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Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences 2015 IATUL Proceedings Jul 1st, 12:00 AM New approaches and best practices for data repositories: Digital Reference Library Services@Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Sri Lanka Kamani Perera Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka Kamani Perera, "New approaches and best practices for data repositories: Digital Reference Library Services@Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Sri Lanka." Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences. Paper 4. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2015/posters/4 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@purdue.edu for additional information. New Approaches and Best Practices for Data Repositories Digital Reference Library Services @ Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Sri LankaKamani PereraLibrarianRegional Centre for Strategic Studies Sri LankaIATUL 2015, Hannover, Germany, 5-9 July 2015In this Internet era, IT application in libraries has become an important part in developing countries in the past decade. The library and the librarian are playing a major role in today’s world by way of providing universal access to unlimited sea of information.Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Sri LankaLibrary, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies,  Sri Lanka	        Blog Sta s cs United States   53294 Russia   13129 Ukraine     8272 United Kingdom    7014 India       6745 Germany        6744 France        5653 Sri Lanka       4565 Netherlands      2256 Spain            1957 Page views all  me history         156,387 (As at June 2015) It is crystal clear that the advent of ICT has s mulated our libraries as well as librarians in a very posi ve manner. In this regard, applica ons of social media tools such as blogs, portals, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twi er etc. have made very effec ve, warm environment among libraries and its users. This paper is based on author’s experience at Digital Reference Library and how RegionalCentre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) library addresses the informa on needs of South Asian scholarly community.Awareness Program on Data Repository @ RCSST h e  l i b r a r y  o f  R C S S  h a s  c r e a t e d  a  b l o g h p://kamani-strategicstudies.blogspot.com/ on Strategic Studies and Digital Reference Library Portal on South Asian Strategic Studies and Interna onal Rela ons h p://rcss.asia/ to provide effec ve informa on service regionally and globally. RCSS library acts as a promoter of Centre’s intellectual side by way of helping its users to access their own research publica ons. As librarians it is our utmost duty to make an e-learning environment to enhance productivity of our scholarly community. Regular updates are made to e- repository collections and physical repository has been computerized using PURNA (CDS/ISIS) library software. Books, chapter of books, journal articles of the physical collection are systematically analyzed for easy reference. IATUL 2015, Hannover,Germany 5 - 9 July 2015Usage Sta s cs of Blog, Offline and PortalE-repositories and social media tools mainly blog and portal have become an integral part of the RCSS library which provide an effec ve access to open source informa on on strategic studies beyond RCSS walls. The main responsibility of any research or academic library is to collect informa on, systema cally organize, p r e s e r v e  a n d  m a k e  t h e m  a c c e s s i b l e  w o r l d w i d e .  About the Presenter Traveler Librarian Interna onal Speaker Library Consultant Author Visi ng Lecturer  

New approaches and best practices for data repositories: Digital Reference Library Services@Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Sri Lanka

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