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 : 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;

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 3

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

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;

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 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;

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; 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; .

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 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;

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;

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 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;

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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