Information Dissemination
At ERDA, Test facilities, research activities and services to the industry are augmented by a special service of a different nature - Information Dissemination. The Documentation and Training Centre at ERDA is actively involved in this through its Technical Library, Publications and Training Programmes.
The Technical Library, has a collection of more than 18000 publications. It subscribes to over 30 journals and receives other documents and publications of government and private organizations, related to its activities regularly. The library also has a large collection of monographs and treatises, conference proceedings of major professional bodies, annual reports of CSIR labs and government research institutions, products catalogues and technical and research reports of bodies like EPRI, ERA, CIGRE, CBIP and NTIS. One of the most important areas of work is the maintenance of its standards collection which consists of standards like IEEE, IEC, IS, BS, ASTM, ANSI, IEEMA, DIN, CSA, ASA, ABB, SAMA and other special standards are a part of the collection. The library tracks the latest updates, revisions and amendments, which is also required for the testing activities of ERDA. Library membership is offered to organizations. The library is open to other technical persons also.
The Documentation and Training Centre regularly publishes two periodicals - 'Abstracts of Current Technical Literature in Electrical Engineering' a bi-monthly and 'ERDA News' a quarterly publication. Other publications are state-of- the-art reports, literature surveys, project reports and training course materials.and workshop proceedings.
Training courses on testing techniques of products and components, workshops - to give an all encompassing view on the subject are conducted every year. On an average, twelve training training courses are conducted in a year.
The centre promotes industrial visits for students, junior engineers and technicians round the year. The "Openhouse" is a programme in this direction.
The marketing and publicity efforts aim at wider awareness of ERDA's activities. Technical articles are regularly contributed to magazines like IEEMA Journal and Electrical India.