Template:Gnanam Digitization Project

The ‘Gnanam Digitization Project’, is a collaborated project between Gnanam Publishers and Noolaham Foundation in a long term effort to develop digital resources of contemporary magazines and make them freely accessible. This project extends the usefulness of the Tamils bibliographic and digitized assets by increasing access to this valuable information and provides an opportunity for institutions to select and contribute digitized information resources.

The first issue of Gnanam Magazine was published in June 2000 and it is published monthly. Gnanam issues contains poetry, creative essays, short stories, fictions, and political blogs and columns, as well as news about contemporary literature events and readers’ opinions. This magazine, gives space to young innovative writers and their thoughts. Also Gnanam publishers published some books of Sri Lankan writers’ collections (short stories and essays) those are also digitized by NF during this project.

Totally 91 monthly issues and 6 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library at www.noolaham.org. NF has created a special web portal to increase search ability of users (Annexure 1) to find these digitized publications. The magazines and books digitized date back to the year 2000s. Noolaham Foundation has established plans to the collect and digitized on regular basics.