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Gopi: /* Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments */

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Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments

Gopi: /* Digital Library */

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Digital Library

Gopi: /* Collection Development */

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Collection Development

Gopi: /* Reference Resources */

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Reference Resources

Gopi: /* Digital Archive of Print Publications */

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Digital Archive of Print Publications

Shaseevan at 23:00, 28 September 2014

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Gopi: /* Digital Archive of Manuscripts */

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Digital Archive of Manuscripts

Gopi: /* Conferences and Symposiums */

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Conferences and Symposiums

Gopi: /* Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments */

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Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments

Gopi: /* Reference Resources */

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Reference Resources

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	Combining formal education with alternative forms of education, Pallikoodam aims to create Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support and empower students at the grassroots levels within the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka. It promotes education as an avenue to strengthen the democratic foundations of society. The first phase of the project, which has been successfully launched (www.epallikoodam.org), brings together text based educational resources using the Moodle platform.		Combining formal education with alternative forms of education, Pallikoodam aims to create Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support and empower students at the grassroots levels within the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka. It promotes education as an avenue to strengthen the democratic foundations of society. The first phase of the project, which has been successfully launched (www.epallikoodam.org), brings together text based educational resources using the Moodle platform.

		+	See [[Virtual Learning Environments]] page for more details of this program.

	==Building Capacities and Communities of Practice==		==Building Capacities and Communities of Practice==

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 ===Digital Library===
-The Digital Library program facilitates information access by users by by maintaining the information architecture of the archived information resources. Please visit [http://www.noolaham.org/ www.noolaham.org] to use this digital library.
+Noolaham Foundation Digital Library (www.noolaham.org) is the largest Tamil digital library on the Internet. It contains more than 13,500 resources about various aspects of Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka. This digital library functions as a learning centre incorporating local knowledge and provides information services contributing towards knowledge-based development in Sri Lanka. It serves students, researchers, historians, activists and the public.
 ===Collection Development===

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 ===Collection Development===
-This program focuses on creating critical mass of collections so that they can be used by students, researchers and general public to fulfill their information needs effectively. Currently four special collections and two ongoing collections are being developed by the Foundation.
+This program focuses on creating critical mass of collections so that they can be used by students, researchers and general public to fulfill their information needs effectively.
 ===Reference Resources===

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 ===Reference Resources===
-Noolaham Foundation collects information and create in depth Resources about People, Places and Organizations and makes it accessible to all. So far information about more than 600 People and around 3000 organizations have been collected. This program will be the backbone of the information architecture needed for all other programs and will become a useful reference tool. There are plans to collect context and community specific open data sets such as information about works, biodiversity, micro-climate, economic data and social indicators as well.
+Noolaham Foundation collects information and create in depth resources about People, Places and Organizations and makes them accessible to all. So far information about more than 600 People and around 3000 organizations have been collected. This program will be the backbone of the information architecture needed for all other programs and will become a useful reference tool. There are plans to collect context and community specific open data sets such as information about works, biodiversity, micro-climate, economic data and social indicators as well.
 ===Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments ===

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 ===Digital Archive of Print Publications ===
-The Publications Archive Program digitizes all print documents which are related to Sri Lankan Tamil communities. The printed documents include Books, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters, Booklets, Reports, Souvenirs and Felicitations, Annual Publications, Posters, Flyers and Leaflets, Fact sheets, Invitations, Memorial Publications, Dissertations, Ephemera, Trade and Advertising Publications, and Guides and handbooks. By May 2013, Noolaham has documented 13,277 publications.
+The Digital Archive of Print Publications Program digitizes and preserves all print documents which are related to Sri Lankan Tamil communities. These documents include Books, Magazines, Journals, Newspapers, Newsletters, Booklets, Reports, Souvenirs and Felicitations, Annual Publications, Posters, Flyers and Leaflets, Fact sheets, Invitations, Memorial Publications, Dissertations, Ephemera, Trade and Advertising Publications, and Guides and handbooks. By September 2014, Noolaham Foundation has archived over 14,000 publications.
 ===Digital Archive of Manuscripts===

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 The purpose of the Multimedia Archive is to collect and archive Images, Videos, Audios and electronic media. This project is in its
 initial stage. Photos Archive is a pilot project currently being developed. It is expected to be online in 2015.
 ==Knowledge and Information Services==
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 ===Pallikoodam - Virtual Learning Environments ===
 Combining formal education with alternative forms of education, Pallikoodam aims to create Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support and empower students at the grassroots levels within the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka. It promotes education as an avenue to strengthen the democratic foundations of society. The first phase of the project, which has been successfully launched (www.epallikoodam.org), brings together text based educational resources using the Moodle platform.
 ==Building Capacities and Communities of Practice==

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 ===Digital Archive of Manuscripts===
-This program digitizes all kinds of hand written documents such as palm leaves, notebooks, letters, diaries and other hand written manuscripts. Most of these materials are unique and fragile. They need special handling and equipment to be digitized.
+In Sri Lanka, there exists a vast number of medieval and late modern Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts held by individuals and organizations. These palm-leaf manuscripts cover a variety of subjects including traditional medicine, law, history, technology and religion. Majority of these works have not been published in print. In addition, there exists an array of contemporary handwritten manuscripts such as notebooks, letters and diaries. Noolaham Foundation’s Manuscripts Archive Program identifies, catalogs, digitizes and makes these works accessible to the wider scholarly community and the public. Palm-leaf manuscripts need special handling and equipment to be digitized. To date, Noolaham Foundation has completed manuscript archiving projects with Chunnakam and Jaffna Public Libraries.
 See [[Manuscripts Archive]] page for more details of this program.

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 ===Conferences and Symposiums===
-Conferences and Symposiums are organized to encourage inter-disciplinary research that would offer an opportunity to scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, linguistics and literary studies to draw insights from each other’s discipline in order to enhance their own research.
+Conferences and Symposiums are organized to encourage sharing of information and best practices across disciplines such as information and library science, archival science, museology, history, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, and linguistics.
 The first project of this program [[Tamil Documentation Conference 2013]] was held in April 2013.