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A spacious Library, with its interesting collection of books, attracts students and instills reading habit among them. A variety of journals and magazines - national and international are also available to widen their knowledge.

Library Rules

  1. Library opens at 8.00 in the morning and closes at 4.15 in the evening.
  2. When the library opens we will put the date seal in all the registers like gate register, issue register, reference register, digital library register and in the Xerox register.
  3. Library receives The Hindu and Dhinamalar newspaper, which will be sealed and placed for display.
  4. Students are given two cards to borrow books, each for a card.
  5. Students are allowed to hold books for a period of 14 days.
  6. For delay in return Rs.2/per day will be collected from the students. Collected fine details are been registered in the Fine Register.
  7. Issues to the students are made during the library hour, break time, lunch time and after the college hour.
  8. There is weekly library hour for all the 2nd and final year students.
  9. Staffs are allowed to borrow 5 books at a time.
  10. No fine will be collected from the staff.
  11. If some students need to refer the library during the class hour they have to get permission from their department staff.
  12. Journal and Magazines are allowed to refer inside the library.
  13. Digital Library will be open at 8 am in the morning.
  14. Students are allowed to use digital library during break hours, they also permitted to use during their class hours by providing a permission letter from their department staff.
  15. Xerox will be taken for student at cost of Rs.1/sheet, the details are recorded in the Reprography register.
  16. All students and staffs must sign the register while entering the library.
  17. All students and staffs must sign the digital library register while entering the digital library.

Meta Search and Multi Search Engines :

These meta search and multi search engines can search numerous engines and sites at once, maximizing the number of results you get each time you conduct a search

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WEBSITE ADDRESS

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Adorable Ms. Freckles can search online for different file types, definitions, translations, film, finance sites, and a lot more all at once.

http://www.msfreckles.com/index.php
 

2

This cartoon-inspired search engine lets you hover over results to get a preview of the site before you open it. Results are also organized by topic so that you can narrow down your search and organize hits.

http://www.kartoo.com/

3

Search the web’s best, the entire web, downloads, images, videos, audio or headline news. You can also select an advanced search to find incredibly specific results.

http://www.fazzle.com/

4

 This site saves your search memory so that you don’t have search multiple times on different engines.

http://trexy.com/trailbar.htmls

5

Here at "the mother of all search engines," librarians search the web or video. Next to your results is an option to refine your search by choosing a suggested category

http://www.mamma.com/

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Type your search into one or several of the following search engines at once: Alta Vista, AOL, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Hot Bot, Lycos, Scrub, Yahoo!, Google, YouTube, Dogpile, Ask Jeeves, and a lot more.

http://www.bjorgul.com/

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Busy librarians who are constantly finding new reference sites and search engines will like iZito because of its ability to save your history in an easy drop down tab.

http://www.izito.com/

 

Multimedia and Interactive : For help finding pictures, podcasts, music and shareware, use these search engines.

 

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Find videos on this site if you want a change from YouTube.

http://www.metacafe.com/

2

This large photo search engine has more than 2 billion images in its directory

http://www.picsearch.com/

3

Patrons looking for music can use this search engine, which "lets you listen to any song or band." You can also search the featured list or top played list.

http://songza.com/

4

Search for podcasts all around the web in this directory

http://www.getapodcast.com/

5

If you need to install new software programs on your library computers, turn to Shareware first, which pulls up tons of free programs and downloads.

http://www.shareware.com/

6

Find information for thousands of public radio stations on this site. You can find the times of different broadcasts, station names, podcasts and more

http://www.publicradiofan.com/

 

Google Search Engines  : A Google search doesn’t just mean typing in a keyword on the homepage and seeing what pops up. Try out these niche search engines sponsored by Google to find books, images and more information that librarians will find useful

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Ask Google to bring up the most popular images on the web with this engine

http://images.google.com/

2

Get connected to scholarly journals and publications here

http://scholar.google.com/

3

Search online copies of books on this search engine, which features categories like literature and science fiction to biology and linguistics to highly cited to categories organized by subject and keyword.

http://books.google.com/

4

Set up Google Alerts for any subject so that you’ll get results sent to your inbox every time there’s a new site, blog or keyword mention on the web

http://www.google.com/alerts

 

Great Niche Sites for Librarians : From family friendly and kid-safe searches to science and medical search engines, these niche sites can help you with very specific research projects

 

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Pull up science-related results on this research-oriented search engine. You can find "not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

http://www.scirus.com/

2

Here you’ll be connected to quality, authoritative sites. Search by keyword or narrow down your search by browsing categories like business, government, media, health, computers, or the arts and humanities.

http://www.lii.org/

3

Librarians at elementary and middle schools, as well as public librarians, may be interested in directing patrons to this site, which is safe for kids.

http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com/

4

This British search engine lets you pick search options in the following categories for a specialized search: science and technology, arts and humanities, social sciences, and the health and life sciences.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

5

PubMed is one of the premier search engines for medical students and researchers. You can find journal articles, citations, clinical information and more

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

6

On the GSU College of Law site, librarians and patrons can take advantage of this meta-index which brings up judicial opinions, legislation and more

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

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College librarians may want to direct students to this search engine, which connects searchers to internship opportunities

http://www.internshipprograms.com/

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For current events and news searches, use Congoo to connect you to the latest in technology, industry, business, world news, finance, politics, Internet trends and more

http://www.congoo.com/

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CataLaw is another law search engine that organizes "all indexes of law and government into a uniform, universal and unique metaindex

http://www.catalaw.com/

 

Custom Searches: Tailor your search to your daily needs with these search engines, which can be modified by remembering search history, customizing templates and more.

 

1

Pick a language and customize your search with this engine. Mozbot can also add results to your favorites, send results by e-mail, display thumbnails of different sites, and provide suggestions for similar sites

http://www.mozbot.com/

2

Help teachers find reference materials, lesson plans and tools by searching this Google custom search engine.

Curriculum Search

3

Use this search engine or adapt it to make your own to find computer science materials and references

Computer Science Research

4

Choose to search categories like health, travel, tech, reference and others using Rollyo, a system that "create[s] search engines using the sources you trust

http://rollyo.com/

5

This sleekly designed search engine lets you choose how you want your results displayed and organized

http://www.ujiko.com/v2a/flash.php?langue=en

 

Reference Searches : The following list of search engines prove useful to all kinds of librarians in search of dictionaries and other reference materials

 

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JustCite is a legal search engine and can help you find citations.

http://www.guidestar.org/

2

Search scientific databases and journals here

http://www.ojose.com/

3

For a basic Q&A session, use Powerset to quickly search Wikipedia entries

http://www.powerset.com/

4

Get information on any subject, from history and government to arts and entertainment to world news to biographical information to homework help

http://www.infoplease.com/

5

This search tool is great for librarians who work with teachers wanting information on grants and nonprofits. Type in the name of an organization or keyword to find nonprofit group information

http://www.guidestar.org/

6

You can get answers to research queries on any subject at JoeAnt, from computers to science to politics to the humanities to business law

http://joeant.com/

7

Find tutorials for practically everything on this search site, from education to culture to spirituality, to finance to the Internet

http://www.findtutorials.com/

8

RefDesk is known as the "fact checker for the Internet." You can search MSN, Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia, as well as various dictionaries and periodicals

http://www.refdesk.com/

9

Get detailed definitions, translations and more on this search engine, which pulls from over 1,000 different dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/

10

Look up and access books online for free using this search engine, which includes educational books, history books, children’s books, biographies, political books and a lot more

http://www.free-book.co.uk/

 

11

This site features a literary search engine called Wisdom that can search the web, images, audio, video, a dictionary and more

http://www.thinkers.net/

12

Use the web search or search encyclopedias, blogs, articles and online groups to get creative with your reference search.

http://information.com/

 

Library Search Engines : Check out these search engines that are designed to emulate or are sponsored by libraries and librarians

 

1

Find references, search the collections by subject, check out the reading room or KidSpace when you visit this online public library

http://information.com/

2

Here, librarians discover "one web page for every book." This open source project also features an advanced search, connecting you to the exact book and full-text publication you’re looking for

http://openlibrary.org/

3

Find full-text books, journals, kid-safe sites, business information and more on this online library search engine

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/searche.html

4

Search the indexes and other information for 18,000 different libraries here

http://www.libdex.com/

5

 WorldCat helps patrons and librarians "find items in libraries near you." Search for books, DVDs, CDs and articles

http://www.worldcat.org/

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The most widespread types of Master's degree in the US Free Online Education and courses details

www.nist.gov
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