Periodical Section
    The University Periodical Section is the place where needed information could be found in journals, magazines, newspapers, and other serial literature. There is a growing demand in the areas of newspapers, journals and magazines research. In response to this, the University Library is subscribing to more than 70 current titles of print materials from both local and international resources, or 100 titles of electronic journals which provides fast and reliable information for research and studies. The total numbers of printed journals subscribed are 20, magazines 13 and news papers 9.
World Bank Cell
    University Library has a unique privilege of being selected as a full-fledged Depository for the World Bank Publications ever since 1986, and through this offer, our library gets the entire publications of the Bank at free of cost, and it is getting renewed every two years, based on the utility of the collections. The World Bank Cell is kept opened in all working days for reference. The photocopy service available inside the library is useful for the researchers to get Photocopy of the collections. Total number of World Bank Collection available in the library is 7,567
Competitive Examination Section
    This section is equipped with documentary sources useful for the students who would like to prepare themselves for civil service and other competitive examination success as UPSC, CBSE NET, SSC, IPPS, RRB, GATE, TOFEL, SAT, GRE, UGC, CAT and GMATE . And also it maintains various competitive exam preparatory books.
Special Collection Section
    The section includes the books about painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, dance, music, interior decoration and books about the Founder of the Annamalai University.
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
    OPAC – Online Public Access Catalogue is a milestone in our library services which helps us to access books with in a fraction of second. The catalogues of books and Journals, are viewed by giving the key word related to the title or author. In addition to this exact location of the books were identified by section name, pillar, number, rack number and book serial number. Anyone can access the book immediately without searching it in racks. This service can be accessible from anywhere in the campus during the working hours of the library.
Non Book Materials Division (NBM)
    Our Library has a separate section for the rare and precious collection namely Audio cassettes, Video Cassettes, Palm Leaves, Micro Film, Micro Fiche, Film Slides, Paper Manuscripts, Rare Books and gramophone Records.
Media Library
    Media Library is equipped with documentary sources useful to the Students and the Staff,. It maintains Audio and Video Materials on different subjects which will strengthen the individual capability of the library users. Educational Video contents like Effective Communications, Subject tutorials, UGC Programmes, etc., are available in the Library for the Students use. The contents are made available to the users in playable format with a large screen LED TV. UGC – Vyas is live streaming programme and NPTEL – National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (Ministry of HRD) were provided to the users regularly.
Binding Section
    Binding is a very vital affair for the library. Books need to be repaired and bound off and on. Readers are repelled by the shabby, loose jointed dirty books on the shelves. Similarly paperback edition need to be bound before sent to circulation, Not only full binding, but books need to be repaired and these minor repairs prolong the life of the book to a remarkable extent, In practice the absence of binding/ repair drives the volume to an unusable document. The section has a binding machine by which the work of repairing of books carried out.
Photocopy Service (Xerox)
    Photocopying service is one of the important services offered by the library. Photocopying service is provided to users on payment basis for reference materials like periodicals, reference books, and bound volumes etc. which are available for reference purpose only. Scanning facility is also available on request. Scanning service is provided to users on request for reference materials like periodicals, reference books, and bound volumes etc. which are available for reference purpose only. UGC – INFONET LAB
    The university Library is a member of UGC -INFONET E-Journal Consortium. The Internet has now-a-days become an important component in academic institutions as it plays a pivotal role in meeting the information and communication needs of University. UGC –INFONET lab is connected with National Knowledge Network (NKN) with the special assistance by UGC. The INFLIBNET provides seamless access to more than 50,613+ full text e-journals and 3 bibliographic databases from 16 publishers and aggregators in difference disciplines. The service is provided through 65 Systems in the UGC-INFONET Lab and is known as Digital Library e-Journal Section. This connection is purely IP Based. It does not require any authentication to access in our campus. So far 433 Universities and other institutions are involved in the program under the purview of UGC, have been provided differential access to subscribed E-Resources. These E-Resources cover almost all subjects in various disciplines. The Programme is wholly funded by the UGC and executed by the INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre, Ahmedabad.
Main features of UGC-INFONET:
ILL Libraries & Article Delivery INFLIBNET has also initiated interlibrary loans and documents delivery services from the comprehensive collection of subscribed journals under Jgate@UGC-INFONET. ILL is also known as Inter-Library Lending. INFLIBNET has designated 22 Libraries to fulfil ILL request from the users affiliated to 149 universities covered under UGC. The ILL libraries together subscribe for 2000 plus journals that is not available through consortia. Universities can request for articles from the journal holdings of those libraries wherever they find useful articles in JCCC search, that are now available in the that library.www.jgatepluse.com
E-RESORUCES / ONLINE DATABASES
E- Journal Gate Way : http://10.1.75.58/infonet/
REFERENCE & CITATION SOURCES
Chicago Manual of Style : http://www.chicgomanualofstyle.org/
Credo reference : http://www.credoreference.com
Encyclopedia Britannica : http://www.search.ed.com/
Keesings World : http://www.keesings.com/
New York Review Children’s collection : http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/children
New York Review of Books : http://www.nybooks.com
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography : http://www.oxforddnb.com/
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES
MathSciNet (e-Shodh Sindhu) http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/
SciFinder Scholar (e-Shodh Sindhu) http://www.cas.org/
FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL SOURCES
India stat.com (single User, Select IP login) : www.indiastat.com/
Central Statistical Organisation CSO : htpp://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/India_Statistics.aspx?status=1&menu_id=14
EPWRF India Time Series (EPWRF ITS) : www.epwrfits.in
UNWTO e-Library : www.e-unwto.org
DOCTORAL THESES
UMI Database : http://search.proquest.com
E-BOOKS
World e-Book Library (e-Shodh Sindhu): http://Community.WorldLibrary.In/?AffiliateKey=NDL-IJ1004
FULL TEXT SOURCES
ABI/INFORMATION Complete : http://search.proquest.com
ACM Portal : http://portal.acm.org/
American Association for the Advanced Science : http://www.sciencemag.org/
American Phytopathological Society : http://www.apsnet.org/
American Society for Nutrition : http://www.nutrition.org/
Anthrosource (accessible through Wiley-Blackwell : http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/browse/?type=&subject=ANOO
Applied Probability Trust : http://www.appliedprobability.org/
Australian Mathematical Society : http://www.austms.org.au/
Botanical Society of America : http://www.amjbot.org/
British Journal of Psychiatry : http://bjp.rcpsych.org/
British Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) : http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk
Cell Press : www.sciencedirect.com
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism : www.informaworld.com
Corporate Law Advisor (CLA) Online : www.claonline.in
Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press : http://www.cshlpress.com/
Company of Biologists : http://jcs.biologists.org/
CSIRO Publishing : http://www.publish.csiro.au/home.htm
Discover Magazine : http://discovermagazine.com/
Economic & Political Weekly : http://www.epw.in/
Elsevier Science (Cell Press) : http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Emerald CFTI Collection (298 Titles) : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Endocrine Society : http://www.endo-society.org/
Genetics Society of America : http://www.genetics.org/
Geological Society America : http://geoscienceworld.org/
Geological Society of London : http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/
GeoScienceWorld : http://www.geoscienceworld.org/
Grove Art Online : http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
IEEE Xplore : http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/
InderScience Online Journals : http://inderscience.metapress.com
Informa Health Care : http://informahealthcare.com/
Institute for Studies in Industrial Development : http://isid.org.in/
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) : http://imstat.org/en/index.html
Institute of Physics : http://www.iop.org/EJ/
IOS Press (Computer Science Journals) : http://www.iospress.nl/
Journal of Chemical Education : http://pubs.acs.org/loi/jceda8
JoVE (Journal of Visulization Experiments) :http://www.jove.com/
J-STOR : http://www.jstor.org/
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: http://www.springerlink.com/content/105633/
Manupatra : http://www.manupatra.com/
Mathematical Science Publisher Journals : http://msp.org/
Methods in Enzymology : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00766879
Mineralogical Society of America : http://www.minsocam.org/
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) : www.niscair.res.in/

An Introduction
         The seed of the main library germinated in 1920 with a token deposit of 200 books, when Sri Meenakshi College was founded.
        Then main was initially housed in the eastern wing of the Administrative building. It moved into its present abode in 1959, opening a new chapter in its history.

The Building
        The building was designed by internationally reputed architects namely Messers. Prynne, Abbot, and Davis and the building was named after the former Vice Chancellor of Annamalai University, Dr.C.P.Ramaswamy Aiyar, in recognition of his valuable services to the country and to this University. The present building was opened by His Excellency Shri.Bishnuram Medhi, the then Governor of Madras, on 22nd October, 1959. Within a built-in area of about 36,000 sq.ft. The building is a "H" shaped structure, with a well controlled entrance lobby, a spacious Central Reading Hall, Reference Hall, Periodicals Hall, and Bindery on the Eastern wing and Administrative Sections, closed access stack-rooms, Reprographic Section in the western wing and open access stack rooms on both the wings.

World Bank Collections
The Annamalai University Library has the unique privilege of being selected as a full-fledged Depository for the World Bank Publications ever since 1986, and through this offer, our library gets the entire publications of the Bank at free of cost, and it is getting renewed every two years, based on the utility of the collections. The World Bank Cell is kept opened in all working days for reference. The photocopy service available inside the library is useful for the researchers to get xerox copy of the collections. The compact discs (CD), contain information collected by the International Bank for reconstruction and development and the index of publications & guide to Information Products, and services of the World Bank are available in discs.

UGC Study Centre
The UGC Study Centre was established in 1975. The main aim of the study centre is to cater to the text book needs of the students for reference by extending the reading hours from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Separate Reading Room to meet the demand of the users who are preparing for the civil service examinations and other entrance examinations such as TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, GATE, CAT has been created, and this section is kept open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Computer Division
The Library is one of the few University Libraries in the country to have modernised its entire operations. The automation project was started in the year 1995 with special grant of fifty lakhs rupees received from the UGC-INFLIBNET. Through the following facilities, the user community will have unique advantage of availing of the library services round the clock.

(1) Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
(2) Circulation Service (Issue, Return & Nil arears)
(3) INTERNET (e-journal) service
(4) CD-ROM Service (MEDLINE Subscription)
(5) Orientation Programmes

Services
The Library is kept open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and the Central Reading Hall is kept open upto 10 p.m. during the days prior to the examinations. The Library works throughout the year, on all Sundays, and on all holidays (except three National Holidays).