Practical Action South Asia's Resource Centre primarily consists of a library and a technical enquiry service. The library holds a wealth of information that is rare and may not be found in other libraries in Sri Lanka.

The collection is mostly on Appropriate Technology and Development, and focusing on Practical Action programmes and interests, such as micro-hydro, wind energy, biogas, agro-processing, transport, rural roads, disaster mitigation, gender and rainwater harvesting.

The library, open to the public, is used predominantly by Practical Action staff, development workers, researchers, undergraduates and academic staff, and offers the following services:

• Inter-library lending for institutions
• Literature search through computer database
• Photocopy service at a nominal fee
• Annotated bibliographies on new arrivals
• Technical Enquiry Service
• Periodicals and newspaper clippings on current topics

The Resource Centre is open from 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.