Status of Digital Resources in

Nepal: Share Opportunity and

it’s Recommendation

Upendra Prasad Mainali

Chief Librarian/ Director, ISSN National CentreNepal

Nepal National Library

Harihar Bhawan, Nepal

www.nnl.gov.np

8 July, 2017

Knowledge and Innovation

Innovation is application of Knowledge

Its mission is transmission of knowledge and information all

over the globe

Both application and sharing are highly important.

Innovation terminology was developed since 1990.

The role of knowledge management in Libraries

The concept of knowledge management modalities is

presented in different countries.

It is new concept and used in the library and information

science, business administration, information system, method

of management and so on.

All information is gathered and arranged in systematic method

and principle of verity of users.

First fundamental principle of knowledge management is good construction of own website and database where there are systematic arrangement of catalogue of book, full text, thesis and other necessary information in digital software format.

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Contd….

In the modern age, the library is a treasure house of human

knowledge, knowledge innovation, and become an important

link in the knowledge as a chain.

Character of KM, Objective and its benefits

Knowledge management is about people.

Knowledge management is orderly and goal directed.

It is ever-changing

It is valuable, visionary, and complementary

Objective: Promote knowledge innovation

Benefits: Knowledge sharing, connecting professional across

platforms, avoiding mistakes, leveraging best practice, reducing

time and talent, build up new strategic capabilities, To improve

work practice and solve problems.

Knowledge Transformation Mechanism

Receiver and giver is mandatory for the transmission of

Knowledge and information

Creates new parties

Exchange information between two parties

Set up ICT technology in web environment

Need well trained ICT personnel

Characteristics of Knowledge

Knowledge is idea which can be reused.

It is applicable in human life for strengthening the capacity

As per the development of the civilization it is changeable and

renewable

Individual and experts feel difficult for knowledge

transformation to each others

Seeking Online Information in real time

Date: 7/24/2019 Real time: 15:24:12 Total Number of visitors: 12,628,748

S.n. Hosting Company Total website

use

Top website use

1 Cloudflare, Inc

CLOUDFLARE

7,88,734 sites 17453 sites

2 Amazon.com, Inc

Amazon

web service

7,05,215 sites 11.341 sites

3 Godaddy.com, Inc

Go Daddy.com

6,72,421 sites 1010 sites

4 Google Inc

Google Sites

4,21,064 sites 2,693 sites

5 Hetzner Online Ag

HETZNER ONELINE

3,47,884 sites 2,176 sites

Users willingness while seeking Information

Trust of web materials and it’s authenticity.

Trained manpower and use of technology.

Good interpersonal communication skills.

Mentoring.

Technical support and uses of equipment.

Resources Sharing in Regional and Local Level

• As per the Government of Nepal, policy is "One School One library". In Nepal, there at total 35000+ numbers of schools. However, the policy is not well implemented by all schools.

• There are 9 Universities in Nepal. Under these universities there are 1600+ colleges. Every college has one library that is smooth operated but only few libraries provide access to e-resources.

• In National, regional, and local level 1500+ public libraries have been established. Books, news paper, and magazines are available. Some public library have website but digitalization and e-resources are lacking. They have no trained manpower and in-sufficient budget.

GOVERNMENT LIBRARY

1. Nepal National Library Building in Past was in

Collation Partnership Building

NNL Building at Present (Due to the causes of Devastating earthquake of 2015)

About NNL

• Objectives:

National bibliography publication,

To development national archive for publications,

To provide advisory service to GoN,

Collection, storage, management and dissemination of

published information.

To promote literacy through mobile library service,

To help in development of public library in different

regions/province of the country.

Library automation and digitization.

History of NNL

GoN purchased the collection of royal priest pundit Hem Raj

Padey in 1956 and merged with central secretariat Library.

Former PM Tanka Prasad Acharya's visit to National Library of

India encouraged to establish national library.

Formally in 1957 January 2, Nepal National Library was

established with the collection of 1,50,000 volumes of books,

journals and other materials in different languages.

Collection

• Currently, 150000 volumes of books, journals

and other materials in different languages are

available.

• After devastating earthquake of 2015, all

collections are packed in sacks and placed in

Mahendrabhawan school, sano Gaucharan,

Kathmandu.

• Nepal National Library is currently

functioning in small temporary building of

children section, Hariharbhawan, Lalitpur.

NNL Resources are available in Open Access

S.n. Educational Materials Number of title

1 Thesis / dissertation full text

700 titles

2 Archives 228 titles

3 Content based OPAC 378 titles

4 NNL News Letter 1 to 41 issues

Kesair Library

Kaiser Library has a very rich history. Kaiser Mahal was the residence of Late Field Marshal Kaiser Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana, son of the late Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana.

It was established in 1969 A.D. with the donation of personal collection by Her Highness Krishna Chandra Devi Rana as per the will and in memory of her late husband Field Marshal Kaiser Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana.

Digitized resources available in offline mode

S.n. Education Materials Total Number of book

1. OPAC 55,000 title

2 Manuscripts digitized

Funded by German

600+ title full text

3 paging's digitized 79000 full text

2. Curriculum Development Centre (CDC)

CDC was initially established as Curriculum, Textbook and Supervision Centre in 1971. It is an academic centre, under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

Its primary aim is to develop curricula, textbooks along with other instructional materials for school education in order to achieve the national goals of education.

All CDC published educational materials and other reference materials are digitized by CDC library in Resource Space Software (RSS)

E-resources available in open access environment in

Resources Space software

S.n. Education Materials Total Number of Books

1. OPAC 20,000

2 Documents, Audio, Visual, and Photo

Illustration

2500

National Health Research Council (NHRC)

The Nepal Health Research Council is a national apical body responsible for providing scientific study and quality health research in the country with the highest level of ethical standards. It started as a Nepal Health Research Committee under the Ministry of Health, chaired by the Secretary of Health in 1982 AD. NHRC Library is fully automated.

Objectives

To do research on health problems and issues.

To conduct programs relating to consultancy service and information.

To make the study and activities relating to health research more useful.

To provide health related problems to the Government of Nepal for policy and planning making purpose.

NHRC resources are available in open access in online

S.n Types of Education Materials Number of title

1 OPAC 1500

2 Periodicals full text 1500+

3 Thesis / Dissertation 600

4 Others materials 400

Non-Governmental Organization Library

The Asia Foundation (TAF)

The Asia Foundation's books for Asia (BFA) program puts on million new books and e-resources in to the hands of students, educators, and community leaders in Asia each year through the contributions of publishers and private donors.

Its program is extended in different 18 countries.

Since 1980 to till today, TAF has donated more than 24000 new books annually to more than 200 institutions from tarai to hilly areas.

TAF Resources are available in Open Access

S.N. Education

Materials

Number of

Articles

Remarks

1 E-books 2000+ Available in 20

different languages

200 Nepali books

60 Nepal languages

Tharu language (on

going project)

2 Children

e-books.

Available on

letsreadasia.org

Action on Disability Rights and Development (ADRAD)

Nepal

ADRAD established at 2008 in Nepal.

Its primary objectives is to make right based development of persons with disabilities.

Its nonpolitical, Non-Governmental, non-profit organization.

ADRAD provides audio material to the blind people from 1 to 10 class students.

ADRAD E-books available on website in open access

S.n Education materials Number of books

1 E-books Audio for 1 to 10 class text books

OLE Nepal

OLE Nepal’s was established on 2007 in Nepal.

Main objective is to help in classroom teaching-learning process.

It provides e-resources through ICT technology in different schools.

Currently, it provides facility to more than 1000 schools by sharing models with shared-model laptop program.

E-resources are available in Open Access

S.n. Education Materials Number of title

1 Documents 6709

2 Audio 121

3 Video 10

4 English 3851

5. Nepali 3980

6. Newari 21

7. Sanskrit 17

8 Tharu 15

9 Primary 630

10 Middle 30

11 Secondary 67

Read Nepal

READ is established in 1991 with the support by the US and Germany.

Objectives•

•

Provide training, workshops at each centers. • Access to knowledge and informa�on. • Health educa�on, Economic empowerment and Women’s

employment. • Provide support and resources for Nepalese youth. • Joint venture of Read Nepal and Prac�cal Ac�on started prac�cal

solu�on program in rural areas of Nepal. It expanded to 22 READ centers in 16 districts of Nepal.

• 68 strong library infrastructures are established and provide 340,000+ total numbers of books and educa�on materials but lack in digi�za�on and e-resources part.

Room to read

• It was established at 1990 in Nepal.

• Room to Read has impacted the lives of more than four million children in Bangladesh, Nepal and various other countries by providing increased access to high-quality educational.

Functions

• 4200+ school library established in different districts of Nepal.

• Focus on literacy and gender equality in education.

• Program focused on secondary level of education.

• School building construction.

• Provide scholarships to female students.

Social Science Baha

It was established in 2002 A.D. and is a non profit organization.

Its main objectives is to promote and enhance the study and research in Nepal.

The main activities are conducting lectures, discussions, workshops, conferences as well as publishing reading materials.

Digitized E-resources available in open sources:

OPAC - 40,000 title of books

Rare book – 1000 titles

International Journal – 24 titles

Unpublished books – 6000 titles available only in offline mode

Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP)

MPP was established in 1985.

The main principal is to archieve the books, mperiodicals, ephemera and so on.

The personal collection of Madan Shamsher became the MPP after the Rani Jagadamba Kumari Devi Rana handed it.

The library also manages two of Nepal’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Madan Puraskar and the Jagadamba Shree.

E-resources are available in Open Access

S.

N.

Particulars Number

1 OPAC 41000 titles

2 Books digitized 10000 titles

3 Periodicals digitized 10000 issues

4 Ephemera digitized 5000

5 Photos digitized 40000

6 Manuscripts digitized 60000 pages

Challenges

Insufficient funding from government.

Limited manpower and frequent transfer.

Limited implementation of one school one library policy of

GoN.

Lack of central policy, act and law for integrated library

development.

Limited use of technology in library sector of Nepal.

library sector has been intervened by other sector.

Unable to develop the audio materials for higher education

because the ratification of Marrakesh treaty is undergoing by

Nepal Government.

Contd…..

Contd…. All over the world there are many proprietary and Open

Source software that are developed by different vendors,

developers and institution but there still lack minimum

parameters such as MARC 21 format, Z39.50, Barcode

generation, Web based, Unicode support and minimum

modules such as Acquisition Module, Cataloguing module,

Circulation module, Serial management module,

Administration module, Report generation, OPAC ,

Conversion.

Way forward

• Building construction and management of the books.

• Collaboration and support from development partners.

• Priority and sufficient funding from GoN.

• Formulation of Depository act and library act as soon as

possible.

• Human resource development.

• Use of modern technology.

• Cooperation from National Libraries of other countries for

capacity building.

• Marrakesh treaty should be amended by the parliament of

Nepal.

• Standard parameters and modules for library software should

be followed by the developers in the process of developing.

THANKS TO ALL