2nd ICLIM - 2017
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Item A Study Effectiveness of E-Services Provided by the University Library in Sri Lanka: With Special Reference to University of Kelaniya, University of Moratuwa and Open University of Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Somarathna, K.H.H.M.Library is a main information unit of providing, processing, store, retrieval and communication of recorded data to the users. According to that main objective of the library is executing of information needs of the students and university teachers. Library and information services in the universities have been changed rapidly due to the advancement of internet and web technology. Because of that, web sites of library facilitate to provide information to the students through new technology. E- Services are providing services through E-network such as Internet. At present University, libraries in Sri Lanka conduct several kind of E-Services. Hence, it is important to study the usage of E-Services. The main objective of this research to study the effectiveness of E-Services. The population of this study is University students. Among the population, 300 students were selected as a random sample representing from all the faculties of University of Kelaniya, University of Moratuwa and Open University of Sri Lanka. Further, it is decided to select 100 students from each university. Collection of primary data will be made through questionnaires. It will use MS excel software to analyze the data. This study will provide opportunity to students to access the E-Services through new technology for their research and studies.Item A Study on Information Literacy (IL) Skills of Undergraduates: With Special Reference to Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Samarakoon, M.Information Literacy skills are acutely needed for undergraduates. Today the passing society belongs to the information era. Information literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, organize and use information, problem solving and to make decisions. All professionals are influenced as information technology and there are a number of challenges to the information seekers. This research aims to conduct an investigation of the skills of the undergraduates seeking information by themselves. Objectives of this study was to examine the awareness of information literacy skills, to Identify the perception of students’ ability of IL, to identify the obstacles in information seeking and to recommend the suggestions to improve information literacy among undergraduates. The research method used in this study is survey design. Questionnaires, interviews and observation were used as principle techniques for primary data collection. Questionnaires were distributed between 9 am -10 am per two weeks to those undergraduates who are come to the library representing first and second year students. The Questionnaires covered question on citation and reference styles, searching methods and strategies, plagiarism etc. Few faculty members were randomly selected and interviews were conducted. Personal observations were carried out on students’ information searching, catalogue usage, finding information resources etc. Data is presented and analyzed graphically in tabulated forms. The study reveals that the students lack of locating skills. The respondents do not have very clear idea on the types of E-resources. Students are aware of the meaning of the ‘plagiarism”. They believe that the internet is the most current and accurate information source. They do not have a fair idea about methods and tools to be used for retrieval of information from related information sources. Students’ ability of referencing is low. The study makes several recommendations that the program to IL skills has to be planned for all undergraduates. Short time program should be introduced parallel with first year orientation program. Bibliographical workshops, short time courses should be introduced by university library. IL program should include an assessment of student learning and Individual assessments should be developed in consultation with the faculty members and also to be Collaborated with faculty to create effective research assignment.Item The Purpose of Using Journals and Difficulties they are facing among Management Students in Sri Lankan Universities.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Peiris, P.A.I.Among many Information resources, Journal is important source for access to latest information. “A periodical devoted to disseminating original research and commentary on current developments in a specific discipline, sub discipline, or field of studyusually published in quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly issues sold by subscription. Journal articles are usually written by the person (or persons) who conducted the research.” (Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science) The main objectives of the study are to identify objectives and need of using journals by management students and find out issues of they have to face. The study based on survey method. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Microsoft Excel was used analyzed the collected data. Under the survey research method, two Universities of Kelaniya, Sri Jayawardanapura were used as the sample. Used 100 management students in both of universities. As the result of the study, most of the students used journal for needs of assignments. Issues of they have to face are lack of awareness of management journals in library, they have to spend more time to find journal article which they want. The study suggest that Raising awareness of readers about the co-ordination of periodical sectional journals and also the seekingof journal. Using the systematic and continual searching tricks and methods for easing off the accession into journals and articles. Presenting the newly bought journals for readers and publishing hand book consisted information of periodical section for raising awareness of users about latest journal by the library.Item A Study on the Factors Affecting Employee Commitment in University Libraries in Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Jayasinghe, K.K.Employee’s commitment is a major aspect of organizational success. The commitment of employees are decided on the various factors such as extrinsic reward and intrinsic rewards, job challenge, role fit, career path, promotions, job security, opportunity for personal development and freedom to work. The research is focused to identify the reasons that affect to commitment of library professional employees who work in state universities. This paper is based on a review of the factors affecting to commitment. Then primary data has been collected through Questionnaires and interviews. The secondary data is being used for identifying the commitment related factors comparing to the academic staff of university libraries. The population represents academic level employees of 10 state university libraries in Sri Lanka. Female married employees are much interest to work in these organizations and more than 50% of library academic staff represents them. In general, their commitment is lesser than female unmarried employees due to various factors such as family commitment, work stress etc. Female unmarried employees represent only 14% with higher commitment. These employees are not satisfying with the existing roles and looking for various job opportunities in the external market. Male employees also interest to engage in this profession and majority of them are married employees. Their commitment is low compare to female and they are of the view that they are underutilized. Male un-married employees represent only 2% and their commitment is much better than male married employees, these employees too of the view that, external opportunities are more viable than the current roles. Proper employee monitoring process should be implemented since majority of employees are idle and underutilized. Due recognition should be given to the committed employees and should encourage for innovations and analytical thinking. Career path should be reorganized and need to build employee career life cycle within the organization. Employee rotation process should be implemented in order to share the knowledge among employees. Employee’s ideas, views should be taken in to consideration for decision-making Motivate employees by providing various kinds of benefits.Item Multi-Criteria Evaluation System for University Library’s Performance in Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Illangarathne, S.K.The continuous improvement is the key to long-term sustainable development for service orientation institutions. The recent studies on performance evaluation of service providing institutions have established several constructs, and the concept of “Performance Indexing” (PI) has emerged. This study concentrated on the system development of Multi-Criteria Evaluation for university libraries performance in Sri Lanka using the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP). Though, assessing the overall performance of library instead of organizational effectiveness theory is very new and significant. There is a lack of library effectiveness evaluation theories and practices have been developed. Nevertheless, none of them attempted to evaluate the library performance instead of academic library context. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) model for PI particular reference to the university libraries of Sri Lanka. The ultimate goal of this model was to enhance the level of service efficiency and customer satisfaction throughout the improvement of inter-competitiveness among those libraries. To achieve the objectives and ultimate goals of the study, a structured questionnaire was developed to identify the users’ perceptions about current library services while examining the library expertise opinion about the importance of chosen model variables. The research questions were based on quantitative & qualitative constructs which adapted from organizational effectiveness theory such as; library efficiency, core people process, environment, users’ satisfaction, adaptability, and capacity. The Fuzzy extended Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) was used to process the model. The model was tested with appropiate sample (Sample size = 269) of library users which consisted with faculty members and postgradents. The reliability of the questionnaire scale was suitable for further analysis and its (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.842),and the exploratory factor analysis has confirmed the validity of data. The data was highly correlated with selected factors. 24 items were selected for the further model test. The experts’ opinion survey revealed that Library Efficiency and Library Users’ Satisfaction are more influenced variables to library effectiveness while Library Capacity, Library Adaptability, and Library Environment are less influenced. The result suggests that library leaders should conduct continuous assessments about their services and should customize perceived quality according to the users’ perceptions. The major innovation of the study was to develop a new conceptual model to identify the key influential factors of performance. Another key innovation of the study was to construct a performance evaluation index using the fuzzy AHP evaluation indexing methods. The third innovation of the study was to use the Internet basis resources sharing methods via social media at the Sri Lankan University Libraries to meet their new era challenges.Item Information Retrieval by Social Science Research Scholars in Electronic Environment: A Study.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Chinnasamy, K.; Aravind, S.Present study required to know the information search pattern and behavior in electronic environment by the social science research scholars of selected 7 universities in Tamil Nadu. The study based on a questionnaire method and 700 questionnaires distributed and received back 645 questionnaires with duly filled. The study concluded that all research scholars in social sciences at universities are advised to acquire proper training, strategies for information retrieval with tools is essential in future. Further, it suggested that LIS professionals are liable to make them awareness by proper guidance, orientation, strategies to train them well to use the available online information sources effectively with accuracy is an need of hour for the scientific and knowledge community in the present scenario.Item Reading Habits of Medical Undergraduates in an Academic Library(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Angammana, A.M.S.; Ranasinghe, S.University libraries as academic libraries play a major role in creating academic excellence as well as producing all round personalities. Though university libraries pay special attention in providing subject textbooks to its users, the collection should consists of other categories of resources too. In order to fulfill the needs of the users, librarians need to identify the users reading patterns and behavior. The present study aimed at investigating the use of library books by medical undergraduates. As specific objectives it was intended to find out whether medical students read extra books and whether pattern of reading differ according to study year. Methodology involved is a case study. The population was all undergraduates enrolled in the faculty of medical sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura from freshmen to final inthe year 2016. Total population was 1201 and total population was considered as the sample. Quantitative data was collected using the book loan statistics of circulation module of Library management system “KOHA” during the year 2016. Daily statistics of books checked out during January 2016 to December 2016 were analyzed. Subjects were coded using Dewey Decimal classification system.According to demographic data, sample consisted of 21% of males and 79% of females. Number of students who have borrowed books during the year were 610, that is 51% of the sample. Among them 12% were first years while 20%, 26%, 21%, 21% were second, third, fourth and final years respectively. 98% of the first year students have borrowed only textbooks. But this amount has decreased to 76% among final years. Percentages of textbooks borrowed by second, third and fourth years were 92%, 80%, 86% respectively. When considering other categories 17% of final years have borrowed fictions (English, Sinhala and translations) while only 1% of first years have borrowed fictions. This number varied through the study year as 7%, 18%, 10% in second, third and fourth years respectively. Findings revealed that majority of medical students read only textbooks and usage varies among the year of study. The lowest usage was observed from first year students, while third year students had the highest usage. Again in final year there is a decrease in usage. They tend to read other categories of books from third year onwards and most famous category was fictions. Also they have borrowed IT related and General knowledge books.Since this study shows a medium usage of library books, measures should be taken to increase the utilization of books especially by first years and final years. Also authorities should pay attention in fulfilling extra reading needs of medical undergraduates when developing the collection in order to assure effective library usage.