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.

Objectives

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

To build in an effective collection of documents in the thrust areas of AICUF
To provide right information at the right time
To provide effective services to face the information needs of the users
To maximise the use of the available resources

Services

Documentation Service
Current Awareness Service (CAS)
Translation Service
Bibliographic Service
Daily Newspaper Service

Circulation Service of Cassettes, C. Ds and Charts for Solidarity groups

Reference Service
Documentation Reprint Service (DRS)
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)
Reprographic Service
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.

AICUF Archives

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.

IMCS Documents

Documents on International Movement of Catholic Students(IMCS) are preserved here. IMCS periodicals and publications are also documented.

AICUF Student News

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.

Facts On Files

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