KUPPAM • ANDHRA PRADESH • ESTD. 1997

Established in 1997 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh with the support of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, Dravidian University is dedicated to the integrated development of Dravidian languages, literature, culture, folklore, history and tribal studies. Located at the tri-junction of three states, it serves as a beacon of higher education in this region.

Srinivasa Vanam, Kuppam – 517426,
Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Central Library
Central Library Building

Libraries are the backbone of any civilized society and the heart of any academic institution. The Central Library at Dravidian University occupies a prominent place among students and faculty.

The Dravidian University Library System consists of a Central Library supporting teaching, research, and extension programmes of the institution and promoting Dravidian studies especially in the fields of comparative Dravidian literature, translation studies, religion, culture, and indigenous science.

All students, faculty members, and employees of the institution are entitled to make use of the library facilities on taking library membership.

The Dravidian University Central Library was started in the year 1997 with a small collection of books. Initially, the library was situated in the camp-office at Kuppam. Later, it was shifted to Periyar Bhavan in the new campus and housed in Narayana Guru Bhavan.

The present library shifted to its state-of-the-art building on 9th August 2018.

The library is built on an area of 5580 sq.ft and is furnished with modern furniture. It is centrally located and easily accessible to all departments of the campus.

The library serves the information needs of students, research scholars, teaching faculty, and non-teaching staff, with borrowers numbering around 1900.

Central Library Interior

The Central Library supports teaching, research, and extension programmes of the University in general and promotes Dravidian studies in particular, especially in the areas of comparative Dravidian literature, translation studies, religion, culture, indigenous science, and national integration. All members of the University community are entitled to access library resources upon obtaining membership.

Library Officers

The day-to-day functions of the Central Library at Dravidian University are efficiently managed by a team headed by a qualified librarian with more than 25 years of professional experience. He is supported by an Assistant Librarian, documentation officers, and a team of well-trained library staff.

Prof. M. Doraswamy
Prof. M. DORASWAMY

M.Sc., M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D

Professor & Librarian

Academic Libraries

09440219118

mdoraswamy@gmail.com

Dr. Avineni Kishore
Dr. AVINENI KISHORE

M.A., M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D

Assistant Professor & Head

Academic Libraries

09490003008

saikishoreshu@gmail.com

Library Assistants
Dr. K. Kusuma Kumari
Dr. K. KUSUMA KUMARI

M.A., M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D

Library Assistant Grade-II

Library Assistant Grade-II

09492549199

ckusumakumari@gmail.com

Dr. K. Harinatha Reddy
Dr. K. HARINATHA REDDY

M.A., M.L.I.Sc.

Library Assistant Grade-II

Academic Libraries

09951039048

harinathareddykonda@rediffmail.com

Dr. S. Naresh
Dr. S. NARESH

M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil.

Library Assistant Grade-II

Academic Libraries

09441075190

naresh.surineni@yahoo.com

Dr. G. Subramanyam
Dr. G. SUBRAMANYAM

M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil

Library Assistant Grade-II

Academic Libraries

09989530345

Subbusvu73@gmail.com

Dr. M. Padmaja
Dr. M. PADMAJA

M.A., M.L.I.Sc, M.Phil., Ph.D

Library Assistant Grade-II

Academic Libraries

07382066670

manne.padmaja72@gmail.com

Dr. C. Krishna Reddy
Dr. C. KRISHNA REDDY

M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D

Library Assistant Grade-II

Academic Libraries

09440926558

ckrishnardy@gmail.com

Sections
Acquisition Section

The physical book stock of the library grows continuously by section procuring books, back volumes of periodicals, microfilms, and rare collection of books etc. in quotation calling method. There are 22 departments on the campus having an annual book grant of Rs. 20,00000/- per annum to the library for the purchase of books and journals.

Technical Section

All the books acquired by the library are processed scientifically for their arrangement in the shelves. The library follows Dewey decimal classification. The book numbers are given using the Cutters table. Books are catalogued according to AACR-2. Library of Congress subject headings are used for providing subject headings.

Stack Area

The Stack area is spread to half of the building. Books on Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Language, Sciences, Technology, Fine Arts, Literature and Geography and History are arranged in the stack area. Books about 18000 volumes in Dravidian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu etc. are kept separately.

Textbook Section

Multiple copies of the standard text books on different subjects are kept in this section on the recommendations of the respective heads of the departments mainly for consultation by the students and staff.

Reference & Quick Reference Section

The reference sources like Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Lexicographys, Directories, Year Books, Hand Books, Statistical Sources, Biographical Sources, Geographical Sources and Reports are maintained properly in this section. Doctoral Theses and M.Phil Dissertations of Dravidian University are also processed and maintained here.

Periodicals Section

The Indian and foreign periodicals are being subscribed. Current issues of journals in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Computer Science, Bio-Technology and Business & Management are arranged alphabetically. Back issues are available in display shelves. Journals do not circulate. Presently 155 journals/magazines are available.

Circulation Section

This section looks after registration of borrowers, maintenance of records, reservation of books, collection of overdue charges, reminders and issuing of no-dues certificates.

Competitive Examinations Cell

An exclusive section created to help students prepare for UPSC, APPSC, NET, Banking, Railways, LIC and other competitive examinations. Employment notifications, admission notifications and conference information are displayed for student benefit.

Newspapers and Magazines Section

The library acquires 6 English, 9 Telugu, 2 Tamil and 2 Kannada newspapers covering national, regional and local news. About 25 magazines of competitive, socio-economic, political and cultural importance are received.

Library Automation

Library automation provides excellent control over collection. Automation work has been undertaken using SOUL software and about 45,000 volumes are entered.

Digital Library

Sri Narayanaguru Bhavan houses the Digital Collection supporting culture, languages, technology and science. Digital library and internet facilities help students, scholars and staff to access electronic resources.

DELNET (ILL / Resource Sharing)

The library is a member of DELNET for inter-library loan and resource sharing. Exchange of books and journal articles is facilitated through DELNET. Visit: http://delnet.nic.in/

OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)

OPAC facility is available at the library entrance to facilitate online search of books by Title, Author, Keyword and Subject.

Library Collection
Print Collection Books
(Includes all Dravidian language books) 		Text Books / General Books 75761 99527
Reference Books 7672
Encyclopedias / Dictionaries / Hand Books 4179
Competitive Books 1720
Gift Books 10195
Periodicals Journals 68 103
Magazines 35
Back Issues / Loose forms 9436
News papers Telugu 08 17
English 06
Tamil 02
Kannada 01
Electronic Collection E-resources INFLIBNET – ISID Database Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
INFLIBNET – JGate Plus JGate Plus (JCCC)
INFLIBNET – JSTOR JSTOR
Springer / Nature / Taylor & Francis Springer Link (1700 Collection), Nature Journals, Taylor & Francis
DELNET e-Resources Resource Sharing Library Network in India
NDL / Open Access Journals / Databases / Open Courseware World e-Book Library, South Asia Archive (SAA), Hundreds of free e-resources via Central Library Portal
Services
  • Reprography Service
  • News paper clipping service
  • Book Lending Service
  • Inter Library Loan / Document delivery service (through DELNET)
  • Reference Service
  • Referral Service
  • Serials Service
  • User Awareness Service
  • Resource Cell for Competitive Examinations
  • Access and Issue of CD-ROMs
  • New arrivals display / Online new arrivals service
  • Book Exhibitions / Book shop visits
OPEN ACCESS (FREE) ACADEMIC ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES
ArXiv.org – An Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant archive of electronic preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and non-linear sciences. Created by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, it is one of the oldest archives of free online scholarship.
HighWire Press – Division of the Stanford University Libraries producing online versions of peer-reviewed journals and scholarly content.
Department of Energy Information Bridge – Full-text research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
US Department of Energy – Energy, Science, and Technology Preprints – Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines such as physics, materials, chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, and nuclear medicine, related to the activity of the department.
CiteSeer – Autonomously creates citation indexes of scientific literature. Generates citation statistics and allows easy browsing of the context of citations. Texts freely available in PDF, PS, HTML format.
CCSD: Thèses-en-Ligne – E-print repository of French theses in various scientific domains [French/English].
CCSD: Hyper Article Online – An interface for submitting scientific papers to the article database of the French Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe. Papers in mathematics, physics, information science are instantly and automatically directed to "arXiv" [bilingual site in English/French].
NASA Astrophysics Data System – Free online abstracts and full-text papers in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary sciences, and solar physics.
Southampton CiteBase Services – E-prints service provider hosting digital archives of the University of Southampton.
OAIster – Gives access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources and through the OAI harvesting protocol reveals digital resources previously "hidden" from users behind web scripts.
CERN Document Server – Articles and preprints collection aiming to cover the published and pre-published literature in particle physics and its related technologies. The collection includes about 400,000 documents, many of which in full-text access.
EPrints in Library and Information Science – E-LIS is an open access archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other documents in the field of library and information science in electronic format.
Uppsala University Publications – Full-text working papers and research reports in PDF format.
Free Full-Text Science Archives – A directory with annotated links to institutional full-text scientific archives.
Document and Publication Server of the Humboldt University of Berlin – (EDOC) Provides free access to publications, theses and dissertations, electronic e-print journals. [English and German]
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology – (DLIST) Developed by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona using Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant Eprints v.2 software.
Philsci Archive – An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.
eScholarship Repository – Repository of the University of California, U.S. offering a broad range of e-books, journals and peer-reviewed scientific documents. Includes submission guidelines, editing assistance and FAQs.
Cogprints – Makes preprints and reprints of papers in all areas of the cognitive sciences freely available on-line. Authors can deposit their work in the archive after a (free) registration.
Virginia Tech – Electronic Theses – Searchable and browsable digital archive of theses and dissertations.
University of California – Service provider hosting electronic archives for research units and departments at the University of California.
Digital Library and Archives – Virginia Tech – Open Archive Initiative (OAI) compliant digital repository. E-journals, electronic theses and dissertations, faculty archives.
University of Trento Eprints archive – A digital repository (OAI compliant) of full-text scientific publications produced by professors and researchers of the University of Trento, Italy.
The Digital Library of the Commons – Gateway to the international literature on the commons, this working paper archive provides access to author-submitted papers, as well as full-text conference papers, dissertations, working pre-prints and reports.
Documents in Information Science – (DoIS) – Database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the field of library and information science.
Caltech Library System Papers and Publications – E-print repository of academic papers in the field of library and information science.
Cryptology Eprint Archive – Provides access to author-submitted research papers in cryptology.
Nottingham Eprints – An experimental project to investigate the institutional use of eprints services at the University of Nottingham. Browsable and searchable digital archives of several research units and departments.
Organic Eprints – Open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.
NU Maynooth Eprint Archive – The National University of Ireland Maynooth’s pilot electronic print project is intended to act as a central repository for the research output of NUI Maynooth academic staff and departments.
Institut Nicod Eprints Archive – Online research papers in philosophy, sociology and cognitive science of the Jean Nicod Institute’s members.
ArchiveSIC – French digital archive providing free access to full-text papers in the domain of information and communication science [Bilingual site in English/French].
Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports – Electronic archive of freely downloadable full-text technical reports in PDF format.
The Computation and Language Eprint Archive – An electronic repository of full-text papers in computational linguistics, natural language processing, speech processing.
AKT Eprints Archive – Electronic archive of the Advanced Knowledge Technology Project. Downloadable papers in knowledge management.
Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) – Digital repository of a research institutions in Norway. Includes full-text peer-reviewed journal reprints, theses, dissertations and other academic research materials. [English, Norwegian]
Elektronische Bibliothek der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen – Digital archive providing full-text access to papers, theses and dissertations in PDF format.
Electronic Publications of the WU-Wien – Electronic archive providing full-text access to working papers and dissertations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory – Archive of freely downloadable technical reports from several labs in the domain of earth sciences at CalTech.
Computer Science Teaching Center – A digital archive of peer reviewed resources for teaching computer science. Submission restricted to registered users.
History and Theory of Psychology Prints – (HTP) Gives access to full-text of refereed papers. Registered users may also deposit appropriate material.
ANU Library Eprints – Browsable electronic pre- and post-print repository of the Australian National University.
Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation – (CAV 2001) Proceedings of the symposium, downloadable from this electronic repository hosted by the Caltech Library System.
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science – Preprints by members and visiting researchers of the CLÊ, a research institute at the University of Campinas, Brazil.
Caltech Electronic Theses and Dissertations – Searchable and browsable repository of theses and dissertations from Caltech.
HofPrints – An electronic archive for papers produced by members of the Hofstra University Community. It includes papers written by faculty and administrators, papers delivered at Hofstra University sponsored conferences as well as invited lectures.
IOWA University – Computer Science Technical Reports – Digital repository of full-text technical reports downloadable in multiple formats.
MIT Theses: Science, Technology, and Society – Searchable collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses available online.
SISTA – Publication database with search engine from the Katholieke university, Netherlands. Includes books, papers, reports and theses on different scientific topics.
Collection on Critical Global Issues – Full-text access to publications in the fields of agriculture and land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, science and technology.
World Environment Library – New Zealand Digital Library Project provides full text access to publications in the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, environmental impact assessment, energy, health, natural resources, policy, sustainable development, waste management and water.
Archivio E-Print – Institutional archive hosted by the library services of the University of Florence. Contains teaching and research documents.
Medical and Health Library – Hosts full-text publications in the fields of clinical treatment, emergencies, essential drugs, family planning, food and nutrition, health education, HIV/AIDS, medical equipment, prevention, public health, sanitation.
Computer Science Technical Reports – Free access to more than 45,000 technical reports in computer science extracted from nearly 300 sites around the world.
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) – Provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit institutions in developing countries.
AGORA – Provides access to over 500 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries.
Open Society Institute – OSI. Promotes the development and maintenance of open societies around the world through an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications – INASP. Its mission is to enhance the flow of information within and between countries, especially those with less developed systems of publication and dissemination.
International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) – Assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) – A full-text and bibliographic CD-ROM library of over 140 of the world’s most important scientific journals in the field of agriculture. It is available well below cost to over 100 of the lowest-income food deficit countries, as listed in the World Bank’s World Development Report.
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP) – Technological support for the delivery of scholarly content. Develops protocols for the delivery of scholarly content, provides software for journal management and publication, hosts a database of free scholarly journals and resources.
Book Aid International – Provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools in order to support literacy, education, training and publishing in over 40 countries around the world. Concentrates over 85% of its resources on 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
James Burke’s Knowledge Web – Digital incarnation of the James Burke’s television programs. Visitors can create their own pathways through history, contribute content and investigate virtual reality learning spaces.
Public Library of Science – PLoS. Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free access online journals and eprints archives.
Electronic Reference
Associations
ASM International Foundation
Webpages for Scholarly Societies
Gateway to Associations Online
Idealist
World Directory of Think Tanks 		Associations on the Net
International Organization and NGO Web Sites
Meta-Index for Nonprofit Organizations
European Mathematical Society
Atlases
Rare Maps
Maps and Atlases
MAPS
Freeality Online Atlases, Maps, and Travel Directions 		Atlas
Geography : Atlases
Health Atlases
Maps.com
Citation Guides
Harvard Referencing
Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides 		CBE Documentation
Citation Formats for Natural Scientists
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia of the Orient
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PC Webopaedia
Merriam-Webster
World Fact Book
Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia
Artcyclopedia 		Encarta Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Mythica
Discovery online
Tech Encyclopedia
World of Mathematics
Instrument Encyclopedia
Fossil Encyclopedia
Grants
EPA Grants Writing Tutorial
NSF Grants
NIST Grants 		COS Funding Opportunities
Grantsnet
GrantsSeeker
News Papers
Chicago Tribune
The Washington Times
Science Tech. Daily Review
The New York Times
USA Today
Sydney Morning Herald
Business Standard
Times of India
Businessline 		Deutsche Welle
Telegraph
India-Today
Express Business
Financial Times
Indian Express
The Detroit News
The Hindu
The Economic Times
Die Welt
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Open Course Ware

Open CourseWare, or OCW, is a term applied to course materials created by universities and shared freely with the world via the internet. The OCW movement began at MIT with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare in October 2002. Since then, a number of universities have created OCW projects. According to the website of the OCW Consortium, an OCW project:

  • is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
  • is available for use and adaptation under an open license.
  • does not typically provide certification or access to instructors.
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Conferences and Seminars
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The central library organized a 40th APLA National Conference on “EMERGING TRENDS IN USER EXPECTIONS FOR NEXT GENERATION LIBRARIES” held on 24-26, February, 2012 collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Library Association, Vijayawada. Download
The central library organized a Two day UGC Sponsored National Conference on Lead the Change: Innovative Information Professionals in the Digital Age, March 7th &8th 2014, Dravidian University, Kuppam. Download
International Conference of Indian Library Association Broucher-2022. Download
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