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                                       Connemara Public Library The Connemara Public Library  at  Egmore  in  Chennai , Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the four  National Depository Libraries  which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals published in India. Established in 1896, the library is a repository of century-old publications, wherein lie some of the most respected works and collections in the history of the country. It also serves as a depository library for the  United Nations .  It is located in the Government Museum Complex on Pantheon Road, Egmore, which also houses the  Government Museum  and the  National Art Gallery . History The library's beginnings go back to 1860, when Captain Jesse Mitchell set up a small library as part of the Madras Museum in Madras, capital of the Madra...