life giving habit. Once tasted, it is inevitable to be away from the books

Library day competitions were organized on 21st and 22nd of January, 2015. “Crossword Puzzle”

“Library Memory Game”, “Power Point Presentation” and “Bookmark Designing”. Competitions were

conducted to augment the utilization of the library.

L I B R A R Y A N N U A L F E S T

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Sembium, Chennai – 11

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

FUNFILLED MEMORY GAME

BOOKMARK DESIGNING

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMPETITIONS

1 C.HEPZHIBHA

V.SANGEETHA

III BCA I

2 S.RAMIYASHREE

P.LEKHA SRI

I B.COM(CS) B II

3 R.S HARSHAVARTHINI

M.FATHIMA BEGUM

I BA (ENG) III

1 S.SELVI MARIN III BCA I

2 M.RUFFINA RUTH II BCA II

3 V.JOTHI II BCA III

1 S.M. DURGA DEVI III B.SC (CS) A I

2 S.S. INDRA III BCA II

3 S.RENUKA DEVI I B.COM (G) B III

1 R.PRIYA III BBA I

2 V.JOTHI II BCA II

3 M.RUFFINA RUTH II BCA III

CTTE IAS ACADEMY- CIVIL SERVICE SECTION

A separate section in the library with books, magazines and other reference materials benefit the IAS trainees.

The classes for this academic year started on 6th September 2014.

The classes are held on Saturdays and Sundays from 10. 00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. every week.

Training by Eminent Faculty

Preparation for various competitive Exams.

Periodical Tests and Group Discussions.

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To motivate the students to join the Academy, an Orientation Programme was

conducted for all the final year students in the first week of September, highlighting the

training given for various competitive exams and relevant magazines available in the

library.

Dr.S.Sridevi IQAC Coordinator gave quality suggestions to the committee members to

improve the development of the Academy.

PROFESSOR RAMANI’S SECTION

Professsor Ramani’s section was inaugurated by our Managing Trustee and

Correspondent Thiru L.Palamalai, IAS (Retd) on 8th September 2014. Professor Shankara

Subramanian (Ramani), Former Professor of English, Madura College, Madurai. He was a

humanist, a philanthropist, a scholar and a lover of knowledge. He was passionate about

books and was a voracious reader. Professor Ramani's collection of scholarly works on

English Literature, Sociology, Literary criticism, Literary Analysis and Research etc.

adorn our library.

The Managing Trustee & Correspondent met all the IAS

faculty members on 11 October, 2014. He discussed the

syllabus, questions for periodical tests and gave suggestions

for IAS syllabus oriented books and magazines for the

library.

READERS CLUB

To motivate the reading habit among the students, library is

conducting RC (Reader’s club) meeting on first week of every

month. Final year UG students are participants for this

meeting and it is named as STEPUP-RC. This year totally 13

meetings were conducted and staff from various departments

introduced the books from different fields.

E-RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN COLLEGE LIBRARY

Library is subscribing Electronic Resources through UGC INFLIBNET,(NLIST) to access 6000+

E-Journals and 97000+ E-books. Individual User-ID & password has been provided to each student,

Faculty & Research scholars to have direct in house and remote access. It encourages easy access to research

and resource sharing.

To access follow the link http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in

SAGE MANAGEMENT JOURNALS

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Research Innovations

Asian Journal of Management Cases

Foreign Trade Review

Global Business Review

IIM Kozhikode Society & Management

Review Indian Institute

International Journal of Rural Management

Jindal Journal of Business Research

Journal of Emerging Market Finance

Journal of Entrepreneurship

Journal of Human Values

Management and Labour Studies

Vision

South Asian Journal of Human Resources

Management

The following13 peer-reviewed Journals of SAGE Management plus package, both print

and online are subscribed in the library.

To access log on to: http://online.sagepub.com

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H o w A w a r e A r e Y o u ?

L I B R A R Y B L O G A N D F A C E B O O K

A Blog & Facebook page has been created to promote knowledge about

various programmes and services. CTTE LIBRARY BLOG named as

CTTE KNOWLEDGE CENTRE is being administrated by the Librarian

from November 2012. It is updated either weekly, fortnightly or monthly.

Waiting to receive your valuable suggestions.

E-mail: cttelibrary@gmail.com

Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Sembium, Chennai – 11

CTTE library

Library Newsletters

Library New Arrivals

General news

Online Encyclopedia

Readers Club Meetings

E-book Sites

Exam Materials for all

competitive exams

General knowledge quiz

Link to Open Access

Resources for Research.

wolframalpha.com –gets answers directly without searching.

https://www.followupthen.com - Free & Easy Email Reminder

copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.

printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.

http://www.polishmywriting.com - check your writing for spelling or grammatical

errors.

marker.to – easily highlight the important parts of a web page for sharing.

notes.io – the easiest way to write short text notes in the browser

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