Connemara (State Central) Public Library (Chennai, India)

This library was determined to have a significant collection of Tamil language materials when the National Bibliography of Indian Literature was compiled in the mid-twentieth century.

History
At the turn of the 19th century a new landmark was added to Chennai, the capital of the Madras Presidency. The historic date was 22nd March 1890 when Lord Connemara the then Governor of Madras State laid the foundation stone for the present Connemara Pubic Library to fulfill the long felt need for a standard library. Another red letter day was 5 December 1896 when the library named after Lord Connemara was formally opened. Since then, a century has passed and the library had become a part of history as much as a part of our lives continuously functioning till date.

Collections
Under the provision of Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act 1954., every publisher in India has to compulsorily send a copy of each publication to the Connemara Public Library. Apart from this a good number of publications and periodicals of UN and its specialized organs and Asian Development Bank were also received. Further more a good number of books were added every year by purchasing from the funds made available by the State Government Budget. By this the collection of library grew very fast creating the problem of space to accommodate the materials.

Rare Books Collection
This library has got a good number of rare books and periodicals some of them are:div class='table-wrap'>table class='confluenceTable'>tbody>tr>th class='confluenceTh'>Serial No /th>th class='confluenceTh'>Years of Publication /th>th class='confluenceTh'>Title /th>th class='confluenceTh'>Author/th>/tr>tr>td class='confluenceTd'>1