The Curriculum Development Committee of the Faculty of Medicine introduced its new curriculum for medical students in the year 2004 and it is known as “Beyond 2004 Programme”. The basic concept of this programme was assignment based learning with emphasis on self learning. 

Establishing the Electronic Information Resource Centre (E Library) was an important project to fulfill the self learning requirements of the “Beyond 2004 Programme”. 

When the University Grants Commission agreed to provide sufficient funds to establish the E Library in the year 2003, the construction work started under direct supervision of the Dean Prof.A.S.B.Wijekoon. 

Prof.A.S.B.Wijekoon, Dr.Nimal Rathnayake (Director, ICSU, Faculty of Engineering), Mr.Herath (Network Engineer), Mr. U.S.K.Ekanayake and Mr. G.A.B. Weerasekara Supervised the technical task. Mrs. Kusum Kongahakotuwa (Asst. registrar) and Mr. C. Amarakoon (Asst. Bursar) carried out relevant administrative and financial work of setting up of the E library.

The E-Library was ceremonially opened by Prof.Kapila Goonasekara, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, on 13th January 2005. 

Dr.Thilak Jayalath (Chairman, Computer Committee, Faculty of Medicince) was appointed as the Head/ E- Library to carryout the administrative work of the E - Library .

Now the E Library provides facilities to medical students to do their project work and surf the internet. New entrants use the facility for their computer awareness programme.

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• Expansion of E-library: The current E-library will be extended to floor above the current space and will house 80 new computers with network facilities. This was made possible with a grant of Rs.10 million from the AHEAD project.
• A fully functional audio visual studio is current under development and will provide facilities for audio and visual material development, teleconferencing etc.
• Upgrading the faculty internet network to a high capacity ‘Next-generation Giga byte Network’ by the University is currently in the planning stage. The E-library is helping to coordinate this project in the faculty

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• Providing computer and internet facility to staff and students for academic work
• Facilitating and maintaining the MOODLE learning management system
• Maintaining the faculty web page
• Providing physical space and computer facilities for teaching and examinations activities
• Providing access to specialised software i.e. Plagiarism checking software
• Providing technical assistance to departments and units on network and telephone connection maintenance issues
• Conducting training sessions on MOODLE for academic staff
• Conducting training sessions on network maintenance issues to technical staff

Prof. ASB Wijekoon.

Prof. Thilak Jayalath

Dr. Nimal Rathnayake