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{{Infobox library
| name = Daniel Poor Memorial Library
| image = Dpml.jpg
| image_size = 300
| country = India
| type = Academic Library
| established = {{Start date |1915 |6 |28|df=yes}}
| items_collected = Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, Backvolumes, Rare Collections, Maps, Drawings, Palm scripts and Medieval Weaponry.
| director = Dr. M. Davamani Christober
| num_employees = Dr. N. Vasanthakumar
| collection_size =
| location = [[Madurai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
}}

'''Daniel Poor Memorial Library''' often abbreviated as DPM Library is a century old college central library of [[The American College in Madurai|The American College, Madurai]], [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]] that officially began its functions on June 28, 1915.

== History ==
[[File:Dpml 1957.jpg|thumb|alt=The American College|Daniel Poor Memorial Library]]
Daniel Poor was one of the pioneer missionaries of the [[American Board]] who started the [[American Ceylon Mission]] in [[Jaffna]] in 1816. He was also one of the founders for the [[American Madura Mission]] established in Madurai (then [[Madurai|Madura]]) in 1835. Samuel A Morman, the granddaughter of Dr. [[Daniel Poor]], was the key person to build the library building by donating $25,000 to the [[American Board of Missionaries]] on January 26, 1926.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://americancollege.edu.in/departments-2/library-2|title=Daniel Poor Memorial Library, The American College, Madurai |access-date=2021-06-10}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.americancollege.edu/Lib_History.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613162341/http://www.americancollege.edu/Lib_History.aspx |archive-date=2011-06-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 1914 and 1920, J. A. Sanders worked as its first [[librarian]], establishing the [[college library]]. This building was originally planned for a ground floor that would house a stack room for about 50,000 volumes, a small museum, and a teacher's room. The first floor was to house a library study room and two lecture rooms. Presently this building houses a stack room, a reference section, a reading room, technical section and a computerized student access catalog system. Stack room at the library houses more than 1,60,000 volumes. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://americancollege.edu.in/departments-2/library-2|title=Daniel Poor Memorial Library, The American College, Madurai |access-date=2021-06-10}}</ref> <ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Indian Library Directory|author1=Singh, J.|author2=Seṭhī, Ā.|author3=Indian Library Association|date=1985|publisher=Indian Library Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3V_oAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-04-05}}</ref>

== Vision ==
“Provides services to a variety of clientele diverse in skills, expectations and creates an atmosphere of trust, support and encouragement among all members in the American College”.

== Mission ==
“To provide the collections, services and physical environment to satisfy intellectual curiosity and information needs of the users in the American College”.

== Mile Stones ==
Date of Starting American College Library : 28 June, 1915 
Daniel Poor Memorial Library(Corner stone lay on): 26 January, 1926 
Daniel Poor Memorial Library Opened: 28 January, 1933 
Mezzanine Floor Built : 1987 – 1988 
Open Access System Introduced: 07 March, 1998 
DPM Library Internet Center Opened : 19 August, 2014 

== Librarians ==
1914 – 1920 - Dr. A. J. Saunders 
1920 – 1921 - Ms. L. C. Guise 
1921 – 1923 - Ms. Nettie B. Guise 
1923 – 1924 - Ms. E. L. Nolting 
1924 – 1926 - Ms. Wallace 
1926 – 1933 - Ms. Nettie B. Guise 
1933 – 1935 - Ms. Susanna M. Flint 
1935 – 1940 - Ms. Milred M. Hess 
1940 – 1969 - Mr. A .G. Solomon 
1969 – 1986 - Mr. Justin D. Rajan 
1986 – 2003 - Mr. G. P. Reuben 
2013 – Till Date - Dr. N. Vasanthakumar 

== Later Developments ==
The first floor houses the current periodicals, back volumes of periodicals, and a rare book collection. The only structural addition in the building is the [[Mezzanine (architecture)|mezzanine]] floor built during 1987–1988. This facility doubled the space for shelving books and helped expand the reading room space, Radio Frequency IDentifier (RFID) Integrated Security Gate RFID integrated KIOSK RFID integrated Intelligent Shelf 

== Facilities <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://americancollege.edu.in/departments-2/library-2/library-services|title=DPM Library Facilities |access-date=2021-06-11}}</ref> ==
Fully wi-fi enabled Library 
Closed Circuit TV Camera Facility Available. 
Internet Browsing Center (Free of cost to all users) 
Reprographic facilities are made available. 
Users’ suggestion box available. 
e-Group Service available 
RO Water facility available. 
Separate servers available for Library Automation and Internet. 
Fire Extinguisher facility available 

== Rare Resources <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://americancollege.edu.in/departments-2/library-2/rare-resouces|title= Rare Resources, Daniel Poor Memorial Library |access-date=2021-06-11}}</ref> ==
Manuscripts List 
Grantha Suvadugal 
Kathirkaamamalai 
Seevagasinthamani 
Thirupirangundru Maalai 
Murugan Paattu 
Thirupugal –Arunagiri 
Granta Script 
Yovan Eluth 
Vaipadu (Multiplication Table) 
Encuvadi 

Museum Collections 
Brass Collections 
Iron and steel collections 
Wooden carvings 
War exhibits 
Coins and Rupees 
Stamps. 

== Visitors ==
Famous visitors to the DPM Library include 
[[Rabindranath Tagore]], 
Robert A. Millikan, (Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect) 
S.R. Ranganathan, Father of Library Science in India, 
[[Khan Sahib]], 
C. N. Annadurai, 
[[V.V. Giri]], 
M. Karunanithi, 
Poet Subramaniya Bharati and many others....

== Collections ==
[[File:Tamil palm-leaf manuscript of Ciṟupañcamūlam 2.jpg|A palm leaf manuscript with ancient Tamil text in DPM|300x200px|thumb]]
The library boast's rare antiques, archaeological artifacts and ancient coins of [[Pandyan Dynasty]], [[Cholas]] as well. Many ancient palm leaf script copies like [[Tiruvacakam]], [[Manimekalai]] etc. are preserved here under rare archives section.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Shrikumar|first=A.|date=2015-08-26|title=The library that has outlived a century|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/history-of-a-100yearold-library-in-madurai/article7582873.ece|access-date=2021-05-08|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Important letter correspondence between the Indian Government and The American Missionaries are preserved here, wood carvings from [[Nayak dynasty|Nayak]] period, five metal bronze statues of Vishnu and other Hindu gods, Indonesian wood carvings and wooden statues dated more than 1000 years etc. are few among the collection.<ref name=":0" />

Proper documentation of all this collection is not done and many of the artifacts seems to mishandled and some are missing.<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
* [[Daniel Poor]]
* [[American College, Madurai]]
* [http://www.scilet.in/ SCILET]

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==References==
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[[Category:Libraries in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:American Ceylon Mission]]

Daniel Poor Memorial Library in Madurai - Revision history

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