The Hindu 31.12.2014
Corporation opens digital library
The digital library contains video, visual, and print material
pertaining to the corporation since its inception in 1994.— Photo: A.
Muralitharan
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.
