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Library provides lending, reference and literature searches, Current Awareness Services, photocopying and internet facilities to the research staff. Apart from the Institution's own staff, facilities of the library are used by many outsiders incuding visiting researchers, consultants, university students and staff. At present the library's holdings are made up of 21,000 books, 20,000 issues of journals (local and foreign), dissertations, unpublished reports, maps, annual reports etc. A large number of periodicals, newsletters, annual reports from foreign and local institutions were also received on complimentary or on exchange basis. Library subcribed to 21 foreign journals and 28 local journals.
  
 
The collection consists of local and foreign publications under the subjects of :
 
  • Agrarian Structure                         
  •  Agrarian Reform
  •  Agricultural Credit
  •  Agricultural Development
  •  Agricultural Crops
  •  Land Reform
  •  Irrigation
  •  Water Management
  •  Economic Development
  •  Social Sciences
  •  Politics
  •  Poverty Statistical Data
  •   Rural Development
  •   Gender Issues
  •   Folklore
  •   Plantations
  •   Food and Nutrition
  •   Environment and Natural Resources
  •   Biotechnology
  •   History
  •   Marketing
  •   Trade
  •   Research Methodology etc.
 

The Library is an active participant of the Agricultural Information Network (AGRINET) in Sri Lanka. The library continued to provide cateloguing data of books and journal articles to the National Agricultural Bibliography (NAB) database maintained at CARP library.

Computerizing of the library bibliographical databse using WINSIS software package includes 8627 electronic records. At present the library has exchange arrangement for publications with 10 local and foreign institutions.

The library also participates actively in several programmes of Inter-library Cooperation with a view to sharing scattered resources.

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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