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Panaiyolai Documentation Seminar 2012

Panaiyolai, which is the easily available and most usable commodity among the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka is a name of the program concept of Noolaham Foundation. Under this programme, many seminars and knowledge transformation exercises carry out by Noolaham Foundation. On this background, a seminar on Documentation was organized by the Noolaham Foundation on 09 September 2012 Sunday at ‘Thodarpaham’ conference hall in Jaffna town. The chief purpose of the seminar was to emphasize the importance of Documentation in today’s world and to widen the knowledge of the public on the field. The event started at 9.00 a.m, openings and addressed Mr.K.Kuruparan, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Jaffna on the topic ‘The importance of documentation of the Tamil speaking societies of Sri Lanka’, followed by an address by pioneer Mr.J. Arangaraj about ‘The contemporary position of us in relation to the documentation of the Tamil speaking societies of Sri Lanka’, Mr.S.Seran, chief operating officer of the Noolaham Foundation presented his speech on ‘The documentation of the countries of the world in accordance with the international standards and norms’, and finally Mr.S.Sureshkumar, addressed about ‘The documentation through the evolution of new technologies’.

A short film titled ‘Karanthai Poo’ was displayed. Many resource persons associated with the field including Mrs.Emelda Karunaharan, Librarian of the Jaffna Public Library, Mrs. Kalpana, Librarian of the library of the Medical Faculty of the University of Jaffna and Mr. Anuraj, Director of the Uthayan online actively participated in the discussion and presented their ideas. The seminar was over by about 1.30 p.m.

Upcountry documentation and archiving project

Archiving of the documents produced by upcountry scholars and writers is one of the programs of Noolaham Foundation. A working committee has formed to develop the documentation of upcountry documents. The committee includes senior journalists and writers such as Theliwaththai Joseph, Thilagarajah Mylvaganam (Malliyappusanthi Thilagar), Lunugala Sri, T.V.Thinakaran, M.A. Al- Azoomath, and Lenin Mathivanam. Through series of discussion and meetings convinced focusing on different methods and systems that could be devised and created for documenting up-country documents. A compact disk comprising 91 books was shared in many meeting with the relevant stakeholders. More than 150 books and other products were digitized up to the date and made available in www.noolaham.org . Mrs Radika Thinakaran, based in Hotagale is the focal person and carries out all digitizing and archiving activities.