Role of Pakistan in INIS Activities Current Development

Role of Pakistan in INIS Activities, Current Development & Future Plan of Scientific Information Division JABEEN AKHTER INIS Liaison Officer –Pakistan Head, Scientific Information Division Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology Islamabad

Presentation Layout Very brief description about : Ø Major Objectives of PINSTECH; Ø Structure of PINSTECH & Scientific Information Division (SID); Ø Current Status of SID; Ø Future Programme of SID; Ø Promotion of INIS activities in Pakistan; Ø Suggestions / Recommendations- INIS;

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, commonly known as "PINSTECH", is one of the largest Science and Technology Research Institute in Pakistan, managed by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC);

Major Objectives of PINSTECH ● R & D in the field of S & T using 10 MW Research Reactor and state of the art equipment; ● Production of Radioisotopes & Radiopharmaceuticals; ● Applications of Radioisotope Technology; ● Environmental Research; ● Provision of Radiation Dosimetry/Calibration Services at country level; ● Provision of trained manpower to various PAEC centres to meet future goals; ● Dissemination of Scientific information to other PAEC establishments

Structure of PINSTECH

Current Status of SID PINSTECH Library & INIS Office are parts of SID; § PINSTECH Main Library was established in 1966; § Declared as National Lib. of Physical Sciences by GOP; § PINSTECH Library is the Member of INIS; § Became member of International Nuclear Library Network (INLN) in 2010; § It is a hub for provision of S &T Information at PAEC § Responsible for efficient acquisition, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information to support PAEC projects § INIS Office at SID is National Centre of INIS Activities;

Structure of SID LMG: CIMG: STRG: INIS: Library Management Group Computerized Information Management Group Scientific & Technical Reports Group International Nuclear Information System Unit

Main Activities- SID Ø Acquisition of books, journals, reports, etc. to develop in-house collection; Ø Comprehensive S &T information databases; Ø On-line access to available literature; Ø Resource sharing with other R & D organizations and universities; Ø Dissemination of information from INIS and other databases to all users;

Current Status conti… IN-House Collection § ~ 26, 000 books on Science & Technology; § Journals articles : 1. 2 millions records from 768 journal titles having 44500 issues. § 1. 47 million NCL Technical Reports on microfiche and CDs. § Four current awareness services.

Current Status conti… Steps are being taken toward digitization of Lib: • To cope with the modern information needs, website http: // www. sidnlps. org. pk has been developed and hosted for online search; • Using Koha (which is one of free full-featured opensource library management system), a comprehensive books catalogue has been developed for a centralized databases of literature; • Bibliographic data of 26, 000 Books has recently been transferred to Koha according to International Std. for OPAC;

Current Status conti… • Bibliographic data of 2280 PINSTECH Publications in international journals is available; • Issue/ return of books is done by barcode readers; • Auto generation of reminders for overdue books; • Annual Stock verification procedure has been automated due to above measures; • Good number of PCs are placed in library to attract the users for literature search;

A View of PINSTECH Library

Future Programme With the enormous flow of information through internet, future of traditional libraries is endangered; Ø But, libraries can continue to play a vital role through digitization; Ø Our Future Programme is the complete Digitization/ formation of E- Library; Ø For swift sharing and provision of enhanced access to users; Ø Proposal for Digitization of PINSTECH Library has been submitted to Higher Authorities, depicting that how will be PINSTECH Library look like after 5 years;

Future Programme conti… § There are ~1. 0 million reports in the form of microfiche in PINSTECH Library. Out of this ~400, 000 have been scanned. Scanning of more reports is under process; § So far, 205, 000 scanned documents have been converted into pdf, pdf formation will continue; § Setup for the interactive audiovisual conferencing is being established for arranging group discussions, seminars, presentations, interviews, meeting , etc. § With time more improvement/addition will be carried out in our Website and local area network;

Future Programme conti… • Union Catalogue/Consortium of six PAEC Libraries will be developed for resource sharing using Koha as a pilot project; • ISO Certification 9001: 2008 of PINT Lib is being planned and will be implemented in two years for: • Quality Management System; • For quality Assurance; • To gain the user satisfaction ; • To improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of all activities being carried out in the Library;

Promotion of INIS activities • Pakistan has established links with INIS/IAEA since its inception. • INIS Unit has been established at SID/PINSTECH • Responsible for all activities of INIS and its promotion in the country; • INIS Links is available at the Homepage of SID website (http: // www. sidnlps. org. pk ); • Link is also available on PINSTECH LAN for the users at the institute;

Promotion of INIS activities…. conti Ø INIS Newsletter is sent to all, by PINSTECH LAN and placed at website; Ø INIS input is being submitted regularly since 2001; Ø INIS output products (full text) are made available to all user on free of cost basis whenever required; Ø Workshops/courses regularly conducted under PINSTECH Scientific Calendar, we distribute INIS posters in these events;

Promotion of INIS activities conti… Ø Literature searches from INIS are provided not only to PINSTECH /PAEC but to other research organizations/universities; Ø Visited Universities, to enhance the awareness about INIS Activities and collection of literature published in National journals; Ø INIS Input is prepared from 50 journals Ø Our target for INIS input is more than 1500, in 2015;

INIS Poster Distribution of INIS Posters in Local Meetings, Workshops, Training Courses regarding awareness about INIS Activities

Submitted INIS Input (2001 -2014) In 2014= 1029 (October 3, 2014) Target for sending input to INIS in 2015 is more than 1500

Suggestions / Recommendations- INIS Ø Close collaboration among INIS Liaison Officers, for sharing of Scientific Information, Events, Achievements, Awards etc. Ø To create a Healthy competition, input from all countries may be visible to all INIS Liaison Officers; Ø We were used to receive beautiful INIS Brochures, Posters, Pamphlets in past. It may be restarted. It is still beneficial for the promotion of INIS Activities;

Suggestions / Recommendations- INIS Ø Almost every member state is involved in digitization of material already available on microfiche. Ø It is proposed that INIS-IAEA may digitize its Literature available on microfiche for its distribution to member states; Ø Or Member states may be asked to digitize different parts of material and then to share it.

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