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The IRC WASH LibraryThe WASH Information Consortium 24th September 2012
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What it is
• IRC’s WASH Library
– acts as WASH Sector Memory, documenting more than 40 years
of sector progress, analysis and tools.
– provides direct access to over 15,000 full text WASH sector
documents.
– The collection is built around current themes of interest of IRC
and the WASH sector in general and contains a large collection
of ‘grey’ literature.
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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What is offers• Search function – that allows one to search both IRC and non IRC
WASH documents and Share one’s favourite search results
• E-journals – provide low-cost/free articles
• Selected web resources - DBs, Blogs, country profiles, discussion
lists, donors, equipment, events, factsheets, Glossaries, Thesauri
(collaboration effort) and education materials
• Regional and Thematic information
• Thesauri in different lauguages (En/Fr/Sp) http://thesaurus.watsan.net/
• A Q&A service
Try at http://www.washdoc.info
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Cont. My LibraryMy library: Tools to provide services adapted to one’s interest & needs. Create,
save, share and reuse reference lists; save ones search commands for next
time
References
• Visitors can select titles from the library and add them to a reference lists; they can create and store multiple lists.
• This reference list tool - users can select titles from the library database and
export this to RTF format for inclusion in papers or publications, using the
Harvard reference format
Search
• Visitors can save & store a search query and share one’s favourite search results
• The results are also available as an RSS-feed, allowing visitors to create personalised news updates and use an email alert service when new publications are added on one’s topics of interest.
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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Benefits of the WASH library
• freely accessible on the web
• Access to grey information of the sector
• facilitates creation of partnership & networking
• Promotes Institutional Research outputs
• Strives to preserves digital materials for the long term by creating
backups
• Leads to other IRC info services thru the library – General WASH
news and updates
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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How it is structured
• We use an inhouse numeric classification system in the library
How data can be exploited for external use:
• We have an extension for eZ Publish - other eZ Publish websites can use
this plugin to search in the database, also with a pre-selected filter.
• We have a REST API - developers can easily create software to search in
the database and show individual titles. (this is being further developed, to
provide information in the Dublin-core format)
• Use the reference list tool
• Use the stored search tool, users can create a search query and keep
updated on new items
• Thematic newsfeeds, users can indicate the themes and regions of their
choice, and receive regular email message with news, including new titles in
the library.
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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Outreach and Promotional efforts of the WASH libraryOutreach:
• Our library is a global resource that is used widely by academics,
practioners and people working with policy issues within the sector
Promotional efforts:
– Collaboration – current development with Akvopedia and
KnowledgePoint
– Interlinking – linking to our blogs and news services E-Source
– Together with DANS - expanding to storing, sharing data and
facilitating this with orgainsations in the countries we work
– add to IRC outgoing email a link to the library
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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Challenges
• Funding
• Preservation of information
• Changing technology in terms of new media & making services
relevant to the google age
• Administration
– Uploading and maintenance of resources
Connecting and empowering people's capacities
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Wayforward• Expand services thru collaboration with others
• Promote open access open data
• Knowledge management/ content management
• Archiving and preservation
• Looking for innovative business models
Connecting and empowering people's capacities