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2026-09-20T14:32:49Z

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2026-09-20T14:29:59Z

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2026-09-20T14:26:35Z

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Template:Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2024

2026-09-20T14:21:08Z

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2026-09-20T14:19:12Z

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2026-09-20T14:16:43Z

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2026-09-20T14:14:11Z

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2026-09-20T14:10:25Z

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2026-09-20T14:08:16Z

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Template:Noolaham Staff's Career Development & Empowerment 2021

2026-09-20T14:03:22Z

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<td><b>Project Number</b></td>
<td>NF/PG/2021/0001</td>
<td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td>
<td>Visions Global Empowerment</td>
<td><b>Project Owner</b></td>
<td>Shaseevan Ganeshananthan </td>
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<td><b>Project Mentor</b></td>
<td>Shaseevan Ganeshananthan </td>
<td><b>Project Locations</b></td>
<td>Jaffna, Batticaloa, Kilinochchi and Hatton</td>
<td><b>Project Period</b></td>
<td>2021</td>
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The staff of Noolaham would like to develop their professional skills for the betterment of the activities carried out by Noolaham. They will study and follow additional courses and undergo training to advance their careers. In order to pursue relevant programs and training, they need financial support, especially to pay the course/training fee. The wages they earn from Noolaham are insufficient to meet this need. They also find it difficult to obtain financial support from their families or external sources on their own. Therefore, it is important that Noolaham provide financial support towards their education and training which in turn will improve the quality of their contribution to Noolaham. The employees will also find emotional satisfaction when their requests to improve their career is respected and positively responded to by Noolaham Foundation. This will also increase their commitment to Noolaham.
On the other hand, Noolaham should upgrade its mechanisms and procedures in the areas of digitizing, archiving and library management and accounting in keeping with the advances made in these or related fields. Its employees need to possess advanced knowledge and skills in these areas in order to enhance Noolaham’s output. Therefore, investing in a project that aims to build up the strength of Noolaham’s human resources is a top priority of Noolaham Foundation.
Noolaham and its staff will improve the quality and efficiency of the work they do and their professionalism as a whole through providing infrastructure and equipment along with leadership training.

* <span style="color: #2d862d"> [https://noolahamfoundation.org/documents/projectreports/91_Noolaham_Staff%E2%80%99s_Career_Development_&_Empowerment_Report.pdf Full Report] </span>

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2026-09-20T13:59:25Z

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<td><b>Project Number</b></td>
<td>NF/GP/2020/0018</td>
<td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td>
<td>Dalit Samuga Mempaddu Munnani</td>
<td><b>Project Owner</b></td>
<td>Shaseevan Ganeshananthan</td>
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<td><b>Project Mentor</b></td>
<td>Shaseevan Ganeshananthan</td>
<td><b>Project Locations</b></td>
<td>Jaffna</td>
<td><b>Project Period</b></td>
<td>2020 -2021</td>
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In Sri Lanka, there are three caste systems among the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Malaiyaha Tamils. This project titled as “Ilankaiyil Saathiyam” (Caste in Sri Lanka) attempts to document, preserve and disseminate documents related to caste among the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. Caste-based practices observed among Sri Lankan Tamils, the way caste operates in this society, and the struggles against caste oppression have a long history in Sri Lanka. Resistance to caste-based oppression which in earlier times manifested via open agitations and non-violent and militant struggles that preceded the civil war, now continues in rather latent forms via activities such as construction of temples. Against such background, Noolaham Foundation has undertaken this project with the objective of collecting, documenting and disseminating documents related to caste among Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. It is expected that this project will be beneficial to initiatives that seek to create awareness in society against casteism, to educational and research projects that revolve around the question of caste and to anti-caste struggles.

It is recommended to collect the documents for the Caste in Sri Lanka project through Regional projects.

* <span style="color: #2d862d"> [https://noolahamfoundation.org/documents/projectreports/89_Caste_in_SriLanka.pdf Full Report] </span>

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2026-09-20T13:56:20Z

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2026-08-19T07:18:38Z

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2026-08-19T06:59:05Z

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2026-08-19T06:47:49Z

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2026-08-19T06:44:14Z

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2026-08-19T06:41:30Z

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2026-08-19T06:38:33Z

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2026-08-19T06:35:02Z

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2026-08-19T06:18:58Z

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Template:Evelyn Ratnam Library Documentation

2026-08-19T06:15:31Z

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<td><b>Project Number</b></td>
<td>NF/GP/2020/0007</td>
<td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td>
<td>Ayothi Library Service</td>
<td><b>Project Owner</b></td>
<td>Kopinath Thillainathan</td>
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<td><b>Project Mentor</b></td>
<td>Kopinath Thillainathan</td>
<td><b>Project Locations</b></td>
<td>Jaffna</td>
<td><b>Project Period</b></td>
<td>2020 July - 2021 August</td>
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<td colspan="6">Evelyn Ratnam Library, Staff of Noolaham Foundation</td>
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Evelyn Ratnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies is located in Jaffna. It was the late Dr. James D.Ratnam who established this Foundation in memory of Mr. Ratnam's late wife Evelyn Vijayaratne Ratnam. Dr. Ratnam had a collection of books and research papers they had collected through his contacts attached to various universities. Educationists, leading legal figures and businessmen who were researchers always went to him for advice and used his library. Dr. Ratnam later donated a collection of his books to Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai. He also set up a building in Jaffna to store books that can be used for research purposes. This building was named Evelyn Ratnam Library. It is currently under the governance of the Board of Directors of Jaffna College.Noolaham Foundation is committed to digitizing and preserving collections related to Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. In order to meet this objective, Noolaham Foundation is engaged in collecting documents found in libraries operating among Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and archiving and preserving documents collected by individuals belonging to these communities. As part of a series of archiving initiatives, efforts are being made to gather and preserve documents related to the history, politics, economy, culture, education, literature and art of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka found in the Evelyn Ratnam Library.
* [https://noolaham.foundation//documents/projectreports/78_Evelyn_Ratnam_Library_Documentation Full Report - 2020/2023] </span>

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2026-08-19T05:54:27Z

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<td>NF/GP/2020/0007</td>
<td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td>
<td>Ayothi Library Service</td>
<td><b>Project Owner</b></td>
<td>Kopinath Thillainathan</td>
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<td><b>Project Mentor</b></td>
<td>Kopinath Thillainathan</td>
<td><b>Project Locations</b></td>
<td>Jaffna</td>
<td><b>Project Period</b></td>
<td>2020 July - 2021 August</td>
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<td colspan="6">Evelyn Ratnam Library, Staff of Noolaham Foundation</td>
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Evelyn Ratnam Institute for Inter-Cultural Studies is located in Jaffna. It was the late Dr. James D.Ratnam who established this Foundation in memory of Mr. Ratnam's late wife Evelyn Vijayaratne Ratnam. Dr. Ratnam had a collection of books and research papers they had collected through his contacts attached to various universities. Educationists, leading legal figures and businessmen who were researchers always went to him for advice and used his library. Dr. Ratnam later donated a collection of his books to Jaffna College, Vaddukoddai. He also set up a building in Jaffna to store books that can be used for research purposes. This building was named Evelyn Ratnam Library. It is currently under the governance of the Board of Directors of Jaffna College.Noolaham Foundation is committed to digitizing and preserving collections related to Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka. In order to meet this objective, Noolaham Foundation is engaged in collecting documents found in libraries operating among Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and archiving and preserving documents collected by individuals belonging to these communities. As part of a series of archiving initiatives, efforts are being made to gather and preserve documents related to the history, politics, economy, culture, education, literature and art of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka found in the Evelyn Ratnam Library.
* [https://noolaham.foundation//documents/projectreports/78_Evelyn_Ratnam_Library_Documentation_Project Full Report - 2021/2022] </span>

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2026-08-19T05:48:13Z

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2026-08-19T05:36:23Z

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<td>NF/GP/2020/0008</td>
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<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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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"> [https://noolaham.foundation//documents/projectreports/79_Vaasihasalai_2020_Project Interim Report - 2025] </span>
* <span style="color: #2d862d"> Ongoing </span>

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==== Documentation of Inscriptions ====
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==== History of Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka ====
{{History of Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka}}
==== Regional Documentation - Ampara ====
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==== Digitization of Human Rights Collections ====
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==== Documentation of Panchangam ====
{{Documentation of Panchangam}}
==== Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2024 ====
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==== Transcription of the Ceylon Slave Registries ====
{{Transcription of the Ceylon Slave Registries }}
==== Documentation of Malay and Jawi Collection ====
{{Documentation of Malay and Jawi Collection }}
==== Documentation of Jaffna Hindu Ladies' College ====
{{Documentation of Jaffna Hindu Ladies' College }}
==== Noolaham cloud storage solution ====
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