The Hindu 31.12.2014
Corporation opens digital library
The digital library set up by the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation was formally inaugurated by A. Jaya, Mayor, on Tuesday in the presence of V.P. Thandapani, Commissioner; R. Chandran, Chief Engineer; and zonal chairpersons. Mr. Thandapani said the library contained collection of digital material, including video, visual, and print material, and others pertaining to the corporation since its inception in 1994. Many records and documents of the erstwhile Tiruchi municipality since 1950 were stored in the system.
The electronic content had been stored locally and could be accessed and controlled remotely via computer network. The civic body would continue to collect, update, manage, and preserve the files for a long time and they could be used by officials and local body planners. It could be used as long-term archives for future references.
Mr. Thandapani said that documents such as Memorandums of Understanding, press cuttings, corporation agendas, land records, population, pattern of population growth, birth, and death registration records, map of the corporation, details of households, roads, map of roads, details of water supply, and coverage had been digitised.
