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| + | <td><b>Project Number</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>NF/GP/2020/0008</td> | ||
| + | <td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>Noolaham Foundation</td> | ||
| + | <td><b>Project Owner</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>Shaseevan Ganeshananthan</td> | ||
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| + | <td><b>Project Mentor</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer</td> | ||
| + | <td><b>Project Locations</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>Sri Lanka</td> | ||
| + | <td><b>Project Period</b></td> | ||
| + | <td>2020</td> | ||
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| + | <td><b>Stakeholders</b></td> | ||
| + | <td colspan="6">Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation</td> | ||
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| + | Noolaham has been documenting newspaper and magazines from 2005 to date. As part of this initiative, some of the early newspapers and magazines that emerged from the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka were documented. As continuation of this initiative, it has become an important activity of Noolaham to document newspapers and magazines that are published today. A special feature of this initiative is that contemporary newspapers and magazines are digitized and made available to the readers within a short period of time from their publication. An objective of this project is to provide the readers the ambience of a library in the virtual space. Among the written documents that have a wider reach among the masses newspapers and magazines are important. They attempt to influence the thinking of the masses. We cannot undervalue the role played by newspapers and magazines in the past in the developments that took place in religious, social, political, economic and international spheres. Newspapers function as primary sources in the writing of history. In light of these roles newspapers have played and continue to play, it is important to collect and preserve them for the benefit of the future generations. This is an important initiative in the area of documentation. The Vaasikasalai Project is important to the historical existence of the Tamil speaking communities. This project can support the creation and preservation of a living culture of newspaper reading. | ||
* <span style="color: #2d862d"> Ongoing </span> | * <span style="color: #2d862d"> Ongoing </span> | ||
Revision as of 22:36, 15 June 2021
| Project Number | NF/GP/2020/0008 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Shaseevan Ganeshananthan | |
| Project Mentor | Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer | Project Locations | Sri Lanka | Project Period | 2020 | |
| Stakeholders | Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Noolaham has been documenting newspaper and magazines from 2005 to date. As part of this initiative, some of the early newspapers and magazines that emerged from the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka were documented. As continuation of this initiative, it has become an important activity of Noolaham to document newspapers and magazines that are published today. A special feature of this initiative is that contemporary newspapers and magazines are digitized and made available to the readers within a short period of time from their publication. An objective of this project is to provide the readers the ambience of a library in the virtual space. Among the written documents that have a wider reach among the masses newspapers and magazines are important. They attempt to influence the thinking of the masses. We cannot undervalue the role played by newspapers and magazines in the past in the developments that took place in religious, social, political, economic and international spheres. Newspapers function as primary sources in the writing of history. In light of these roles newspapers have played and continue to play, it is important to collect and preserve them for the benefit of the future generations. This is an important initiative in the area of documentation. The Vaasikasalai Project is important to the historical existence of the Tamil speaking communities. This project can support the creation and preservation of a living culture of newspaper reading.
- Ongoing
