1st International Conference on Library and
Information Management (ICLIM - 2016)
“Information for Sustainable Development: Challenges
and Opportunities”
21st - 22nd October 2016
ABSTRACTS
Chief Editors
Prof. M.K. Weerasinghe
Prof. W.A. Weerasooriya
Dr. (Mrs.) W. Seneviratne
Editors
K.A.T. Chamara
M.C.N. Jayawardana
H.K.I. Sewwandi
B.G.U.N. Wimalawansha
Department of Library and Information Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Kelaniya
Sri Lanka
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©- Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka - 2016
1st International Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016) “Information for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities”
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University of Kelaniya
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Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference on Library and
Information Management (ICLIM - 2016)
Advisor
Senior Prof. Sunanda Madduma Bandara, Vice Chancellor, University of Kelaniya.
Convener
Prof. A.H.M.H. Abayarathna, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of
Kelaniya.
Members
Senior Prof. M.J.S. Wijeyaratne, Chairman, Research Council, University of
Kelaniya.
Ven. L. Piyarathana Thero, Head, Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Kelaniya
Prof. M.K. Weerasinghe
Prof. W.A. Weerasooriya
Dr. (Mrs.) W. Seneviratne
Prof. Anura Manatunga
Prof. Mapa Thilakarathne
Dr. Namali Suraweera
Mr. K.A.T. Chamara
Mr. Gunaratne Banda
Mr. Punchibanda Gallaba
Mr. D. Suwadarathne
Production Credits
Rev. D. Pannananda Thero
Mr. Thusitha Udaya Kumara
Ms. Dilini Wijegunasekara
Ms. Dinithi Weerasinghe
Ms. Dhammika Rajapaksha
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Message from Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission Sri Lanka
It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you, the academic, professional and the research
community who attend this 1st International Conference on Library and Information Management
(ICLIM 2016) conducted by the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka being a humble yet pleasant conference.
The knowledge creation and dissemination is a very important element in the development of a
country. Libraries, Documentation and Information centers have a very much important role and
responsibility to play in collecting, organizing and the delivery of the information and knowledge
for the target users akin from the law makers, planners, policy makers, consultants, academic,
professionals, , administrators, managers, trainers, learners to the general public representing
varying age groups from diversified communities. The library and information professionals and
their supporting staff will have to lead their service organizations equipped with modern
Information Communication and Technologies with a view to support the development initiatives
planned by the policy makers at various levels. All types of libraries and information centers from
the national, university, school, local government and research institute play a leading role in this
context. The symposium theme “Information for Sustainable development: challenges and
opportunities” momentously tributes to this mission in the context of sustainable development
initiatives.
I am very certain that this occasion will be able to provide a platform towards strengthening the
relationships in the spirit of knowledge sharing while at the same time developing the necessary
thrust in joint research collaborations and parallel initiatives. It is my desire that this conference
will be a foundation for the growth of new ideas towards a better tomorrow.
With best wishes
Prof. P.S. M. Gunaratne
Vice-Chairman
University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka
2016
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Message from the Vice-Chancellor
The University of Kelaniya is highly committed to encourage the research activities of the academic
in order to promote high quality research. The ICLIM 2016 is a highly applauded academic attempt
that will contribute to fill the knowledge gap and will provide a platform to share the knowledge
and experience among the researchers in the disciplines of Library and Information Science, which
will contribute towards making the information for sustainable development. These types of
conferences are the stepping stones towards achieving the goal of becoming a world-class
University which produces human capital with high quality skills and competences.
It is my great pleasure to issue a message for the 1st International Conference on Library and
Information Management (ICLIM 2016) organized by the Department of Library and Information
Science under the very important theme “Information for Sustainable Development: Challenges and
Opportunities”, This theme addresses many contemporary issues and challenges that our societies
face today regardless the level of development.
As the Vice-Chancellor of the hosting university, I extend a warm welcome to all the participants,
especially our foreign delegates who are gathered here today and wish that all of you will use this
opportunity to share views and ideas as well as to develop skills and competencies and build up
more amicable relationships, which are among the main objectives of this Conference.
I congratulate the Department of Library and Information Science for organizing this conference
and wish ICLIM 2016 every success.
Senior Professor Sunanda Madduma Bandara
Vice Chancellor
University of Kelaniya
Sri Lanka
2016
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Message from the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
The 1st International Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016) organized
by the Department of Library and Information Science, is a historic event for the Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. It is with great pleasure for me to issue a message at
this memorable event that was organized by the Department of Library and Information Science as
one of the multi-disciplinary departments which has a blend of academic and professional approach.
I am so happy that this special Department in our Faculty has taken initiatives for organizing this
type of international forum which convenes very erudite and professionally trained well
experienced experts. The other Senior Librarians and all library professionals who grace this
occasion from Sri Lanka deserve an appreciation. There is a great parity between the the information
for the sustainable development. The human resources, particularly the LIS professionals have a
vested role and a responsibility to gather and make available the information and knowledge
resources and contents needed especially for the stakeholders in the development process and the
necessity of information for the under-privileged, socially excluded and to all the other trade
communities.
I greatly appreciate the initiative taken by the Department of Library and Information Science for
organizing this scholarly venture and it will undoubtedly will boost the professional, academic, and
research collaboration and the amicable relationships among the distinguish personalities, and the
upcoming young professionals who are gathered here today. I take this opportunity to thank the
Keynote speaker, Theme speakers, Chairpersons, Co-chairs, Rapporteurs, Organizers, Committee
members, Editors, Paper reviewers and the presenters and the all participants of the 3rd LIS Research
Symposium.
I wish every success for the event.
Prof. A.H.M.H. Abayarathne
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Kelaniya
Sri Lanka
2016
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Message from the Chairman, Research Council, University of Kelaniya
It is indeed a great pleasure to send this message on the occasion of the 1st International Conference
on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016) organized by the Department of Library
and Information Science of the University of Kelaniya. This is a landmark event in the history of
the Department of Library and Information Science as this is the first international research
conference on Library and Information Management organized by this Department.
The University of Kelaniya is at the forefront among Sri Lankan Universities in giving highest
support for conducting research and disseminating research findings. This has been made possible
due to the establishment of the Research Council, the mandate of which is to promote research of
the staff and students and improve the research culture within the University. Research Council
initiated the award of Senate Honours to Faculty members who publish research papers in peer
reviewed indexed journals. It also provides financial support to hold research conferences which
are held at the Departmental level, Faculty level and also at the University level. So far, 224 Senate
Honours have been awarded and funding for 34 research conferences have been provided by the
Research Council since its inception in addition to awarding 34 foreign travel grants to staff
members to present research papers at international research conferences.
I am very thankful to the Organizing Committee for selecting a timely theme for this conference, at
an era where the entire world is focusing on sustainable development. It is highly important to
discuss on the challenges and opportunities in the area of information management for sustainable
development. To achieve each and every sustainable development goal identified in the 2030
Agenda of the United Nations, information management plays a vital role. Participants of this
International Conference have a golden opportunity to share their ideas which will undoubtedly
help academic and professional advancement of the discipline of library and information science.
I wish the ICLIM 2016 all success.
Senior Professor M. J. S. Wijeyaratne
Chairman, Research Council
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
2016
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Message from the Keynote Speaker
It is an honor to have been invited to me with a fellowship offered under the University of Kelaniya
Fellowship program and as a keynote speaker to this 1st International Conference on Library and
Information Management (ICLIM 2016) at the University of Kelaniya. This conference is probably
one of the first “high exposure” efforts of the only Department on Library and Information Science
of the country. Having been myself the academic coordinator of also the only Department in Library
and Information Science in Flanders (northern region of Belgium), I know undertaking such efforts
is important to present your Department as a 'center of excellence' to the country and now also
abroad and to show expertise at an international level is existing and growing in Sri Lanka.
More than 100 different presentations in 15 separate themes will be held: I can hardly imagine any
topic left unaddressed in Information and Library Science, ranging from cultural/social interests
such as reading habits or preservation of heritage to high-tech IT-related topics such as the use of
the Cloud and the popular emerging mobile applications which are also relevant for libraries.
With the multitude of themes covered I am sure the Conference will bring a good view on what is
going on in the Library and Information Science scene in Sri Lanka and neighboring countries. My
own presentation touches on a basic theoretical foundation of our information-related professions
and I hope it can serve as a basis for discussion on not only our common position but also our
professional ethics. In our profession and scientific field, with such a broad scope of issues and
topics, a steady and clear view on the basics and principles will remain necessary to act as a beacon
for further orientation in many possible directions. My best wishes are for the Vice-Chancellor,
Dean of the Faculty, Head of Department Rev L. Piyarathana, Prof M.K. Weerasinghe and Prof
Weerasooriya and the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Department and the Faculty, the
organizers and all committee members of the ICLIM 2016 for their untiring efforts like this.
Prof. Egbert de Smet
University of Antwerp, Belgium
2016
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Message from the Guest Speaker
It is a great pleasure to know that the school of Library & Information science, University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka is organizing an International Conference on Library and Information
Management. It
emphasizes on all the major facets of Library and Information Science, the
relevance of library classics, the LIS education and research in the context of present knowledge
society. Libraries are always being one among the premiers towards adopting newer technologies
and innovative practices to impart education and deliver the knowledge inputs. It is still imperative
that the LIS professionals enhance their skills and update their knowledge and technical skills to
elope with the moving pace and to satisfy the Z-generation users. As the present conference enables
the LIS community across the globe to deliberate the relevance of LIS practices in the technology
enabled environment towards enhancing the quality of LIS education and information environment.
I appreciate the faculty, library professionals, the organizing committee all the stake holders for this
great initiative. I also extend my heartiest wishes to have a grand success of this international
academic event.
Dr. Srinivasa Ragavan
Professor and Head
Department of Library and Information Science
Bharathidasan University
India.
2016
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Message from the Head of the Department
As the Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, it is
indeed a very pleasing and enthusiastic opportunity to convey a message for the 1st International
Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016) with the theme: Information
for Sustainable development: challenges and opportunities”. It is also a great privilege for me
particularly the fact that this landmark event takes place at the most right time, the most right
manner, at the most right place, the Department of Library and Information Science, University of
Kelaniya where you all the distinguish and erudite personalities gathered here today.
Right from the start and to the present, the contribution made by this Department in human resource
development, training, education, research, and consultancy work is so vivid and enormous. There
have been quite a number of national and regional conferences organized by the Department of
Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya in its remarkable annals and the ICLIM
2016 is the 1st International conference organized in this nature.
It is very obvious fact that the content of the most papers submitting today are original findings
hence to make use of these for the development of the country is should be the vision of all who
gathered here today.
I take this opportunity to thank the Vice Chairman UGC, Vice Chancellor, all Deans of Faculties,
and the Heads of Departments, conference organizers, theme speakers, coordinators, chairpersons,
rapporteurs, foreign delegates, and the faculty staff.
With best wishes
Rev. L. Piyarathana Thero
Head
Dept. of Library and Information Science
University of Kelaniya
Sri Lanka.
2016
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Message from the Coordinators
We are privileged and honour to issue a message on behalf of the Coordinating and the Organizing
team of the 1st International Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016)
organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Kelaniya. The principal purpose of the International Conference on Library and
Information Management (ICLIM 2016) is to seek avenues, strategies and knowhow for achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals through Library and Information Management perspectives and
to make ready for the future challenges through the best practices and the best opportunities
available with us locally and internationally.
The world has witnessed remarkable revolutionary changes in the field of information including the
libraries and library profession. In this milieu, the librarian’s role is challenged in providing access
to information and in disseminating available information for the citizens of this knowledge society.
Issue at hand is how the information professionals face the challenge effectively and productively
in using these challenge as an opportunity. This International Conference expects to gather
intellectuals, researchers, information professionals, students and other stakeholders in the LIS
profession into one forum to create constructive dialogue to support sustainable development in our
society. To contribute effectively for the achievements of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
in the information science perspective, to share best practices and experiences gained by
professionals, practitioners, educators and policy makers of LIS sector, to establish collaborative
programmes and develop linkages with other educational institutions/universities, research
organizations and professional associations in the field of library, documentation and information
science, to create collaborative scholarly platform for all, to create constructive dialogue in adopting
and utilization of technologies and facing challenges forced in the digital environment are other
finite objectives of ICLIM 2016. We wish to lend our deepest gratitude and thank to the ViceChancellor, Senior Prof. Sunanda Madduma Bandara, the Dean, Faculty of Socials Sciences, Prof.
A.H.M.H. Abayarathna, Prof. Egbert de Smet, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Prof S.
Srinivasaragavan from Barathidasan University, India.
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We should express our gratitude and an enormous thank to Prof. P.S.M. Gunaratne, Vice-Chairman,
University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka.
It is our humble duty to thank the distinguish scholars and professionals who specially arrived here
for the ICLIM 2016. The dedication provided by the Editors, Reviewers, Chairpersons, and the
Presenters of the abstracts and others participating at this occasion is also valued.
We must thank the members of the Sub Committees, Members of Symposium Secretariat. All
Heads of Departments, teaching and non-teaching staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences deserve
special thanks. We lend everyone a happy and rewarding experience at the the 1st International
Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM 2016), University of Kelaniya.
Prof. M.K. Weerasinghe, Prof. W.A Weerasooriya, Dr.W.Seneviratne
Co-Chair and Coordinators of ICLIM - 2016
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List of Abbrevation
AACR II
Anglo American Cataloguing Rules II
AES
Agriculture Extension Service
ANOVA
Analysis of Variance
BD
Bangladesh
CART
Classification and Regression Trees Analysis
CAS
Current Awareness Services
CDA
Coconut Development Authority
CMS
Content Management System
CPD
Continuous Professional Development
CPE
Continuing Professional Education
DDC
Dewy Decimal Classification
DEC
Distance Education Council
DOIJ
Directory of Indian Journal
EI
Emotional Intelligence
E-LMS
Electronic Learning Management System
FRAD
Functional Requirement of Authority Data
FRBR
Functional Requirement of Bibliographic Record
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
IARI
Indian Agricultural Research Institute
ICH
Intangible Cultural Heritage
ICI
Indian Citation Index
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
IFLA
International Federation of Library Association
IGBC
Indian Green Building Council
IJCR
Indian Journal Citation Report
IK
Indigenous Knowledge
IL
Information Literacy
ILL
Inter Library Loan
ILSD
Information Literacy Skills Development
IR
Institutional Repository
IRM
Information Resource Management
ISBN
International Stranded Book Number
ISCI
Indian Science Citation Index
ISO
International Organization for Standardizations
ISSHCI
Indian Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Index
ISTA
Indian Science and Technology Abstracts
IT
Information Technology
JNSF
Journal of National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka
KM
Knowledge Management
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LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design
LIA
Library Information Assistant
LMS
Learning Management System
MBA
Master of Business Administration
MVC
Model View Controller
NAAC
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
NAISC
National Library and Information Science Commission
NBA
National Board of Accreditation
NLS
National Library Sri Lanka
NMA
NPL
Naval Maritime Academy
National Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology
Non-government Public Library
OC
Organizational Commitment
OIC
Officer in Charge
OPAC
Online Public Access Catalogue
Paas
Platform as a Service
PGIAR
Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology
PGIPBS
Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies
PHP
Hypertext Pre Processor
POP
Publish or Perish
QMS
Quality Management System
RDA
Recourse Description and Access
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification Device
RUP
Rational Unified Process
SAARC
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Saas
Software as a Service
SBC
Senake Bandaranayake Classification
SDI
Selective Dissemination Information
SLIATT
Sri Lankan Advance Technological Educational Institute
SLQF
Sri Lankan Qualification Framework
SNLSM
Sri Lankan National Library Service Manifesto
SNS
Social Network Sites
TCH
Tangible Cultural Heritage
UDC
Universal Decimal Classification
UGC
University Grants Commission
UK
United Kingdom
USA
United State of America
VLRC
Virtual Learning Resource Centre
WOS
Web of Science
NMEICT
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Table of Content
Strengthening Non-Government Public Libraries towards Building Sustainable Lifelong
Learning Centers: A Bangladesh Scenario .................................................................................. 1
Akter, R.
Variation of Anxieties among the Arts Undergraduates in Using the Library of University of
Peradeniya ...................................................................................................................................... 2
Alahakoon C.N. K.
A Study on the Use of Contents in the IFLA Manifesto on Public Libraries, Based on Public
Libraries in Colombo, Kurunagala and Gampaha Districts ...................................................... 3
Alwis, K.V.I de
Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) in Sri Lank: An overview ............................................... 4
Amarakone, Lionel R.
Effect of Gender in ICT Literacy: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Trainee Teachers ................ 5
Amarathunga, P.A.B.H., Pathiratne, S. and Weerasinghe, D.
Social Acceptance and Tenure of Library Profession in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study
with Special Reference to Public Libraries and University Libraries ....................................... 6
Ananda Tissa, R.D. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
Effective Utilization of Social Media by Students of University of Madras, Chennai: A Study
......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Arumugam, J., Natarajan, N.O. and Balasubramani, R.
Study Based on the communication skill of students in the use of University library facilities
......................................................................................................................................................... 8
Aththanayaka, A.M.M.C., Madhusanka, Amila and Madushanka, Ayesh
Praise or Perish: Scholarly Influence of Buddhist Commemorative Publications ................... 9
Attanayake, Geethani
A Study of Library Collection in Sri Lanka Advanced Technological Educational
Institutions in Sri Lanka (SLIATE) ........................................................................................... 10
Balasooriya, B.A.P.
Assesment of Digital Information Literacy among Faculty Members of Bharathidasan
University ...................................................................................................................................... 11
Balasubramani, R. and Abu K.S
Worldwide research productivity in the field of Data Mining from 2010 to 2015: a
bibliometric analysis .................................................................................................................... 12
Balasubramani, R., Kohila, G.T. and Elavazhagan.
Status of Library and Information Science Course Materials in India: An Analytical Study
....................................................................................................................................................... 13
Balasubramani, R. and Abu K.S.
Usage and Impact of Cloud Computing for Library Services.................................................. 14
Bharanidharan, S. and Krishnamoorthy, G.
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Relationship between the Designation and the Degree of Usage of the E-library by
Academics of the University of Kelaniya ................................................................................... 15
Chamara, K.A.T
An Evaluative Study on the Services provided by the National Library, Sri Lanka ............. 16
Chathurani, W.M.P.E.
Crime Information Management System for Sri Lanka Police ............................................... 17
Cooray, N.A.C. and Weerasinghe, K.G.H.D.
A Study on the Use and the Problems Faced by the Students in Using Library Web Page of
University of Kelaniya ................................................................................................................. 19
Deepika, D.M.P.P
An Assessment of Indian Citation Publication Output: A Study on Indian Citation Index . 20
Dhanakar, M.A
Online Tools for Research and Data Collection: An Overview ............................................... 21
Dhanavandan, S.
Contribution of National Libraries in Dissemination of Knowledge in Developing Countries:
Challenges and Opportunities .................................................................................................... 22
Dilinika, J.M.S
Leadership Skills for Library Professionals .............................................................................. 23
Dorairajan, M., Sanka, M. and Raghavan, P.
Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in Higher Academic Libraries: ..................... 24
An Indian Perspective
Duraimurugan and Srinivasaragavan
Green Library Initiatives in India: Reshaping the Future ....................................................... 25
Duraipandi, R.
Emerging Trends of Future Library and Information services Leadership in 21st Century 26
Duraipandi, R.
Green library initiatives in India: Anna Centenary Library - a case study ........................... 27
Elavazhagan, K. and Kohila, G.T.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Sri Lanka: A Study with Special Reference in the Field of
Indigenous Medicine .................................................................................................................... 28
Gamage, C.K
Challenges of Information Management in Organizing Global Scale Events Using
Technology in Government Establishments in Sri Lanka. ....................................................... 29
Gamage, Madira N.
Accessing the User Satisfaction of Information Literacy Skill Development Program: Special
Reference to Faculty of Business Studies and Finance, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka . 30
Gamlath, W.G.P., Thusithakumari, W.M., Malkanthi, D.G.A.S. and Jayawardana, K.G.I.
Scholarly Information Input for Quality Research: Initiatives of India ................................. 31
Ganesan, P., Sujatha, R. and Abraham, Laila T.
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Awareness and Usage of Smartphone Applications for Information Sharing Tasks among
the Research Scholars of Periyar University- An Analytical Study ........................................ 32
Gomath, P. and Rubinandhini, A.
Quantitative Analysis of Global Literature on the Game of Basketball in Sport Sciences .... 33
Gopinath, M., Viswanathan, J. and Nageswaran, A.S.
The Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Rural Communities: A Study
Based on Kannaththota Village. ................................................................................................. 34
Gunarathna, D.G.R.L.
Use of Astrology with Special Reference to Ibbagamuwa Divisional Secretarial Division .... 35
Gunaratne, W.G.G.P
Understanding Faculty Contribution for the Institutional Repository: A Case Study at
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka .......................................................................................... 36
Gunasekera, C.
Understanding the Service Quality expectation of library users of Special Libraries of
professional institutions. .............................................................................................................. 37
Gunatilake, K.A.D.P.M. and Galgodawaththa, G.W.I.
Impact of the Library Management System on Academic Activities of Undergraduate
Students of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka ................................................................. 38
Gunawardena, D.N.T
Community Outreach Library Services in Rajarata University Library System in Sri
Lanka: A System Approach ........................................................................................................ 39
Harshani, K.R. and Siriwardena, A.S.
Automatic Extractive Twitter Hashtag Summarization ........................................................... 40
Hengodage, M.A. and Samankula, W.G.D.M.
Studying the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Commitment
among the Library Information Assistants ............................................................................... 41
Hindagolla, B.M.M.C.B
Contribution of Libraries in Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study Based on
Selected Public Libraries in Ratnapura District. ...................................................................... 42
Indrasena, W.S.S
A Study of Continuing Professional Development Programmes in the Field of LIS in India 43
Jain, P.K. and Babbar, P.
Uses of Social Media and Library among MBA Students in Prims, Periyar University, Salem
....................................................................................................................................................... 44
Jayaprakash, M. and Murugan, C.
Information Disseminating through Using Social Networking Sites among B.Ed College
Librarians in Salem District ........................................................................................................ 45
Jayaprakash, M. and Murugan, C.
Contribution of University Establishment Branches and Sections in Fulfilling Information
needs of University Students: Study Based on University of Kelaniya ................................... 46
Jayasekara, J.M.A.K.
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Indigenous knowledge Applied in Paddy Cultivation in Kurunagagala District: Study Based
on Maspotha Divisional Secretarial Division............................................................................. 47
Jayathilake, T.M.A.N.
A study based on the Use of Indigenous knowledge in Mirigama Divisional Secretarial
Division in Gampaha District. .................................................................................................... 48
Jayawardana, M.C.N, Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N, Sewwandi, H.K.I
Factors Affecting the Reading Habits in the Digital Environment: A Study of
Undergraduates of Faculty of Islamic Studies andArabic Language at South Eastern
University of Sri Lanka ............................................................................................................... 49
Jazeel, M.I.M. and Dehigama, Kanchana
Constraints in Conducting Survey Research among Visually Impaired Undergraduate in Sri
Lanka ............................................................................................................................................ 50
Jeyaraj, W.J. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
Websites of Universities in South India by Alexa Inlinks: A Webometric Analysis .............. 51
Jeyshankar, R.
Mapping the Research output on Seismic studies: An Inter-Continental metric study ........ 52
Jeyshankar, R., Vijaianand, S. and Ramasamy, K.
Asian Information Philosophy for E- Learning; Case of Open and Distance Education in Sri
Lanka ............................................................................................................................................ 53
Jinadasa, Manoj
Use of Social Networking Sites among Pondicherry University Faculty Members and
Students ........................................................................................................................................ 54
Kalisdha, A. and Subbiah, M.
Research on Himalayas: A Scientometric Analysis .................................................................. 55
Kambaraman, B. and Srinivasaragavan, S.
Green and Energy Efficiency in Library ................................................................................... 56
Kanagavel, P., Sridhar, K. and Gomathinayagam, S.
DELNET: Services towards sharing between institutions ....................................................... 57
Kar, Debal Chandra
Best Practices in a College Libraries: A Case Study of Dev Samaj College for Women,
Chandigarh (India). ..................................................................................................................... 59
Kaur, Jaspal
Perception and Utilisation of Social Networking Sites among the Research Scholars of
Library and Information Science in Tamil Nadu ..................................................................... 60
Kavitha, E.S. and Uma, T.
The Impact of Social Media on the Reading Habit of the Youth ............................................. 61
Kulathunga Arachchi, M.S.
Awareness on Online Learning Management among Students and Scholarly Professionals 62
Kumar, K.
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Trend in Reading Novels by the Student’s of Art Faculty: With Special Referee to Kelaniya,
Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura Universities. .................................................................. 63
Madhusanka, N.M.A.N and Atthanayaka, Madhurani
Status of Institutional Repositories in SAARC Countries: An Analytical Study ................... 64
Maheswaran, R.
Information Literacy (IL) Skills among the Female Students of Rural Secondary Schools in
Dhaka, Bangladesh: is this build up Knowledge Society? ........................................................ 65
Mezbah-ul-Islam, Muhammad and Begum, Bilkis
Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge through Modern Agricultural Information Sources
and Channels in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka ................................................................ 66
Mihirani, P.M.N., Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.P., Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.S.N.P., Withana, N.R.P.,
Dharmawardhana, M.W.C. and Samaraweera, J.P.U.
Qualitative Research in Library & Information Science: Use of Narratives .......................... 67
Murari, Durga
The Impact of E-LMS on Learning Skills of Postgraduate Students in Sri Lanka ................ 68
Nagahawatta, R.T.S
Information and Communication Technology Literacy among Library Professionals in the
Universities of Tamil Nadu .......................................................................................................... 69
Nagarajan, M.
Managing Information Revolution: Strategies of Collection Development in Research
Oriented Libraries ....................................................................................................................... 70
Nanda Kumari, E. and Kavitha, E.S.
Growth of Library Science Education and Continuing Professional Development for
Library Professionals in State University Libraries in Tamil Nadu: A Study ....................... 71
Natarajan, N.O
Professional Development of Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals in
Annamalai University: A Study .................................................................................................. 72
Natarajan, N.O
Information Literacy and Public library Services in Tamil Nadu, India ................................ 73
Nattar, S and Duraisingan, A
Sanskrit Webliography– a Sample Strategic Initiative to Increase the E-Resource Usage
among Academics in Sri Lanka. ................................................................................................. 74
Navaneethakrishnan, S
E-Journal for Professional Development and Research: Special Reference at Madurai
Kamraj University ....................................................................................................................... 75
Padma, P.
Chemical Sciences Research Output among the Universities in the State of Tamilnadu: A
Scientometric Study ..................................................................................................................... 76
Pandian, R.
Virtualization Appliances for Library and Information Management Studies ...................... 78
Pannananda, Rev. D. and Sumangala, Rev. P.
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Awareness of Knowledge Management Process among Librarians of Engineering Colleges
Affiliated to Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore: A Study....................................... 79
Parameswaran, R.
School Principals’ Management Styles and its Influence on Primary Schools Teachers
Motivation in Kurunegala District of Sri Lanka ....................................................................... 80
Pathiratne, S., Amaratunga, P.A.B.H and Weerasinghe, D.
Scientific Study about Collection of Manuscripts Book by W .S. M. Ranasingha of Doctor in
Athebediwewa .............................................................................................................................. 81
Piyarathana, Rev. L.
Application of Mobile Phone Technologies for Library Services ............................................ 82
Prabakaran, M. and Niyamananda, Swamy
Attitude towards Library Networking and Resource Sharing Programme among the College
Librarians Affiliated To the Bharathidasan University: A Study ........................................... 83
Prabu, R.
Miṉcuvaṭi: Digital Library for Tamil Imprints Using J-ISIS .................................................. 84
Prakash, Ira, Muthiah, Roja and Sadik Batcha
Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF), 2011 - 2015: a Citation
Analysis ......................................................................................................................................... 85
Pratheepan, T. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
Bibliotherapy as a Tool for reducing the Study Behavior Issues among Undergraduates:
A case Study at the University of Peradeniya ............................................................................ 86
Premarathne, B. N. G. S, ....................................................................................................................
Students' attitudes and perceptions on library user education programmes: A case study . 87
Punchihewa, C.N.D., Kiriella, K.G.A.P., Kumara, A.D.B. and Kodikara, Ruvini C.
Traditional Knowledge Illustrated in the Palm Leaf Manuscripts of Anuradhapura District,
Sri Lanka ...................................................................................................................................... 88
Pushpakumara, K. and Dehigama, K.
Research Performance of Cloud Computing in BRICS Countries ......................................... 89
Raja, S.
Cloud Computing and its Applications in Library: A Review................................................. 90
Raja, S. and Krishnan, V.
Electronic Information Resources Utilization by Medical Students in General Sir John
Kotelawala Defence University Library, Faculty of Medicine ................................................. 91
Rajapaksha, M.P
Use of University Library Web as a Marketing Tool in Sri Lanka ......................................... 92
Ranasinghe, Shirani and Konpola, K.W.A.M.
Internet Use and Its Impact on Library Usage by Trainiees at Naval and Maritime Academy
(NMA), Sri Lanka ........................................................................................................................ 93
Ranawella, T.C.
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Quality Management System in Libraries: A Case Study ........................................................ 94
Rao, P.V
Quality Assured Innovative and Best Practices in Library and Information Services .......... 95
Rath, Pravakar
A Study of SenakeBandaranayake Classification Scheme for the Archaeology and Related
Disciplines ..................................................................................................................................... 96
Rathnabahu, R.M.N.
Responsive Resource Scheduling in Cloud Environment ......................................................... 98
Ravindhren, V.G. and Ravimaran, S.
Continuing Education for LIS Professionals in India: A Study ............................................... 99
Raza, M.M. and Subhan, Maliha
The Attitudes towards Reading and the Reading Habits of the Students of Nāgānanda
International Institute for Buddhist Studies ............................................................................ 100
Rewatha, Rev. P
Application of RFID System in Selected Libraries in Delhi, India: Issue & Challenges ..... 101
Roy, P., Kumar, S. and Sonu
Information needs of Newspaper Journalists in Sri Lanka .................................................... 102
Sajeewani, K.
A Study on the Factors for Motivation of University Librarians of Sri Lanka in Continuing
their Professional Education ..................................................................................................... 103
Samarakoon, M. and De Silva, G
Library Technologies for Teaching Learning and Research.................................................. 104
Sankar, M.
Preservation and Conservation of Digital Resource Practices in Academic Libraries in
Coimbatore: A Study ................................................................................................................. 105
Sarangapani, R. and Mangiyakarasi, A
Preservation Methods for Digital Materials ............................................................................ 106
Sarangapani, R. and Mangiyakarasi, A.
Research on “Western Ghats”: A Scientometric Analysis ..................................................... 107
Selvamani, J. and Kumari, N.P.
Study on State of the Modern Technology used in Preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts in
Sri Lanka .................................................................................................................................... 108
Senanayake, S.M.T., Madusanka, W.M.H and Gunasinghe, H.C.
Kudagama Gypsies’s village as an attraction informative source for Tourists. ................... 109
Senarathna, T.M.C.D.
An Investigation of Information Needs of Coconut Industrialists in Sri Lanka ................... 110
Seneviratne, R.A.P.S
Community Radio and its Impact over the Community Development in Sri Lanka ........... 111
Seneviratne, W. and Gunasekara, R.M
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Insight into usage of Spoken Tutorial LRM among Technical Institutions ......................... 113
Senthamilselvi, A. and Sirinivasaraghavan, S.
Usage of E - Resource for Academic Purposes among the University Temporary staff:
special reference with faculty of social sciences, University of Kelaniya. ............................. 114
Sewwandi, H.K.I., Jayawardana, M.C.N. and Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N.
Highly cited Papers from Sri Lanka during 1989-2016 .......................................................... 115
Shanmugam, A. P. and Surulinathi, M.
A Study on User Satisfaction of Undergraduates of Vavuniya Campus of the University of
Jaffna, Sri Lanka. ...................................................................................................................... 116
Shanmugathasan, S.
Impact of Social Media in Disseminating of Information in the Libraries of Higher
Education .................................................................................................................................... 117
Shivraj, K.S.
A Study on Attitudes of University Lectures and Students about the Use of Digital Libraries
for Searching Academic Information....................................................................................... 118
Somananda, Rev. B.
Characteristics of Documentation patterns of Sri Lankan Tamils ........................................ 119
Srikanthalakshmi, A
Research Collaboration in Indian Universities: A Bibliometric Analysis of Universities in
Tamilnadu State. ........................................................................................................................ 120
Srinivasaragavan, S. and Dorairajan, M.
The Way of Using Social Media Networks for Current Awareness Services ....................... 121
Sumana, Rev. Bodagama, Pagngnaloka, Rev. K. andSobitha, Rev. Karapikkada
A Comparative Study on Differences between Anglo - American Catalogue Rules (AACR II)
and Resource Description and Access (RDA) .......................................................................... 122
Sumana, Rev. Bodagama
Introduction of Assignment Assessment System for Higher Education in Sri Lanka ......... 123
Suraweera, Namali, Weersooriya, W.A, and Weerasinghe, M.K
Impact of Mobile Technologies in Indian Academic Libraries: A Study ............................. 125
Suresh, B. and Sujatha, C
A Technique to Tackle Both Speech and Writing Simultaneously: A Case Study based on
Library and Information Science Degree Program ................................................................ 126
Suwandaratna, D.
Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Geo Scientist in Sri Lanka. ....... 127
Tilakarathna.T.C.P.K.
History and Development of Library Education in Sri Lanka: With Speed Reference to the
Period after 1948. ....................................................................................................................... 128
Udarini, D.N.A.U.C.
The Role and Services of Palm Leaf Manuscript Study and Research Library at the
University of Kelaniya ............................................................................................................... 129
UdayaKumara, T.
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Use of Electronic Information Resources By medical students at the Rajarata University of
Sri Lanka .................................................................................................................................... 130
Wanasinghe, W.M.P.G.K.T.
A Bibliometric Assessment of the Intellectual Content and Recognition Level of the Journal
of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka .................................................................... 131
Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U and Weerasooriya, W.A
Design and development of a desired Graduate Profile (GP) for the BA (Honors) Degree
program in Library and Information Science (BLISC) conducted by the Department of
Library and Information Science (DELIS), University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka................... 132
Weerasooriya, W.A., Weerasinghe, M.K., Wanigasooriya, A.W.A.P.L.P., Piyarathana, Rev. L.,
Suraweera, N. and Chamara, K.A.T.
An Example for the Importance of the ancient Manuscripts for Solving Crucial Problems
appeared in Buddhist Literature. ............................................................................................. 134
Wijayawimala, Rev. Sooriyawewa
Indigenous Knowledge available in Balangoda Region: A Study based Indigenous Medicine
and Traditional Kem Methods. ................................................................................................. 135
Wijesekara, N.C.D.
Role of Librarian in Managing School Libraries: A Study Based on Selected National School
Libraries in Gampaha District. ................................................................................................. 136
Wijesiri, E.A.D.B.
Awareness and Use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)/Web OPAC by University
Students of University of Kelaniya ........................................................................................... 137
Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N., Jayawardana, M.C.N. and Sewwandi, H.K.I.
Electronic Resources and its Impact on Students at Tamil Nadu Colleges: A study ........... 138
Yasmin.M.
Author Index: ............................................................................................................................. 139
Subject Index: ............................................................................................................................. 142
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Strengthening Non-Government Public Libraries towards Building Sustainable Lifelong
Learning Centers: A Bangladesh Scenario
Akter, R.
rowshondu@gmail.com
Public libraries being the local gateway to knowledge are responsible for meeting the educational,
information and recreational needs of a community. So it has been under great concern of a govt.
to build a country wide public library network for rendering library and information services to each
of the community people. Bangladesh (BD) govt. has also been taking initiatives to this end. There
are two kinds of public libraries in BD: govt. and non-govt. The number of govt. public libraries is
70 against more than 140 million people in 64 districts of the country. This number is very
insignificant to serve a huge population having varied education level, mostly illiterate or having
the knowledge of recognizing or ability to writing letters. However, a good number of non-govt.
public libraries (NPL) are there that can serve the community. But these libraries’ life span is under
threat due to lack of support continuation by the constituent body or the government. This research
compares two of the directories of non-govt. public libraries of BD published in 2003 and 2014 by
the National Book Center of BD to check the ups and downs of these NPLs. The result shows a
sharp decline by 35% (approx.) in eleven years. The main objective of the study is to find out the
reasons behind the vulnerability of NPLs in BD and thereby making rational recommendations for
building a sustainable NPL base in the country as lifelong learning center for the community people.
The research is based on secondary sources of information and data analysis is limited to
aforementioned two directories published by the National Book Center of BD and the latest census
(2011) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Keywords: Bangladesh, Community information need, Public library development, Lifelong
learning, Non-Government public libraries
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Variation of Anxieties among the Arts Undergraduates in Using the Library of University of
Peradeniya
Alahakoon C.N. K.
kumaria@pdn.ac.lk
The study aims to find out the levels of anxieties relating to find information in the library among
the Arts undergraduates in the University of Peradeniya. A survey research method wasappliedand
10% from 2nd – 4th year undergraduates in the Faculty of Arts of University of Peradeniya was
selected. The sample was 208 and data was collected in July to September, 2015 by using a close
ended questionnaire. Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used to analyses the data and mean
was used to interpret the results of the study. The analysis indicated that all surveyed students are
in moderate level of use of information resources in the library. Relating to the difficulties having
with use of information resources, third and final years have indicated 38.22 and 38.08 mean level
respectively but it is less than the 2nd years mean level. About the use of computer and the internet
indicated that 2nd year undergraduates have 30.3 mean level and other are less than that. The
difficulties having with library was also measured and it was indicated that all the students who are
in the three studying years are in moderate level of anxiety. Out of 55 maximum level, these were
indicated 33 mean level. Anxiety regarding the searching for information, second and third years
was bit high than the fourth year students and out of 35 maximum level, these two years are in 20.27
and 20.37 respectively. The significant indication was that all these three years are in moderate level
for technical barriers (17.99). With regard to topic identification, the second years indicated bit high
value than 3rd and 4th years that is 13.25. In conclusion it can be stated that although there is a library
orientation program for students, they are still having moderate level of difficulties in using library
and when seeking information inside the library. Therefore, library services, awareness, hands on
exposures should be increased to minimize their anxiety level in all sort of information seeking and
it will increase the use of all kind of information resources in the library.
Keywords: Anxiety, Information seeking, Undergraduates, Social Sciences, University Library
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A Study on the Use of Contents in the IFLA Manifesto on Public Libraries, Based on Public
Libraries in Colombo, Kurunagala and Gampaha Districts
Alwis, K.V.I de
inushika928@gmail.com
The principal objective of this paper is to investigate the quality and status of public library services
in Sri Lanka in line with IFLA Public library manifesto. The study problem was how far the IFLA
Public library manifesto is utilized by the public libraries in Sri Lanka. The other objectives are to
identify the services provided by public libraries, to study the existing progress of public library
services and to identify the obstacle faced by the public library in providing their services.
Population was the total number of Librarians including user community in the public libraries in
Colombo, Kurunagala and Gampahadestricts. Sample was 30 public librarians, 30 library users
selecting from three districts using non-probability sampling techniques. Primary data collected
using a questionnaires followed by an interview.
Main findings were that 12 elements stated in the IFLA Public library manifesto are not used
adequately by the public librarians and users were unsatisfied with the provisions of library services.
Suggestions are to expand the user education programs for making full awareness on the library
services provided by public libraries, to improve ICT and internet facilities and make reading
promotion and to make a good relationship between the user community with library staff.
Keyword: Public library, IFLA Public library manifesto, User education, Information services,
Reader services
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Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) in Sri Lank: An overview
Amarakone, Lionel R.
Lionel.amarakoon@gmail.com
Sri Lanka is rich in Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as is the case in many developing countries in the
South Asian Region. The island is yet to be taken proper mechanism to identify, record, protect Sri
Lanka’s IK. The islands IK consists of different cultural heritages of main different communities.
Therefore, there is a pressing need to establish a mechanism for identification and preserve IK in
Sri Lanka and also it becomes a challenge due to Sri Lanka’s complex social, religious and political
history that mixes Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Islam beliefs and also the influence
of colonization that took place in the 18th century. As seen above this island’s IK consists of many
different cultural heritages of above main communities. On the other hand, formation of a viable
mechanism in order to identify, locate, record and protect IK in the island becomes crucial in the
phase of redevelopment and reconciliation of communities which is ongoing at present. This paper
highlights the great achievements obtained by Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in the past history in the
areas of Ayurveda, Agriculture, Astronomy, Architecture, Education and sustainability of Sri
Lanka’s ecosystem and water management. It also attempts to observe how the Sri Lankan IK
system was sufficient and relevant and also supporting in maintaining a balanced healthy, social
interaction and how IK need to be researched and adapted to meet the current challenges faced by
the island nation. At present Sri Lanka is facing problems of poverty, conflict, inadequate education
facilities, damages made to the ecosystem, non-communicable diseases such as high-blood
pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol which increase the financial allocations for the nation’s
healthcare system. Hence this paper attempt to analyze the aforesaid issues and proposes that being
Sri Lankans need to clearly understand our IK systems and adapt them wisely in order to face the
challenges that we are facing today.
Keywords: Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, Intangible cultural heritages,
Knowledge management, Library history
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Effect of Gender in ICT Literacy: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Trainee Teachers
Amarathunga, P.A.B.H., Pathiratne, S. and Weerasinghe, D.
buddhini@wyb.ac.lk
The exordium of information and communication technology (ICT) into the scholastic sector
engendered incipient gregarious typecasts and gender divergences. Since the invention of a
computer, ICT-cognate activities have been viewed as a male domain (Brosnan& Davidson, 1996)
or something for boys Reinen&Plomp, 1996). As several research reviews and meta analyses
summarized, boys were more fascinated with ICT than girls, they were heavier users of computers,
had more positive postures about computers and consequently outperformed girls in their ICT
literacy (Reinen&Plomp, 1996; Volman& Eck, 2001). However, a number of recent studies
evidenced that ICT-cognate distinctions between females and males abated mainly in the access to
ICT and rudimental computer skills (Busch, 1995; Rainer, Laosethakul, &Astone, 2003).
Meanwhile, gender inequalities now emerged in incipient areas of ICT use (Rainer et al., 2003). In
Sri Lankan Context this study is the first one.This study aims to get an insight into gender
differences of aspiring edifiers. Gender differences in self-reported ICT experience and ICT literacy
among trainee edifiers are investigated. Dynamic model of ICT literacy is employed. Three main
components of aspiring teacher’s ICT literacy are covered: (1) present general quandary-solving
and technical ICT capabilities; (2) circumstantial and longitudinal sustainability; and (3)
transferability of ICT capabilities into future professional domain. The study was predicated on
self-assessment research methodology. The questionnaire coalesced multiple quantification
implements and included seven components. The participants were the first year students at one of
the Colleges of Edification in Western Province of Sri Lanka. Two hundred and seventeen students
were enrolled in the program: Male and Female occupation was 66 (30.4%) and 151 (69.6%)
respectively.Findings denote that no consequential differences were found between females and
males’ precedent experience with ICT. Male respondents on mediocre operated computers
considerably more hours per week than females. Consequential distinctions between males and
female’s technical ICT capabilities and circumstantial and longitudinal sustainability were
observed. Male marks were greater. In the regression analysis, when the influence of the contextual
and ICT experience variables was controlled, gender failed to be a consequential presager of the
sustainability scores. However, it remained a consequential prognosticator of some trainee edifier’s
scores, cognate to their technical ICT capabilities.
Keywords: Trainee Teachers, Training, ICT literacy, Gender
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Social Acceptance and Tenure of Library Profession in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study
with Special Reference to Public Libraries and University Libraries
Ananda Tissa, R.D. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
agathisi@yahoo.com, sooriya29@yahoo.com
Library Profession has a history around 5000 years. Origin of library profession commenced in 19
century however, it was developed as a highly accepted profession in 20 thcentury. There are several
factors and characteristics to be defined as a profession. The Principal objective of this research is
to study the social acceptance and status of library profession in public all university libraries in Sri
Lanka. The other objectives are to examine the social acceptance of library profession in Sri Lanka,
to explore the status of library profession in the institutional hierarchy, to identify the corelationship
between the social acceptance and professional status, to identify the attitudes of the society toward
the library profession and to investigate how social acceptance and status influencing the progress
of library profession. Population was comprised of category 0lLawyers, Politicians, Students and
Readers and the category 02 Doctors, University Lectures, Teachers, 200 trade professionals and
the category 03 Librarians. Sample selected 300 representing category 01, 200 from category 02,
and 100 Librarians from category 03, altogether c. 600 among total population. Cluster sampling
technique used since the sample comprised of homogenous and heterogeneous categories and the
collected data was analyzed using SPSS applying descriptive method of research.
The findings were that meager social acceptance and status of library profession and libraries
prevailed eventhough they provide quite satisfactory library service, under estimation and the value
of communities towards the library services, inadequate knowledge and the access to information
as well as the library services, unclear visibility of educational, research and world of work behavior
of library professionals, pale and weaker attitudes and mentalities of library professionals and that
there is an acute and concomitant influence from prevailing meager social recognitiontoward this
social acceptance and status of a profession in Sri Lanka.Few policy suggestions are to improve the
attitudes and response of authoritative, managerial, administrative politicalstakeholders including
policy makers and the general public towards libraries, their services and library professionals by
way of extending more public relations and cooperation extending the gravity and the visibility of
library service among those categories. Within this context, establishment of a National Library and
Information Science Commission (NAISC) and the drafting and the institutionalization of Sri Lanka
National Library Services Manifesto (SNLSM) and making an effective and efficient library
operation system and to formulate a unique recruitment, selection and job promotion policy based
on skills, educational qualifications experience and professional competencies from lower to
professionals staff level are few suggestions.
Keywords: Library history, Library profession, Public Librarianship, University Librarianship,
Professional status, Social acceptance, Library education, Library management
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Effective Utilization of Social Media by Students of University of Madras, Chennai: A Study
Arumugam, J., Natarajan, N.O. and Balasubramani, R.
jacs1986tvl@gmail.com, natarajanno@ymail.com, lisbala@gmail.com
Social media has grown fast, becoming very popular among the student environment. It is mainly
used for sharing academic information and public communication in India. Technology has
penetrated all areas of life and the use of information technology (IT) has promoted incredible work
procedures and approaches. The present study examines the academic use of social media on the
quality of education and research among students of University of Madras, Chennai. The study
revealed that majority of the social media users used Face book. They used social media for
developing academic relationships and for sharing their learning experiences with their colleagues
and international community. They faced problems of bandwidth and speed of internet and security.
The researchers recommended that proper training may be organized for appropriate use social
media.
Keywords: Social media, Face book, University of Madras, Social networking sites
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Study Based on the communication skill of students in the use of University library facilities
Aththanayaka, A.M.M.C., Madhusanka, Amila and Madushanka, Ayesh
madhuaththanayaka@gmail.com, nuwanamila7777@gmail.com,
ayeshmadushanka007@gmail.com
Today, many university library in Sri Lanka have been able to provide Knowledge and information
to student with the support of Modern Information Communication Technology applications up to
certain extend. Among those facilities internet services, E- library initiatives, modern database
services, E- Journal, E-book services, social networking facilities are few to be mentioned. Principle
purpose of this paper was to investigate the knowledge, understanding of the students on these
service and to explore their communication skill in using these services.
Survey method of research applied and the population of the study was total number of students in
University of Kelaniya and the sample selected hundred students from four faculties being the
research framed to a case study design.
Study revealed that the students possess with adequate communication skill in the use of library
facilities however the main draw sack they face that the did not have adequate knowledge and
understanding about the modern ICT based information services provided by the University library.
This is a serious knowledge and aptitude gap prevailed among them and therefore move awareness
programs, training sessions, particularly workshop based on modern library facilities are to be
launched by the library.
Keywords: University Library, Information services, Communication skills, Information Literacy,
User Education
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Praise or Perish: Scholarly Influence of Buddhist Commemorative Publications
Attanayake, Geethani
geethani@kln.ac.lk
Festschrift and felicitation are comparable usage for commemorative publication. Commemorative
publication is compiled with respect of recalling someone or show respect to someone. Especially
in the field of academia, commemorative publications are abundantly published to offer the respect
for eminent personalities who substantiallycontributed for their field of study and society.
Publication of commemoration works in the field of Buddhist Studies has rapidly increased last few
years in Sri Lanka. Library of Postgraduate Institute of Pali& Buddhist Studies acquired a large
number of publications and consequently implemented a separate collection for effective use of
them.
The main purpose of this paper is to identify the scholarly influence of the articles included
inthecommutation works in the field of Buddhist Studies. In total 70volumes compiled as
commemoration works were examined which were kept in the library of Postgraduate Institute of
Pali& Buddhist Studies, (PGIPBS) University of Kelaniya. Two hypothesis were formulated to
generalization the research problem. The findings of this study were substantiated the hypothesis 1
as ‘the included articles incommemoration works are scholastic.’
This study confirms the
requirement of compiling an index for the collection of commemoration volumes available in
PGIPBS. This assessment will enable the librarians to plan better collection development and
implement better information service for their users. Further, practical implications can be utilized
to upgrade the scholarly influence of the articles too. There has been no such study done on
commemoration works in the field of Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka.
Keywords: Buddhist Literature, Commemoration Works, Felicitation literature, Library and
Information Science, Information services
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A Study of Library Collection in Sri Lanka Advanced Technological Educational
Institutions in Sri Lanka (SLIATE)
Balasooriya, B.A.P.
Priyani.slida@gmail.com
The library is the place where rapidly increasing huge volume of knowledge and information is
collected, organized for the dissemination to the users. The knowledge and information gathered in
different resources are collected in libraries and these emulative resources belong to library
collection. Within this content, library collection plays a significant role. This study is based on the
evaluation of library collection.
Objectives of the paper is to identify the library collection in Advanced Technological Educational
Institute libraries to study the collection pattern and how organized it, to examine the suitability of
collection with the study programs in SLIATE, to investigate the uptodateness of the collection.
The research method adopted was the survey and the population was total students and academic
staff and the sample were 250 Diploma final year students and 10 Lecturers including of library
staff selected from all SLIATE in western and southern provinces.
It was identified total collections cover with mainly textbook, there was a lack of other library
materials. Library service conducted on traditional method, no internet facilities. The collection was
not updated and weeding has not been done.
Suggestions are made to improve library collection with additional books which are related to
course conducted by SLIATE. Library opening hours have to be extended on readers demands, new
collection development policy and weeding should be initiated. It is better if libraries take action to
utilize new methods in the acquisition of library material.
Keywords: Sri Lanka Advanced Technological Educational Institute, Collection development,
Acquisition, Collection management, Information services
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Assesment of Digital Information Literacy among Faculty Members of Bharathidasan
University
Balasubramani, R. and Abu K.S.
lisbala@gmail.com
This study will assess the digital information literacy skills and where they need training among the
professionals of Bharathidasan University. This study followed a survey method and structured
questionnaire has been used to collect data from the respondents.Professionals working in
universities are not only engaged in teaching but also involved in research and development
activities. They are considered as a disciplined group of individuals with high order of knowledge
which they use to impart high order thinking skills in the minds of students. Hence, they are
expected to posses the adequate cognitive and technical skills. In the present digital era, no doubt
those professionals must also be cognizant of promoting digital literacy to help their students to
acquire information quickly and effectively.The study adopted a survey procedure and a structured
questionnaire has been used to collect data from the faculty members of various departments in the
University. The responses collected were analysed using descriptive (Mean and SD) and inferential
statistics such as t-test, F-ratio, chi-square and correction statistics.The study identified whether the
faculty members are having adequate digital information skills, if not what type of training should
be provided to them will be identified. The study identified whether there will be any gender
difference with regard to digital information skills.
Keywords: Digital Information Literacy, Faculty Members, Bharathidasan University, Survey
Method, Gender Gap
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Worldwide research productivity in the field of Data Mining from 2010 to 2015: a
bibliometric analysis
Balasubramani, R., Kohila, G.T. and Elavazhagan.
lisbala@gmail.com, koela15@gmail.com, ego3021@gmail.com
The main objective of this study is to analyze the growth of the research in the category Data
Mining, a subject that has arisen over the last few decades. The study also aims to compare scientific
production in the field of data mining between countries and evaluate the publication trend and
authorship pattern worldwide. Study analyzed publications for journals between 2010 and 2015,
with an analysis from the perspective of both quantity and quality. Furthermore, we have analyzed
the international dissemination of research of countries through journals and the relationship with
the authorship pattern to detect the published journals of each country.We have applied RGR,
LOTKA’S law and Bradford’s law in this study.
This study has observed a total of 9437 publications in Data mining research over a period of six
years from 2010 to 2015 and indexed by Web of Science online Database indicates that the
publication output in the Global level.
The highest numbers of papers were published during the year 2015 with 1846 records and the
following year 2014 with 1722 records. The least number of papers was recorded during 2010
with1238records. Overall, 26166 authors contributed in 2485 journals with 2674 records of the
publications from 6350 number of institutions that were located in 113 numbers of countries. The
highest number of the publications on 2269 records in three author productivity and followed by
the two and four author’s productivity with 2005 and 1734 records of the publications respectively.
The study revealed that USA occupies top position with 2626 publications followed by Peoples R
China with1534, Taiwan with 693, UK with 642, Spain with 542 and Germany with 514 records of
research publications respectively. First place goes to USA with2626 publications, first rank in
terms of GCS with 22962 records of 113 Countries were contributed the publications.
Keywords: Literature, Data mining, Bibliometric analysis, Research, Publications
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Status of Library and Information Science Course Materials in India: An Analytical Study
Balasubramani, R. and Abu K.S.
lisbala@gmail.com, abumutd@gmail.com
This study analyses the course materials available in the field of library and information science in
India. The study adopted analytical method and the data for the study are available in the respective
websites. This study identified the websites, blogs, wikis and other tools that are providing library
and information science course materials. These Web applicationshave been progressively more
adopted by many onlineeducational services. Due to their effortlessness of use and swiftness of
operation, theyproffer the chance for dominant information sharing and ease of collaboration. It is
important to continue utilizing educational resources to boost your education. There are always
variety of new skills to learn and new abilities to master, and that’s why so many library
professionals continue to make use of online courses to boost up their overall knowledge. There are
abundant online resources which offer online training and education and they are fundamental for
enhancing your overall level of knowledge and making sure that you get the best possible skills to
thrive in the field of library and information scienceThe main aim of this study is the identify and
list out the course materials in the field of library and information science so that it is easier for the
library professionals to make out the available course materials in the field of library and
information science course materials in a single place.
Keywords: Library and Information Science, Course material, Web Tools, India, Analytical Study
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Usage and Impact of Cloud Computing for Library Services
Bharanidharan, S. and Krishnamoorthy, G.
s_bharani@annauniv.edu, krishnamoorthyg@annauniv.edu
Cloud Computing helps the people to share the resources and services in a distributed manner that
belongs to various organizations via the network. Many organizations such as Google, Amazon
etc.., develop cloud computing technologies to serve large number of users by enhancing the cloud
based services. In the age of new information technology. Cloud computing plays a vital role in
handling library services and resources for various activities such as storage, collection and
processing of library information. New technologies and developments of new concepts are added
newly to make ease of the library practices and to satisfy the needs of the people in the society.
With the invention of cloud based technologies, the library activities are automated which is
considered as a basic advancement and the efforts are moving forward to create virtual libraries.
The advancement in digital technologies, usage of internet, and some of the web tools are introduced
for library management. The most common cloud computing based library services includes Data
(Bibliography, Technical), Content (Subscription, Digital Printing and Publishing) and Services
(Content-access, research). Cloud based services like management of journal access, statistical
information tracking etc.., are adopted for libraries. Since cloud computing is the new IT
technology, the library professionals should be aware of these new technologies and should be
trained to work with the library applications of cloud computing.
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtual Library, Data, Content, Services
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Relationship between the Designation and the Degree of Usage of the E-library by
Academics of the University of Kelaniya
Chamara, K.A.T
chamara@kln.ac.lk
E-library concept is popular in university library sector, and modern university libraries disseminate
information using this method. E-databases, E-books, E-journals are the E-resources predominantly
used in those. Many universities have converted their libraries in to digital mode and the
conventional library materials they previously had, have now been replaced with their electronic
counterparts. Kelaniya University library too, being one newly converted in to digital system
possesses the above resources.
Purpose of this paper is to report details of a survey conducted to examine whether designations of
academics have a bearing on their e-library usage.
Administration of Questionnaires and
conducting interviews were the method used for data collection. 178 questionnaires were distributed
using stratified random sampling method. Probabilistic equation was used to measure sample size
and the proportion of the each strata.
Most of the junior academics appeared to be making use of E-library sources for their research and
teaching. Their popular E-resources were E-databases and E-journals. The use of E-materials did
not appear to be satisfactory with regard to senior academics. The practice common among them
for both teaching and learning was the use of printed materials. Thus, according to the survey the
designation, academics hold in the university appear to have a bearing on their use of the e-library.
For instance academics who hold high positions use e-library less while those belonging to
comparatively low positons use this facility frequently.
Therefore taking steps to popularize its use is a matter of utmost Importance. Steps such as
workshops, Seminars are the remedial measures important in this regard.
Keywords: E-Library-University of Kelaniya, E-Databases, E-Resources, University Libraries-Sri
Lanka, senior academic members, junior academic members
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An Evaluative Study on the Services provided by the National Library, Sri Lanka
Chathurani, W.M.P.E.
pchathu77@gmail.com
Among all other types of libraries, the role of the national library is to preserve the national memory
of a given country for the use of existing and future generation. National library Sri Lanka provide
number of user services. The objectives of the study are to identify different user services provided,
to investigate their effeteness to examine the obstacle when conducting these services.
The method of research in a survey and primary data collected using two questionnaires. One for
40 national library staff members and 50 users taken as a sample of the study. Data was analyzed
using Excel software.
Many users were unaware more user services in the library and there were not an effective user
services owing to innasiguate ICT usage for user services scarcity of technical tools and the library
staff. Even though the collection is versatile, users did not use it properly.
Suggestions are to improve user awareness and user training programs and to apply new
technologies in user services. It concluded that more and more effective and efficient user services
should be provided by the National Library of Sri Lanka.
Keywords: National Libraries, Sri Lanka National library, Reader services, User services,
Information services
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Crime Information Management System for Sri Lanka Police
Cooray, N.A.C. and Weerasinghe, K.G.H.D.
chammika@kln.ac.lk, hesiri@kln.ac.lk
The Sri Lanka Police is a Legal organization in Sri Lanka, and safe guard the people and country in
various illegal activities. In a one single police station, it has several divisions such as Traffic,
Crime, Child & women. They serve many people in a single day. Currently they manage their works
in Manual System by using lots of big books and records Because of that, citizens are not happy
about the Sri Lanka Police’s day to day activities. Mostly this process is not Efficient, not accurate,
take long time for small works owing to the lack of access to previous records.
Their manual system consists of many problems. They have been continually suffering to
generating reports, maintain Crime, Criminal, Complaint details etc. As a result, the Head of the
station, Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Crime Division was facing problems like data redundancy,
data inaccuracy and delay in decision making due to unavailability of timely reports and
information.
The proposed Crime Division Automation System addresses key issues at Sri Lanka Police by
providing a mechanism to help administrative decisions and information of the specific crime
situation efficiently and accurately. In general, criminals always use the same way to (technique)
do their crimes or illegal actions. If these is proper historical data, criminals can be tracked very
easily. Also, all the crime division complains are finished through the court decision. In order to
find next court hearing, and for generating reports also become easy. Avoiding lot of big books, the
system tries to provide accurate and efficient historical data.
This solution would help the people by producing many king of usual reports, tracking criminals
and manage crime records, manage complaint details and etc. Using the system, essential
information can be shared every related to crimes among the relevant authorities.
The Crime Division Automation System was developed according to the Rational Unified Process
model which supports Object Orientation and iterative development. The system architecture is
MVC and it was developed using PHP, Java Script, Ajax and MySQL as the database server.
CodeIgniter as the PHP framework, JQuery as the JS framework, Bootstrap as the CSS framework
being used. The Object Oriented methodologies and Even Driven methodologies were used. In
designing diagrams MS Visio 2016 were used. As for the report generation mPDF was used.
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MVC Architecture:
Model View Controller or MVC is more popular web base system design pattern. This is very
useful as a security mechanism since it separate system into three major parts.
Model - The lowest level (or database) of the pattern which is responsible for maintaining data.
View - This is responsible for displaying all or a portion of the data to the user.
Controller – This segment controls the interactions between the Model and View.
User see everything via View sending request to the Controller. Controller check the request and
check any data request to response, if any, then through the Model select data from database and
send it to the controller, Controller load the relevant view to user.
As the future scope researchers wish to generate crime maps using historical data. Also generate
various kind of analyzing charts, add a functionality to System provide, some analysis and update
information about historical data like select Most Wanted. If opportunities are offered it is very
easy to the researchers for automating all the divisions.
Key Words: Crime, Web Base, Object Oriented, MVC, Rational Unified Process
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A Study on the Use and the Problems Faced by the Students in Using Library Web Page of
University of Kelaniya
Deepika, D.M.P.P
Prebuddi.priyani@gmail.com
University library has contributed immensely for the research, teaching and learning functions in
the University systems and it has become an apex body in the higher education. Library web page
has helped to expand the library services among the society and user community. The principal
objective of the study was to investigate the use trends of library web page and the problem faced
by the students in using it.
Library web page of University of Kelaniya was used for this study. The students community of
Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities, Commerce and Management and Science was the
population of study while 147 students selecting from all these faculties was used a sample.
A questionnaire was administered for data collection purpose. Among total sample 75% students
use the library web site. Students’ prefer to use more frequently the old question papers as well as
e-resources. Main obstacles faced by the students were the utility of access terms and how to use
them for effective information retrieval purposes. The other obstacle was the non-up to datedness
of the contents of the University library page. It is better if steps are taken to update the web page
continuously and take action for open and free access not limiting to access terms to make user
friendly more attractive interfaces and to offer more awareness programs on University library web
site among students.
Keywords: Library website, Internet, Website, University library, User education
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An Assessment of Indian Citation Publication Output: A Study on Indian Citation Index
Dhanakar, M.A
dhanakaranm@rediffmail.com
Indian Citation Index one of the pioneers in India to develop, preserve, disseminate and serve
customized knowledge products and services to scholarly world.Indian Citation Index (ICI) is
developed by "The Knowledge Foundation" (a registered society) with the required support of M/s
Diva Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Indian Citation Index. ICI provides a multidisciplinary research platform
covering about 1000 scholarly journals from India. The ICI database also produces other useful
byproducts like Indian Science Citation Index (ISCI), Indian Social Science and Humanities
Citation Index (ISSHCI), Indian Journals Citation Reports (IJCR), Indian Science and Technology
Abstracts (ISTA), and Directory of Indian Journals (DOIJ).The ICI database enables access and
empowers users to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and
humanities to turns raw data/information into the powerful knowledge one needs. ICI feature makes
this database a specialized information product and highly useful for researchers, policy makers,
decision takers, editors, librarians and so on (ICI, 2016).
Indian Citation Database has wide coverage of 5,38,100 number of articles documented in
935 publications with 9,969,332 references. It is also found that there are 24 major subject
categories. In that Agriculture has 87 journals with 21303 articles followed by Anthropology has7
journals with 877 articles; Arts & Humanities has 7 journals with 1398 articles. Top five institutions
from India are Indian Agricultural Research Institute IARI (5231), Punjab Agricultural University
PAU (5801), All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi (AIIMS New Delhi) 5051,
Annamalai University (4034), Tamilnadu Agriculture University (3958). The citations range from
highest to lowest as covered by ICI. It is found that there is a gradual growth of literature covered
by ICI over the years. The study limited only to ICI. It is not compared any other international
database. It is found that there is a significant difference between the contributors, contributing
agencies and the citation trends.
Keywords: Indian Citation Index, Citation Index, Bibliometric, Scientometrics
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Online Tools for Research and Data Collection: An Overview
Dhanavandan, S.
dhanavandan@gmail.com
This paper is discusses about the online survey tools for data collection in research. The online
survey tool will allow you to easily define the survey questions and the possible responses using an
online interface. Further, it gives a detailed information about online survey tools like advantages,
disadvantageous, types, creation and activation of online survey tools. It disucss about the online
data collections tools such as Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Poll Everywhere, Typeform, Client
Heartbeat,Zoho Survey, Survey Gizmo and Survey Planet. But this paper made a detailed
discussion of Google forms and its various stage of processing. Moreover, it discussed step by step
how to create the survey tools using Google forms.Apart from that it also discuss about the various
tools used for research in library and information science The research tools are iSeek Education,
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, Education Resources Information Center, Instagrok,
iPL2, Kids Click, The Virtual Learning Resources Center, SCIRUS, SweetSearch and Infomine.
The online data collection survey tools as well as research tools are better to collect the data
and analysis the data within short period but without cost.
Keywords: Online survey tools, Data collection, Educational technology, Research methodology,
E-learning
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Contribution of National Libraries in Dissemination of Knowledge in Developing Countries:
Challenges and Opportunities
Dilinika, J.M.S
shalanijayamanne@gmail.com
National libraries play a vital role as knowledge centers for their nations. Mandate of the national
libraries is to collect, preserve, and provide access to heritage content and materials about the nation
and the wider region. In this context, libraries are introducing variety of knowledge dissemination
services for their local and global community. With the invention of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), libraries nowuse different types of technologies to disseminate
the knowledge. This paper investigates the recent changes to provide access to knowledge in
National Libraries in developing countries. This was measured using library websites and scholarly
literature focusing on information services, purposes, and recent problems. The sample consisted
of 10 national libraries of developing countries. The results indicate that the ICT has become an
integral part of the library.Computing technology, communication technology and mass storage
technology are some of the areas of continuous development that reshape the way that libraries
access, retrieve, store, manipulate and disseminate information to users. Digitization, enhance user
access, legal demands, infrastructure facilities and etc could be identified as recent problems.
Libraries in developed countries are highly competitive and advanced through information and
communication technology. Within this competitive background many libraries in developing
countries need further development strategies based on ICT to overcome these difficulties. This
research provides recommendations to provide a discussion in order to modernize libraries in to the
21st century.
Keywords: National Library, Information, ICT, Knowledge, Digital, Community
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Leadership Skills for Library Professionals
Dorairajan, M., Sanka, M. and Raghavan, P.
manavaidorai@gmail.com, sankslibsal@gmail.com, ragavanlibrary@gmail.com
Digitally exploded information and its management globally is the need of the hour. In the digirtal
era, library management with the technically cultured users, the society expects a good leader to
guide the information world to access the pinpointed authentic information towards knowledge
management. In the changing world, library professionals are to ignite the younger minds with
newer ideas to create more knowledge. The fundamental skill to be imbibed as leadership qualities
to empower them to perform their services to the user communities is essential. The training on
skills such as advocacy, risk taking, innovation and rapidly adapting changes with creativity and
interactions are to be more opt for the library professionals to equip them through the different types
of the leadership training
This paper throw some inputs on the leadership qualities and skills
required for the library professionals to think globally and act locally in the virtual environment.
Keywords: Leadership skills, Library Professionals, Library management, Human resource
management
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Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in Higher Academic Libraries:
An Indian Perspective
Duraimurugan and Srinivasaragavan
duraimurugan820@yahoo.com, maduraiseenoo@yahoo.co.in
Quality is a process of continuous improvements and developments which focuses on small details,
that leads to satisfaction of the end user over the products and services. Quality is defining element
of any process, product of the system. Particularly, the present knowledge society warrants the
phase of rapid developments which needs continuous and systematic quality assurance and
sustenanceinitiatives in all spheres of domains and activities. Higher education being recognized as
global service even in developing countries, it needs to adopt international standards in teaching
learning and research practices so as to elope with the higher education institutions across the globe.
The corporate and industrial sector emphasis to establish their stake even in remotest of the remote
locations in Asian and African continent. It necessitates skilled and qualified human resource
potentials with international outlook and it could be attained by provision of quality education.
Government of India initiated quality assurance and accreditation system by establishing formal
organizations such as NAAC & NBA in the year 1994 to assess and accredit Higher Education
institutions and the porgrammes. During the last two decades, the quality assurance, sustenance and
enhancement parameters, standards of these organizations have been changed and revised as to the
prevailing conditions and expectations at the national and international level. Standards and quality
indicators for higher academic libraries also have been changed and revised many times by giving
more emphasize on the output of accreditation and quality of the institutions. It paves the ways and
means for a great number of higher academic libraries to improve the quality of LIS.
This paper aimed at identifying and bringing out quality initiatives, accreditation parameters, best
practices and academic libraries standards that were exercised and the impact made on improving
the quality of Library and Information environment. The work also highlights the standards of
library set by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), National Board of
Accreditation (NBA), and Distance Education Council (DEC), State government Higher Education
agencies of India in comparison with global library accreditation parameters. This study also reveals
the scores of library accreditation and its correlation with the overall institutional assessment. It is
found that a good number of Indian Higher Education institutions libraries were gone for third cycle
of Accreditation.
Keywords: Quality Assurance, Quality Sustenance, National Assessment and Accreditation
Council, Best Practices, Library and Information Services.
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Green Library Initiatives in India: Reshaping the Future
Duraipandi, R.
durai2@yahoo.com
Around the world Green library practices are witnessed and impressed for improved library
services. The “greening” initiatives of India’s building construction industry received heighten and
ranked at 3rd among the top 10 counties in the world outside USA. While the emerging concept of
green library or sustainable library in India has to travel long road to reshape the library buildings
to meet out the next generation user’s behavior and expectations. A library has to plan and built
with ecological aspects of any new/renovation of buildings of libraries to prevent the negative
environmental impacts of carbon footprint and to ensure the improved future library services at the
maximum of available resources efficiently, effectively with user friendly within the building. The
paper mainly focuses on few green library initiatives in India under the green library movement and
highlighted the main parameters which involved for location selection, water and energy
conservation, building materials and indoor and outdoor air quality etc, under Indian Green Building
Council (IGBC), LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environment Design. The paper has also selected
and limited with the following with: 1.Anna Centenary Library (ACL), Chennai, 2.
PermaKarpoSchool Library atthe Indian Himalaya, 3.National Library, Kolkata, 4. Karnataka
University Library, Dharwad, 5. Mumbai University Library, 6.Indian Institute Technology (IIT)
Library, Roorke, 7. Chaudhary Braham Prakash Ayurved CharakSansthan (Institute) Library, New
Delhi, 8. Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Silchar and 9.The Energy Research Institute (TERI)
under GRIHA. Finally, it suggests the feasible idea of buildings with locally available with less
costs materials. The trend in India is not only growing in numbers but also extends breadth and
lengthily across the country is an notable to reshape the buildings to save the mankind which India
is facing recently the environmental problems of climate change, global warming and air pollutions
severely.
Keywords: Green Libraries, Sustainable Buildings; LEED Rate Building; IGCBS; Library
Initiative - India; Green Library Movement; GRIHA
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Emerging Trends of Future Library and Information services Leadership in 21st Century
Duraipandi, R.
durai2@yahoo.com
Library is a growing organism forever and the leadership the skills are a vital element in positioning
executives to make thoughtful decisions about their organization's mission and goals and suitably
allot resources to accomplish those directives. Precious leadership skills include the capacity to
delegate, inspire and communicate effectively.Library professions arenow forced to decide
tactically important decision on chain management. The library leadership development becomes
very vital to guaranteed for leaders for their organisation and at present the nature of duties and
services are took tremendous changes for librarianship in time to time. Besides the advancement of
technologies, ICT applications and internet paved the pivotal role to attract the users became the
knowledge society, where adopted the new inventions and innovations very sharply. Librarians
must understand the new behaviorand attitudes of the users to handle with care towards to survive
this profession. To face these challenges of library services, it is needed and indeed that real
leadership skill for libraries to reshape the future to thrive and grow further. This paper describes
the emerging leadership skills required for 21st century library leaders based on the changing
perspectives of the new knowledge society to address them exactly. It also explainshow to develop
the core leadership skills which need to move this profession well into the 21st century as a great
library leader.Leadership development programs are required in high demand today and certainly
inevitable for future.
Keywords: Leadership, Personality Development, Library Professions, Professional development,
Competencies
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Green library initiatives in India: Anna Centenary Library - a case study
Elavazhagan, K. and Kohila, G.T.
ela@iimtrichy.ac.in, koela15@gmail.com
This paper gives an overview of development of Anna Centenary library as model green library in
India. Currently, it is the only green library in India and Asia’s First LEED Gold Rated Library
Building. It was started with a vision “to be an internationally recognized urban Library known for
excellence in learning, innovative research, and community engagement that contributes to the
economic vitality, environmental sustainability, and quality of life in the Chennai region and
beyond”.
Besides Anna Centenary Library, other significant Green Library Initiatives in India are: a)
PermaKarpo Library, Ladakh in Indian Himalayas. b) National Library of India, Kolkata. c) NIT
Library, Silchar. Apart from this, Green initiatives and measures have been taken up by Madras
University, Calcutta University, Delhi University and Mumbai University Library System.
Anna centenary library building was constructed as a state of art library building by state
government. The building has been developed in 8 acres land with world class facilities with
approximate built up area of 3.8 lakhs sft. It shows the commitments of the state government
towards protecting the environment for future generation. The library building complex consists of
Library building (G+8) and an auditorium (G+1) to accommodate 1200 persons. To improve the
thermal comfort of the occupants, the building has been provided with adequate air conditioning.
The project achieved the prestigious LEED Gold rating given by Indian Green Building Council
under New Construction rating. This is a unique achievement for the Tamil Nadu State Government
and happens to be the first library building in the Asian region to get this coveted rating.
This building would consume 30% less energy and 20% less potable water consumption without
affecting the indoor condition and occupants comfort. In a nut shell, the additional investment made
to obtain the Gold rating would get paid back in just 2.5 years period through operational energy
efficiency. This demonstrates green makes economic sense.
Keywords: Sustainable, Libraries, LEED, Environment, Green Library Movement
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Sri Lanka: A Study with Special Reference in the Field of
Indigenous Medicine
Gamage, C.K
ckgamage31@gmail.com
Indigenous knowledge, formulated by indigenous people or aboriginal tribes has been handed down
from generation to generation for hundreds and thousands of years. Indigenous knowledge is a local
knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society. Hence, it can be measured according to the
measurements of the same culture itself. The earliest system of medicine that originated or was
inherited by people who lived in Sri Lanka before the advent ofAyurveda, was indigenous medicine.
This system was handed down from generation to generation, and has a long tradition with its roots
traced back to pre Aryan civilization. This study aimed to explore the major information methods
used in the system of indigenous medical field in Sri Lanka and how it transmitted this knowledge
from generation to generation. The major research tools employed for data gathering were
interviews, questionnaires and observation. Indigenous medical practitioners from two districts of
Anuradhapura and Colombo were deemed as the study population. From this medical population,
three practitioners were selected purposively from each and every ten broad categories of
indigenous medicine ie. KedumBidumVedakam (Local orthopaedics), GedievanaPilika (Treatment
of abscesses and tumors), DavumPilissumVedakama (Treatment of burns), VishaVedakama
(Treatment in toxicology), EsVedakama (Ophthalmology), ManasikaRogaVedakama (Psychiatry),
Balaroga
(Peadiatrics),PinasRogaVedakama,VathaRogaVedakama
and
SamanyaSarvanga
(Internal Medicine).
The study revealed that both of verbal and non – verbal methods are equally used to collect, record,
transmit and preserve the indigenous medical knowledge in Sri Lanka. Among them Vedageta,
DuthaLakshana, Incantations ( Yanthra – Manthra), and Rituals (Yathu Karma) are the major
verbal methods used and ola leaf manuscripts, hand written manuscripts and methods of kem are
the major non – verbal methods involved. This study highlights that the ‘Generational succession’
is the main method of transformation of indigenous medical knowledge and relevant expertise to
the next generation.
Keywords: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Medicine, Information Resources, Information
transmission, Dissemination of Knowledge
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Challenges of Information Management in Organizing Global Scale Events Using
Technology in Government Establishments in Sri Lanka.
Gamage, Madira N.
madiranurali@gmail.com
In the age of technology where information is constantly being produced, captured and analysed in
many different methods for different needs that were never even imaginable would be possible to
obtain. For the first time in entire human history, the growth and capturing of information had grown
exponentially over the last decade. According to Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the information
that is being created in every two days is as much as the information that was produced since the
dawn of civilization up until 2003. However, even when the world is at the technology revolution
with the unimaginable amount of information, some organizations in the world are still very much
disconnected with technology and uses legacy, traditional approaches for many projects. In large
scale global events it is vital to use proper mechanisms to manage and update information as using
the right information at the right time will make different tasks much cost effective and efficient.
This study is based on one of the international events organized by a government organization in
Sri Lanka and intend to discuss the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes had the proper
mechanisms were used along with information management. It was also seen during the study that
many challenges were posed when attempting to introduce technology for information management
as many government employees used to work in legacy methods and reluctant to adapt technology
even it eases the amount of work. Another important finding is that government employees were
very rule abide and always think of working within the boundaries cross referring to the books and
think if technology is being introduced the ways of tracking the work is not possible or is not legal.
Therefore, before making every decision, it had become a habit of referring to the next level of
authority till the highest level for approval even for a small task that is within the rule for employees
to complete. Taking responsibility and accountability of work being done is greatly lacking in
government systems. Hence using information and technology for special events such as the study
analysed in this paper is greatly absent as employees don’t believe in electronic records even they
are well valid in legal frame of audits. However, several sub bodies were seen making attempt to
use technology for information management, but without the due support from its peers the effort
is nothing but futile. Even when having top notch project scheduling resources like BaseCamp, it
was hardly seen been used in this project. The information that was discussed and presented at
meetings were widely ignored or people were only making notes of what is been assigned to them
rather than looking into the project as combined effort, making it difficult to share information even
through a tool such as BaseCamp. The objective of this paper is to discuss the challenges faced in
organizing an international conference when there was lot of reluctant using technology and systems
for information management.
Keywords: Information Management, Project Management, Government Organizations,
Technology, Managing Global Events, Operational Efficiency
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Accessing the User Satisfaction of Information Literacy Skill Development Program: Special
Reference to Faculty of Business Studies and Finance, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Gamlath, W.G.P., Thusithakumari, W.M., Malkanthi, D.G.A.S. and Jayawardana, K.G.I.
thusithak@wyb.ac.lk
The innovations in information communication technology have influenced libraries to serve better
and adopt the changes. The introduction and spread of electronic information sources are major
developments in the libraries and information services in past decades. Today’s information seekers
has been offered different opportunities to access to information resources in an increasing array
and format. Therefore, role of the academic libraries changed in preparing students to handle the
rapidly expanding range of information formats. Traditional Orientation programme is primarily
concerned with ways of introducing general techniques of library use and services available,
organization layout and facilities of the particular library. Academic libraries are given a fresh
opportunity to attract first year students to the library and its services. Therefore, Information
Literacy Skill Development (ILSD) Programme changed the traditional scenario and adopted
according to new strategies.
This paper mainly focused on user satisfaction of ILSD Programme special reference to Faculty of
Business Studies and Finance (FBSF), Wayamba University of Sri Lanka (WUSL) also to share
experience with other academic librarians. Survey method applied for the study and focus group
was the new comers who actively attend fulltime to the ILSD Programme. Selected sample was 287
new comers of FBSF. A self-structured questionnaire with 9 main factors was distributed among
the sample. According to the results, the satisfactory level of factors; clear explaining of library
service/ facilities, effective multimedia usage, hands on training on e-resources, Brainstorming and
Mind Mapping Techniques , OPAC, Library Classification System, Library Tour, integration of
library staff and Time allocation is in the range from 87% to 98%.
The study investigates that application of innovative practices to the ILSD Programme is more
productive in challenging for this changing environment of global information era. Hence, the study
recommended to libraries should go extra mile passing traditional Library Orientation ideas with
strategies in more practical IL skills for sustainable development.
Keywords: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy (IL), Information Literacy Skill Development
(ILSD), innovative practices, user satisfaction
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Scholarly Information Input for Quality Research: Initiatives of India
Ganesan, P., Sujatha, R. and Abraham, Laila T.
gharieni2003@yahoo.com, sujathasasi@gmail.com, lailababu@gmail.com
Higher education in India witnessed tremendous growth after independence with systematic
reforms. The success of any organisation lies with quality information and it is treated as most
important and valuable asset. Quality assurance and development plays central role in strategic
planning in Higher education.
The major reason for more information is development of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which has made easy to publish and retrieve
the documents over the web. There is no much control mechanism to check the relevance of
information published over the web has lead to publish more documents, in which relevance of
majority of the information is questionable. But, something is better than nothing and there is still
some relevant, accurate, timely, updated information is available over the web. Publication of
quality research may take more time, but the final output of the results will be useful to the society.
On the other hand, more number of low quality publication will work against the system which will
hamper the funding and attracting good students community. Quality information is the
information, which is perceived and used by the customer. It has certain attributes such as accuracy,
relevancy, free from bias, currency, trustworthy, and so on.
In order to ensure the quality in research, the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi,
India has taken some of the measures to be implemented in the Indian University System. This
paper discusses about various attributes involved in quality information, its impact on quality
research and some of the strategies taken by the UGC for ensuring the quality in higher education
research.
Keywords: Quality Information, Quality Research, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, UGC,
India
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Awareness and Usage of Smartphone Applications for Information Sharing Tasks among
the Research Scholars of Periyar University- An Analytical Study
Gomath, P. and Rubinandhini, A.
gomathi148@gmail.com, 0jarubi22@gmail.com
Smart phone has been spread among the world wide to day. A smartphone is a mobile phone running
a complete operating system in a manner similar to a traditional computer, which offers advanced
computing abilities and connectivity options. A smart phone is a cellular telephone with an
integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones, such as an
operating system, Web browsing and the ability to run software applications. The Smartphone apps
are defined as software applications for use on mobile devices and made available through the app
store. Globally, there has been much research done on the mobile applications. They may include
education apps, games, diaries, planners, maps and more. These features enable new kinds of mobile
services that in turn shape the usage habits of smart phone users. This paper surveyed the
“Awareness and usage of Smartphone Applications for information sharing tasks among the
research scholars of Periyar University- An analytical study. It examines the students Smart phone
usage and how it affects them and role of Smart phones play in their studies. Questionnaires were
designed and sent out to 240 respondents of the Ph.Dscholars in various departments of Periyar
University, Salem. Out of the 240 questionnaires distributed, 237 were completely filled and
returned back, giving a return rate of 99%. The data have been collected using simple random
sampling methods. The data collected were analyzed using frequencies; percentages and graph
representations. It was recommended that students should learn to manage their time properly and
to promote the learning process.The study mainly addresses of the department wise users, gender
wise, the purpose of using a smartphone, time spend, type of smartphone usage, usefulness and
problems in using smartphone applications.
Key words: Smart phone, Information, Periyar University, Awareness, Doctoral scholars
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Quantitative Analysis of Global Literature on the Game of Basketball in Sport Sciences
Gopinath, M., Viswanathan, J. and Nageswaran, A.S.
mgopipd@gmail.com, viswa3434@gmail.com, asngeswa@gmail.com
The growth and development of any sport largely depends upon several aspects. Research and
publications on a particular sport play a major role in the growth and development of that game.
Today Information scientists are applying very many techniques to assess the publication on a
particular area. The bibliometrics and scientometrics are popular methods used throughout the
world to assess the publication on a particular area. Basketball is considered to be the second most
popular international sport in the world. Literature on ‘Basketball’ is plenty, which is available in
various forms. The main focus of this work is to study, assess, analyse and further to document the
publication pattern on the game of Basketball from the electronic source. The purpose of the present
study was to analyse the global literature on the game of Basketball in the research area of ‘Sport
Sciences’ which was available in the electronic form. In the quantitative analysis, various
parameters namely, year-wise distribution, country-wise distribution, language-wise distribution,
title-wise
distribution,
institutions-wise
distribution and
author-wise
distribution
were
systematically analysed. This would enable the researcher to measure and quantify the amount of
literature and research output on Basketball game during the study period. The data for this study
were retrieved from the ‘Web of Science’ database by using search string the term ‘Basket ball’ in
‘topic’ published in all the years and all types were analyzed. In all, 5,729 documents were found
in Web of Science database from 1st January 1989 to 21st August 2016. In order to narrow down the
study the researchers used the ‘research area’ option and selected the area ‘Sport Sciences’. Overall
2,819 documents were taken for final analysis.In data collection, initially the researchers had
downloaded the bibliographical data in the format of notepad files. The collected data were analyzed
with the assistance of ‘Histcite Software’ for data classification and finally, the unique data are
rearranged in MS-Excel format to eliminate duplication from downloaded data. To cross check the
data, with the assistance of ‘analyse result’ option, the data for analyse were checked. Using the
collected data, the Quantitative analysis was done. Using illustrations in the form of diagram, the
result of the study was discussed broadly in the paper.
Keywords: basketBall, Sport Science, Bibliometric, Physical education
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The Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Rural Communities: A Study
Based on Kannaththota Village.
Gunarathna, D.G.R.L.
ruchiragunarathne3@gmail.com
Developed countries acutely need knowledge and information for the development as well as the
development countries. If knowledge and information is not adequately available at people’s hand,
it will be a great obstacle for the same people as well as achieving developmental goals. Therefore
information need has seen a top most essential need in the context of human needs.
Within this context, the main objective of the study is to explore the information needs and seeking
behavior of rural communities. Other objectives are to identify how fulfil their information needs,
to examine the sources they apply for it, to identify whether new media used for, and to study the
problems they face in fulfilling’s their information needs.
Survey research method used for the study. Population was the rural communities in five selected
villages in kannaththota region. Sample was 100 villagers from there five villages.
It revealed that majority use television for getting information. They use it for getting daily news
items. The library as a medium of getting information is very low. Female category prefer house
hold information like cookery, dress making and clothing. Community living near road side was
more used in reading newspaper than the interior villagers. Many people did not use modern media
for getting information.
Rural communities preferred to update their information. Government must pay more attention to
improve the information provision of the public. It is much better to introduce more awareness
programs and activities on the subject. The use of modern ICT for getting information should be
make available as soon as possible.
Keywords: Information need, Information seeking behavior, Information sources, Reading habits,
Community information
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Use of Astrology with Special Reference to Ibbagamuwa Divisional Secretarial Division
Gunaratne, W.G.G.P
geethipraba@gmail.com
The main purpose of this paper is to study the use of astrology in the community life selecting a
sample of people living four gramniladare divisions in Ibbagamuwa Divisional Secretarial Division.
For primary data collection, a questionnaire and interview method used, followed by observation.
It was identified that people were very anxious to go behind astrology when they face troubles and
are unhappy. Certain category of people tend to not care very much the astrology, however they use
astrology for marriageable purposes.
It can be concluded majority of Sinhalese do not accept astrology as true source however many
people do not reject also. Moor community did not use astrology. Since people use astrology for
their day to day work, time has come to take step to save this national cultural heritage and
suggestions are make to include this for future curriculum development at School and University
level.
Keywords: Astrology, Astrological knowledge, Astronomy, Indigenous knowledge, Intangible
cultural heritage
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Understanding Faculty Contribution for the Institutional Repository: A Case Study at
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Gunasekera, C.
chamanig@yahoo.com
An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual
productivity of a university. The faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an
IR; in fact there is a need to explore their knowledge and willingness to contribute to the IR. The
main objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of academic authors towards the IR and
the factors that motivate the use of these repositories.Questionnaire based survey method was
employed and the self administered questionnaires were distributed among all permanent academic
staff members in the University of Peradeniya on May, 2015 and out of 751, 279 duly completed
questionnaires were received making a 37.1% response rate. The results revealed that most of the
respondents learnt about the IR as a result of a web search engine (26%), information provided at
faculty or any other meeting held in the university (24%) and by working in a field with established
subject based archives (23%). Only 44% of the respondents were aware of the university IR and
49% mentioned that they are not aware of it. With regard to the frequency of IR use, only 14% use
IR very frequently while 25% somewhat frequently, and surprisingly 17% rarely used and majority
of the respondents (31%) has not used IR at all. The interesting finding is that 56% of the
respondents reported their willingness to contribute to the university IR while 18% of them were
not willing to contribute in future. Those who willing to contribute to IR mentioned they contributed
because they support the principle of open access (39%) and it enhances visibility and recognition
of the author’s work within the institution (35%) and beyond that. With regard to the depositing
materials to the IR, 49% of the scholars prefer to publish conference papers rather than research
reports and post print articles. The major barrier to contribute to IR is fear of plagiarism (32%). In
light of these results, there is a need to create more awareness and to educate the faculty on the
importance of the IR as it enhances visibility and recognition of the author’s work. At the same time
the university should conduct an open access
advocacy campaign and training sessions for
researchers to demonstrate access and publish in open access repositories.
Keywords: Institutional Repository, Open access, Faculty, University, Sri Lanka
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Understanding the Service Quality expectation of library users of Special Libraries of
professional institutions.
Gunatilake, K.A.D.P.M. and Galgodawaththa, G.W.I.
inoka.galgodawaththa@gmail.com, mgunatilake@ibsl.lk
21st Century libraries are not traditional places with only a collection of documents.The entire role
of the national, public, academic and special libraries and librarians is changing and there is an
urgent need to adapt to the environment because not merely sustain or survive but to thrive in to the
future.Users or customers are important stakeholders in libraries and information centres. It is
necessary to establish a dialogue with customers and find out their expectations. When
identification the users expectations it will give a guideline to library to develop a quality library
service and empower the library users to solve problems. Today, service quality is one of the most
important factors in all service sectors. Now it is the time for evaluate the quality and significance
of the library service through a service quality model based on ‘SERVQUAL’ concept.
The main objective of this study is to identify the expectations of the usersservice quality of special
libraries of professional institutions. The other objectives are to identify the most important factors
to implement them giving a priority and to preparation of a library development plan for the library.
Five special libraries in Colombo District have been selected as a sample for the study. All selected
libraries are attached to a parent institution which offer ‘Professional Qualifications’ in different
study areas such as Banking, Accounting, Engineering, Marketing and International Relations.
The survey was based on primary and secondary data gathered through structured questionnaire and
literature review. The data gathered on user expectations thought five service quality
dimensionsresources, staff, services, guidance and physical environment. The expectations of users
can be identified as most important, important, less important and no important and the first priority
can be given to most important aspects and implemented. Then the other expectations can be
fulfilled step by step plan.Collected data were analyzed using Weighted Average method.
It is observed that the first priority given by the users of the selected special libraries is to ‘Physical
Environment’. The library quality dimension ‘Services’ is ranked second by the users. Third ranked
is ‘the Staff’ and the fourth to ‘Resources’ and fifth service quality dimension is ‘Guidance’. The
expectations of the users will be implemented and library infrastructure services, resources, staff
and other activities will be putting in to practices.
Keywords: service quality, special libraries, user expectations, user perspectives, quality
dimensions
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Impact of the Library Management System on Academic Activities of Undergraduate
Students of the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Gunawardena, D.N.T
gunawardana.nayani@gmail.com
Library is a main sub portion in any university and Library Management System is considered as a
strategic resource to provide an effective service. Library Management Systems are implementing
on different purposes in university libraries to achieve their academic goals. Two questions were
examined in this study; what was the impact of Library Management System on academic activities
of undergraduate students, and was there a significant gap between expected service level and
perceived service level of Library Management Systemin a Library. Case study method used on the
University of Moratuwa Library Sri Lanka. T- Test, Lickert Scale and Content Analysis used to
analyze the data. According to the results of hypothesis testing, the Infrastructure Facilities have
been affected to service quality of Library Management System. Majority have mentioned that
Infrastructure Facilities were satisfactory and they have sufficient knowledge to manage activities
of theLibrary Management System. It is significant to know whether students’ feedback is important
to take decisions when developing the Library Management System. It is need to confirm whether
they ready to give their comments for further developments and whether they think their opinions
have animpression to give positive impact towards of improving Library Management System.
Majority of students are in the view of ‘Their feedback is important to improve the service quality
of Library Management System’. There are several sub processes of Library Management System.
Online registration has become to first place in the priority order in Library Management System.
User account management, Library Services and academic, administrative woks have taken other
places.All most all students have mentioned that they have gained a hundred percent positive impact
on academic activities using on Library Management System.
Keywords: Library, Library Management System, Library Systems, Undergraduate Students,
University of Moratuwa.
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Community Outreach Library Services in Rajarata University Library System in Sri
Lanka: A System Approach
Harshani, K.R. and Siriwardena, A.S.
ssasoka@yahoo.com
The principal purpose of this paper is to explore the role of community service in academic
librarianship conducted by the Rajarata University Library System. In this study it is expected to
establish the concept of community service as a system approach for enhancing continuous lifetime
library use by the communities from their early childhood up to mature age. The other objectives
are to evaluate the development and the implementation activities in community service and to
peruse the best practices leading to community success and growth.The principal notion of the
community service is the exertion done by a person or group of people which benefits one or the
others. Librarians can involvewiththe community for identifying their aspirations in advancewith
view to offer a very quality service to the same community. Based on this view, Rajarata university
library conducts numerous services for their community. In addition to the provision of pertinent
information relating to the general functions of the library such as services, sections and resources,
it is yet another opportunity to build relationship with students as they begin their school career.
Library conducts numerous training programme for the public such as Primary level Student (Grade
1-5) O/L and A/L students, preschool teachers, pregnant mothers in North Central Province.
Through these all programmes, it gives students and library officers of the particular library a chance
to interact with librarians who are not always visible to the public. Library offers a range of service
for children including various type of themes including storytelling, good reading habit, mind
mapping concept, getting ready for exam, and the way of organizing home library.Therefore
libraries can achieve great effects when they are with the community from their early childhood.
Library staff can facilitate and support library efforts because they are linked into communities that
libraries may not reach. Libraries have to attempt to show their strengths not only as a reading
institution, but as a community services center. It is hoped that this study will be used as a model
by other librarians who wish to develop service option in their own suburban communities.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Community service, Library service, Rajarata university library,
Extension services
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Automatic Extractive Twitter Hashtag Summarization
Hengodage, M.A. and Samankula, W.G.D.M.
modithaon@gmail.com, dileepa@northshore.edu.lk
During past years, social media content has been widely used for many purposes, fields. Large
amounts of content are generated in these social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn in every day. Twitter has large sets of data which is limited to 140 words, unlike any other
social media platforms. Twitter allows a huge number of users to contribute frequent short
messages. The content is an extraordinarily large number of small textual messages that are posted
by millions of users. Twitter has topics system which enables the user to check about public opinion
using with particular hashtags. Twitter websites’ content was focused in this research.
This trending topic changes daily, even it changes based on locations. Each country has a different
set of trends. But the major problem is for recognizing these hashtags for the users who are not very
active on twitter websites. Some hashtags self-explain themselves with the words being used but
not all of them. This project gives the ability to summarize idea about particular hashtag.
A hashtag summarizer was implemented in order to address this problem. Creating hashtag
summarizer may give the foundation to address previously mentioned issues about hashtags. This
implemented system has some additional features other than hashtag summarization, for an instance
user may use it to quickly check updates about some live event going on with its hashtag keyword.
This solution provide some options to fine tune the results of summarization.
In the summarisation process, all the related posts for given hashtag are considered. Then emoji’s
and non-ascii characters are removed from the imported text data. The data is sent to the summarizer
after cleaning up the characters. Then summarizer associates the words with their grammartical
counterpart. Considering the frequency, each word is ranked with points system. Furthermore, by
end of the sentences taking into the account, summariser splits the text into sentences. At the end
of the process, sentences are ranked by sum of their words’ points. Then, it returns the highly ranked
sentences.
Keywords: Automatic, Twitter, Hashtag summarizer, Social media
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Studying the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Commitment
among the Library Information Assistants
Hindagolla, B.M.M.C.B
bmmcbhindagolla123@gmail.com
The study discusses about the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Organizational
Commitment (OC) among the Library Information Assistants (LIA) working at the University of
Peradeniya Library Network. All Library Information Assistants were participated to the study.
Based on Goleman (1998) four dimension of EI scale and Allen and Meyer’s survey of
organizational commitment (1990) scale, the questionnaire was developed and administered to
collect data. Data obtained from this study were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple
regressions in order to identify the relationship between the variables. Pearson correlation analysis
indicated that a significant and positive correlation between organizational commitment and four
independent variables of emotional intelligence at .01 alpha level among Library Information
Assistants. Only three constructs of EI that have influential effect on organizational commitment.
Results indicated that linear combination of three predictor variables significantly affect the OC
level of Library Information Assistants. Out of four predictors, three was identified the most
influential, namely teamwork collaboration (β=0.249, P<0.05), adaptability (β=0.210, P<0.05), self
assessment (β=0.181, P<0.05). The values show that teamwork & collaboration was the most
influential factor on organizational commitment of Library Information Assistants. This implies
that the positive level of teamwork and collaboration would be enhancing of organizational
commitment of library employees. According to study results, it can be concluded that emotional
intelligence is a significant determinant of organizational commitment of Library Information
Assistants. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance emotional intelligence skills of Library Information
Assistants to achieve organizational goals through training and professional programs.
Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Commitment, Library Information Assistants,
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
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Contribution of Libraries in Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Study Based on
Selected Public Libraries in Ratnapura District.
Indrasena, W.S.S
sujeewasandamali1989@gmail.com
There are two aspects in classifying the concept of cultural heritage. One is Tangible cultural
heritage (TCH) the other is Intangible cultural heritage (ICH).Tangible cultural heritage comprised
of physical items, artifacts and ancient remains. Traditional knowledge, Practices, folklore literary
creations and human mental creations and designs belong to Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Even though the UNESCO introduced a convention on this subjects, in 2003, still a national level
well organization has not been instituted in Sri Lanka yet though some initiatives launched by the
National Library and Documentation Services Board. Still important role has to be done by those
organizations.
The principal objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of libraries particularly the
public libraries in preservation of ICH. In this context, study was conducted on the verbal tradition
depicted in the folklore. 14 public libraries in Ratnapura district were used a study sample. It was
found that all libraries only limited to routine a collection development and no any library involved
in the expected task. This has happened owing to that librarians are unaware the importance of ICH
and the contribution and the programs related to ICH by the National Library are not known by the
librarians. The lack of knowledge and understanding in collection and preservation method related
to these traditional swore by the librarians was the other reason. The other problems were that
villagers did not recognize the value of ICH, there was no legal framework of preserving ICH and
the scarcity of trained human resource and relevant technologies in collecting and preserving the
ICH.
Suggestions are to train the librarians in collection at preservation of ICH, to take the National
Library full responsibility of leading, guiding, preparing legal framework, giving full publicity of
the role and importance of preservation of ICH.
Keywords: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Indigenous knowledge, Public Libraries, Traditional
knowledge, Library History
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A Study of Continuing Professional Development Programmes in the Field of LIS in India
Jain, P.K. and Babbar, P.
pkjain1310@gmail.com, parveenbabbar@gmail.com
The purpose of this paper is to find out the effectiveness of the programmes for Library and
Information (LIS) professionals and various aspects of Continuous Professional Development
(CPD) in India. The findings of the study reveals that most of the professionals do have a positive
look on CPD activities and satisfied with the effectiveness of programmes. Institutional problem is
the major issue in participation of CPD activities. The main objective and goals of CPD programmes
are lifelong learning; information exchange; maintaining intellectual interest in one's job and
developing collegiality. With the information explosion, regular technological advancement and
desirability of professionals to stay abreast it is essential that the Continuing education programmes
should be a regular activity. Presently various organizations, associations, information centres and
academic institutions are doing remarkable work in the field of continuing education in library and
information science in India. Many Management Development Programmes (MDPs), Faculty
Development Programme (FDPs) and Librarians Development Programme (LDPs) course are
organizing in India for Library and Information managers. Asian Chapter, Special Libraries
Association has also organized many seminars, conferences and education programs in India.
Continuing Education Management development can play an essential role in enhancing interprofessional collaboration and in building capacity for the Library Science Professionals. This
professional development education serves to strengthen competencies and skills and mandates that
practitioners keep abreast of evolving trends and practices within the profession. Regardless of their
practice setting, the participants are often tasked with the planning and presentation of CE
programming. This study is the first of its kind dealing with effectiveness of CPD programmes for
LIS professionals in India.
Keywords: Continuing Professional Development, Continuing Education, Library Science
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Uses of Social Media and Library among MBA Students in Prims, Periyar University, Salem
Jayaprakash, M. and Murugan, C.
lisjayaprakash@gmail.com, muruganchinnaraj@gmail.com
This study examined the use of Social Media and Library for research support and it is guided by
three objectives namely: a) to ascertain the uses social media in academic institutions; b) to identify
the challenges associated with social media use for research purposes and c) to provide experiences
of social media application in selected MBA students in Periyar Institute of Management Studies,
Periyar University, Salem. The accelerated growth of the Internet has stimulated research into the
use of social media for study makes use of library in combination with personal and professional
work experiences on the use of social media from MBA students in PRIMS, Periyar University.
Research experiences by the students showed that it is only Department and main Library that uses
social media in its library, which is as a result of a formal social media strategy. They use it mostly
for communication and interaction with colleagues. It was also discovered that there is no social
media strategy available in department and main university libraries. Based on these findings, the
study recommended the implementation of social media strategy. Social Media is a new technology
offering new options for MBA students in their research support role. This study was conducted
222 samples. This study draw the random sampling i.e Female 105 and Male 117 who were
administered a student perception questionnaire on how social media support on students. A
research questionnaire was designed to determine the factors of social networking websites that
have impact on students. Variables identified are age, gender, education, social influence and
academic performance. This study determines that most of students use social media and library
due to their friends and its total average is 67.3% of total sample.
Keywords: Social Media, Library, Research Support, MbA Students
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Information Disseminating through Using Social Networking Sites among B.Ed College
Librarians in Salem District
Jayaprakash, M. and Murugan, C.
lisjayaprakash@gmail.com, muruganchinnaraj@gmail.com
The ability to disseminate and promote one’s work and research is an important component of
managing and communicating information. By disseminating information, an organization can
reach members of its target audience and have a greater impact on policy and programming. The
Social networking site can serve as an invaluable tool in this effort to communicate the information
across a wide audience. The present study shows that the social networking sites are an integral part
of their social life. They use it to sustain and make stronger their offline connections and primarily
for communication rather than entertainment. B.Ed College Librarians are active users of social
media for academic purpose as well as for personal use. As this social media phenomenon is
continuing to grow at a faster pace, it is important to understand the effects it has on Librarians.
Given its popularity, researchers have considerable concerns about the effects of social media on
students. The study also points out the popularity of social networking among the librarians in the
College of Education, Salem District, and Tamil Nadu. 148 Colleges are running in Salem District.
Survey method was employed to study the academic usage of the social media by the Librarians
and exhaustively collects samples from the B.Ed college of Tamil Nadu. The population of the
study consisted of 148 librarians. The sample size of the study comprised of 148librarians selected
through convenient sampling technique. The structured questionnaire was used for data collection.
Keywords: Social networking, Social networking site, Data interpretation
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Contribution of University Establishment Branches and Sections in Fulfilling Information
needs of University Students: Study Based on University of Kelaniya
Jayasekara, J.M.A.K.
Akanchana1@gmail.com
In a University there are several establishment branches and sections such as academic, academic
establishment, student welfare, General administration and Library, Health center some of them are
very contributing in providing their information to University students like the student welfare
branch.
The principal objective of this paper is to study the contribution these establishment branches and
section in providing their information to students. The other objectives are to identify the
information needs of the students related to University affairs, to investigate how to solve University
information related problems by the branches and sections and to examine problem faced by the
students and the branches and sections of the University in access and delivery of information.
Method of the study was the survey and the sample was 100 students selected from four
Management, Social science, Science and Humanities faculties including 13 branches and sections
in the University. Primary data collected using questionnaires, interviews and observation methods.
It revealed that educational information is the leading type of information hence students use more
frequently the University library and ICT center. Notice Boards were the highly used
communication channel. However students more prefer to use University website. Provision of
information by the branches and sections at satisfactory level. The principal problem is the underutilization modern ICT and media in providing information. The other problems are minimal
support given by the office staff, students’ poor knowledge on the information services provided by
the branches and sections.
Suggestions are the establishment of University affairs information center for students, Use of
modern ICT and media, updating University web providing students information, use of electronic
notice boards, networking the branches and sections and improving information and computer
literacy among the students.
Keywords: University information, Information services, Students affairs, Information needs
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Indigenous knowledge Applied in Paddy Cultivation in Kurunagagala District: Study Based
on Maspotha Divisional Secretarial Division.
Jayathilake, T.M.A.N.
Anushajayathilaka863@yahoo.com
It seems that more attention today has been given for the concept and the application of indigenous
knowledge. The indigenous knowledge field that is confined to particular community or folk or area
which fulfils the very needs such community or communities by way from their living environment,
utilization of their own way of native systems or requirements.
The main objective of this paper is to study the indigenous knowledge available and use in a
particular area. The other objective was to identify different types of indigenous knowledge system
and practice in paddy cultivation.
Population of the study was total Gramaniladhari divisions in Kurunagala district and four
Gramaniladhari division used a sample selecting Maspotha Divisional Secretarial Division. Primary
data collected using interviews with rural communities who cultivate paddy.
The main sources of income in the area was the traditional knowledge in farming rice, however it
is used at a minimal level. They used Kem method, chanting, worship, certain customs. The main
hindrance was the application modern farming methods and they were very hectic owing to the
preset day living system hence they pay lesser attention use indigenous knowledge.
Keywords: Indigenous knowledge, Traditional knowledge, Kurunagala district, Paddy cultivation,
Rice cultivation, Agriculture
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A study based on the Use of Indigenous knowledge in Mirigama Divisional Secretarial
Division in Gampaha District.
Jayawardana, M.C.N, Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N, Sewwandi, H.K.I
chathurika.navodani@gmail.com, u.nayani90@gmail.com, hkisharasewwandi@gmail.com
Indigenous Knowledge is the knowledge that refers to the matured long-standing traditions and
practices of certain regional, indigenous, or local communities. It is the knowledge which includes
assumptions and beliefs. “Indigenous Knowledge is the knowledge developed around the specific
conditions of the environment indigenous to a particular geographic area. Indigenous knowledge is
cost effective, readily available, socially desirable and economically affordable” (Singh and Misri,
2006)
The main objectives of this research is to find out the Indigenous Knowledge systems in Mirigama
Divisional Secretarial Division, Study about Usage of past and present status of Indigenous
Knowledge and preserve Indigenous Knowledge for future generation.
The methodology of the research is the servey methed because of it’s a Qualitative research. The
data for the study was gathered from Mirigama Divisional Secretarial Division in Gampaha District
and five Gramasewaka Divisions has choosen as a sample for the study.
The study is descriptive and participatory in nature. Direct participation, Observation, interviews
and focus group discussions were used to obtain information. Further secondary sources such as
books, Journals and electronic resources were also used.
In this research can be identified main traditional systems namely agriculture, cane industry, Clay
industry and traditional medicine ways. People who are in this area still use indigenous knowledge
for their works and also livelihood. But in the present this knowledge is destroying. Since the
indigenous knowledge used by this community has to be recorded and preserved for future
generation use.
Keywords: Indigenous knowledge, Cane, Agriculture, Traditional medicine, Mirigama
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Factors Affecting the Reading Habits in the Digital Environment: A Study of
Undergraduates of Faculty of Islamic Studies andArabic Language at South Eastern
University of Sri Lanka
Jazeel, M.I.M. and Dehigama, Kanchana
jazeelmi@seu.ac.lk, kdehigama@yahoo.com
The impact on the digital environment for reading habits has been widely addressed on global level.
While there is no adequate number of studies in Sri Lanka, this research attempts to explore the
factors that enable or inhibit the reading habits of undergraduate students of South Eastern
University of Sri Lankain the lights of widespread availability of digital formats. This study
employed a single case study approach. A survey was used as the method in collecting thedata. The
population of the study was randomly selected from the undergraduate students of Faculty of
Islamic Studies and Arabic Language at the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. Drawing 20%
of the total number of students 218 wereselected for the study. 203 completed questionnaires were
received. The study revealed that integration of technology into the lives of students has widely
affected their mode of reading. Availability of smart phones and laptops among 78% of the
undergraduates tend them to spend more time online. Majority of the undergraduates indicated that
they were not able cope with the screen-based reading. 65% of the students indicated that they are
in favor of reading printed academic materials in print form. Students use new technological devices
for light reading, while printed materials are used for serious in-depth reading. The study
demonstrated that the wide availability of new technological devices prevents students spending
more time in reading printed materials. Similarly, the study implicitly found that undergraduates do
not read online journals/articles, due to the factors such as lengthiness, problems associated with
the access, and they are of the opinion that those materials are too serious. Outcomes of the study
implies that urgent measures should be taken by both teaching staff and librarians to promote health
reading habits among undergraduates those who read less but spend more time online.
Keywords: Reading habits, Information literacy, Southeastern University, Sri Lanka, digital
environment
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Constraints in Conducting Survey Research among Visually Impaired Undergraduate in Sri
Lanka
Jeyaraj, W.J. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
jeyarajwj@yahoo.com, sooriya29@yahoo.com
The first and foremost entry point to information access is sight. Being equally adequate to the
privilege of sight is not the case at all illustrations. Being visually impaired can affect this
accessibility to direct information. The boulders in accessing information has been considerable
blurred out to a certain level but there still exists instances such facing face to face interviews,
distribution of questionnaires and collection of context based result sets, etc. The main objective of
this paper is to identify the constraints when the researchers do the survey research among visually
impaired undergraduates in Sri Lanka. The obstructions that have considerably marked a footprint
in this sphere are listed out as deficient time periods as the visually impaired clients are supposedly
depended upon others to elucidate the contents of the questionnaire in order to fill the required
which takes them around at least an hour to complete, language barriers, lack of data from the
visually impaired clients, extraneous or redundant data collection due to the existence of barrier to
get through to these clients past their visual impairment, the lack of sustainable data that can be
utilized for future references, dearth of equipment awareness due to the absence of the privilege of
sight and hands on experience with such equipment. As far as the analysis part is concerned, there’s
an unavailability of established standards to compare the data provided by visually impaired
students against those provided by others. Hence, assumptions are made without passable data to
measure against with.
This paper tends to traverse through to the core with the intentions of identifying the underlying
issues that could be considered as probable causes and strives to propose plausible
recommendations that could try in its best within its entirety to serve as solutions to these issues.
Keywords: Visual Impairment, Information Access, Data collection, Survey, Interviews
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Websites of Universities in South India by Alexa Inlinks: A Webometric Analysis
Jeyshankar, R.
jeyshankar71@gmail.com
Metric studies like librametrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics are
well known. Newer concepts and methods are being developed in the Metric study in Library and
Information Science. One such newest method of studying the inlinks of the university is ‘Sites
Linking In’ or Inlinks of Alexa, the Web Information Company.
The study was designed by collecting the number of inlinks of websites of universities for the four
states viz, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.
The data collected by providing the website of the university in the ‘Sites Linking In’ column in the
website of Alexa, the outcome was explored to rank the website by MS Office Excel and through
SPSS to find Cross Tabulation, Mean, Descriptive Statistics, and one way ANOVA were calculated.
In Tamil Nadu, 5 universities namely AMET University, Bharath University, SASTRA University,
Saveetha University and Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University were ranked with
above 1000 Alexa Inlinks. In Andhra Pradesh, 5 universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University - Kakinada, Kakatiya University, Mahatma Gandhi University, Sri
PadmavatiMahilaVishwavidyalayam and Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University were ranked
with above 1000 Alexa Inlinks. In Karnataka, 6 universities were ranked with above 1000 Alexa
Inlinks. They are Indian Institute of Science and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Jawaharlal
Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
Sciences, Gulbarga University and Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences
University. In Kerala, no university is ranked with more than 1000 Alexa Inlinks.
Moreover, there is significant difference between the Types of Universities with their Inlinks is
prevailing. State Government Universities need to concentrate on their website issues in order to
get more inlinks from other such websites.
Keywords: Webometrics, Alexa Sites Linking, Websites
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Mapping the Research output on Seismic studies: An Inter-Continental metric study
Jeyshankar, R., Vijaianand, S. and Ramasamy, K.
jeyshankar71@gmail.com, ramasamy1975@gmail.com
Quantitative study of a particular discipline has been and become the core area of metric studies in
the inter-disciplined Library and Information Science research arena. The present study presents a
metric analysis of global seismic research output for the period 1996-2015. The data is collected
from Scopus Database. A total of 1, 63,821 publications were contributed by 163 countries with the
per capita productivity of 1005. The data were exported to MS Excel for analysis. The study reveals
that :European continent tops the list with 58190 documents (35.51%) followed by Asian continent
with 55, 513 (33.88%) documents and North American Continent with 35764 (21.83%)
documents.There is no correlation between number of countries in a continent and number of
records. 42 countries in European continent have contributed 58190 documents altogether. Italy is
in the first position with 8807 (15.13%) documents followed by UK with 8744 (15.03%) documents
and France with 8068 (13.86%) documents.47 countries of Asian continent have produced 55510
documents leaving the per capital productivity to be 1181 documents. China tops the continent list
with 50.52% (28046) of total Asian seismic research output followed by Japan with 7276 (13.11%)
documents and Russian Federation with 5289 (9.53%) documents.Six countries in the continent
have published 6823 documents. Australia, being the leader, has a lion’s share in the seismic
research with 4735 (69.40%) documents. A total of 7289 records on seismic studies were published
by 12 countries of South America. Brazil is the most productive country with 38.47% (1650) of
total South American seismic research output followed by Argentina with 1012 (23.60%)
documents.35 countries of African continent have published 3275 documents with a per capita
productivity of just 81.88 records. South Africa is the most productive country in the continent
with 838 (25.59%) publications followed by Egypt with 755 (23.05%) publications.USA, the most
prolific country on seismic research, has 79.79% (28320) of total North American seismic research
output followed by Canada with 5578 (15.60%) documents.United States is the most prolific
country with 28320 publications constituting 23.64% of total seismic productivity followed by
China with 28046 documents (23.41%). These two countries alone have contributed 47.05 % of
world research output on seismic studies.
Keywords: Metrics, Seismic Studies, Continents, Productive countries, Per Capita Productivit
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Asian Information Philosophy for E- Learning; Case of Open and Distance Education in Sri
Lanka
Jinadasa, Manoj
manojjina78@gmail.com, manojjina78@kln.ac.lk
A difference that makes a difference is defined as Information by Gregory Bateson (1972).
Information Philosophy is a modern discipline of thecritical investigation of the conceptual nature
and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilization and sciences andthe
elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to
philosophical problems ( Floridi,2003) merging of both Philosophy and Information Sciences.
Information philosophy has been developed as a result of the amalgamation of Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Sciences, Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and
Philosophy. Cybernetics is one of the interesting contributions made by Norbert Wiener, Alan
Turing, William Ross Ashby, Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver in the mid 20 th century, when
they had to explore the telecommunication and information channels for American Bell Company.
Luciano Floridi in 1990 termed this as Philosophy of Information. Despite of the fact the elearning, which is introduced for third world countries (in recent higher education modification
policies) as an effective mode of education, it is highly found in the western philosophy that
provides a plat form of non-local remote culture and behavior of human. However, this study tries
to explore the contents and capacities of Asian information philosophy, so that application of elearning could be possible with sustainable and productive implementation that avoids the
differences and limitation on non-grounded philosophy for local clients. Assuming that if there is a
proper understanding on the Asian information theory, that discusses the existing cognitive and
neuro-linguistic apparatuses, it could be possible to manage the existing issues emerging in the
phase of initiating E- learning in the open and distance education system for Sri Lanka. For this
study it is used first a conceptual and analytical exposition on what is Asian Infroamtion Philosophy
and How it is content on our traditions and philosophies, and second, to search for necessary
avenues for implementing e-leaning on the proposed audiences, it uses on-going and well as
received responses and existing applications of the case of Open and Distance Education program
of the University of Kelaniya.
Keywords: Asian Information Philosophy, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, E- Learning,
Open and Distance Education, Developing Countries.
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Use of Social Networking Sites among Pondicherry University Faculty Members and
Students
Kalisdha, A. and Subbiah, M.
tamiladavu@gmail.com
The modernization of using Social Networking applications by us to get closer to each and trying
to expand our on-line contact circle has become talk of the town. The process of creating social
Networking community commonly interested on-site surfers for the purpose of sharing and
Collaborating is possible in a click away. This study explains to trace out the understanding and
utilization of different social networking sites by the faculty members of Pondicherry University.
Data was collected from 72 respondents through questionnaire. This study shows the results of a
university wise survey on in Pondicherry University. The results show that Social Networking Sites
dissemination is not at full 100% as in the beginning. The Students spend the most time online for
social networking and learning. The results also show that while the respondents are using Social
Networking Sites for the intention of informal learning activities, only Small (25%) use it to get in
touch with their lecturers in informal learning contexts. The faculty members also reported spending
more time on Social Networking Sites for socializing rather than learning and they do not believe
the use of Social Networking Sites is affecting their academic performance.
Keywords: Social Networking Sites, online Learning, Collaboration, Faculty Members,
Pondicherry University
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Research on Himalayas: A Scientometric Analysis
Kambaraman, B. and Srinivasaragavan, S.
maduraiseenoo@yahoo.co.in, kambaraman@gmail.com
Himalayas is one of the largest mountain ranges which spread across many countries in South and
South East Asia having highest peaks in the world. It is aimed at identifying the range of research
activities taking place on the Zoological, Botanical, Social, Natural and Geological aspects of the
Himalayas, particularly documented in high impact journals and reputed publications across the
world. To ensure the assessment of qualitative research documented on Himalayas, the researcher
chosen the prominent and highly acclaimed indexing source of scientific research that is Web of
Science, which is indexing 13,975 journals globally.
The data downloaded for the years 1989-2016, a period of 28 years would reveal that there is a
gradual growth with slight variations on the research output for the study period, particularly the
current decade registered exponential growth in a consistent manner and the year 2015 recorded
highest amount of research output. It is also found that citation trend correlated with the growth of
the literature. As there is a gradual growth on the citations received by the publications on
Himalayas research output, the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 registered large number of citations.
There are 4,696 publications as the outcome; they received 81,994 Global Citation Score which
include 48,478 citing articles with a high h-index of 116. The analysis shows that the research on
Himalayas carried out in 115 areas by 10,229 researchers affiliated to 2845 research institutions
spread across 94 countries. Of the total of 4696 publciations; 2151 articles are as the outcome of
research funding from various agencies across the world.
It is revealed from the study that the top countries alone contributed more than 50 % of the research,
while India (40.2 %), USA (17.2 %) and People R China (14.9 %) were in top three positions. With
regard to funding on Himalayas research, China (17.76 %) contributed a major stake which
followed by USA (5.67 %), next holds India (2.70 %). With regard to research areas Geology (20.87
%), Environmental Sciences Ecology (14.16 %), Plant Science (9.73 %) are the top major areas in
which the Himalayas research outcome is documented.
Keywords: Research Productivity, Research Funding Pattern, Bibliometric Laws, Himalayas, Asia.
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Green and Energy Efficiency in Library
Kanagavel, P., Sridhar, K. and Gomathinayagam, S.
pkanagavel.niwe@nic.in
The way the world has used global natural resources in the past has placed a tremendous strain on
the environment – depleting our natural resources, polluting the environment, warming the earth,
raising sea levels, and endangering our biodiversity. Climate change has become the inevitable
result of our past actions. According to a report published in India, cities consume two thirds of
global energy use and 76% of the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) are also emitted by
cities through transport, industry, and building and construction related activities. Sustainable
development has always been a key consideration for the development of India. Growing and
developing our city state in an efficient, clean and green way by utilizing less resources; generating
less waste; reducing pollution to the environment. In response to broad concerns regarding the
environment and climate change, Green Library are becoming much more common and are
increasingly in demand by Libraries.
The online Dictionary of Library and Information Science defines Green Libraries as: A Library
designed to minimize negative impact on the natural environment and maximize indoor
environment quality by means of careful site selection, use of natural construction materials and
biodegradable products, conservation of resources (water, energy, paper, responsible waste,
disposal, Recycling etc). In new constructing and library renovation, sustainability is increasingly
achieved through LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification a Rating
system developed and administered by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). A Green
Library also knows as a Sustainable Library, is a library build with environmental concerns in mind,
Green libraries are a part of the larger green building movement. The main aim of this article to
identify and create awareness about the reduction of energy consumption and energy cost in the
Libraries. The green and energy saving design of library consists of the following parts: integrating
energy management system in monitoring and control systems, complex vacuum glazing of
building envelope, energy saving illuminating system, convertible frequency air-conditioner of
HVAC and rainwater utilization system. In recent years, building energy consumption increased
fast in India, especially the public buildings.Based on this research, some possible actions can be
suggested for improving Library activities and output indicators towards mitigating the Climate
Change and Global Warming.
Keywords: Green Library, Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficient Library, Energy,
Library
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DELNET: Services towards sharing between institutions
Kar, Debal Chandra
debal@aud.ac.in
Indian information professionals, education specialists and scientists had realized that the time has
come to share the information resources and to coordinate mechanisms. Looking from the
participant’s side, it was common to find an institution participated in more than one network. The
ultimate goal of information/library networks is to interlink information resources in a metropolitan
area, so that users could access information irrespective of its location, format, medium, language,
script etc. Further, the development of such networks required actions in several areas such as
training, rationalization of information resource acquisition, diffusion of standards, preparation of
union lists, and generation of database services apart from setting up hardware, software and
communication facilities.
A large number of library resource sharing networks like the Metropolitan Area Networks such as
CALIBNET in Calcutta, DELNET in Delhi, BONET in Bombay, PUNENET in Pune, MALIBNET
in Madras, HYLIBNET in Hyderabad, ADNET in Ahmedabad, MYLIBNET in Mysore, and
countrywide ones like ERNET (Educational and Research Institutions), SIRNET (CSIR
Laboratories), and INFLIBNET (Universities and Research Institutions), and sectoral ones like
BTISNET (Biotechnology Networks) etc. were conceptualized.
This paper describes the establishment of DELNET (Delhi Library Network). While describing
introduction to DELNET and its history, author will describe when it is started and who supported
the financially and present status and number of members from the country and from foreign
nationals. Author will describe what are the services it provides to its member institutions, the
objectives of DELNET and what are the union catalogues and databases are maintained to provide
services to its members satisfactory. Authors describes the mechanism how delnet collect
information of the difference members institutions and share information with each others. Authors
describes DELNET’s inter-Library loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Services to its member
libraries and its mechanism. DELNET is giving training in the use of KOHA - an Open Source
Integrated Library System and Dspace for building Digital Libraries. DELNET is glad to provide
consultancy to the libraries on implementing these Open Source Software. DELNET Provides a
DEL-PLUS software which has features like MERC 21, barcode application, compatible for all
libraries and provides free upgradation from time to time. Authors will describe DELNET’s other
important and major services to the Libraries of India and Overseas member libraries like Retrocoversion, Reference Services, Professional Training and Consortia Services.
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DELNET has been growing up very successfully during all these years of its existence. Its relentless
efforts in resource sharing have proved extremely effective and has been a big leap towards the
modernisation of libraries in India. The future of DELNET is very promising with the growth in
number and size and as a variety of information on South Asia Libraries becoming available through
DELNET. It is expected that all institutions outside India specializing in South Asian studies will
take DELNET membership in future.
Keywords: DELNET, Information network, Information services, Library cooperation, Information
system
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Best Practices in a College Libraries: A Case Study of Dev Samaj College for Women,
Chandigarh (India).
Kaur, Jaspal
jaspalbhatia179@yahoo.com
College libraries need to have facilities that promote effective and interactive access and use of
information resources for all of its users. For the development of library infrastructure, learning
resources and for their sustainability, adoption of best practices, which are practiced elsewhere, will
lead to continuous improvement in the libraries. The libraries need to prepare well-framed rules and
guidelines with regard to hours of access, circulation policies, and other regulations to offer better
services to the users. Some of the best practices in the libraries are with respect to management of
libraries; staff promotional practices; orientation programmes for the users; reader development
programmes; collection development in various format; access to host of electronic resources;
computerization of library and its operations; library use statistics; electronic surveillance systems,
etc.
Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh, located in northern part of India, is one of 180 colleges
affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh (India) and offers to Post-Graduate and Graduate
programmes in Arts, Sciences and Social Sciences. The college has strength of over 1200 students.
The paper discusses the best practices followed in the College library to provide facilities and
services to the student and teaching community of the College. The best practices followed in the
college Library include DEAR Club’ Reader Motivation Programme, soothing music in the reading
area, participatory collection development, etc.
Key words: Best practices, Library management, College libraries, Academic libraries
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Perception and Utilisation of Social Networking Sites among the Research Scholars of
Library and Information Science in Tamil Nadu
Kavitha, E.S. and Uma, T.
kavithaesk@gmail.com
Social Networking refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share,
and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. This study aimed to study
the purpose and benefits of using the SNS, and also wants to flash light on regularity of using SNS
for various entertainments, academic and Information sharing by the research scholars of Library
and Information Science. A structured questionnaire was designed and randomly distributed to 85
research scholars of Library and Information Science in Tamil Nadu. After collecting the data, SPSS
16 Software was employed for the analysis. Percentage analysis, Mean, SD, MANCOVA test were
used to show the interrelationship between variables.
PhD scholars are only giving more
importance on sharing of information for various purposes compared with updating their
professional related activities. It is significant to know that the research scholars are benefited by
SNS for research through e-learning process and make new friendship. Majorities of the research
scholars have been using the Google Scholars, Academic.edu for information sharing such in
citation, publication and knowledge sharing. It is pathetic to mention that more number of research
scholars are not aware of Research Gate, citation sites such as Mendeley and Zotero. Factors like
the age of the research scholars and their seriousness of Library Science play an important role in
the application of SNS for entertainment purpose. It is also highlighted that M.Phil and Ph.D
scholars of Library and Information Science use SNS for academic purpose. What this paper wants
to highlight on is, on the difference in sharing the kind of information among the M.Phil and Ph.D
Scholars.
Keyword: SNS, Research Scholars, LIS, Facebook, Research Gate
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The Impact of Social Media on the Reading Habit of the Youth
Kulathunga Arachchi, M.S.
madarasumudu1212@gmail.com
In the recent decades the Social Media plays a pivotal role in the mass communication. A vast
majority of Social Media users are youth. Thus most of the positive and negative impacts of Social
Media usage fall on the youth. The amount of time allocated for internet usage of the youth has
increased dramatically with the increase of latest Social Media networks and as a result the reading
habit of the youth seems to be dramatically decreasing. This research intends to examine how the
Social Media has influenced the reading habits of the youth. It is conducted through questionnaires
and the interviews and thereafter the collected information is analyzed systematically to find the
final result. It further investigates the negative impact of the youth by the social media on their
reading habit. Reading is capable of enriching one’s intellectual capabilities and it develops insights
into human problems and has a major impact on their attitudes towards society. Social media which
is designed with the intention of promoting social connection seems to be not fulfilling its main
objective by reducing the reading habit of the youth. Moreover the usage of modern abbreviations
to communicate on the social media hinders the proper language acquisition and development which
affect their basic language skills such as speaking, writing and reading comprehension. Owing to
the rapid change or the update of content on social media sites the youth is not given a reasonable
time to cultivate one particular thought and think about it analytically which again makes a negative
impact on their intellectual and profound thinking habit which is an essential quality for a good
personality which is mastered by reading books.
Keywords: Social Media, Reading, Reading skills, Reading habits
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Awareness on Online Learning Management among Students and Scholarly Professionals
Kumar, K.
kumarkkutty@gmail.com
Due to the extensive utilization of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs)
in deliveringlearning and instruction, learning is no longer bounded by designated time and space
as it was previouslyperceived. In addition, continuous lifelong learning has been regarded as a
pivotal belief to ensure the profitableaccomplishment of individuals, organizations, and countries.
As a result, the notion of lifelong learning has again foundthe slot in the contemporaryinformation
and knowledge-based era. Accordingly, driven by the demands forlearning opportunities to fulfill
the needs of resurgent lifelong learning, the practitioners in the fields of trainingand education are
striving for a more flexible and adaptive learning approach. Online Learning, subsequently,
haswitnessed an exponential growth throughout the world in recent years. The primary goal of this
study was to understand students and scholarly perceptions of online learning value.Quality online
programs and global partnerships enable best practices institutions to develop professional adult
educators and invest in faculty development of scholar-practitioners. This paper reported that the
findings of a small-scale study that documented the awareness of online learning among students
and scholarly professionals.
Keywords: Online learning, Management Platforms, Virtual Learning Academic Professionals,
ICT’s,
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Trend in Reading Novels by the Student’s of Art Faculty: With Special Referee to Kelaniya,
Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura Universities.
Madhusanka, N.M.A.N and Atthanayaka, Madhurani
nuwanamila7777@gmail.com , madhuathanayaka@gmail.com
Printed Media has been a very closer medium to everyday personal life of people. Special feature
of novel is the exposure of personal life at human kind to the society and lay person considering the
view it in very valuable how far the university students are very closer to reading novels.
The Objective of this study is to investigate the factors affected in minimizing the time spend for
reading, type of novel reading and the number of novel rending amang University Students.
What and how the trend of reading novels by the university student was the research problem of
this study. The hypothesis constructed for this purpose is that is the university students of Arts
faculty show a decline in reading novels. The study limited three universities in Sri Lanka namely
Kelaniya" Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura. Population was the Art faculty students and sample
was 100 students based on random sampling technology. Primary data collected using a
Questionnaire and a n interview.
Through this study, it collected that students in Art faculty showed a decline in reading novels. The
factors for this were non closer at novels for personal life of the students, confinement of students
to word study only owing to semester system, economic hardships, hectic life and restlessness, nonissue at productive and quality novels and the gradual deviation from reading novels owning to
students preferences for using new media. It revealed that steps like literary discussion, criticism
and discourses, literary workshops, improvement of library usage, change of attitude in reading are
to be taken to make more close to reading novels by Art students.
Keywords: Novels, Reading habits, University students, Reading trends, University library,
Extension services
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Status of Institutional Repositories in SAARC Countries: An Analytical Study
Maheswaran, R.
maheswaranrasiah@gmail.com
This paper examines the usage of institutional repositories in SAARC countries. The data for the
study has been collected from the website of respective institutions in each SAARC country. The
study analyzed the Communities and Sub Communities, Contribution of authors of the institutional
repositories in SAARC Countries. This study adopted an analytical method where the data are
readily available in the website. At first, the institutions that are using Dspace software for building
Institutional repository in each of the eight SAARC countries were identified and sorted out
separately. Then data regarding the collections, communities etc were separately collected from the
website the respective institutions. The study also further analysed the number of institutions using
Dspace ,their collections, number of Communities and Sub Communities available, number of
authors etc.,. All these data were subsequently tabulated for making observations. This paper
analyzes the usage of institutional repositories in SAARC countries. In India, Jadavpur University
and Osmania University has the maximum number of collections. In Sri Lanka, University of
Colombo and University of Peradeniya has the maximum number of collections. In Bangladesh,
BRAC University Institutional Repository and Daffodil International University Institutional
Digital Repository has the maximum number ofcollections. In Afghanistan, ACKU Library
Catalogue has the highest number of collections. In Nepal, Madan PuraskarPustakalayahyas the
maximum number of collections.
Keyword: Institutional Repositories, SAARC Countries, Dspace, India, Sri Lanka
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Information Literacy (IL) Skills among the Female Students of Rural Secondary Schools in
Dhaka, Bangladesh: is this build up Knowledge Society?
Mezbah-ul-Islam, Muhammad and Begum, Bilkis
mezbah2000@yahoo.com , bilkisbegum2013@gmail.com
It has been said that Information Literacy (IL) is not new. Paul G. Zurkowski (1974) is the originator
of the term “information literacy". IL is new initiatives to Bangladesh (Hoq, 2006). As an awareness
campaign, Centre for Information Studies, Bangladesh (CIS, B) and United Nations Information
Center (UNIC)-Dhaka are jointly conducting training programs on IL for rural secondary schools
of Bangladesh (Forest, 2013). No programs for improving information capabilities can be conceived
until an objective investigation is conducted about the level of IL skills among Bangladeshi school
students. The objectives of the study were to know the pattern of library use and other
supplementary sources by the students; approach of using ICT sources; to develop a course module
on IL training and suggestions for implementing IL program in Bangladesh. The work was an
empirical study and survey method was used that supported by observations and interviews. The
study provided analysis of the prevailing situation that helps in planning for policy makers to
integrate IL courses in the mainstream of the secondary school education system. This paper also
tried to identify the activities performed in the training courses through which students were
empowered to build up knowledge society (Empowering ..., 2008). Further, in-depth research is
needed to back these marginally significant findings and there is a need for mass awareness raising
program about IL inBangladesh.
Keywords: Information Literacy, Skills, Secondary School, Female Students, Banglade
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Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge through Modern Agricultural Information Sources
and Channels in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka
Mihirani, P.M.N., Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.P., Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.S.N.P.,
Withana, N.R.P., Dharmawardhana, M.W.C. and Samaraweera, J.P.U.
ashoke_weerakoon@yahoo.com
Information plays a critical role in agriculture where information sources and channels are important
for decision making. Agriculture Extension Service (AES) of theDepartment of Agriculture, Sri
Lanka facilitates farmer decision making by providing knowledge, relevant and reliable information
so as to promote agricultural development. Regrettably, in a position which inapt use of modern
expertise caused severe ecological and health issues, approaches allied to Indigenous Knowledge
(IGK) receive great attention where there is a need of assessing the existing information
dissemination system to promote IGK. Therefore, the study explores the AES,information channels
(IC) and information sources (IS) to achieve the objectives of (1) assessing and classifying IC and
IS, (2) assessing the current use and usefulness of IC and IS, (3) assessing factors that are vital to
disseminate IGK via IS and IC, and (4) assessing and recommending possible methods to propagate
IGK. Questionnaire-based interviews (n=500) were held with farmers in Ten DS-divisions in
Anuradhapura District. The IC and IS were classified into four groups; Personal localite sources,
Personal cosmopolite sources, Personal cosmopolite channels, and Impersonal cosmopolite
channels, where both qualitative and quantitative methods were used for the analysis. Progressive
farmers, Surrounding folks, extension officers, agro-input dealers, printed and digital media were
found important to farmers, while library and scholarly resources whereas wireless technologies
such as internet were underused. Despite of the preference, farmers’ use of IC and IS relied on
clarity, simplicity, availability, cost-effectiveness whereas on certain socio-economic, cultural and
psychological aspects. Constraints allied to assistance, infrastructure, understanding on IGK,
resources, whereas complexity of methods, monetary limitations, negative perceptions were faced
by both extension offices and farmers that demands well-planned collective programs, supplement
of simple resources, computer literacy, assistance and IGK related training to both parties.
Keywords: Indigenous Knowledge, Information Sources and Channels
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Qualitative Research in Library & Information Science: Use of Narratives
Murari, Durga
bmpange@unipune.ac.in
Research in LIS has mainly been quantitative as very often the library and any information system
has to justify its existence. However the use of qualitative methods is now catching up. Not only do
we need to know how many people are using our OPAC but we need to know why and how they
are using the OPAC and if they find it useful or not, and what was their experience while using it.
Various studies have suggest that library managers feel it necessary to have data available, if
required to provide evidence of the value and impact of their services. With only quantitative data
collected there may be uncertainty amongst library managers about how to interpret and
communicate it for the best outcome for the service. In such cases, there is a strong case for
“supporting” qualitative stories or narratives.
While narrative has not been apparent in the library instruction and information literacy literature,
there has been a growing interest in understanding students' experiences with research more
holistically, including an awareness of the importance of the affective dimensions of that
experience. Although not the first to identify it, Kuhlthau advanced the idea of an affective
dimension of thestudent research experience by incorporating it into her Information Search Process
model. In creating any information service, the librarians first need to find out what the readers,
wants and how they would like an information service to be.Kuhlthau encourages librarians to see
the information-seeking process ina much more holistic way, acknowledging that students' previous
backgrounds and knowledge are important in their process of meaning construction.
This paper attempts to make a case for the use of qualitative research in LIS and especially for the
collection of narratives to examine and better understand users and their behavior in physical and
online settings.
Keywords: Narratives, Qualitative Research, Research Methods
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The Impact of E-LMS on Learning Skills of Postgraduate Students in Sri Lanka
Nagahawatta, R.T.S
ruwann@kln.ac.lk
Technologies are existing for education in various forms now. One key task involves shaping how
best to make use of available technologies to enhance student learning skill. Electronic Learning
Management System (E-LMS) is one the important approach for develop learning skill. Sri Lankan
universities with rapid progress in postgraduate education with advanced teaching and learning
technologies and have introduced the latest E-LMS in order to keep the pace of the technological
revolution in the field of higher education. The setting for this research study was postgraduate
students' use with special reference to the Master of Business Administration students of University
of Kelaniya the local E-LMS within the context of a course-related teaching. On the other hand
learning skills has always been a concern of those interested in the quality of learning and its relation
to broader quality of students. Therefore researcher identified the need of investigating the
relationship between E-LMS activities and learning skills and how effectively E-LMS has
influenced students on their academic activities. Based on that, the purpose of the study was to
identify the relationship between E-LMS and learning skills. The independent variable was E-LMS
activities and dependent variable was learning skills. The validity and the reliability of the
instruments were tested against the sample survey data. The type of this study is hypothesis testing
and it was conducted in the natural setting with less interference of the researchers (non-contrived).
The study is a cross-sectional in time and the primary data were collected by using convenient,
judgmental, quota sampling. As the sample size 100 students who are studying at the University,
but only 87 were responded. The unit of analysis was at individual level. A questionnaire developed
by the researcher was used to collect the data for the study. To test the hypotheses, correlation
analysis and regression analysis tests were performed. Findings of the study revealed that all the
E-LMS activities (Assignment, Chat, Feedback, Forum, Glossary, Lesson, Quiz, Resources,
SCORM, and Wiki) positively and significantly affect on learning skills of students in University
of Kelaniya. Further it was revealed that among the E-LMS activities, Resources has the highest
impact on learning skills.
Keywords: Electronic Learning Management Systems, Learning Skill, Resources
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Information and Communication Technology Literacy among Library Professionals in the
Universities of Tamil Nadu
Nagarajan, M.
au_nagarajan@yahoo.co.in
This paper aims to ascertain the ICT skills among the library professionals of Tamil Nadu
Universities. It reveals about the use of application software, library automation software,
institutional repository software, advanced search techniques used, the level of efficiency in
tracking the exact information to fulfill the needs of the users, use of ICT based resources and
services and confidence of the library professionals in handling various ICT tools.
Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, Universities of Tamil Nadu, Library
professionals
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Managing Information Revolution: Strategies of Collection Development in Research
Oriented Libraries
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Nanda Kumari, E. and Kavitha, E.S.
nanda@jncasr.ac.in, kavithalib@yahoo.co.in
The Philosophy behind information resource management is to design inventory and control of all
the library resources required to produce information. If standardized and controlled, these
resources can be shared and re-used throughout the network libraries, not just by a single user or an
application. Obtaining, storing, and processing information is critical to an organization’s success
and profitability. Ongoing innovations in information technology challenge managers, practitioners
and researchers to create and adapt to new policies, strategies, and solutions for information
management. Library patrons in today’s environment expect access to electronic items as well as
physical materials. Also, publishers are abandoning the traditional print model in favor of electronic
formats which is less expensive for them to deliver and easier access to users in the library.
Information based organizations depends on computer databases and information systems for their
ongoing operation and management. Information resource management is a program of activities
directed at making effective use of information technology within an organization. These activities
range from global level information planning to application system development operation, and
maintain to support the end user computing. A significant reason for inability to integrate
information management activities is the failure to adequately define the information resource.
What is that must be effectively managed. What are the concepts to the problem of managing
collections in an organization which provides a basic ingredient for effective information resource
management and control in building valuable source of information for the end user etc. are the
highlighting points to be focused in this paper.
Keywords: Information resource management (IRM), Collection
Inventory network library Control.
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Growth of Library Science Education and Continuing Professional Development for
Library Professionals in State University Libraries in Tamil Nadu: A Study
Natarajan, N.O
natarajanno@ymail.com
The aim and Purpose of the present Study is to investigate the predominant scenario of library and
Information Science (LIS) Education system in Tamil Nadu to focus about the courses offered,
qualitative education in the discipline of library and information science. To find out the
effectiveness of the training programmes for State University Library and Information Science
(LIS) professionals and various aspects of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in
the State Universities, Tamil Nadu, India. The findings of the study reveal that most of the
professionals do have a positive look on CPD activities and satisfied with the effectiveness of
training programmes particularly on, on-the- job training. In-house training will improve their
job performance and prefer to develop new services from what they had learned.
The ideal
duration for CPD courses should be one week is what the research shows. Institutional problem is
the major issue in participation of CPD activities. This study is the first of its kind dealing with
effectiveness of CPD programmes for LIS professionals in the State Universities, Tamil Nadu,
India.
Keywords: Growth, LIS Education, Library Professional, Library development, Continuous
Professional Development, University.
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Professional Development of Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals in
Annamalai University: A Study
Natarajan, N.O
natarajanno@ymail.com
This Paperthrows lightonthe professional development opportunities of library professionals (LIS)
in the Annamalai Universities, Tamil Nadu, and India. The aim of the study is to evaluate the
professional development activities of Library professionals and their attitude towards
continuing education programmes. In order to achieve the objectives of the study a survey was
conducted with the help of structured questionnaires distributed to 125 library professionals
in Annamalai university, Tamil Nadu, India of which 100 questionnaires were returned. Results
of the analysis show that majority of the professionals have pursued higher degrees in library
science courses after entering the profession, and that they have a positive attitude towards
participation in training programmes and workshops. The results show that developments in ICT
have a positive influence on majority of library professionals‘ attitude towards continuing
education programmes.
Keywords: Library, LIS Professionals, Continuing Education Programme (CPU),
Professional Development, ICT, Annamalai University.
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Information Literacy and Public library Services in Tamil Nadu, India
Nattar, S and Duraisingan, A
nattarwinsall@gmail.com, duraisingam65@gmail.com
The present age is an Information Age, and the pedagogic implications of this age are that people
should learn new skills to use information stored in computers. Libraries and Information Centers
have responded by acquiring information technology and encourage computer literacy. The
information that is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations,
media and Internet comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, arising questions about its
authenticity, validity and reliability. In addition, information available through multiple media
poses new challenges for individuals in understanding the landscape of information and to acquire
knowledge of how to gather, evaluate and use information in today’s world. Information literacy
therefore, is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change
and in proliferating information resources. It enables learners to master the content and extend their
investigations, to become more self-directed and assume greater control over their own learning.
With the advances in Information and Communication technologies, the traditional concepts of
organization, user orientation, bibliographic description and dissemination of information are to be
fine-tuned to the new environment by the Public Library and the librarian.
Keywords: Information Literacy, Public Library, Tamil Nadu, Reading Habits and Librarian.
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Sanskrit Webliography– a Sample Strategic Initiative to Increase the E-Resource Usage
among Academics in Sri Lanka.
Navaneethakrishnan, S
ksnavan@yahoo.com
This is a time of increased access to electronic information. E-Collections are very useful to all
institutions and individuals to get instant, relevant, comprehensive information at doorsteps. In this
information era, librarians should not only create useful products for the user, but should also
develop knowledge of the particular online literature. They have designed, developed and tested
some manual techniques and search tools. The objective of this study is to provide a sample strategic
initiative to increase the e-resource usage among academics in Sri Lanka.Altogether different kinds
of 86websites have been identified and selectedon random sampling method in this study for the
development of this webliography. Mixed method consist of Facet analytical and Experimental
method was used to design the webliography. The Basic structure of this webliography was
designed following various procedures such as Selecting the topic;Searching the Web; Browsing
and selecting the best ones among retrieved hits; Creating a web page; Choosing an informative
title for the webliography; Writing an introduction; Entering selected/filtered links; Establishing
hyperlinks; Preparing an index; Publishing by uploading it on the server to increase its usage.
According to the findings it is found that these webliographies could be used as appropriate service
strategy to increase the usage of electronic resources. Further university libraries are expected to
concentrate more on the designing of these kind of webliographies for their teaching disciplines to
increase the e-resource usage through their websites.
Keywords: Service design; Webliography; University Libraries; Information usage, Information
source
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E-Journal for Professional Development and Research: Special Reference at Madurai
Kamraj University
Padma, P.
ppadmajournal@gmail.com
The technological development in the use and delivery of information media has changed the role
of library professionals. The print media is getting digitized and through the advent of internet, the
information is available to anybody from any corner of the world. The use of e-journals and e-books
has created a new source of information to the professional development of the research scholars
and students. E-journals very important source for the professional development and research. Eresources are becoming vital to carry any meaningful research. Scholarly communication is the root
of scientific and technological progress. Scholarly communication system is being carried out
worldwide, particularly with respect to electronic journals. E-journals and e-books are electronic
equivalents of their print counterparts possessing many added features. E-resources offer a range of
potential advantages to libraries and research scholars; multiple simultaneous access to the same
issue, remote access, in-built searching facilities, multimedia capabilities and reduced storage
concerns. Libraries today buy licenses for an ever-increasing number of e-journals from a range of
different publishers and providers. Consortia based library subscription to E-journals and electronic
full-text databases are picking up good momentum in worldwide. It was implemented a web-based
electronic refereeing system for an electronic journal whose many value-added features are
described in detail in this paper.
Keywords: e-journals, scholarly communication, e-books, library consortia, e-resources
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Chemical Sciences Research Output among the Universities in the State of Tamilnadu: A
Scientometric Study
Pandian, R.
rpandian@annauniv.edu
Chemistry is a major subject of domain of basic sciences, the principles; the theories and
applications have been involved for the use of mankind for generations in almost in all kinds of
physical activities. It is also evident that a major stake of research is being carried out in chemistry
and allied subjects, as one fourth of the publications output are being indexed by most popular
scholarly literature across the globe, it is very much imminent for library and information
professionals to identify the scholarly input growth and trend of the subject prevalence, the research
applications, the research funding and opportunities, the research tools, methods, the organisations
and the people engaged in research of chemical sciences and to forecast the same to the user
community.
The UniversitiesinTamilnaduhave the major stake towards contributing and orienting the academic
research in India. Hence the study aimed at analysing and assessing the research output on chemical
sciences from the State Government Universities of Tamilnadu through the publication output. The
researcher has choosen Web of Science (WoS) database as the source of study and the study period
is 1989-2014, The researcher has used the search string in the topic field “Chemistry” and Address
field “Alagappa University”, “Annamalai University”, “Bharathidasan University”, “Bharathiar
University”, “Madras University”, Madurai Kamaraj University”, “ManonanmaniamSundarnar
University”, Mother Teresa University”, Periyar University”, and “Thiruvalluvar University” is
used for data collection. The study found gradual growth of publication output over the years.
Phenomenal growth is between 2011-2014. All the 5433 publications were received Global Citation
Scores 51862. The literature published in 9forms of documentations.
It is observed that its relative growth rate have shrunk gradually from 4.28 at 1989 to 8.61 in the
year of 2014. Contrary to this, the Doubling time for publication of all sources of 0.19 research
output has decreased from 1.17 in 1989 to 5.78 in 2014.
The Collaboration research between Tamilnadu State Universities had 51862 number of citations
across the globe; the top three countries contributed are USA, Japan, and South Africa. There are
33 subject categories in chemical research is being carried out, which is published in 351 journals,
the major output from top three journals are Indian Journal of Chemistry section B (236),
Tetrahedron Letters (214), Asian Journal Chemistry (194). The researcher also applied the
relevance of bibliometric laws and made a Histrographical analysis for citations. There are 5437
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number of authors were contributed this literature. The study shows that there were rich numbers
of collaboration among the Indian and aboard.
Keywords: Chemistry, Research Assessment, Scientrometrics, Bibliometrics, Universities,
Tamilnadus
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Virtualization Appliances for Library and Information Management Studies
Pannananda, Ven. D. and Sumangala, Ven. P.
thero@kln.ac.lk2013, _sumangala@kln.ac.lk
Virtualization provides means to create several virtual computers on one physical computer,
therefore number of physical computers can be reduced radically .Students can connect to virtual
computers using remote connection .With virtualization teachers can utilize new technologies such
as the newest operating systems in teaching, even if those are not used in physical computers .One
of the advantages of this method is to provide totally isolated and unrestricted learning environment
for students, who will gain the administrative rights for the virtualized operating system. That use
to learning those library and information science methods .Therefore, installation and configuration
library management system like KOHA or GREENSTONE etc.A hypothesis of this study is to
explore if the use of virtualization in learning environment is more effective than traditional
teaching method .The base of library and information science education environment is individual
learning styles and experiential learning. Rapid advances in information technology have provided
new learning methods and environments .This has been the case for the teaching of librarianship
and Information centers
.Library and information Students pointed out deficiencies and
inadequacies in ICT resources and facilities, and suggested upgrading software and hardware .They
appeared to be satisfied with the ICT skills being targeted by visualization environment .They also
appeared to be satisfied with the ICT instructors. Librarians and information management officers
need special knowledge and skills including techniques of using software and hardware, selection
and assessment of resources, use of information systems, ability to search networks and databases,
as well as problem-solving and research skills and the ability to teach users . The study pointed out
a need for collaboration with professional forums for continuing education programs and the need
for revisions in curricula to introduce more focused courses that meet the needs of the ever-changing
market requirements and give the students access to professional.
Keywords: Virtualization, technologies, Library and Information Science, KOHA, GREENSTONE,
Information Centers, Administrator, Security policies, Information systems
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Awareness of Knowledge Management Process among Librarians of Engineering Colleges
Affiliated to Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore: A Study
Parameswaran, R.
parameshwaranbhu@gmail.com
Knowledge Management [KM] originated in the early 1990 and is found to be successfully
incorporated in government, health care and information sectors. This analytical study provides
fundamental understanding on awareness of knowledge management processes among the
librarians of engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore.Survey
method is followed to collect the data and questionnaire is used as a principal tool for the collection
of primary data. The data is analyzed by using the statistical methods like Percentage analysis,
Average score analysis, Rank analysis and Chi-Square (χ2), ANOVA and SWOT analysis to export
the findings.
This study focuses on the qualitative method that is used to investigate the
understanding of knowledge management among librarians. This chapter describes the research
design, sample selection method, data collection, hypothesis construction, data analysis framework,
data processing methods and limitation of the study. It also provides with an overview about the
statistical tool and methods applied for the research. The population of this research is the librarians
of engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University of technology, Coimbatore which includes 3
government engineering colleges, 2 government aided engineering colleges, 141 self financing
engineering colleges and 36 standalone institutions functioning at the time of the study. The major
findings of the study revealed that the librarians of studied institutions have good awareness on
knowledge management basic, resources and techniques. It is obvious that the ways of knowing of
knowledge management process among the librarians are varied. The importance of knowledge
management practices in libraries is accepted by most of the respondents. Due to the varying
understanding of knowledge management processes, few of the respondents have a shallow
perception of the knowledge management processes.
Keywords: Knowledge Management, Engineering Colleges, Librarians, SWOT analysis,
Tamilnadu
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School Principals’ Management Styles and its Influence on Primary Schools Teachers
Motivation in Kurunegala District of Sri Lanka
Pathiratne, S., Amaratunga, P.A.B.H and Weerasinghe, D.
Samitha8@yahoo.com
Primary School administration in Sri Lanka is bedeviled with a plethora of quandaries most of
which emanate from shortages in management styles of leaders of these institutes. There have been
times when edifiers had to stage open protests to register their displeasure about School Principals‟
management styles which they often described as lack of administrative and management Skills.
This situation has often led to low morale among edifiers and consequently this study fixates on
ascertaining the effects of School Principals‟ management styles on teachers‟ motivation in
Primary Schools in Sri Lanka. The study additionally endeavors to visually examine and expound
how School Principals‟ informal relationship with edifiers accommodates as a motivation for
edifiers to work to achieve institutional goals.The descriptive design was espoused for this study.
The population comprised 10 Primary School Principals and 633 edifiers in the Kurunegala District.
The sample for this study comprised 100 teachers who were randomly culled from the public
Primary Schools in the Kurunegala District.The study, among other things, revealed that most
edifiers optically discern their Principals as bosses and not as friends. Again, it was exposed that
though edifiers were involved in decision making, the genuine setting of aims for a school were left
in the hands of the Principal. It was ergo recommended for School Principals to adopt the
Management by Walking About and Management by Objective so as to get more proximate to their
edifiers in the running of schools. Predicated on the research it is recommended that Principals of
schools be given in-Service training to improve them on how to coalesce the utilization of the two
management styles to incentivize their edifiers to perform and Principals of the miscellaneous
schools should be able to delegate some of their obligations to other assistant Principals. Withal
Efforts should be made to perpetually involve the edifiers in the decision making process in the
school to boost their motivation to perform.
Keywords: Teachers, School Principals, Management Style, Kurunegala District
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Scientific Study about Collection of Manuscripts Book by W .S. M. Ranasingha of Doctor in
Athebediwewa
Piyarathana, Ven. L.
piyarathana1010@gmail.com
This study main purpose is scientific study about Manuscripts book in Sri Lanka. But we are failed
cover to the all Sri Lanka Manuscripts book collection. Hence we are selecting this study sample to
collection of Manuscripts book by Doctor W. S. M. Ranasingha. To main reason selecting this
sample we can be generalization traditional medical method and medical Manuscripts book
collection. Each varies subjects Manuscripts book has This Manuscripts book collection. There is
science, arts, magic and giotteschi in some books are this collection. There magic books are lot of
see this book collection. Number of 135 to see this collection. This 135 Manuscripts books are study
in this research. Specially we are attention subject of this Manuscripts books. We are needed this
Manuscripts book collection scientific description, categorization, order to alphabetical to record
this Manuscripts book collection. Hence we are creating bibliography this collection.
Keywords: Manuscripts books, Arts of writing, W.S.M. Ranasingha, Bibliography, Knowledge of
Traditional.
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Application of Mobile Phone Technologies for Library Services
Prabakaran, M. and Niyamananda, Swamy
prabakaranlibn@gmail.com
This paper highlights an overview of mobile phone applications and how it helps to access the
Resources and Services. Mobile technology is fast becoming as the most preferred method for
connecting to the Internet, especially for Access to E-Resources, Social networking tools,
Information Alert services, Library Virtual tour, status of the book in the library through SMS and
so on. Librarians need to know more about these technologies to render more specific and
customized services to individuals and user groups of micro subjects. Information and knowledge
analytics is the current buzz word of the present knowledge society and it is being practiced in all
walks of human life which may be of governance, education, consumer industry to entertainment.
Rapidly changing advanced features with less/no cost technologies towards creation, organization,
dissemination, access and use of information particularly through portable access devices evident
information and knowledge revolution.
The present paper highlights the features of library technologies in general and presents state of
Mobile services in libraries and theory about the future of mobile technology. This article will make
an awareness of possible mobile technology usages for library applications and services among
library professionals. Access to scholarly information and reveal the opportunities, the methods and
means of scholarly communication among the researchers and academics is very much eminent to
enhance the quality of teaching, learning and research processes. Libraries are not only act as
learning centers but need to take more academic and research support both on demand and in
anticipation. To elope with other service providers it is imperative for the libraries to adapt the
mobile technologies to make update the user community on timely manner as very much
emphasized by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan in the fourth law of Library Science. The paper discuss a few
of mobile applications and tools (Whatsapp, Kindle, imo, Chat on, Dropbox, Viber, Playbooks,
Skypee, Oovoo, Play newsstand, Google talk etc.) of various information service providers,
databases and research information systems.
Keywords: Information alert services, e- resources access, mobile services, mobile apps in library
services
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Attitude towards Library Networking and Resource Sharing Programme among the College
Librarians Affiliated To the Bharathidasan University: A Study
Prabu, R.
praburkp@gmail.com
The present study reveals that a number of Bharathidasan University affiliated college libraries have
a status of rich document collection. Through automation and networking, these rich resources can
be put to best possible are not only in their respective region but even outside whenever there would
be demand for the information. This study was designed to collect the basic inputs from the college
librarians to understand the attitude towards library networking and resource sharing programme in
the college libraries affiliated to Bharathidasan University. The structured questionnaire has been
distributed to 107 Librarians of the Arts & Science colleges affiliated to Bharathidasan University.
Among 20 colleges neither having libraries nor maintained by library professionals hence there are
70 (80.46%) of the respondents have replied to the given questionnaire. The findings of the study
shows that 62.9% of librarians working in the colleges affiliated to Bharathidasan University have
strongly agreed that the library network and resource-sharing programme improve the library
services.
Keywords: Library Networks, Resource Sharing, Bharathidasan University, Attitudes of librarian,
Automation and Networking.
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Miṉcuvaṭi: Digital Library for Tamil Imprints Using J-ISIS
Prakash, Ira, Muthiah, Roja and Sadik Batcha
ira.prakash@gmail.com
‘Computerised Documentation Service’ and ‘Integrated Set of Information Systems’ software
package, known as CDS/ISIS is a software developed by UNESCO for creating textual databases
in the 1970s, before information technology became a day to day affair. J-ISIS and ABCD
(Automatisation de BibliothèquesCentros de Documentación) were introduced in 2008. The ISIS
Software family has a unique technological concept to cope with Information Storage and Retrieval
Systems (ISRS), particularly for developing countries where the technology is widely known and
used. Library professionals are now facing ever before technological challenges in the library
services. They need to have minimum level understanding of computer applications to cope with
user’s demand. J-ISIS is user friendly and flexible application, which will help us to design and
maintain server-client database system. This paper explores the possibility of creating and
maintaining the digital library system without any complexity in the Unicode environment.
Keywords: CDS/ISIS, J-ISIS, FOSS, Digital Library, MARC 21
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Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF), 2011 - 2015: a Citation
Analysis
Pratheepan, T. and Weerasooriya, W.A.
pratheepan12345@gmail.com, sooria29@yahoo.com
Citation analyses of research in developing countries are interesting for various reasons. The
situation of Sri Lankan is rather exceptional.The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri
Lanka (JNSF) is the only Sri Lankan journal; indexed by the Journal Citation Report (JCR)
from2010.This paper provides a citation network analysis of publications from the JNSF. The
analysis covers publications in the journal from 2011–2015. The paper analyses the most published
authors, most cited articles, uncited articles, most prolific authors, top institutions, collaboration
profile of authors, and the nationalities of authors, that are most represented in the journal.
441articles were taken from the primary data source, the Google Scholar using Publish or Perish
(POP) software. An analysis of 1056 citations was carried out using the POP online analytics tool
and Excel. Results indicate that the 60% of JNSF research publications have received minimum of
single citation.There are 998 authors have been contributed for 441 articles published during the
study period in JNSF. In terms of collaboration profile, the JNSF’s authors show preference for
“mega – authored” papers. Only 114 (26%) papers were single authored. The most cited article is
Mosquito-lavicidal activity of some Sri Lankan plants written by Ranaweera, SS. published in 2013.
Keywords: Citation analysis, Bibliometric analysis, Collaborative research, Scientometrics,
Citation indexing
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Bibliotherapy as a Tool for reducing the Study Behavior Issues among Undergraduates:
A case Study at the University of Peradeniya
Premarathne, B. N. G. S,
sp12386@gmail.com
Bibliotherapy is a generally applied technique of using literature in fostering self understanding,
growth or healing the practice involves reading, questioning and discussing emotional issues
encountered in literature (Antila-2009). Bibliotherapy practitioners attempt to help people of all
ages to understand themselves and to cope with problems. Some of the undergraduates are facing
emotional, personnel issues during their study period. Counseling is a positive step towards looking
after their emotional wellbeing. Such undergraduates have met with the authorities at the University
of Peradeniya Health centre, Carrier Guidance Unit and the Students counseling center. They have
given possible solution with counseling to solve their issues. Bibliotherapy is a supportive method
for further counselingand it will be an asset for higher education and also improve reading skills of
the students. This is only a concept paper and the case study is scheduled to be conducted at the
University of Peradeniya in December 2016.
The objectives of this study are to understand the basic concept of bibliotherapy and how it can be
applied for the undergraduates, to communicate new values and attitudes, promoting reading and
also to promote the library as a user friendly information resource center to solve their study base
issues. Survey research method will be applied for the study. Data collection will be done using of
questionnaire and interviews. Undergraduates who have obtained counseling from University
Health Center, Carrier Guidance Unit, and Students Counseling Center will be selected to this study.
Expected outcome of the study is to identify bibliothreapy methods to support the undergraduate’s
to reduce negative emotions such as stress, anxiety and loneliness, enhance the self-esteem,
interpersonal skills and emotional maturity, increasing self-awareness, temporary escape from
pressing problems, emotional release or relief and to improve better reading habits to fulfill their
information requirement.
Keywords: Bibliotherapy, Reading therapy, Counseling, Reading habits.
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Students' attitudes and perceptions on library user education programmes: A case study
Punchihewa, C.N.D., Kiriella, K.G.A.P., Kumara, A.D.B. and Kodikara, Ruvini C.
nishanp@uom.lk, anurap@lib.mrt.ac.lk, buddhink@lib.mrt.ac.lk, ruvinik@lib.mrt.ac.lk
This study examined the effectiveness of various types of user education programmes offered by
Library University of Moratuwa. Four user education programmes were considered in this study,
'Library Orientation and Tour', 'Information for Research', Research and Plagiarism' and 'How to
do Referencing'. Attitudes and the perception of the students towards these user education
programmes were discussed in this study. A user survey was adopted and the undergraduate
students and post graduate students who have participated in library user education programmes
during 2014-2015 was the target group. Results of the study discovered that 88% of the students
have gained the knowledge on library resources and services through the library user education
programmes. Most importantly, 91.3% of students have stated that they were equipped with good
research skills by participating in these library user education programmes. Results of this study
encourage the library to continue the user education programmes to keep building research skills of
the students while making necessary adjustments to fulfill the needs of modern library users.
Keywords: Academic libraries, University libraries, Information literacy, Information skills, User
Education
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Traditional Knowledge Illustrated in the Palm Leaf Manuscripts of Anuradhapura District,
Sri Lanka
Pushpakumara, K. and Dehigama, K.
kdehigama@yahoo.com
Palm leaves played a major role in recording, and preserving information on various aspects of Sri
Lankan culture in place of books and paper until the advent of printing in the 19th century. A search
through of palm leaf collections in Sri Lanka reveals that they took part significantly in carry
forwarding a tradition that considerably influenced to preserve Sri Lankan indigenous traditional
knowledge that has been passed orally from generation to generation. Sri Lanka is in the custody of
massive repository of manuscript wealth preserved in cultural institutions. However, an overview
of literature reflects, studiesare mainly confined to the preservation, historical information andto
widely address the documentation aspects of the palm leaf manuscripts of Sri Lanka. This indicates
that there is no research focusing on the theme that encompasses the study of paintings that depict
the various aspect of traditional knowledge embedded in palm-leaf manuscripts.Theretofore, the
present study is undertaken to explore the paintings in the palm leaf manuscripts in Sri Lanka.
Anuradhapura district has been selected for the study. A survey has been carried out with a view to
find paintings in the undocumented hither to unknown palm leaf manuscripts. Accordingly on the
basis of previous pilot surveys, five Gram Sava Divisions were selected from the five different AGA
Divisions of Anuradhapura District. In addition to the document analysis, focus group discussions
and observations were used to collect data. While the survey produced paintings of various
traditional knowledge related to Arts, the Indigenous Medicine, Magic and charms, Astrology and
Agriculture, work of artappeared in palm leaf manuscripts related to ancient Sri Lankan agricultural
activities are only presented in this paper. Surveying and studying hither to unknown collections at
Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka will be of momentous achievement for the benefit of research
and learning. Due to the utmost value of the manuscriptsit is recommended to take over the
collections from theheritors with a view to preserve palm leaf manuscripts for the future
generations.
Keywords: Palm Leaf Manuscripts, Traditional Knowledge, Paintings, Anuradhapura District,
Indigenous language
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Research Performance of Cloud Computing in BRICS Countries
Raja, S.
Lisraja1979@gmail.com
Research performance of BRICS countries has been studied using publications indexed in the Web
of Science (WoS) database core collection. “Cloud computing” as a search term in the address tag
fetched 2537 records and the period of coverage from 1989 to 2016. The downloaded data were
analyzed using MS Excel, VOS Viewer, and HistCite software applications. The analysis revealed
that there are 6767 authors from among 5 countries; 623 journals; 9 types of documents; 2130
institutions; 63,005 times cited by local and global references. 93.9% of publications are scholarly
articles. The highest productive year is 2015 (28.6%) (TGCS- 843) and lowest is 1991 (TGCS-25).
Of the 73 countries, Peoples R China stands first, USA and India in the second and third places
respectively. “International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing”, “IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems”, “Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience” are the
most productive journals involved in this study. Among the 6767 authors, “Li J” has earned the
highest publication. “Chinese Academy Science” and “Tsinghua University” dominate other
institutions in terms of number of records. 63,005 cited references were measured from the data and
most cited authors were “Armbrust M”, “BUYYA R”, and “Dean J”; most cited journals were
“COMMUN ACM”, “FUTURE GENER COMP SY”, and “COMMUN ACM”.
Keywords: BRICS, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Research performance, Citation study
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Cloud Computing and its Applications in Library: A Review
Raja, S. and Krishnan, V.
lisraja1979@gmail.com, veerakrish81@gmail.com
Cloud computing have not been a new technology that suddenly appeared on the web but it is a new
form of computing. Cloud computing is a kind of computing technology which facilitates in sharing
the resources and services over the internet rather than having these services and resources on local
servers/ nodes or personal devices. Cloud computing is a kind of computing technology which
facilitates in sharing the resources and services over the internet rather than having these services
and resources on local servers/ nodes or personal devices. The combination of servers, networks,
connection, applications and resources is defined as 'cloud'. Application of cloud computing user
would be able to browse a physical shelf of books, CDs or DVDs or choose to take out an item or
scan a bar code into his mobile device. All historical and rare documents would be scanned into a
comprehensive, easily searchable database and would be accessible to any researcher. Many
libraries already have online catalogues and share bibliographic data with OCLC. More frequent
online catalogues are linked to consortium that share resources. The combination of servers,
networks, connection, applications and resources is defined as 'cloud'. This article describes models
of Cloud computing, applications in library, advantages, disadvantages of cloud computing in
library and its barriers.
Keywords: Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Library, Hybrid
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Electronic Information Resources Utilization by Medical Students in General Sir John
Kotelawala Defence University Library, Faculty of Medicine
Rajapaksha, M.P
primali83rajapaksha@gmail.com
This study evaluated the utilization of electronic information resources in General Sir John
Kotelawala Defence University Library by Medical students by addressing four objectives namely;
identifying the awareness of e-resources by Medical students in General Sir John Kotelawala
Defence University, determining the level of use and the relevance of e-resources in General Sir
John Kotelawala Defence University Medical library, identifying the problems in accessing eresources and lastly proposing strategies to promote the usage of e-resources by Medical students.
Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to elicit data from undergraduate students
from Medical faculty of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. One hundred and eighty
respondents participated in the study. Data was collected by use of questionnaires personally
circulated among the students and various documents analysis. The study found that majority of
medical students, i.e. 80 (69.6%) did not aware about the available e-resources at the library. Further
it was revealed that majority of the participants (67%) prefer to access both electronic and print
version of information but whereas a few of the respondents 10 (8.7%) prefer to access print version
of information. The main problem associated with accessing e-resources was poor internet
connection. In addition, the utilization of e-resources was affected by lack of computer skills by the
respondents. Results shows that more than half of the respondents (76%) had computer skills in
intermediate level. Only 3.5% rated their computer skills as experienced. It is quite interesting, that
the majority of the respondents (53%) use e-resourcesweekly. The above findings suggest limited
use of electronic resources by Medical students, mainly due to unawareness of available e-resources
at the library. In order to exploit the full potential of e-resources, the library should undertake a
more active role in informing, promoting, and educating the members of the academic community
in the university.
Keywords: E-resources, Information Literacy Skills, Computer Skills, Information Literacy,
Library use
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Use of University Library Web as a Marketing Tool in Sri Lanka
Ranasinghe, Shirani and Konpola, K.W.A.M.
shirani@sjp.ac.lk
Marketing is not a new concept for libraries. The concept of marketing has been transferred from
business world to service or to non for profit organizations since 1970s. Presently almost all libraries
apply the concept of marketing for number of reasons. Common strategies in practice are
advertising through various media and public relations. With the development and adoption of
technologies, most libraries all over the world are exploiting the web as a tool for marketing.
The study aimed at finding out whether the university libraries in Sri Lanka embraced with ICT in
implementing marketing strategies through internet/web and present state of use of web sites as a
marketing tool.
Present study involved a survey based on evaluation of web sites of university libraries in Sri Lanka.
Web sites of Universities under University Grants Commission were the population (15) and the
whole population was selected as the sample. The researchers used four major criteria with sub
categories adopted from Kaur, Kiran in 2009. University home pages and library home pages were
assessed. Each and every website was evaluated for visibility, Networking, information and
consultations and comments.
Only a half (53%) of the universitylibrary web sites possess the direct links to university home page.
47% are hidden and are under Academic or some other heading and have to use several steps to
reach the web page. 53% of library web sites have provided links to other external networks such
as to universities, Library associations. Almost all the libraries have provided information regarding
their collection, services and facilities. In all the library web sites e mail of the library and staff
were indicated but only 40% have gone beyond that service such as “Ask – A service” or message
service.
It seems that marketing process is not carried out through the web in an effective manner though
there are some adoptions and initiatives to use the websites as a tool for marketing. It was strongly
felt that library professionals in Sri Lanka should pay more attention to market their libraries
through web. They should reap maximum benefit from the ICT and, marketing concepts should be
warmly accepted and introduced by the librarians.
Keywords: Marketing, library marketing, University libraries, Web applications, Information
service
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Internet Use and Its Impact on Library Usage by Trainiees at Naval and Maritime Academy
(NMA), Sri Lanka
Ranawella, T.C.
thanuja@kdu.ac.lk
This study focuses on the impact of Internet on Library usage, Navel and Maritime Academy
(NMA), Sri Lanka. In this study, two hundred trainees attached to NMA were given a semi
structured questionnaire to collect data. It shows that the usage level of NMA library is very low
due to the personal laptops given with dongles to the trainees to access Internet directly. It is also
noted that the opening hours of the library and the location, hampers the use of library. The
researcher recommends that adequate funding to be made available to the library to provide
electronic resources and to introduce training programs to enhance the knowledge of trainees on
information retrieval and citation techniques to maintain academic honesty. The researcher also
recommends to introduce a plagiarism software to the NMA library to prevent violation of
copyrights.
Keywords: Electronic resources, Plagiarism, Information retrieval, Internet use, Information
services
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Quality Management System in Libraries: A Case Study
Rao, P.V
mgsipa.punjab@gmail.com
International Standards are the backbone of the society, ensuring the safety and quality of products
and services, facilitating and improving the present environment in which we live in. Conformity
to International Standards helps reassure consumers those products, systems and organizations are
safe, reliable and good for the environment. When products and services conform to International
Standards consumers can have confidence that they are safe, reliable and of good quality.
ISO 9001 is a worldwide standard designed and developed by the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), Switzerland. ISO 9001 is currently in use by close to one million
organizations around the world. It is truly a worldwide standard for quality. Obtaining ISO 9001
certification puts libraries in a very select group. ISO standards draw on international expertise and
experience and are therefore a vital resource for governments when developing public policy.
Libraries around the world can the standards to provide quality library and information services to
their clientele.
A quality management system (QMS) is a formalized system that documents processes, procedures,
and responsibilities for achieving quality policies and objectives. A QMS helps coordinate and
direct an organization’s activities to meet customer and regulatory requirements and improve its
effectiveness and efficiency on a continuous basis.
ISO 9001:2015 is an example of a Quality Management System. ISO 9001:2015, the international
standard specifying requirements for quality management systems, is the most prominent approach
to quality management systems. For libraries, certification can be a useful tool to add credibility,
by demonstrating that services provided meet the expectations of users. The benefits of the
certification are numerous and include user satisfaction and user centred services in the libraries.
The paper discusses the various benefits of quality management system in libraries and adopting a
quality management system standard; describe the various issues related to ISO 9001:2015
standard; and shares a case study of implementing such a system in the library attached to M G
State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab, Chandigarh (India).
Keywords: Quality management, Library management, Library services, Special libraries
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Quality Assured Innovative and Best Practices in Library and Information Services
Rath, Pravakar
pravakarrath@gmail.com
Quality assurance in library and information services is a conscious and planned activity to create
competition among the libraries, customer satisfaction by maintaining some international standards
and bench marks through accountability. This further improves employee’s morale and satisfaction
which in turn bring credibility, prestige, status, image and visibility of the institution nationally and
internationally. Quality in library and information services can only be assured through innovative
services and best practices to meet the changing information needs of the customers.
Libraries of all categories were used to cater traditional library and information services like
bibliographic, database, literature search, documentation, CAS, SDI, translation, reprographic etc.
Besides libraries adopted some best practices as extension services like organising book exhibitions,
essay and quiz completion to promote reading habits, best library user award, best library worker
award, orientation programme. Advances in information and communication technology, changing
information scenario and its application in library and information activities have compelled the
library and information professionals to revamp and reorient the existing library and information
services and professionals. Dramatic developments in the library and information activities have
taken place due to the emergence of knowledge society, library resource sharing networks, digital
library, content development and content management. Institutional repository, RFID, Web
learning, MOOC, information/digital literacy and web based library services like social networking
so as to supplement global reforms in education system as value added library services.
Impact of information and communication technology have further compelled to develop the
information management skills of the library and information professionals in the areas of Library
Automation, Networking, Design and Development of Information System, Networking, Internet,
Digitization, Content Development, Managing and Organizing Information Resources and
Services, Applying Information Tools and Technologies and more importantly web based library
and information services (Library Web 2.0) including social networking.
The present paper shall discuss in detail the above mentioned quality assured, innovative and best
practices in both traditional and networked environment for a sustainable development of library
and information services that a knowledge society demands.
Keywords: Quality Assurance, Innovative, Best Practices, Library and Information Services
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A Study of SenakeBandaranayake Classification Scheme for the Archaeology and Related
Disciplines
Rathnabahu, R.M.N.
rathnabahu@kln.ac.lk
There are two types of classifications, one is the general classification scheme which covers all
subjects while the special classification scheme which covers a subject or single subject bundle.
Above general classification schemes apply in general libraries like university, public, national and
so on where as special libraries tend to use special classification schemes. Single subject based or
special libraries are facing many problems when using general schemes. However due to several
reasons, special libraries have to use general classification schemes. Therefore, the principal
purpose of this paper is to study a special collection namely, SenakeBandaranayake Classification
scheme (SBC) introduced to the Library of the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (PGIAR), Sri
Lanka.
The SBC is simple, usable and special library classification system. Neither the Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC) nor the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) are suitable for classifying
an archaeological collection. Therefore, late Prof SenekeBandaranayake developed this system in
classifying the archaeology and its related subject materials.Later this PGIAR Classification System
was named as a SenakeBandaranayake Classification by the Senior Assistant Librarian of the
Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (PGIAR) in year 2010 in honor of his devotional dedication
to the development of this system.
Forth version of SBC system is currently using at present and it was edited on 30 th December 1995.
The SBC organizes library materials by three main classes namely, General Subjects (A),
Archeology (B) and Region or country specific material (C). The notations in section A and section
B are purely non numerical. Letters of the English language are used as symbols. The two major
sections namely, A and B are subdivided into board subject areas by addition of a second letter to
the notation. Further subdivisions have indicated by the third letter notation. Decimal uses for
creating further divisions.
Following example will described the situation; B- Archaeology, BC-Techniques, BCB.ExExcavations. Third category section C, are assigned a numerical notation of four digits. Further
specification is achieved by division of the whole number in a hierarchical pattern i.e 3608 Sri
Lanka. These area numbers are combined the classification numbers of either section A and B as
appropriate i.e “Sri Lankan Philosophy” is classified as 3608 AC. Rules and regulations and
guidelines for classification are incorporated in main volume to make numbers. Further, Index to
SBC also available. SBC is able to accommodate new subjects. No tables are indicated.This is
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overall classification system and not for all divisions and subdivisions have been finalized. These
will be developed as the collection grows. Currently The Libraries of PGIAR, the Central Cultural
Fund and Department of Archaeology are using this system.
Keywords: Classification, Library classification, Special classification, SenekeBandaranayake
Classification, Archaeology, Bibliographic control, Knowledge organization
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Responsive Resource Scheduling in Cloud Environment
Ravindhren, V.G. and Ravimaran, S.
ravindhren.vg@gmail.com ,ssg_ravimaran@mamce.org
Cloud computing has driven the IT industry to the next level in its evolution. Many IT companies
provide subscription-based access to different types of Computing resources in the form of
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS). Due to the rise of these services the cost of computation and application hosting has come
down dramatically by several orders.
But still there are challenges and complexity involved in the development of reliable and scalable
applications in the dynamically changing cloud environment. One of challenging issues is to have
efficient scheduling systems for cloud computing. Cloud computing resources being distributed
across large geographical area makes it difficult to forecast the dynamic change of cloud
environment in real-time. The Scheduling in Cloud environment is complicated further by the
various QoS constraints such as: Optimization goals, choosing a scheduling algorithm for the nature
of the task, system performance and cost.
Most of the conventional resource allocation strategies are not suitable to handle the fast and
dynamic nature of the Cloud Environment and may not satisfy the requirements of the clients.
Therefore, this paper presents a new ResponsiveResource Scheduling framework which improves
resource utilization as well asprovides cost effective solution. The core ideais to choose different
scheduling algorithms for different situations. The result will demonstrate the suitability of the
proposed scheme that will increase throughput, reduce waiting time, reduction in missed process
considerably and balances load among the physical machines in a Data centre.
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Resource Management, responsive scheduling, dynamic scheduling,
Cloud optimization
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Continuing Education for LIS Professionals in India: A Study
Raza, M.M. and Subhan, Maliha
masoomr@yahoo.com, maliha.amu@gmail.com
Librarians have to play the part of intermediary between the vast network of resources and its
consumers. To meet the ever-changing demands of the users, library professionals require
constantly updated knowledge and skills for effective performance. Continuing education is
necessary for every professional. Capability of a library depends largely on the skills of its staff.
Hence, it is important to assess the qualities of library professionals for continuing education and
professional development in the changing electronic environment. The most frequently asked
general qualities are communication skill, personal IT skills, knowledge/awareness of IT systems
and applications, staff management, strategic management. To develop these qualities in library
professionals various types of programs such as conferences, workshops, symposiums, distance
learning, are being organized. The purpose of this paper is to identify the continuing education
practices in the field of LIS. The data will be collected from different online sources. This study
highlights the contribution of universities, colleges, professional bodies in updating and keeping
professionals abreast with the latest tools and techniques in the field of LIS. Secondly it focuses on
areas of LIS on which these programs are being conducted in India from 2015 to mid 2016. Such
programs cover vast range of topics i.e. Digitization, Information Networks, Knowledge
Management, Resource Management, etc. and help us in identifying the modern trends in LIS.
Keywords: Libraries, Librarians, Continuing Education, Professional Development
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The Attitudes towards Reading and the Reading Habits of the Students of Nāgānanda
International Institute for Buddhist Studies
Rewatha, Rev. P
prewatha@hotmail.com
Reading is a conscious activity which is aimed at understanding the author’s idea. Therefore it can
also be explained as a mental action. Reading habit can be beneficial to a person in the aspects of
gaining knowledge and social activities.
This research study is based on the attitudes towards reading and the reading habits of the students
of Nāgānanda International Institute for Buddhist Studies. A sample group of 78 students was used
for the study. The preliminary data collection was conducted through a questionnaire. Background
details, reading materials, time spent for reading daily, hobbies and the use of media like phones
and internet were studied in this research. In order to understand the attitudes towards reading,
fifteen statements were given to the students. For which they should agree or disagree. As per the
preliminary study, the most popular reading source is the religious books. They spent an average of
one to two hours a day for reading and are mostly interested in reading in their leisure. A similar
number of students have a likeness towards the use of internet. Even though the majority has an
interest in reading and acquiring knowledge, one of the major difficulties faced when reading is the
drowsiness and the weariness. But they are still interested in keeping a private collection of books.
Many students interested to read books as a conventional source however due their meager
acquaintance of modern e-resources, acute trust on conventional source like books prompted
reading rather using modern e-resources. Therefore, they have to be trained and more awareness
programs on the use of e-resources.
Keywords: Reading habits, Reading attitudes, Nāgānanda University.
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Application of RFID System in Selected Libraries in Delhi, India: Issue & Challenges
Roy, P., Kumar, S. and Sonu
projesroy@hotmail.com, shail3@yahoo.com, sonupanchal911@gmail.com
The paper studied many aspects of the RFID application, its budgeting, purchase process and
application. It also studied advantages and limitation of RFID Technology, Documentation and
Financial Implication, Challenges faced in initial stage and remedies, RFID tag, RFID Gate,
software, vendor selection. The library has taken many innovative steps to implement the RFID in
a very short period of time and in less technical glitches. It also studied counting performance with
RFID technology, Wrong-positioned book situation with RFID technology, reaching the sources in
the library with RFID technology and Library services as copyright and lending out books with
RFID technology.
The study selected major important libraries in Delhi, out of that, it’s found that four libraries are
using the RFID system at that time. In the present study descriptive survey method was used to
know the usage of Radio Frequency Identifier System (RFID). The author wanted to know the usage
of RFID system among the users of four selected Libraries in Delhi. A structured questionnaire was
designed to collect the raw data. This research employs the method of quantitative research to gather
an in-depth understanding of the nature of usage of RFID system among users of said libraries.
From the above study it has been found that the entire three libraries are RFID applicable. The users
are very much satisfied with the RFID application of the library. The application of the library is
differ from one another. The hardware and software is also diversified. But the main objectives of
the said libraries are same, i.e. service to the users.
The studyshows the effective application of RFID technology is done by IIT Delhi library. On the
other hand the British council library is older one for the application of RFID. Still the clientele and
subject covered by the IIT library are huge and diversified. The technological effectiveness of IIT
library is better than other two libraries. NASSDOC library should show more effectiveness for the
daily use of the RFID technology.
Above all, the RFID technology is very efficient technology to manage the different housekeeping
jobs of the library. It’s not so much expensive venture, its result oriented venture. Security of books
and identification of books is done very quickly. The technology can be adopted by the other
libraries in India.
Keywords: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Application Family Identifies (AFI), Mifare
Card, Operating Frequency, RFID Reader, Staff Station, Self-circulation kiosk.
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Information needs of Newspaper Journalists in Sri Lanka
Sajeewani, K.
kusalasajeewani@gmail.com
The principal purpose of this paper is to identify the information needs of the Newspaper Journalists
in Sri Lanka.The other objectives are to examine the sources of information they use and to
investigate the type of libraries they use for getting information.
The survey research design used and the population are the newspaper journalists in Sri Lanka and
the sample selected using hundred newspaper journalists. Majority of newspaper journalists
preferred to use political information, health, education and the information related to the gender
respectively. Majority used newspapers, books, newspaper cuttings, internet and audio visual
media as a sources obtaining information correspondingly. 58% used their institution libraries they
work and second position got their use of personal libraries.
The general standard and norm is that the journalist should be more versatile and be knowledgeable
not only with a particular area of his or her interest but with other subject areas not limiting to a
minor area in the sense that the newspaper journalists should possess wider knowledge, experience
and competencies. This will enable the newspaper journalists to offer quality service for the
newspaper reading communities. On the other hand, this kind of soundness will help to develop a
newspaper journalist an all-rounder, socially recognized persons and enable to serve the readers.
This will support for the professionalism in newspaper journalists.
Keywords: Information services, Journalism, Information needs, Mass Communication, Newspaper
journalism
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A Study on the Factors for Motivation of University Librarians of Sri Lanka in Continuing
their Professional Education
Samarakoon, M. and De Silva, G.
manori454@yahoo.com, manori@bpu.ac.lk
The present electronic environment has demanded a change of skills for library and information
science professionals such as technical skills, IT skills, and managerial skills etc., Continuing
Professional Education (CPE) is a lifelong process to develop and maintain knowledge, skills,
values, ethics and attitudes relevant to professionals to achieve professional goals and to succeed in
their respective careers. CPE is an important platform for professionals in terms of updating of
professional knowledge and improvement of professional competence of their working lives.
Objectives of this study were to identify motivational factors for the CPE, to decide on the
librarians’ needs and performance of CPE, different methods to motivate librarians towards CPE.
The research methodology used in this study is survey method. Questionnaires, observations and
interviews were used as principle techniques. The research methods are used for obtaining
qualitative and quantitative data for the analysis. Data were presented using charts, tables, graphs
etc. The sample taken for this study consists of 100 personnel. Also 54 professionals filled the
questionnaires and returned for the purpose of this study. Samples of hundred professionals from
15 prominent, reputed and recognized universities have been selected.
It was revealed that the female library professionals outnumber the males in the university libraries.
They are engaged in research and publication activities. But there is no strong relationship between
work experience and research and publications. Professionals are highly motivated to the need of
updating of knowledge and skills, to widen experience and practical knowledge in the practice of
librarianship, better service to others, new and creative ideas, ability to study effectively. They
require CPE programs for ICT, information literacy and awareness of new library trends.
A program in CPE should be provided for all library professionals according to their interests and
involvement. Establishment of an association for CPE and performance reviews are suggested to
develop high standards in CPE at university libraries.
Keywords: CPE, Motivation factors, University academics, Librarians, University libraries,
Human resource management
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Library Technologies for Teaching Learning and Research
Sankar, M.
sankar_tnaulib2@yahoo.com
As the internet and web technologies are gaining momentum in terms of knowledge generation,
organization and dissemination with most convenient and economic form, it is imperative for
libraries to elope with tech savvy users to make use of range of technologies towards information
management. As emphasized by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan “Right Information at Right Time in Right
Personnel way”, the present day libraries need not only to disseminate information but also enable
the end users towards knowledge analytics. The present study aimed at identifying and assessing
the appropriate library technologies that are useful and practice among the libraries of national and
international repute towards knowledge sharing and dissemination. The technologies such as
Reference Management systems, Research Profile management tools, Library Web designing, Web
Casting and Pod Casting tools, the multimedia, the e-learning tools, Content Management System
(CMS), Learning Management System (LMS), the web and mobile apps can be leveraged with
library technology towards provision of more customized, personalized knowledge dissemination
through online and remote. The paper also describes how this Z generation tools enable the libraries
to attract and satisfy both digital users. The paper also analyze the role of library classics, the
knowledge organization principles towards integrating mobile technologies to perceive high quality
information and knowledge inputs. A good number of libraries have been adopted some of these
library 2.0 and library 3.0 tools and techniques but there is a gap prevailed between technology poor
and technology rich libraries. By evolving a common and open access technology enabled library
practices would solve the problem and strive the libraries to reach the unreached.
Keywords: Z generation tools, library technologies, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Library 2.0, Library 3.0,
Social Network, Library Services.
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Preservation and Conservation of Digital Resource Practices in Academic Libraries in
Coimbatore: A Study
Sarangapani, R. and Mangiyakarasi, Arspani1967@gmail.com, mangay31@gmail.com
A survey using a structured questionnaire was adopted to study preservation and conservation
practice in academic libraries in Coimbatore. The study revealed that there was no written policy
on preservation and conservation in nearly all libraries. In addition to the lack of written
preservation policy, the lack of trained manpower and lack of funding were the main constraints
for preservation and conservation practices. Higher authorities and policy makers need to be
initiated inn of staff and budget not just for preservation but seemingly for the long term survival
of libraries.
Keywords: Academic Libraries, preservation and Conservation, Digital Resources, Various
Techniques
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Preservation Methods for Digital Materials
Sarangapani, R. and Mangiyakarasi, A.
rspani1967@gmail.com, mangayj31@gmail.com
In the modern era has been changing the role of library perspectives towards the future. The main
mission of a library is to collect, organize, preserve and provide access to the knowledge and
information. The libraries maintain all variety of collections including both printed materials such
as books, journals, newspapers, as well as audio and video records, CD-ROMs, micro fitches, online
databases and software applications. Library preservation is the valuable record of culture that can
be passed down towards the succeeding generations. While these documents have traditionally been
tangible objects, much of the information is we create now digital, and must be preserved using
different methods. It can be useful to material safe and digital document serve as vital links to the
past. The main problem with digital preservation is that digital technology, in comparison to print,
is an extremely fragile medium for the historical events of the world. The present paper discussed
about the necessity of digital content preservation implementation of cloud technique in digital data
storage preservation service and briefly viewed with appropriate techniques for preservation and
conservation of digital materials in the library. Dura cloud is open source technology for digital
material storing in the cloud based application. It has been provided the features to build in the
computer service for digital preservation, data access and transformation, and sharing information
with new technology.
Keywords: Preservation & Conservation, Dura cloud, digital library, Digital library sources, cloud
computing.
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Research on “Western Ghats”: A Scientometric Analysis
Selvamani, J. and Kumari, N.P.
jayamselvamani@gmail.comsreeakshayaa@gmail.com
Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents
geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes. The
site’s high mountain forest ecosystems influence the Indian monsoon weather pattern. This
mountain chain is recognized as one of the world’s eight ‘hottest hotspots’ of biological diversity
along with Sri Lanka. The forests of the Western Ghats include some of the best representatives of
non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests in the world. At least 325 globally threatened (IUCN Red
Data List) species occur in the Western Ghats. The globally threatened flora and fauna in the
Western Ghats are represented by 229 plant species, 31 mammal species, 15 bird species, 43
amphibian species and many reptile species. Of the total 325 globally threatened species in the
Western Ghats, 129 are classified as Vulnerable, 145 as endangered and 51 as critically endangered
(UNESCO).
It is always good to integrate the significant concepts and subjects into Library and Information
Science practices. Hence, the applications of LIS principles contribute further for the growth of the
subject domain. In this relevance, the present study aimed at identifies and analysis the quality
research output on “Western Ghats” and its Geographical, Social, Geological, Political, and Natural
importance. Internationally recognized indexing, analytical and citation database of research
publications known as Web of Science chosen as source of this study to measure the research in
terms of quantity and quality. The study reveals that there 2,204 publications on Western Ghats are
indexed for the study period that is 28 years. There are 609 journals published the research on
“Western Ghats” written by 4294 authors affiliated to 1492 research institutions and organization
from 66 countries.
It is found that more number of research articles are sponsored by the funding agencies across the
globe, of which the research organization form India contributed major stake, which is followed by
National Science Foundation (NSF) (0.54 %), Royal Society of England (0.36 %). India as top most
country contributed 86 % of the total research output which is followed by USA (12.16 %) and
England (5.7 %). The publication on “Western Ghats” research scored 20,088 times cited with a hindex 57 for the time span. With regard to research areas Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (7.1
%), and Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) (5.7 %) are the top major areas in which
the “Western Ghats” research outcome is documented.
Keywords: Research Productivity, Research Funding Pattern, visualizing bibliometric networks,
Western Ghats, Asia.
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Study on State of the Modern Technology used in Preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts in
Sri Lanka
Senanayake, S.M.T., Madusanka, W.M.H and Gunasinghe, H.C.
senanayakethu1990@gmail.com, hiran6361@gmail.com, hachagu@gmail.com
The extensive horde of palm leaf manuscripts are heir and could be considered as the prime storage
of indigenous intangible knowledge which has been fostering for more than hundred
decades.Though they were live source of knowledge in early years, most of palm leaf manuscripts
today are not in use and subject to deterioration. The Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and Research
Library in the University of Kelaniya, which has been established with the objective of preservation
of existing palm leaf manuscripts has been functioning since 2009.
The prime objective of this research is to study on the state of the modern technology used by the
Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and Research Library in University of Kelaniya for the preservation
of palm leaf manuscripts which contain indigenousknowledge. The study methods used were field
study and observation.
The preliminary method for storage and retrieval of palm leaf manuscripts available with temples
and private owners in Sri Lanka by the Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and Research Library. The
digitization before that, it is compulsory to preserve them using traditional preservation methods
and the digitized copies will be subject to library technology process. After the classification and
catalogingprocess is over, the data will be uploaded to and maintained by the open source software
named ‘D-Space’ used by the Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and Research Library. This procedure
facilitates to researchers to use the collection owned by the Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and
Research Library through internet online. The Palm Leaf Manuscripts Study and Research Library
of University of Kelaniya is the only institute in Sri Lanka which provides facility of this nature for
studyingon palm leaf manuscripts via online.
Keyword: Palm Leaf Manuscripts, Preservation, Digitization, D-Space Software
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Kudagama Gypsies’s village as an attraction informative source for Tourists.
Senarathna, T.M.C.D.
chaturika@gmail.com
Kudagama Gypsies village in Thambuttegama is a unique destination that has traditional and
cultural values its own. Research problem was how to attract foreign visitors to Kudagama Gypsies
village. Principal objective was to identify the potential for promoting Kudagama village among
foreign visitors. Research was based on both primary sources including field observations,
interviews and structured questionnaires while secondary sources used including reports,
magazines,web sites etc.The sample was consisted of 50 foreign visitors who were randomly
selected at Anuradhapura sacred area. Visitors were interviewed with structured questionnaires to
identify their perception, knowledge, the way that they easily can log in to gain knowledge and
comments regarding the new destination. Most of gypsy people are used to travel here and there
performing cultural uniqueness as their traditional livelihood (snake charming, monkeys’
performances, python handling and fortune telling). These are uniqueness that they have. Thus this
traditional culture cannot be compared with an another culture moreover. Dilmah conservation
group has introduced a promotional program to promote its uniqueness to tourism industry
establishing a museum, an open air theater and a cultural center in 2013. The visitor related services
and infrastructure facilities were not in a satisfied level in the program. Although it has enough
sanitary facilities and well-established construction system, the management of Dilmah group
didn’t pay attention on a proper maintained system. There should be a proper site management plan
and visitors should be given a well-planned promotional campaign to have an enough perception
on the site and unique community moreover. Also The government sector and private sector should
pay attention on the project allocating funds, including the new product in their tour packages,
giving a vast dissemination in their promotional campaigns (trade fairs, conferences and
promotional documentaries etc.). Meanwhile living statues of the locals and the quality of their
lifestyle should be upgraded to uplift community’s revenue furthermore.
Key words: Gypsies, Promotional campaign, Foreigners, Visitors
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An Investigation of Information Needs of Coconut Industrialists in Sri Lanka
Seneviratne, R.A.P.S
saku@lib.ruh.ac.lk, saku1981cda@gmail.com
Information can be considered as the most significant assets that contribute to the development of
any context in this information era. Among many other industries, there is a high demand for
information in the coconut industry as well. Coconut is one of the three major economical industries
in Sri Lanka. Thus present study was conducted to investigate the information needs of coconut
industrialists in Sri Lanka.
Study population consists with 200 coconut exporters and mill owners who registered in the
Coconut Development Authority of Sri Lanka. Data were collected through a paper and pencil based
questionnaire until the valid responses rate reach 100%.
Analysis revealed that 56% of the respondents indicated that they need reliable and up dated
information about the local market, while 66.5% were prefer information on the foreign market.
53.5% of the respondents were interested to obtain information about prices of coconut products,
while 52% interested about the raw material prices. In addition, respondents are equally interested
about the prices and technological information about machineries, storage, market trends, stock
exchange, logistics, and fluctuations of product prices.
Respondents indicated that currently they are fulfilling their information needs through field
officers, CDA’s official website, CDA publications, training workshops, awareness programs. It
can be concluded that there is a high demand for information, by the coconut industry of Sri Lanka.
It can be suggested to adopt novel technology such as Digital libraries, mobile technologies and
cloud applications which can be easily used for information dissemination in any industry of a
country.
Keywords: Information needs, Coconut Industry, Information dissemination, Coconut information
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Community Radio and its Impact over the Community Development in Sri Lanka
Seneviratne, W. and Gunasekara, R.M
wsene@ou.ac.lk, rmgun@ou.ac.lk
Use of radio being the widest and quickest media to disseminate any kind of information for any
community has being very effective end universally acknowledged. The great potential of radio
communication for dissemination of information community development such as agricultural,
health, economics, industrial, finance, government and local government, development
information, economics and industrial etc. has been proven highly effective through many
community studies conducted at ground level relating to various geographical areas. However
potential usage and its impact of this powerful media has not explored extensively in Sri Lankan
context. It was observed that the impact and further potential of improving remote community lives
through ‘community radio’ is a significant area to be investigated as for some remote and special
communities the wireless communication is the only potential channel of information access. Main
objective of the study is to explore the status of radio channels broadcasted as a community
information service. As specific objectives the study expects to explore the behavior of these
channels in reaching communities and whether these channels deliver intended information required
by the community categories identified and to study the impact areas that had resulted through
community information delivered by these channels. Population of the survey is 961listeners
randomly selected from 47 divisional secretariats areas in seven randomly sepected districts (
Colombo, Matale, Matara, Hambantota, Ampara, Polonnaruwa and Badulla). Data was collected
by administering a questionnaire. Findings of the study indicates that people listen to the radio
specifically for the latest news and new inventions, next entertainment and for religious programs.
Another important information obtained from the community channels is the economic information
for marketing of agricultural produce. It was also gathered that there is a demand for economic
development programmes and home economics programmes. According to the study most popular
channel opted was Hiru FM and second option was Neth FM. Certain amount of responses received
for Buddhist channel as well. When analysiing the programme content, most people used the radio
to update their knowledge by listening news and most popular service was news paper reading. This
was highly popular among senior citizens. There is a higher range of responses to know about new
inventions and female specific programmes such as cooking and beauty culture, women health
issues etc. According to the main findings of the study it was noticed that there is a high potential
to use the community radio as an effective channel to reach, unreached communities for many socioeconomical/developmental, socio-technological, socio-political purposes and social welfare
purposes. It was also gathered that this unleashed potential communication evenue can be used for
the enhancement of community lives in many aspects such as community health, community
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development, community financing, community education, industrial development especially in the
lines of self employment and self financingprogrammes productively. Above all the channels that
are being broadcasted at present need reviewed meticulously to see whether they deliver what the
community need on service basis, rather than delivering the content of commercial focus. The paper
present core areas identified by the communities which are treated as important for them listen.
Keywords: Community radio, Community development, Radio programs, Community outreach,
Mass media.
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Insight into usage of Spoken Tutorial LRM among Technical Institutions
Senthamilselvi, A. and SirinivasaRaghavan, S.
assenthamil@gmail.com
In the present scenario, the usage of Open source learning resources have become popular and the
most chosen way of learning subjects among the academicians, students and research scholars. The
Government of India had initiated a Project titled “Spoken tutorial” through the Ministry of Human
Resources and Development (MHRD) funded by National Mission on Education through
Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to promote the learning of subjects of
many disciplines through ICT technology at free of cost. The course contents are organized in form
of short videos in multi lingual format so that learners can easily download the videos and play it
any form of digital gadgets. The technology enables the learners to learn at their own pace even
without the support of teachers. It is an interactive type of learning where learner can practice the
concepts by watching the videos.
The objectives of this study are, The number of courses offered by spoken tutorial in different
disciplines, It probes the number of institutions that offer Spoken tutorial training to the students, It
also finds the number of courses offered, institution wise, It finds the Institute which ranks first
among the colleges in Tamilnadu, It finds the State which ranks first among the states in India in
offering the Spoken tutorial courses and It probes the total number of participants who registered
for the course and the number of participants who successfully completed.
This study helps to find the reach of the Open source LRM among the faculty and students. It will
be useful in promoting awareness among students and faculty to learn the new courses by making
use of the online learning materials.
Keywords: Spoken-Tutorial, Open Source, LRM, online learning, Information communication
Technology.
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Usage of E - Resource for Academic Purposes among the University Temporary staff:
special reference with faculty of social sciences, University of Kelaniya.
Sewwandi, H.K.I., Jayawardana, M.C.N. and Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N.
hkisharasewwandi@gmail.com, chathurika.navodani@gmail.com, u.nayani90@gmail.com
Electronic Resources have become a necessity in the modern information society. Today
information and communication technology has given more opportunities for the information
seekers, scholars and researchers. This new trend has changed expanded and added value to the
library collections as well as has widened the scope of the library user communities. E Resource
comes with various forms such as E- books, E-Journals, E-Databases etc. Through the electronic
media temporary academic staff makes aware himself with the current information and updates.
The study investigated the usage of E-resources by the Temporary staff. The objectives of the study
were to examine how the university temporary staff search required information through the eresources and how they use e-resources for their academic purposes. Structured questionnaires were
distributed among all the temporary staff in the Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya.
Questionnaire was the main data gathering method. It was identified that from the total population
only 74% use electronic media for their academic works. According to the results 40% percent of
temporary staff uses e-books to search information, 15% percent use online databases and 19%
Percent of students use e-Journals. 26% Percent of staff didn‘t appear to use electronic media for
their academic purposes. Major Reason for this issue is staff used to go for the university library
for search information without electronic concept. Other Problems were lack of awareness about
electronic media, Connection problems Suggestions were made to conduct training sessions,
workshops in order to awareness among stakeholders.
Keywords: Information, Electronic media, Library, University
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Highly cited Papers from Sri Lanka during 1989-2016
Shanmugam, A. P. and Surulinathi, M.
drapshanmugamlibrarian@gmail.com, surulinathi@gmail.com
This Study identified prominent Authors, Institution, Journals used and papers published by Sri
Lankan researchers during 1989–202015 and cited at least 100 times by end of 2015 are analysed.
There were 136 papers with at least one author from Sri Lanka that have gone on to be cited at least
100 times. Sri Lankan scientists have place their papers in high impact factor journals such
LANCET, Science and received huge amount citations. University of Peradeniya (11574 Citations
for 36 Papers), International Water Management Institute (5084 Citations for 22 Papers), University
of Colombo (3160 Citations for 21 Papers) are the prominent Sri Lankan Institutions. 136 papers
are collaborated more than 130 countries and 1954 Institutions with National and International
level. Dharmaratne, SD from University of Peradniya with 2279 Citations and collaboration with
118 Authors top list and second paper with 1671 Citations and collaboration with 196 authors
followed by Markin, IW from IWMI with 1044 citation. Dharmaratne is predominant authors from
Sri Lanka in terms of Citations. Six Authors are published 9 papers each and received 7042 Citations
each. 172 authors are received more than 5000 Citations. 136 papers are received 30808 Citations
and index in 90 journals. Collaborations papers are dominating the citations. The average citation
paper per article is 223 and its shows strength of the research.
Keyboards: Highly Cited Papers, Scientometrics, Sri Lanka
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A Study on User Satisfaction of Undergraduates of Vavuniya Campus of the University of
Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Shanmugathasan, S.
shan@mail.vau.jfn.ac.lk
Academic libraries play a pivotal role in the transmission of information and knowledge in higher
educational institutions. The user community is the most important component of a library. Every
information service exists for the sole aim of satisfying its users. This study investigates to explore
the utilization and user satisfaction of the Vavuniya Campus Library. The study was carried out
using a survey methodology by employing 150 undergraduates chosen across two faculties of five
degree programs on the stratified random sampling technique for the study. The results showed that
though overall satisfaction with the Library services recorded a satisfactory rating, there is more
room for improvement as far as the services and resources. There is lack of adequate facilities,
especially inadequate space and non conducive environment, and internet or ICT services in the
Campus Library. It is recommended to house the library in a permanent building with full fledged
facilities.
Keywords : Academic Libraries, User satisfaction, Library services
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Impact of Social Media in Disseminating of Information in the Libraries of Higher
Education
Shivraj, K.S.
ksshivraj@gmail.com
Social Media (SM) has released a new platform for the Librarians to disseminate information. This
paper is to investigate how the libraries and data applications are utilizing Social Media tools for
disseminating the right information around the Globe. The social media has steadily slunk into the
library profession with Social positions such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Library
Thing, Ning; it has become evident that the Library services will need to change to meet the growing
needs of the Library end users. The Academic Libraries have been challenged like never before to
render more proactive and more value added services to meet the ever changing needs of the student
community. Colleges and universities are beginning to embrace social media and realizing the
potential power and implications for using it as a component of their overall marketing mix.
Libraries ought to assume vital parts in teaching benefactors about the new advances and the
interpersonal interaction aptitudes.
Keywords: Social Media in Libraries, Information Dissemination, Higher Educational Libraries
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A Study on Attitudes of University Lectures and Students about the Use of Digital Libraries
for Searching Academic Information
Somananda, Rev. B.
somanandabopeththe@gmail.com
Modern world is highly information dependent and the teaching faculty and undergraduates use
digital libraries and institutional repositories in their teaching and learning process in order to obtain
the information they needed. The main purpose of this research is to figureoutthe situations and the
attitudes that university lecturers and undergraduates feel when gathering information by using
digital libraries.
This research based on the survey method and for the survey all the lecturers and undergraduates
of university of Kelaniya has been considered as the research population and a sample was selected
among lecturers of Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanity and the undergraduates of the bachelor
of (BA) special degree programs of the same faculty.
Primary data were collected through distributing questionnaire to the lecturers, using random
sampling method. Secondary data were collected through the printed sources which was considered
relevant to the research.
In the study of academic information, it was revealed that the most of the lecturers and
undergraduates of the two faculty were not using digital libraries, Lack of understanding about this
concept of the main reason for this situation. Responses indicate more priority to searching
academic information in using digital libraries. It was also revealed that they use those information
for their research activities. Also Digital libraryusers were happy in that as it contains qualitative
information sources and neutral attitude to the quantity of subject. Related information sources.
Language barrier faced by the Undergraduate and Lack of facilities, were some of the problem
identified.
Some of the solutions proposed based on findings are conducting awareness seminars and
workshops to share knowledge about digital libraries and its contents, workshops to publicize it by
the professional staff in the library field to solve many of the problems successfully which were
identified through the study.
Keywords: Digital Libraries, University libraries, Information and Communication Technology,
Information needs, Academic information
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Characteristics of Documentation patterns of Sri Lankan Tamils
Srikanthalakshmi, A
sriarul91@gmail.com
Sri Lankan Tamils have a rich tradition in art of writing which is prerequisite of any bibliographic
activity.Documentation in its widest sense used to address the recording of data, events, information
and even knowledge for variety of purposes.
It involves work of both compilation and
editing.Documentation work related to compilation is categorized into two major divisions as
source type and tool type documentation while work related to editing involves with reproduction
and creative documentation. This study specially focused only on documentation work related to
compilation.In this study an attempt is made to identify some characteristics of the documentation
works of Tamils living in and outside of Sri Lanka.Objective of this study is to identify the
Documentation patterns of Sri Lankan Tamils. Different kinds of 150 works have been selected on
random sampling method for this study. Using both descriptive and exploratory research methods,
this study explains the identified characteristics of documentation patterns of Sri Lankan
Tamilswith the analysis. Since all the outputs derived from documentation have the reference value
and they are treated as secondary information resources which are produced from primary
resources, the resources taken into this study has been categorized into two major divisions as
Source type documentation (86nos) and Tool Type documentation(64). In the Tool type
documentation works, majority of the works (59) are identified as providing merely bibliographical
details, 46 works are descriptive in nature and 4 works provides annotation. In source type
documentation 24 works comes under full text documentation. Each category has further been
classified on the basis of type of documents and most of on them (40 Nos) are focused on
books.Involvement of non-librarians in documentation activity is higher than library professionals.
Majority works (48nos) were identified as providing information with national scope. Systematic
arrangement was given priority in most of the compilations. Quantitative analysis shows near to
half of the works were done during 2000-2016. This study could play as an evidence for the
historical development of documentation culture of this nation in general and specific ethnic groups
in specific.
Keywords: Documentation ; Documentation culture; Sri Lankan Tamils; Bibliographic traditions
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Research Collaboration in Indian Universities: A Bibliometric Analysis of Universities in
Tamilnadu State.
Srinivasaragavan, S. and Dorairajan, M.
maduraiseenoo@yahoo.co.in, manavaidorai@gmail.com
This study examines the growth of Publications, Citation ranking, and h-index of Universities in
Tamilnadu. Web of Science provides significantly more coverage of University publications and
generate the Citations, Self Citations. During 1989-2016 Tamilnadu Universities have contributed
39336 Publications and received 3, 73,843 Citations. 288 papers are cited more than 100 times. The
range of Self Citations is 5 Percent to 20 Percentage. An average citation per Article 9.50 was
observed
among
Universities
that
are
engaged
in
active
research.
The bibliometric/Scientometric studies are frequently used to assess the research publicationsand
to analyze the growth of contributions and collaborations.
The analysis reviews that “Anna University” has highest publications (9376) stake and secures first
rank with highest citations (87426) and h-index (91), it is followed by “University of Madras” with
7962 publications and having citations of 75621 and h-index of 81. It is also found that “Mother
Terasa University” at last position with a meager contribution of just 27 publications with h-index
of 3 during the study period. Among the second phase universities funded by UGC, Bharathidasan
University, Tiruchirappalli at top position with 3471 publications having 36621 citations and hindex of 70. It is also revealed that Bharathidasan University secured second position (6525)
publications with a share of self-citations (17.82 %) while “Annamalai University” at top with
10,703 (19.05 %). This study also reveals that Gandhigram Rural University (16.54%) and
Bharathidasan University (10.55%) are in first and second position in terms of highest average
citation per article respectively. The highest individual citation for a research paper is 671, which
belongs to “Anna University”, followed by Bharathiar University and Tamilnadu Agriculture
University with 643 and 563 citations respectively for a single paper. It is also found that the
collaboration between the conventional Universities is established. There is no collaboration
between the professional Universities except “Anna University”. Bharathidasan University has
highest collaboration with “Anna University” and “Madurai Kamaraj University”.
This analysis also reveals that Anna University has highest citation of 8841 publications with 2389
research institutions from 63 countries and received research funding from 1533 from national and
international agencies. It is followed by Bharathidasan University having collaboration with 1164
research organizations from 55 countries and received funding from 734 agencies. It is also known
that all the surveyed Universities are having collaboration with hundreds of research institutes and
received research funding except M.G.R Medical University.
Keywords: Research Collaboration, Scientometrics, E-resources, Bibliometric, Research
Productivity, Academic Research, Bibliometric laws
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The Way of Using Social Media Networks for Current Awareness Services
Sumana, Rev. Bodagama, Pagngnaloka, Rev. K. andSobitha, Rev. Karapikkada
bsumana@busl.ac.lk
Social Media networks are very famous informativesources at present when comparing with other
technologies. The purpose of this research is to examine the usage of to social media networks to
promote Library and Information resources in between librarians and patrons in Sri Lankan as
current awareness services. Current Awareness Services help to library for notifying library services
to researches and other persons who need information. Presently, there are more social media
networks in the world. Some examples are Face book, twitter, likened, Google +, you tube. Face
book Social media networks are used by 1,100 100 100 peoples in the current world meanwhile the
Face book is most popular network in Sri Lanka too. Therefore current awareness services which
containing CAS list" Content pages services" Periodical Circulation" Paper cutting services"
Accession list and the notification of fourth coming conversion and Research in progress are used
by
the
librarians.
Nevertheless
public,
schools,
University
and
special
librarians
paylmeagerattention for these methods. The sole intention of this evaluattion is to notify the
knowledge and information to promote CAS services by using social media. According to the study,
although theSri Lankan libraries are connecting with social media but not more with CAS services.
Some of libraries used to use social media networks under the friend groups, pages and ask a
librarian. Therefore librarians have to be promoted to use this technology to notify library activities
for patrons.
Keywords: Social Media, Libraries, Current Awareness Services, Library Services, Patrons.
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A Comparative Study on Differences between Anglo - American Catalogue Rules (AACR II)
and Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Sumana, Rev. Bodagama
bsumana@busl.ac.lk
Anglo - American Catalogue Rules II in 2008 and Resource Description and Access are basically
used to cataloguing libraries. This study investigates differences between AACR II and RDA.
Resource Description and Access is a new standard for description and access knowledge. AACR
depends on ISBD standard and RDA was based on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records(FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data(FRAD). According to this study,
it can be identified differences of both cataloguing rules such as Parallel titles, statement of
responsibility, publication information and dates, relationship designators, capitalization , treatment
of typos or errors found on the resource, square brackets and fictitious entities and non-human
entities can be creators or contributors. Fundamentals of AACR II and RDA are also different.
Mainly, AACR II is a printed source, rules are created for both content and display and designed
for card catalogues. RDA is an online source and web based one, rules are created only for the
content and designed for a digital world. Therefore, Librarians have been focusing attention on
RDA rules rather than AACR II in order to develop future virtual library concept with regarding to
web based description and access to digitized knowledge and information.
Keywords : AACR II, RDA, Cataloguing, Information access, Information storages
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Introduction of Assignment Assessment System for Higher Education in Sri Lanka
Suraweera, Namali, Weersooriya, W.A, and Weerasinghe, M.K
namali@kln.ac.lk, sooria29@yahoo.com, mkmervin@kln.ac.lk
The Sri Lanka Qualifications Framework (SLQF) has been introduced into the Higher Education
sector for improving many vital aspects of learning and assessing the learning process. In response
to this framework, assessment procedures must be included when the syllabus is designed.
However, in the syllabus it only explains methods of evaluation and allocation of marks as an
assessment procedure (See Table 1).
Methods of Evaluation
Allocation of marks
Examination
75%
Assignments/Performances
20%
Attendance
05%
Total
100%
Table 1 – Example for Assessment Procedure
It does not clarifies assessment criteria and therefore students do not know what exactly his or her
lecturer expects from them to gain 20% of marks from total for his or her assignment. On the other
hand absence of proper assessment criteria may also impact on lecturer when he or she mark the
assignment.
This study fills these gaps by introducing rubrics. Rubrics have become popular with academics
especially in developed countries like New Zealand as a means of communicating expectations for
an assignment, providing focused feedback on works in progress, and grading final products. Heidi
Andrade defined rubric as “a document that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listing
the criteria, or what counts, and describing levels of quality from excellent to poor”.
Rubrics can be used to grade student work but they can serve another, more important, role as well.
For example, Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate. When used as part of a formative, studentcentred approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to help students develop understanding
and skill, as well as make dependable judgments about the quality of their own work. Students
should be able to use rubrics in many of the same ways that teachers use them—to clarify the
standards for a quality performance, and to guide ongoing feedback about progress toward those
standards.
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Introduction of said assignment assessment system have implications for academics in higher
education and practice in the forms of development of policies.
Keywords: Assignment Assessment System, Higher Education, Sri Lanka, Rubrics
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Impact of Mobile Technologies in Indian Academic Libraries: A Study
Suresh, B. and Sujatha, C
bsureshwin@gmail.com, sujathacsu@gmail.com
The impact of Science and Technology has unbeatable. The enormous growth of science and
technology teaches us many lessons towards the road less travelled or the road more travelled. The
impact of S& T changes the face of the libraries. The swift developments of Information and
Communication Technology have given a firm foundation for innovative changes in the information
usage abilities of academic libraries. Now the libraries are shifting their traditional way to new
techno savvy world. M-learning is emerging technology in India now-a-days. Librarians are aware
the availability of mobile services and take a step to move forward. The paper discusses on the
demand, advantages, barriers and solutions for good implementation of the mobile technology in
libraries. It also determines the types of infrastructure required by the libraries for providing these
services successfully in the libraries. Mobile technology or wireless technology saves the time of
the patrons. Mobile technology helps the users to locate the resources of the specific search made
by the patrons. It has moved toward with “Libraries in Palm” motto. Through Global Positioning
System (GPS) the patrons can access the documents virtually.
Keywords: M-learning, M-services, M-Services-Academic Libraries, Mobile technology-India
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A Technique to Tackle Both Speech and Writing Simultaneously: A Case Study based on
Library and Information Science Degree Program
Suwandaratna, D.
dharmapriy.sw.@gmail.com
Library science graduates need to find employment in libraries to use the expertise they gain as
students. Career opportunities in state libraries being negligible seeking work in private sector
libraries is the option they have. Yet, because of the advanced oral proficiency. The interviewees
are expected to display at career related viva voice examinations of the private sector, they fail to
impress interviewers, and as result lose chances of employment. To help them face interviews
satisfactory as well as tackle job related speech, providing them oral practice is a must. However,
given the wide range of writing tasks needed to be taught to address the Final Examination needs,
allocating separate time slots for speech is impracticable. Besides, tackling speech in isolation does
not appear to be productive. As a solution to this, the presenter designed special illustrations to
teach key writing areas of the Final Examination. Specialty of these illustrations was their
ambiguity. To unravel the ambiguity students had to interpret the pictures differently. The focus of
the class during this time being meaning, students did not mind using their interlanguage to interpret
pictures. The use of the language for a communicative purpose enabled students to acquire it
naturally. At the same time different interpretations provided raw materials for the writing tasks.
Diverse interpretations that emerged in class were sorted out later and relevant once were arranged
under different column headings of a specially designed table. Column were named as “Problem”,
“Cause”, “Solution”, “Motivation”, “Reaction”, “Request” and so on, depending on the nature of
the task. Contents in the column were orally practiced further and used to write letters reports,
notices. Technique helped tackle both speech and writing simultaneously. Class room observations
and feed back obtained from students suggest that the technique is effective and learner friendly.
Keywords: Second language teaching, Speech, Practice, Writing
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Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Geo Scientist in Sri Lanka.
Tilakarathna.T.C.P.K.
chandrika@ifs.ac.lk.
Information need has become foremost among human needs.
Due to this significance of
information, it has become a necessity to the officials in the field of Library Information Science,
to have a better understanding about the information needs of their clientele. The main objective
of this research is to identify the information need and information seeking behavior patterns of geo
scientists of Sri Lanka.
This research was conducted following the judgmental sampling method, with the participation of
128 members of the Geological Association of Sri Lanka. Information was collected by means of
questionnaires and observations. The level of response received for the questionnaires was at 46.9%
and the responses were subjected to a statistical analysis by SPSS PC 2010. The behavioral patterns
of the geologist were identified through Classification and Regression Trees Analysis (CART)
based on different variables while comparing the scientific information obtained from the targeted
group.
The research revealed that geologists have a special tendency in depending on electronic sources to
extract the information and the use of scientific periodicals, seminars and workshops. It clearly
showed a very low usage of libraries to get access to information.
According to the outcomes of this research, geologists were facing difficulties when they are
seeking information due to following reasons, such as incomplete information, information not
being updated properly, lack of high speed internet facilities, higher rates charged for online access
and inability to browse information etc. These factor had an adverse effect on their research articles
and its impact was detected clearly through the analysis as well.
According to the above findings, geologists are not satisfied with the services provided by the
libraries and information resource centers. Therefore, the officers who provide information should
be prepared and well equipped with necessary information in order to provide a qualitative service
to the core readership in the future without a delay.
Keywords: Information needs, Information skills, seeking behaviors, Geo scientists, Information
services.
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History and Development of Library Education in Sri Lanka: With Speed Reference to the
Period after 1948.
Udarini, D.N.A.U.C.
Udarichathurika501@gmail.com
Information and Information services play a significant role in the development of a country.
Professionally trained, experienced and qualified personal needed for the provision of information
services in a country. Hence library education system has been evolved in other countries as well
as in Sri Lanka for this purpose.
The fundamental problem related to library education is the evolvement of library education on
non-formal base. The principal objective of this paper is to explore the history and development of
library education in Sri Lanka. Based on the hypothesis the “Slow growth is the basic feature of Sri
Lanka library education”, the other objectives formulated were to investigate Sri Lankan library
education movement based on historical record of after 1948, to examine the institution and
resources persons contributed library education and to identify the problems related library
education.
It was identified the real growth of library education started after 1950 and one of the key features
is the formation of several school of thoughts. The slow growth pattern is the other principal feature.
Fundamental problems identified were the non-availability of standardization and quality
assurances on a library education at national level as well as non-availability of a responsible
coordination organization for developing unique criteria and policies on library education in Sri
Lanka.
The fore suggestions are mode introduce and start library education standards, quality assurance all
accreditation, making strategies for the cooperation all the coordination of library education
institutions and programs, introducing new code of ethic and conduct for the speedy development
of library education in Sri Lanka.
Keywords: Library education, Librarianship, History of library education, Library education
institute, Library courses in Sri Lanka
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The Role and Services of Palm Leaf Manuscript Study and Research Library at the
University of Kelaniya
UdayaKumara, T.
thusithaudayakumara89@gmail.com
History of art of writing goes back to many hundred years. eventhough it in difficult state the year
of Origin of art of writing it in clear that this origin must have happened some what earlier the
civilizations of the world come in to existence. Use of palm leaf was a very popular communication
method in Sri Lanka history. It seems that palm leaf art has faced a serious challenge in decay , nonuse, non- attention and without any preservation and conservation mensuration Realizing these
changes steps have been taken the preservation of palm leaf by various organization in Sri Lanka.
Among all other palm leaf counters, the palm leaf manuscript study and Research Library (PMSRL)
in University of kelaniya takes a special place. The principal purpose of the palm leaf manuscript
study and Research Library is to collect, and copy all palm leaf manuscripts available in temples
and in personal collection in order to create a digital library using modern technologies.
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the role and service provided bypalm leaf
manuscript study and Research Library. The other objective were to measure the value of traditional
palm leaf preservation methods and to examine the importance of using modern technologic for
palm leaf manuscript preservation.
Field study method used for collection data and observation and interviews were conducted for
gathering quantitative and quantitative data.
It revealed that main obstacle faced in copying manuscripts was the insufficient knowledge and
technologies. The dearth of knowledgeable person in palm leaf manuscript is another obstacle.
Copying and digitization the content of palm leaf manuscripts are new method in their preservation.
It can conclude that PMSRL provide a satisfactory role and service for the client.
Keywords: Ola leaf Manuscripts, Collection development, Palm leaf, Research Library
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Use of Electronic Information Resources By medical students at the Rajarata University of
Sri Lanka
Wanasinghe, W.M.P.G.K.T.
medrajaratalib@yahoo.com
Due to rapid stride in the field of information and communication technology, libraries are getting
completely modernize in to information access centers in electronic forms. This paper explores the
role in medical student’s knowledgeof searching information and the use of electronic resources at
the faculty. Objectives of the research are to identify the awareness of e-resources available at the
university, to study usage of electronic resources available at the university and which areas of
training needed on e-resources usage at the faculty of medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata
University of Sri Lanka.The survey method was used for data collection. The structured
questionnaires were used to collect data among the medical undergraduates at the faculty from 1 st
to 30th September 2015 covering question on computer literacy, Internet access and location,
Knowledge and use of electronic resources and training needs. Using simple random sampling
methods, seventy questionnaires were distributed. Responded rate was 71%, whom 20% student’s
access internet daily. And 34% access internet weekly.50% of internet access student’s access ebooks and others access to social media. 50% of the library visited undergraduate did not aware
about e-resources available at the library and the university. As medical undergraduatesmany
respondents felt that e-resources were important and required awareness to access e-resources.And
revealed that undergraduates who express an interest in learning about the library’s electronic
resources. Based on these findings, it was recommended to conduct a user awareness programs for
the medical undergraduates with hand on session use e-resources available at the library and
consortia. And future suggested that library service can be extended and modified to do training for
undergraduate to access and use e-resources.
Keywords: e-resources, Medical undergraduate, User studies, Internet access, Information services
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A Bibliometric Assessment of the Intellectual Content and Recognition Level of
the Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka
Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U and Weerasooriya, W.A
auwee@ou.ac.lk
Bibliometrics enables quantitative description of scholarly documents, their impact and influence.
This study explores “The Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (JNSF)”; a
globally recognized journal where the objectives were to assess (1) the subject coverage, (2) types
of information sources consulted by authors, and (3) total citations received by JNSF. Articles in
40 issues (n=335) published during 2004 and 2013 in two five-year periods; 2004-2008 (P-I) and
2009-2013 (P-II) were analysed separately. Among the 9 major disciplines identified, most articles
were related to biology, and agriculture; particularly biochemistry, plant sciences, microbiology
and animal sciences. Increased research has been carried out in the fields of chemistry, biomedical
research, geo science and engineering. Physics and mathematics were narrowly studied. The subject
diversity and inter-disciplinary research have increased by 19% and 10% respectively. Several new
fields of research have emerged while research in some areas are lacking. JNSF contains 7043 intext citations with 176.1 citations per issue whereas 20.8 citations per article with an average
increased by 56.2% during P-II. Journal articles were the most-cited material incessantly, followed
by books, proceedings and web-resources. Citing local references per volume has lessened by 4%
whereas self-citation has declined to 1.14%. Most references (23%) lies within 6-10 years. The
‘price-index’ was 19.82 while ‘citing half-life’ for journals and books were 11 and 15 years
respectively. JNSF has received 366 citations with an average of 3.02 per “cited article”. Citing of
JNSF has improved from 19.87% (P-I) to 50.56% (P-II). Certain recent articles received early
citations, especially within the published year. Most articles (38.84%) were cited once whereas the
citations received were highest in the first 2, 3 years after publication, and a rapid decline observed
after the 5th year. The results revealed the information needs of researchers, existing and deprived
research areas, and recognition of JNSF in terms of citations.
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Subject analysis, Citation analysis.
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Design and development of a desired Graduate Profile (GP) for the BA (Honors) Degree
program in Library and Information Science (BLISC) conducted by the Department of
Library and Information Science (DELIS), University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Weerasooriya, W.A., Weerasinghe, M.K., Wanigasooriya, A.W.A.P.L.P., Piyarathana, Rev.
L., Suraweera, N. and Chamara, K.A.T.
sooria29@yahoo.com
The principal objective of this paper is to explore the design and development a Graduate Profile
for the BLISC honors degree, at the DELIS, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and to map it with
the K-SAM model (Knowledge is what student can and should know, Skills is what they can and
should do, Attitude is how they think and behave and should, Mindset is how they perceive and
should perceive the world) developed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) Sri Lanka.
Graduate Profiles are the descriptions of attributes like the knowledge, skills, attitudes and
behavioral elements (characteristics, qualities, ethics and norms, way of behavior, vision, mission,
mindset, world of work are also considered) which a parent university or the educational authority
expects from its graduates through the contact and non-contact hours with a view to position these
graduates as universal citizens recognized with competent, social, cultural, good mannered,
employable and environment friendly groups fitting local, regional, national and international
demands and requirements. This is a result of a qualitative study performed on the basis of action
research, content, needs and SWOT analysis and observation and experience matching and also of
an ongoing study covering the BLISC degree program and its undergraduates. All the local and
foreign curriculum standards relevant to study were also used. The 14 attributes expected from the
BLISC Graduates are the 1.Subject Knowledge Capable (K), 2.Skilled (S), 3.Behavior Changer (A),
4.Information Literate and Lifelong Learner (SAM), 5.Language and Communication Competent
(SAM), 6.Researcher and Scholar (SAM) 7.Analytical and Critical Thinker (SM), 8.Agent of
Attitudes (A), 9.Planner and Time Manager (SA) 10.Problem Solver (SAM), 11.Environment and
Social Friendly Group (AM) 12.Courageous Leader (SA) 13.Honest and Cultural Obedient Person
(AM) 14.Dedicated Serviceman (K-SAM) and the final goal expected from GP is to develop a
Visionary Global Citizen. How the BLISC undergraduates realize the major domains of K-SAM
developed by the UGC are marked and mapped with the 14 attributes of the proposed GPabove.
The attributes are mapped and embedded in the BLISC Degree program. There are altogether 42
study units in the curriculum and out of that, 26 are theory papers, 11 independent assignment based
units, three practical or laboratory based units, 01 industrial training unit and the independent
dissertation, altogether 42 units positioning in total 123 credits. While total study units attempt to
inculcate the Knowledge domain of the undergraduates, 22 units develop Skills and 08 address the
Attitudes and 6 units focus the Mindset domain. The dissertation and the industrial training units
both play a major role in K-SAM. In addition to the BLISC curriculum, the field trip, library
workshop method, Library and Information Science Student Association, three students’ societies
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namely English, IT and Library and all other creative and social functions like Teachers Day have
been planned to improve these four domain K-SAM introduced by the UGC. Everything is directed
to achieve the objectives of the GP.
Keywords: Curriculum development, Competencies, Library education, Library schools, Higher
education, Graduate profile
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An Example for the Importance of the ancient Manuscripts for Solving Crucial Problems
appeared in Buddhist Literature.
Wijayawimala, Ven. Sooriyawewa
Rev.wijayawimala833@gmail.com
The Manuscripts can evidently be identified as a significant effort to preserve the particular
philosophical and ancestral information in the elementary period of human civilization. In the
Buddhist context, manuscripts are identified as historical heritage of Buddhism which continued in
recitation by the Buddhist disciples. Here, it concerns on a problematic point appeared in the Pāli
Text Society (PTS) Tripitaka and the way that problem was come right with the help of Preserved
Buddhist manuscripts.
According to the second edition of Pāli Text Society Tripitaka book of numerical discourses or
AnguttaraNikāya, the ChatukkaNipāta is consisted a discourse by name of DutiyaggaSutta. Mrs.
Rhys Davids was the president of the PTS at the time of second edition. According to her comment
on the second edition of ChatukkhaNipāta in AnguttaraNikāya,which has been amended a word
was appeared as ‘Bhavañga’ in the first edition of PTS ChatukkaNipātaPathamañgasutta and the
‘Bhavagga’ has replaced instead of ‘Bhavañga’ based on the commentary reading ofDutiyañgasutta.
However, the first edition of PTS ChathukkaNipāta has been amended with the help of a number of
Manuscripts which have originally been written in Sinhalese and Burmese characters. Therefore,
the first edition of PTS ChatukkaNipāta in AnguttaraNikāyais consisted the term ‘Bhavañga’ in
DutiyaggaSutta which was edited by Rev. Richard Morris. In such a context, the problem cannot
simply be skipped. Therefore, this research is an attempt to point out an example to solve problems
with the help of manuscripts. On the other hand, it will be given rise to understand the paramount
importance of the manuscripts to settle down crucial problems appeared in the Buddhist Literature.
Keywords; Manuscripts, Buddhist attitude, importance of the manuscripts
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Indigenous Knowledge available in Balangoda Region: A Study based Indigenous Medicine
and Traditional Kem Methods.
Wijesekara, N.C.D.
chaniwijesekara@gmail.com
Traditional Knowledge is the ancient heritage own to individual nations bestowed upon their culture
and practices. Traditional knowledge is also called indigenes knowledge which comprised of norms
virtues, long standing belief systems, experiences way of behavior thought systems and practices
which have been applied for various purposes of the traditional society.
Individual villages and regions contain their own indigenous knowledge systems and practices. The
principal objective of the paper is to study the indigenous knowledge and the kem system available
in Balangoda region. The other objectives are the study the use of these knowledge systems, to
investigate the indigenous knowledge which has been endangered for decay and decayed, and to
examine the factors affecting the decay of indigenes knowledge.
Primary data collected using participative observation and holding interview. Study revealed certain
medicines and treatments and healing methods used for diseases like eye problem, serpent bite,
osteology, tumors, rickets, and hydrophobia. Under “Kem” methods, “Kem” methods used for the
farming and agriculture were identified.
It recovered that these important medicines, healing and treatment method and systems and the
indigenous knowledge practicing to those are not recorded and not given due recognition and
acceptance and they have faced in decay and ruination. Even though this indigenes knowledge has
been used minimally, danger is the peoples’ growing attitudes toward the western medicinal
systems. “Kem” methods were also used minimally and suggestion is made to take steps for
preservation and conservation of this indigenous knowledge which has been faced a threat.
Keywords: Knowledge systems, Indigenous knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, Culture heritage,
Intangible culture heritage
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Role of Librarian in Managing School Libraries: A Study Based on Selected National School
Libraries in Gampaha District.
Wijesiri, E.A.D.B.
Dilini.wijesiri12@gmail.com
As a heart of school, the school library has very acute significant role to play. The principal
objective of this paper is to study the managerial role of the school librarian. The other objectives
are to identify the management functions, to examine how librarian fulfil these managerial
functions, to explore the leadership characteristics, to investigate support given by the principal and
staff, to examine the weakness in managing school librarian and to identify the problems faced by
the professional or the Teacher librarian.
Method of study was the survey and 10 national school libraries in Gampaha district used as a
sample. Primary data collected using questionnaires, interview and participatory observation.
Problems identified were the scarcity of library materials, the staff shortage who are trained and
acquainted with these library materials. Most of school students were unaware what are good library
material, how use them. The school library staff had a poor understanding on technical services.
It is essential to train librarians and library staff in school library management by offering training
opportunities sending them for workshops, conference and training programs. It is better to offer
them both theoretical all practical aspects of school library management. More attention has to be
given when allocating school library funds and much care has to be given in obtaining school library
materials.
Keywords: School librarian, Library management, School library management, School library
services, Leadership
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Awareness and Use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)/Web OPAC by University
Students of University of Kelaniya
Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N., Jayawardana, M.C.N. and Sewwandi, H.K.I.
u.nayani90@gmail.com,chathurika.navodani@gmail.com, hkisharasewwandi@gmail.com
The Introduction of Information and Communication Technology in the field of Libraries and
Information Centers has impacted on library services and library techniques such as retrieval and
dissemination of information resources. It has also changed the ways of providing library services
to user community. OPAC is one of the technologies which easy provide access to bibliographical
information such as name of author, title, publisher, date of the publication. Although OPAC is
identified as a easy and effective way to search information in the library, many users have not got
relevant knowledge and skills to use OPAC. This study fulfill this gap.
Main objective of this study is to identify what are the problems faced by University students when
they use OPAC/Web OPAC. Moreover, this study also aim to understand knowledge and skills that
required to use OPAC effectively.
This study used a survey method as a research method. The population of this study consists of
University students in Sri Lanka. The sample of this study represents students in the University of
Kelaniya. This study used a quantitative data collection techniques. Questionnaires were distributed
among the selected students in the University and 90% were responded. Descriptive statistics
method (SPSS software) was used for data analysis of this study.
This study found that number (69.1%) of students used OPAC as a search tool for retrieving
documents. Although they knew OPAC as a computer catalogue, they do not have wide awareness
about OPAC. Many students do not use all features provided by OPAC such as advance search,
reserve books, search from ISBN number. Also they do not know how to search bibliographical
records. Even though, the University library has provided OPAC facilities, there were some
limitations i.e. not allow to copy, print and edit bibliographical data, absences of regular updating
on OPAC system, unable to search terms using Sinhala and Tamil languages and longer time for
connecting to OPAC. Due to these limitations students were not satisfied with OPAC services
provided by the University library.
Findings of this study highly useful for University library staff to provide effective OPAC facilities
and thereby improve academics knowledge and skills to use OPAC effectively. For example library
staff can organize qualitative instructional programs, can provide practical training on advanced
searching methods and promote OPAC among University students.
Keywords: OPAC, University students, Awareness, Use, Search
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Electronic Resources and its Impact on Students at Tamil Nadu Colleges: A study
Yasmin.M.
myasminmin@gmail.com
This paper analysis the status of e resources and its impact on students at Tamil Nadu engineering
college, arts and science college and research institution. The study also analyzes the services, uses
and satisfaction. The data were collected from 25 students out of the total population of 300 from
the surveyed institutions in the study area. The present research aims at collecting primary data
from the respondents of the surveyed institutes. Among the different data collection methods,
questionnaire method was chosen and structured as a tool. The inputs collected from the respondents
were analyzed and the tool questionnaire was modified accordingly to make the investigation closer
in the study area. The researcher has distributed the questionnaire to the students. In addition, the
researcher also has collected the data from the annual reports, institutional publication and websites
of the surveyed institutes. The use of library e-resources among the students in the study area is
found to be at optimum level. There is a need for the libraries in the study area to intensify the
awareness and use of E- access scholarly resources and the web technologies information for
teaching and learning process. The library and information environments in the study area is found
to be with minimum infrastructural requirements and application of ICT including automation but
e-resources access in colleges need to be improved and also there is a divide between the colleges
in terms of acquiring resources and facilities in the study area. Many of the college libraries have
not E resources facility even though the subscription cost is almost negligible. Majority of the
research students are found to be good.
Keywords: Electronic Resources, Students, Colleges, Questionnaire, Tamil Nadu
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Author Index:
Abraham, Laila T.
31
Gopinath, M.
33
Abu K.S
11
Gunarathna, D.G.R.L.
34
Akter, R.
1
Gunaratne, W.G.G.P.
35
Alahakoon C.N. K.
2
Gunasekara, R.M.
111
Alwis, K.V.I de
3
Gunasekera, C.
36
Amarakone, Lionel R.
4
Gunasinghe, H.C.
108
Amarathunga, P.A.B.H.
5
Gunatilake, K.A.D.P.M.
37
Ananda Tissa, R.D.
6
Gunawardena, D.N.T
38
Arumugam, J.
7
Harshani, K.R.
39
Aththanayaka, A.M.M.C.
8
Hengodage, M.A.
40
Attanayake, G.
9
Hindagolla, B.M.M.C.B
41
Atthanayaka, Madhurani
63
Indrasena, W.S.S
42
Babbar, P.
43
Jain, P.K.
43
Balasooriya, B.A.P.
10
Jayaprakash, M.
44
Balasubramani, R.
7
13 Jayasekara, J.M.A.K.
46
Begum, Bilkis
65
Jayathilake, T.M.A.N.
47
Bharanidharan, S.
14
Jayawardana, K.G.I.
30
Chamara, K.A.T
15 132
Jayawardana, M.C.N.
48 114 137
Chathurani, W.M.P.E.
16
Jazeel, M.I.M.
49
Cooray, N.A.C.
17
Jeyaraj, W.J.
50
De Silva, G
103
Jeyshankar, R.
51
Deepika, D.M.P.P
19
Jinadasa, Manoj
53
Dehigama, K.
49
Kalisdha, A.
54
Dhanakar, M.A
20
Kambaraman, B.
55
Dhanavandan, S.
21
Kanagavel, P.
56
Dharmawardhana, M.W.C.
66
Kar, Debal Chandra
57
Dilinika, J.M.S
22
Kaur, Jaspal
59
Dorairajan, M.
23 120
Kavitha, E.S.
60
Duraimurugan
24
Kiriella, K.G.A.P.
87
Duraipandi, R.
25
Kodikara, Ruvini C.
87
Duraisingan, A.
73
Kohila, G.T.
12
Elavazhagan, K.
12
Konpola, K.W.A.M.
92
Galgodawaththa, G.W.I.
37
Krishnamoorthy, G.
14
Gamage, C.K.
28
Krishnan, V.
90
Gamage, Madira N.
29
Kulathunga Arachchi, M.S.
61
Gamlath, W.G.P.
30
Kumar, K.
62
Ganesan, P.
31
Kumar, S.
101
Gomathi, P.
32
Kumara, A.D.B.
87
Gomathinayagam, S.
56
Kumari, N.P.
107
13
80
11
12
88
26
27
139
45
52
70
27
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Madhusanka, Amila
8
Rath, Pravakar
95
Madhusanka, N.M.A.N.
63
Rathnabahu, R.M.N.
96
Madusanka, W.M.H.
108
Ravimaran, S.
98
Madushanka, Ayesh
8
Ravindhren, V.G.
98
Maheswaran, R.
64
Raza, M.M.
99
Malkanthi, D.G.A.S.
30
Rewatha, Rev. P
100
Mangiyakarasi, A.
105 106
Roy, P.
101
Mezbah-ul-Islam, Muhammad
65
Rubinandhini, A.
32
Mihirani, P.M.N.
66
Sadik Batcha
84
Murari, Durga
67
Sajeewani, K.
102
Murugan, C.
44
Samankula, W.G.D.M.
40
Muthiah, Roja
84
Samarakoon, M.
103
Nagahawatta, R.T.S
68
Samaraweera, J.P.U.
66
Nagarajan, M.
69
Sanka, M.
23
Nageswaran, A.S.
33
Sankar, M.
104
Nanda Kumari, E.
70
Sarangapani, R.
105 106
Natarajan, N.O.
7
Selvamani, J.
107
Nattar, S.
73
Senanayake, S.M.T.
108
Navaneethakrishnan, S.
74
Senarathna, T.M.C.D.
109
Niyamananda, Swamy
82
Seneviratne, R.A.P.S
110
Padma, P.
75
Seneviratne, W.
111
Pagngnaloka, Rev. K.
121
Senthamilselvi, A.
113
Pandian, R.
76
Sewwandi, H.K.I
48 114 137
Pannananda, Rev. D.
78
Shanmugam, A. P.
115
Parameswaran, R.
79
Shanmugathasan, S.
116
Pathiratne, S.
5
Shivraj, K.S.
117
Pathiratne, S.
80
Sirinivasa Raghavan, S.
24
Piyarathana, Rev. L.
81 132
Siriwardena, A.S.
39
Prabakaran, M.
82
Sobitha, Rev. Karapikkada
121
Prabu, R.
83
Somananda, Rev. B.
118
Prakash, Ira,
84
Sonu
101
Pratheepan, T.
85
Sridhar, K.
56
Premarathne, B. N. G. S.
86
Srikanthalakshmi, A
119
Punchihewa, C.N.D.
87
Subbiah, M.
54
Pushpakumara, K.
88
Subhan, Maliha
99
Raghavan, P.
23
Sujatha, C.
125
Raja, S.
89
Sujatha, R.
31
Rajapaksha, M.P
91
Sumana, Rev. Bodagama,
121 122
Ramasamy, K.
52
Sumangala, Rev. P.
78
Ranasinghe, Shirani
92
Suraweera, N.
123 132
Ranawella, T.C.
93
Suresh, B.
125
Rao, P.V
94
Surulinathi, M.
115
45
71
72
90
140
55 113 120
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Thusithakumari, W.M.
30
Tilakarathna.T.C.P.K.
127
Udarini, D.N.A.U.C.
128
Uma, T.
60
Vijaianand, S.
52
Viswanathan, J.
33
Wanigasooriya, A.W.A.P.L.P
132
Wanasinghe, W.M.P.G.K.T.
130
Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U.
131
Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.S.N.P.
66
Weerasinghe, D.
5
Weerasinghe, K.G.H.D.
17
Weerasinghe, M.K.
123 132
Weerasooriya, W.A.
6
80
50
85 123 131
132
Wijayawimala, Rev. S
134
Wijesekara, N.C.D.
135
Wijesiri, E.A.D.B.
136
Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N
48 114 137
Withana, N.R.P.
66
Yasmin.M.
138
141
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Subject Index:
AACR II
122
Cane
48
Academic information
118
Cataloguing
122
Academic libraries
30 39 59
CDS/ISIS
84
87 105 116
Chemistry
76
Academic Research
120
Citation analysis
85 131
Acquisition
10
Citation Index
20
Agriculture
47 48
Citation indexing
85
Alexa Sites Linking
51
Citation study
89
Analytical Study
13
Classification
14 90 96
Annamalai University
72
Anuradhapura District
88
Cloud computing
14
Anxiety
Application Family
Identifies(AFI)
Archaeology
2
Cloud optimization
98
101
Coconut industry
110
Coconut information
110
Artificial Intelligence
53
Collaborative research
54 85
Arts of writing
81
Collection development
10 129
Asia
55
Collection management
10
College libraries
59
Colleges
138
98 106
96
Asian information philosophy 53
Assignment Assessment
123
System
35
Astrological knowledge
Commemoration works
9
Communication skills
8
Astrology
35
Community
22
Astronomy
35
Community development
111
Attitudes of librarian
83
Community information
34
Automation and networking
83
Community information need 1
Awareness
32
Community outreach
111
Bangladesh
1
Community radio
111
39
65
Best practices
24 59 95
Community service
Bharathidasan University
83 11
Competencies
26 132
Bibliographic control
96
Computer science
53
Bibliographic traditions
119
Computer skills
91
Bibliography
81
43 99
Bibliometric
20 33 76
Bibliometric analysis
12 85
Bibliometric Laws
55 120
Continuing Education
Continuing Education
Programme (CEP)
Continuing Professional
Development
Counseling
Bibliotherapy
86
Course material
13
BRICS
89
CPE
103
Buddhist attitude
134
Crime
18
Culture heritage
135
89 120 131
Buddhist literature
9
142
72
43 71
86
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Current Awareness Services
121
Green libraries
25 56
Curriculum development
132
Green library movement
25 27
Data mining
12
GRIHA
25
DELNET
57
Gypsies
109
Developing countries
53
Hashtag summarizer
40
Digital environment
49
Higher education
123 132
Digital Information Literacy
11
Higher educational libraries
117
Digital Library
84 106 118
Highly cited papers
115
Digital library sources
106
Himalayas
55
Digital resources
105
History of library education
128
Dissemination of knowledge
28
Human resource management 23 103
Doctoral scholars
32
IaaS
90
Documentation
119
ICT
22 62 69
Documentation culture
119
Dspace Software
64 108
Dura cloud
106
Dynamic scheduling
98
E-books
75
E-Databases
15
Educational technology
21
E-journals
75
E-learning
Electronic Learning
Management Systems
Electronic media
21 53
68
Indigenous language
88
114
Indigenous medicine
28
E-Library
15
Information access
50 122
Emotional intelligence
41
Information alert services
82
Energy efficiency
56
Information centers
78
Energy efficient library
56
Information dissemination
110 117
Engineering Colleges
79
Environment
27
E-Resources
15 75 82
72 113 118
ICT literacy
IFLA Public Library
Manifesto
IGCBS
25
India
13 31 64
Indian Citation Index
20
Indigenous Knowledge
7
Felicitation literature
9
FOSS
84
Gender gap
11
Geo scientists
127
Government oganizations
29
Graduate Profile
132
Green building
56
28 35
8
30 49
65 73 87
Information literacy skill
development (ILSD),
Information literacy skills
91 93 120
Face book
4
66 135
130 138
39 63
3
42 47 48
Information literacy
Extension services
5
60
30
91
Information management
29
Information needs
34 46 102
110 118 127
Information network
57
Information resources
28
Information retrieval
93
Information seeking
2
Information seeking behavior 34
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Information services
LRM
113
10 16 46
Management platforms
62
57 92
Management style
80
Information skills
87 127
Managing global events
29
Information sources
34 66 74
Manuscripts
134
Information storages
122
Manuscripts books
81
Information systems
57 78
Mifare Card
101
Information transmission
28
30
Institutional Repository
36 64
Intangible cultural heritage
35
M-learning
Mobile apps in library
services
Mobile services,
125
Innovative practices
Mobile technology-India
M-Services-Academic
Libraries
MVC
National Assessment and
Accreditation Council
National libraries
125
Newspaper journalism
Non-Government public
libraries
Novels
102
3
8
4
9
42
135
J-ISIS
84
Journalism
102
Junior academic members
Information resource
management (IRM)
Collection development
Inventory Network Library
Control
Knowledge management
15
70
70
70
4
22 79
82
82
125
18
24
16
1
63
Knowledge organization
96
Ola leaf, Manuscripts
129
Knowledge systems
135
23 136
Learning skill
68
LEED
27
Online learning
Online Public Access
Catalouge
Online survey tools
54 62 113
Leadership skills
LEED Rate Building
25
Librarianship
128
Library 2.0
104
Library 3.0
104
Library consortia
75
Library cooperation
57
Library development
71
Library education
6
38
Library marketing
92
Library networks
83
Library profession
6
21
Open and Distance Education 53
71 128
132
Library management system
137
Operational efficiency
29
Organizational commitment
41
PaaS
90
Paddy cultivation
47
Palm leaf manuscripts
88 108
Patrons
121
Per Capita Productivity
52
Personality development
26
Physical education
33
Plagiarism
Preservation and
Conservation
Professional development
93
105 106 108
26 72 99
Library Schools
132
Project management
29
Library website
19
Public library development
1
Lifelong learning
1
Quality assurance
24 31 95
LIS professionals
72
Quality control
31
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Quality dimensions
37
Seismic Studies
52
Quality Information
31
101
Quality management
94
Quality research
31
Quality sustenance
24
Self-circulation kiosk
Senake Bandaranayake
Classification
Service quality
Questionnaire
Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID)
Radio programs
138
Rational Unified Process
18
Special libraries
37 94
RDA
122
Spoken-Tutorial
113
Sport science
33
Reader services
Social media
37
7
40 44
61 117 121
101
Social networking sites
111
3
96
7
45 54
60 104
16
Reading attitudes
100
Reading habits
34 49 61
Sri Lanka
36 49 64
115 123
Sri Lanka Advanced
Technological Educational
Institute
Sri Lanka National Library
63 73 86
100
10
Reading skills
61
Reading therapy
86
Sri Lankan Tamils
119
Reading trends
63
Sustainable buildings
25
Research assessment
76
SWOT analysis
79
Research collaboration
120
Tamil Nadu
73 79 138
Research funding pattern
55 107
Teachers
80
Research Gate
60
Technologies,
78
Research performance
89
Traditional knowledge
4
Research productivity
55 107 120
Research scholars
60
Traditional medicine
48
Research support
44
Twitter
40
Resource management,
98
University academics
103
Resource sharing
83
University information
46
Responsive scheduling
98
University Librarianship
6
RFID Reader
101
University Library
2
Rice cultivation
47
Rubrics
123
SAARC countries
64
University of Kelaniya
SaaS
90
University of Madras
7
Scholarly communication
75
University of Moratuwa
38
School library management
136
University of Peradeniya
41
School library services
136
University students
63 137
Scientometrics
20 76 85
User education
3
16
42 47
88 135
8
19
63 74 92
103 118
89 115 120
137
87
131
User expectations
37
Security policies
78
User perspectives
37
Seeking behaviors
127
145
8
19
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User satisfaction
30 116
Web 3.0
104
User services
Virtual Learning Academic
Professionals
Virtual Library
16
Web applications
92
62
Web Tools
13
Webliography
74
Virtualization
78
Webometrics
51
Visual Impairment
Visualizing bibliometric
networks
Web 2.0
50
Web-OPAC
137
Western Ghats, Asia
107
14
107
104
146
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147