Annual Report 2005 - Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka

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IPS Support Services__LibraryDe-selecting of JournalsAs the Library spends a large amount of its budget on purchasing journals, it is important to evaluate the realuse of these journals for determining the cost-effectiveness of the process. With the aim of comparingrelative usage of journals with their costs, Librarycollected usage data from January to DecemberAcquisitions2004 which is useful for selecting and de-selecting1992-2005journal titles depending on their usage.14,000Electronic DatabasesLibrary continued to provide access to EBSCO and6,000Blackwell-synergy databases with the generous 4,000support of International Network for the 2,000Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) and01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Programme for the Enhancement of ResearchSeries1 Series2Information (PERI) funded by SAREC and MicroImpacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies(MIMAP) programme supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. Inaddition, Library continued its subscription to JSTOR database.Enhancing ServicesAs stated in the previous report, the Library intranet was redesigned with introductory tutorials and guidesto enhance users’ information on literacy skills. A test version was launched in October 2005.The demand for using the Library from the outside research community was also notably increased and nearly85 researchers personally visited the library.During the year, the library staff participated at various conferences, and meetings. The Librarian presenteda poster on ‘Rising from the Rubble - Tsunami Affected Libraries in Sri Lanka’ at the 71 st World LibraryInformation Congress, Oslo, Norway, 14-18 August 2005. She also delivered a speech at the Chartered Instituteof Library and Information Professionals, London, 25 August 2005. It is worthwhile to note that during the71st World Library and Information Congress and International Federation of Library Associations andInstitutions (IFLA) General Council held in Oslo, the Librarian was elected as the Secretary to the RegionalStanding Committee of Asia and Oceania (RSCAO). This is the first time that a Sri Lankan was elected to thisposition.12,00010,0008,000Priorities for the Coming YearLibrary will focus on developing ‘Digital Library’ using open source software to utilize existing provision ofelectronic resources to its users.PersonnelPremila Gamage, Manoja Botheju, Dilrukshi Ariyaratne and Chamari Yapa34__________ Annual Report 2005
IPS Support ServicesPublications and Communications UnitPublications and Communications Unit continued its role as the Centre of information dissemination. Duringthe year, the existing dissemination strategies were revisited, to develop more effective ways and means bywhich the Institute’s research activities can reach a much wider audience, both locally and internationally.The unit also focused on bringing innovative and cost effective methods for its desktop publishing activities.With streamlined systems and processes in place, the unit was able to complete all the activities that wereundertaken during the year, in a timely and efficient manner.New AvenuesDuring the year, the IPS took an initiative to translate the Institute’s main research publications into Sinhalaand Tamil languages, for wider acceptance of the Institute’s research, locally. The staff of the PCU contributedextensively to this exercise, and was successful in bringing out the summary of the working paper ontsunami. In addition to the existing local bookstores, these publications in the official languages were arrangedto made available at Sinhala and Tamil book stores for wider access.Publications of 2005In total the unit brought out 11 publications during 2005. This included eight publications under the IPSresearch series, a special volume on the impact of the MFA phase-out, a report on Sri Lanka’s national healthaccounts for the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition, and the IPS State of the Economy report, the flagshippublication of the Institute (for more details, refer section on IPS publications of 2005).International conferences, workshops and seminars organized by the unitThe Publications and Communications unit successfully organized a number of international conferences,workshops, seminars and media conferences during the year. The unit’s efforts towards the organizing of the4th General Meeting of the Poverty and Economic Policy Group (PEP) Research Network, with over hundredinternational participants and over 200 seminar participants over a period of 4 days of the general meetingand 9 days of workshop sessions, was a main highlight of the unit calendar, during 2005.These conferences and seminars are organized mainly in keeping with the Institute’s attempt to developinstitutional networking within and outside of Sri Lanka, while creating awareness of the major policy issuesand development challenges facing Sri Lanka and the world at large.Staff ContributionsDuring the year, the publications unit staff worked with IPS research staff and support staff to compile, edit,present and disseminate their work through the IPS web in a timely and attractive manner. In addition, workwas carried out towards standardizing web content as well as content generating process.PersonnelManu Tissera-Gunasekara, D.D.M. Waidyasekera, K. SothinathanAsuntha Paul, Ayoni Rangala and Sharmini de Silva35__________ Annual Report 2005
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