IESL Physical Library Development

By Chairman/ Library Publications, Publicity& Conferences Committee (LPPCC); Eng. (Mrs.) Kamala Gunawardena

The IESL library has been a foundation for engineers in their professional and academic growth. Our main aim of the institution is to uplift its library as a hub for innovation, research, and learning in a globally accepted standard. I am happy to say that the IESL physical library, ensures access to a wider range of technical literature, and research materials, a digital collection of 2,900 research papers along with historic Transactions from 1906.

The new addition of the books donated by Dr. (Eng.) Lalith Liyanage has a value addition to the existing physical collection of books in the library. It comprised Engineering and Information Technology over seventy books which are of great value to the members.

About the Donor of the Books

Dr. (Eng.) Lalith Liyanage is an accomplished professional currently serving as the Project Director of the USD 150 million World Bank-funded Primary Healthcare System Enhancing Project under the Ministry of Health & Mass Media. He previously led the USD 400 million ADB-funded Secondary Education Sector Improvement Project under the Ministry of Education and has held several top-level positions including Chairman of Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Ltd., CEO of Lanka Logistics & Technologies Ltd., and CEO of Ceylon Fisheries Corporation.

Dr. Liyanage holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the USSR, a Master’s in Computer Studies from the University of Essex (UK), an MBA in e-Governance from the University of Moratuwa, and a PhD in Technology-based Education from Northumbria University, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both IESL and IET (UK), and serves on the South Asia IET Committee and as an International Professional Registration Advisor.

He is also the author of two books and several research papers and was awarded Sri Lanka’s prestigious CISO Award for cybersecurity in 2013. A former national-level sportsman, he has represented Sri Lanka in hockey and football and served as President of the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka.

1. The List of Books Donated in Engineering:
   1. Super Conductivity – E A Lynton 1962
   2. Electrical Motor Control Systems – U S. Eswar 1990
   3. Electrical Power Engineering Proficiency Course – GTZ 1983
   4. Electrical Technology – E Hughes 1960
   5. The Mechanical Design Process – D G Ullman 1992
   6. Problems in General Physics – I E Irodov
   7. Power System Interconnections –H Rissik 1940
   8. Superconductivity, Superdiamagnetism, Superfluidity – V L Ginzburg 1987
   9. The Protection of Electric Plant – P F Stritzl 1937
   10. Overhead Electric Power Lines – G C Gracey 1963
   11. Physical and Mathematical Tables – J B Clerk 1904
   12. Electrical Engineering Handbook – SIEMENS Erlangen 1969
   13. Worked Examples and Problems in Applied Electricity – M Zaichik 1988
   14. The Electromagnetic Field – G W Carter 1954
   15. Electrical Engineering – A S Kasatkin/M V Nemtsov 1986
   16. Fault Calculations – C H W Lackey 1951
   17. Diffusion in Semiconductors – B I Boltaks 1961
   18. Vistas in Electric Power – P Sporn 1968
   19. Magnetism – D S Parasnis 1961
   20. Electric Power Systems – K A Gangadhar 1984
   21. Matrix Analysis of Electric Machinery – N N Hancock 1964
   22. Electrodynamics of Electrical Machines – G A Toombs 1917
   23. High Voltage Engineering – M S Naidu/V Komaraju 1995
   24. High Voltage Engineering – D V Razevig 1993
   25. Power Systems Stability – E W Kimbark 1950
   26. Electrical Machines – A Draper 1967
   27. Electrical Power – J B Gupta 1997
   28. Mathematical Analysis for Engineer – M Krasnov etc 1990
   29. Electrical Equipment Mounting, Operations and Repair – A Zyuzinn etc 1990
   30. Protective Current Transformers and Circuits – P Mathews 1955
   31. Electron Devices and Amplifiers – F Weissburd etc 1990
   32. Linear Network Design and Synthesis – W S Chen 1964
   33. Physics for GCE A Level – A Karunakaran 2010
   34. Equilibrium and Electro Chemistry – J Premaraja 2010
   35. ගුවන්විදුලි හා ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික පර්ශ්නෝත්තර සංග්‍රහය  - MD Karunasena 1996
   36. ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික විද්‍යාව - L Kodagoda 1997
   37. විද්යුතය හා ඉලෙක්ට්‍රොනික විද්‍යාව - S Godagama

   Information Technology:
   1. JAVA Dissection – I Pohl/ C McDowell 1999
   2. On to C - C McDowell (A Primer to accompany JAVA Dissection)
   3. Computer Organisation and Design – D A Patterson/J L Hennessy 1998

   4. Software Engineering – S Lawrence/P Fleeger 1998
   5. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing – A K Jain 2000
   6. Upgrading and Repairing PCs – S Mueller 2004
   7. Data and Computer Communications - W Stallings 2003
   8. Teach Yourself All About Computers – B Press/M Press 1999
   9. Software Engineering – R S Pressman 2001
   10. PC/TCP Network Software for OS/2 1.3.1 – FTP Software 1995
   11. Communication Networks – J Walrand 1991
   12. Glossary of IT Terms for MS Office and Windows – ICTA/MS 2009
   13. Computer Organisation and Architecture – W Stallings 2003
   14. Object Oriented Programming using C++ - I Pohl 1997
   15. Systems Analysis and Design – I Hawryszkiewycz 1998
   16. The Performance and Design of Alternating Current machines – M G Say 1983
   17. Multi Media Sound and Video – J Lozano 1998
   18. Systems Analysis and Design – K Kendall/J Kendall 2002
   19. Software Engineering - I Somerville 2001
   20. JAVA Software Solutions – J Lewis/W Loftus 1998
   21. Operating Systems – W Stallings 2001
   22. Excellent HTML – T T Gotlebber 1998
   23. Principles of Database Systems – G Riccardi 2001
   24. C++ Advanced Programming – NIIT 2004
   25. Computer Vision – D A Forsyth/J Ponce 2003
   26. Database Systems – C J Date 2000
   27. Information Technology and Management – W Cats-Baril/R Thompson 1997
   28. Internet and WWW – H M Deitel/P J Deitel/T R Neito 2000
   29. Data Communications – P C Gupta 2002
   30. Basics of Networking – NIIT 2004
   31. The Internet – D T Comer 2000
   32. Risk Management for IT Infrastructure – J Kudritzki/M Stansberry 2016
   33. Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems – 1996
   34. Computers in Society – K Schellenberg 1996
   35. Using Information Technology – Williams, Sawyer, Hutchinson 1997
   36. Electronic Media Programming – R L Carrol/D M Davis 1993
   37. Marketing Communication – J Blythe 2000

   Appreciations: As the Chairman of the LPPC Committee I thank Dr. (Eng.) Lalith Liyanage for his generous contribution of these books that had been in his custody. I also, thank Dr. Kamal Laksiri for providing me this opportunity with the introduction of Eng. Lalith, Eng. Granie R Jayalath/ President, Eng. Kosala Kamduradeniya / PE and Eng. Mangala Silva for gracing the occasion.