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AICUF National Documentation Centre was started in the year 1972 by Fr. Paul de la Gueriviere and a group of student leaders at the National Secretariat, Chennai. As a first step of improvement since 1989 articles on our AICUF thrust areas have been indexed from Journals, Magazines and Newsletters, which are kept in bound volumes. The Documentation Reprint Service was launched in 1990 to enable our movement people to know the sources of current issue based information.
The Main objective of the Documentation Centre is to build a comprehensive collection of Documents and thus providing resources for the growth of the movement related thrust areas such as Women, Tribals, Dalits, Refugees, Youth and Students, Human Rights and Issue based current incidents.
Need and purpose of the Documentation
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To build in an effective collection of documents in the thrust areas of AICUF
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To provide right information at the right time
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To provide effective services to face the information needs of the users
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To maximise the use of the available resources
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Documentation Service
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Current Awareness Service (CAS)
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Translation Service
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Bibliographic Service
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Daily Newspaper Service
Circulation Service of Cassettes, C. Ds and Charts for Solidarity groups
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Reference Service
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Documentation Reprint Service (DRS)
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Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
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Reprographic Service
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Display service
7 newspapers covering the most important regions of our nation and various journals, magazines and Newsletters are received. The DC has a collection of 3425 books.
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The Documentation Centre (DC) has preserved all publications of AICUF. The Rally from 1924 to the present day is in our DC. We have preserved some of our Rally issues in CD and are planning to continue. Files of all National level AICUF programmes are preserved in the DC for further references of the users. The DC also maintains Newspaper clippings of news items specifically on AICUF activities. |
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Documents on International Movement of
Catholic Students(IMCS) are preserved here. IMCS periodicals and
publications are also documented.
Our DC has regularized the publication of the student Newsmagazine as a supplement to "The Rally". The underlying philosophy of the AICUF student news is to carry the pedagogy employed and the pedagogy to be derived to the student community for which the ever young movement AICUF is existing for more than eighty years.
The facts on files are a preservation of
pieces of information on various social issues. Each file is a ready
reference source of information on relevant topics and its being updated
regularly