Ebank Library Network in Sri Lanka

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E-bank Library Networkin Sri Lanka

• Established 2002-01-04

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Objectives

• To share current information related to
  Economics, Banking and Finance
• To share current and relevant information
  generated by the member institutions,
• To share library resources in printed or
  non-printed form
• To loan material irrespective of the price
• To be proactive and prompt response for queries
• To manage with minimum cost and time.

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Types

• New Arrivals - Awareness on important title
  or titles received
• Current information- - Important information
  generated by the parent organization eg. press
  release, surveys, statistical charts etc
• Articles Documents-Awareness on important
  articles or finding location or supplying
  specific articles
• Inter-Library-Loan- location or reservation or
  lending library material irrespective of the
  value of publication,.
• Bibliographic information- Could be of one book
  or a list of books,
• Unpublished material Provision of
  unpublished reports/seminar papers/
• handouts /e-versions
• Publications-Either in-house publications for
  sale or on complementary/
• exchange of current publications or extra
  back issues
• Websites Important databases, URLs
• Training Current training opportunities,
  seminars, workshops useful for librarians and the
  organization as well..
• IT issues Virus alerts, Computer tips etc
• Others Managerial issues, guidance

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Members

• Bank of Ceylon BOC
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka CBSL
• Centre for Development Information CDI
• Ceylon Chamber of Commerce(CCC)
• Department of Census Statistics
• Development Finance Corporation of Ceylon DFCC
• Export Development Board EDB
• Institute of Policy Studies IPS
• Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka IBSL
• Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka Ltd. MBSL

• National Chamber of Exporters
• National Development Bank (NDB)
• National Institute of Business Management NIBM
• National Library Documentation Services Board
  NLDSB
• Peoples Bank PB
• University of Sri Jayawardanepura USJ
• World Bank Office, Colombo WBO

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Annual Progress Product Wise01.04.02-30.05.03
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Annual Progress Institute wise01.04.02-30.05.03
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Observations

• The members were getting accustomed to play a
  proactive role and was inculcating a cooperate
  culture to help each other.
• It served the purpose of current awareness
  service and SDI service as well.
• The technology failures of respective libraries
  kept them away from the network until they
  restored the facility.
• The members libraries without internet facilities
  such CDI, IBSL were benefited to access internet
  based contributions made by other members
• New arrivals were not merely a bibliographic
  information. In case of free copies the contact
  and telephone, e-mail etc. was provided for the
  convenience of other members.
• The members were alerted on weeding material and
  complimentary copies, which has helped collection
  building of have-nots.

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Observation - Contd..

• The members were able to market their in-house
  publications and also made use of their weeding
  material too.
• Especially the member libraries were able to
  access unpublished material such as reports,
  seminar papers either print or electronic version
  no sooner it was out.
• The libraries with large collections such as
  CDI, NLDSC and USJ could have contributed much
  more in their capacity
• In the context of New arrivals nearly 38 was
  contributed by IPS and it could be considered as
  a wake up callfor others to add the particular
  publications to their collections as well.
• Under the categories of Current information ,
  Articles and Unpublished material the CBSL has
  made the highest contribution to the network
  69,49 and 58 respectively
• Similar networks could be set up among public
  libraries, schools and other homogeneous group of
  libraries.

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Thank You