1. 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

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

3. 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);

4. 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 3

5. Structure of PINSTECH

6. 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;

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

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

9. Current Status conti… IN-House Collection
~ 26,000 books on Science & Technology;
Journals articles : 1.2 millions records from 768 journal titles having issues.
1.47 million NCL Technical Reports on microfiche and CDs .
Four current awareness services.

10. Current Status conti…
Steps are being taken toward digitization of Lib:
To cope with the modern information needs, website has been developed and hosted for online search;
Using Koha (which is one of free full-featured open-source 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;

11. 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;

12. A View of PINSTECH Library

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

14. 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;

15. 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;

16. 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 ( );
Link is also available on PINSTECH LAN for the users at the institute;

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

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

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

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

22. Suggestions / Recommendations- INIS
Close collaboration among INIS Liaison Officers, for sharing of Scientific Information,
Events, Achievements, Awards etc.
To create a Healthy competition, input from all countries may be visible to all INIS Liaison Officers;
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;

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

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