About this site

This is not the library's website

For official information (timings, fees, rules, events) use the library's own website: kalaignarcentenarylibrary.tn.gov.in. To see the library's own catalogue, use the library's online catalogue. This site only makes the public catalogue easier to search.

Where the information comes from

Titles, authors, publishers, ISBNs, call numbers and shelf locations come from the library's public online catalogue. A copy is kept on this site so that search is fast and works in Tamil or English, and the copy is refreshed regularly.

Whether a book is available is checked with the library's catalogue when you open a book and when results are shown. If the library's catalogue cannot be reached, the last saved status is shown and the page says so.

Why you should still confirm at the library

• A book shown as available may have been borrowed a minute ago, or may be misplaced on the shelf.
• Floors are worked out from the location written in each copy's record. A few thousand copies have no floor recorded, so no floor is shown for them.
• Search in Tamil and English is approximate: it matches how words sound, so it can occasionally show a near match.

Before you travel for a particular book, check with the library.

Book covers

Cover pictures are loaded from third-party sources such as online book retailers. Many books have none, especially Tamil books, and a cover can occasionally belong to a different edition.

Privacy

There are no accounts or sign-in, and this site does not ask for personal details. Your search words are sent to this site's server to return results. Like most web servers, it may keep technical logs such as the time of a request and the visitor's IP address, for security and to keep the site running. Cover pictures are loaded from other websites, which can see that your browser asked for them. Your chosen language and theme are saved only in your own browser.