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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
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gamlath, W.G.P.; Thusithakumari, W.M.; Malkanthi, D.G.A.S.; Jayawardana, K.G.I.
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.
Application of Mobile Phone Technologies for Library Services
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Prabakaran, M.; Niyamananda, S.
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.
Application of RFID System in Selected Libraries in Delhi, India: Issue & Challenges
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Roy, P.; Kumar, S.; Sonu
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.
Asian Information Philosophy for E- Learning; Case of Open and Distance Education in Sri Lanka
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jinadasa, M.
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 20th 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 e- learning, 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 e- learning 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.
Assesment of Digital Information Literacy among Faculty Members of Bharathidasan University
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Balasubramani, R.; Abu, K.S.
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.
An Assessment of Indian Citation Publication Output: A Study on Indian Citation Index
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dhanakar, M.A.
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.
Attitude towards Library Networking and Resource Sharing Programme among the College Librarians Affiliated to the Bharathidasan University: A Study
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Prabu, R.
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.
The Attitudes towards Reading and the Reading Habits of the Students of Nāgānanda International Institute for Buddhist Studies
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rewatha Thero, P.
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.
Automatic Extractive Twitter Hashtag Summarization
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Hengodage, M.A.; Samankula, W.G.D.M.
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.
Awareness and Usage of Smartphone Applications for Information Sharing Tasks among the Research Scholars of Periyar University- An Analytical Study
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gomath, P.; Rubinandhini, A.
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.
Awareness and Use of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)/Web OPAC by University Students of University of Kelaniya
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N.; Jayawardana, M.C.N.; Sewwandi, H.K.I.
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.
Awareness of Knowledge Management Process among Librarians of Engineering Colleges Affiliated to Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore: A Study
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Parameswaran, R.
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.
Awareness on Online Learning Management among Students and Scholarly Professionals
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kumar, K.
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.
Best Practices in a College Libraries: A Case Study of Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh (India)
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Kaur, J.
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.
A Bibliometric Assessment of the Intellectual Content and Recognition Level of the Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerakoon, W.R.W.M.A.U.; Weerasooriya, W.A.
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 in-text 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.
Bibliotherapy as a Tool for reducing the Study Behavior Issues among Undergraduates: A case Study at the University of Peradeniya
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Premarathne, B.N.G.S.
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.
Challenges of Information Management in Organizing Global Scale Events Using Technology in Government Establishments in Sri Lanka
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gamage, M.N.
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.
Characteristics of Documentation patterns of Sri Lankan Tamils
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Srikanthalakshmi, A.
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.
Chemical Sciences Research Output among the Universities in the State of Tamilnadu: A Scientometric Study
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Pandian, R.
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 number of authors were contributed this literature. The study shows that there were rich numbers of collaboration among the Indian and aboard.
Cloud Computing and its Applications in Library: A Review
(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Raja, S.; Krishnan, V.
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.