Focus IV: Building Communities of Practice

There is a need to decentralize and democratize libraries, archives and museums - the memory institutions to serve the needs of diverse communities. There are many community libraries and archives involved in the Sri Lankan and Tamil speaking communities context. Noolaham Foundation seeks to engage and collaborate with these organizations at the grassroots and global levels. Collaborations include knowledge/skill/equipment sharing, capacities building and depositing/hosting materials. As a self-archiving endeavor, Noolaham Foundation considers the institution and its organizational knowledge as a key output to the community. Further, we seek to engage with professional fields such as library science, archival studies, museology as well as traditional institutions.