About 30 publishers and book sellers all over the country are taking part in the fair, beneficial for students and researchers, and in which a special discount of 20 per cent is being offered.
University Vice-Chancellor, K Ramasamy inaugurated the fair and unveiled a portrait of S R Ranganathan, Father of Indian Library Science at the premises.
The university instituted "institutional Membersship" with British Council for mutual exchange of books and publications.