ACTVITIES OR SYSTEMS

OBJECTIVES

GENERAL INFORMATION

OUT PUT AND REMARKS

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COLLECTIONS

-Support research and development projects

- Satisfy  the need of users

-Develop library policies, the structure and procedures for acquisitions and technical processing

-Enhance information culture

-Identify, locate and acquire documents through purchase or donation or exchange

-Use AARC2 Cataloguing and DDC classification whereas  in Sudan collection use UDC classification scheme

- Allow circulation only for Researchers of National Centre for Researches excluding Sudan Collection and Periodicals

-Issue Quarterly Accession bulletin for New Publications

Established at 1974

-NCR-DIC Library (R&D Library)

-Sudan Collection not circulated that due to limited number of copies.

-All the users who benefits from Sudan collections through official letters from their institutions.

-Accession Bulletin for New Publications

ABSTRACTING SYSTEM

-Identifies, abstracts, and indexes studies and research paper s of relevance to Sudan currently published or presented at conferences or accepted for high degrees by scientists in Sudan or aboard

-Disseminates Scientific and technical, social and economic findings related to Sudan

- Gathers original or primary material

- Identifies nature of material

-Uses Bibliographic description according to established standard

-Prepares indicative or informative abstract

-Prepares subject, author, geographic indexes

-Arranges entries according  to UDC subject headings alphabetically by the author’s name

- Issues Sudan Science Abstracts (Biannual Journal)

Established at 1979

Sudan Science Abstracts (SSA)

(26 volumes)

ON-GOING RESEARCH SYSTEM

-Identifies current researches, active sources of expertise among researchers

-Facilitates communication among researchers, managers of research and Funding agencies

-Collects data through questionnaire from all governmental, educational and research, non-governmental, regional and international organizations working in Sudan as well from embassies

-Surveys ongoing research for definite period

- Analyzes questionnaire

-Classifies research subjects using UDC

- Uses free indexing to build subject index as well the indexes of researchers, organization, funding organization, etc…

- Lists the addresses of research and funding organization

- Analyzes statistically for type of research, fields of Knowledge, distribution in the institutions as well in Sudan region

-Arranges entries by class number

- Issues National Register for Ongoing Research (Two-yearly inventory)

Established at 1982

National Register for Current Researches (NRCR)

(Three volumes,1983-1989). But it stopped during 1991-1998 for two years, is due to:

       -not appreciated from        NCR administration

         -weak response of  researchers,, research institutions and universities

         -little number of NCR-DIC staff

         -follow up the questionnaire more than four times

Now the fourth volume under final revision

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM

-Reinforces NCR-DIC in order to enable NCR to fulfill its role as national and coordinating body for Science and Technology in the Country

- Mandates to devise and establish a national information Network

-Improves the Technical Structures

-Implements Microfiche and Computer Unit

-Strengthens acquisition and technical processing of national collections

-Designs and maintains integrated national databases

Established at 1988

-Availability of Sudan Collection in paper and fiche forms

-Online Catalogue (machine readable form)

-  SSA & NRCR Publications subjected to the Laws of Sudan Journalism and Press .

CD-ROM DATABASES SYSTEM

-Facilitates and improves the availability and accessibility of scientific information

-Deals with the global databases on CD-ROM

-  Considered as useful and reliable sources of scientific and technical support for information

Established at 1990

AGRIS, AGRIGOLA, POPLINE, CAB ABSTRACTS, ERIC, MEDLINE

SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

-Serves as conduit for sharing, disseminating and using information in support of R&D projects in different phases

-Identifies information sources and searches national and international databases

- Downloads the selected information

-Merges from both national databases in CDS/ISIS as well from international Databases available on CD-ROM into the specialized bibliographic databases.

Established at 1993

_ Malaria Bibliography (unpublished)

-Water Resources in Sudan List (unpublished)

-Bibliography of Sudanese Medicinal plants (1999)

- Records of Researchers  of National Centre For Research (1999)

- Records of Researchers of  Ministry of Science and Technology (Started in 2002 at Stage  of data Collection)

INTERNET SYSTEM

-Catalyzes the information services and communication among researchers internally and externally

-Builds research and information capacities

-Searches the universal collections

-Enrolls online conferences

Established at 1997

Online information services, publications and training

UNION CATALOGUES FOR PERIODICALS IN SUDANESE LIBRARIES

-Facilitates Periodical acquisition and consequently national cooperation among Sudanese Libraries

- Enhances better periodical delivery policies in the country

-Provides a cost effective necessary

- Helps in accessing to original full texts which are searched in the online bibliographical databases

- Holds orientation meetings of Sudanese Librarians

-Collects data about periodical collections using special format from Sudanese Library includes:

-         Periodical title

-         Publishers

-         Language

-         Holding issues

-         Missing issues

-         Incomplete Issues

-         Library

-Designs database using CDS/ISIS and enters the data

-Follows up

- Analyzes statistically

- Prints and issues the catalogue

Established at 1997

Updated Union Catalogues for Periodicals in Sudanese Libraries (under final revision)

-Periodicals database

ONLINE SUDAN DISSERTATIONS

-Facilitates accessibility and retrieval of  information  

-reviews the possibility of archiving dissertations and university level theses in an electronic format either in addition to or instead of the usual paper editions

-photocopies the title  and abstract  pages   and its inclusion of their information  in  National Bibliographic Database

- setups the bases of digital storage and Long-term use of electronic documents can be warranted only for as long as the storage format allows access

Established at 2002

AT stage of Data collection and Processing