2nd ICLIM - 2017

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    The Comparative study on the Children Library Service in Public Libraries in Sri Lanka:Libraries Selected from Gampaha District.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Sanjeewani, M.D.S.M.; Sandamali, A.W.M.
    When Creating Citizens to the Society with Intellectuals and with more disciplined, the Public Library would contribute much for this task. The main duty that contributes by a library are collecting Knowledge, Organizing, depositing and giving facilities to the reader to obtain the necessary knowledge for usage. The public library is the only institution, which gives services without any charge from the public, and it does not consider the intellects, ignorant, race, creed, religion and the age. The public library supplies service on behalf of the children and adults. The aim of this study is to focus the activities of the children libraries attached to public libraries in the municipals, urban councils and Divisional Secretaries in the Gampaha district. The issues faced with the public libraries when giving efficient and more fruitful service to the children is the research problem. According to the problems identified, there a search has been done by this study to identify at what is level of the continuance and the activities of the service of the children library services attached to public libraries. In order to collect data, questionnaires, interviews, discussions, investigations etc. have been used. When identifying the issues and problems those affected to the development of the children’s library service in the Gampaha district, many reasons have been forwarded to follow the procedure to improving the conditions of the children affiliated library service in the Gampaha district. Main problem was the non-receipt of the infrastructure facilities as needed. It was also further disclosed that the infrastructure facilities that is given to the public libraries must be improved. It was revealed by this study that at what level is the service of the children libraries in the Gampaha district are. Accordingly the termination is noted with how the problems affected for the children libraries and the suitable ideas and proposals to solve those problems.
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    A Comparative Study on the Provincial Library Services Boards in Sri Lanka.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Bandara, D.K.G.R.S.
    Provincial library development project has started in 1990 in order to decentralize the library system and services. Through, it has passed about 30 years after the beginning of the provincial library development project, there are only few actively existing provincial library services boards such as Uwa, Central, North Central and Sabaragamuwa. In fact, this study deals with the comparative study on provincial library services boards in Sri Lanka. The objectives of this paper are to study the existing activity and the situation of provincial library services boards and to identify the different programs and services among them, to investigate the contribution of the decentralization library service to the development process of the country and to identify the issues in the of provincial library services boards. The study is based on the assumption that effective of provincial library services boards are not functioning in a proper manner. This study is conducted both qualitative and quantitative data to be collected from primary and secondary sources. When collecting primary data, interviews, questionnaires are will be used. Prediction, comparison, relationship, critical analysis, illustrations and the SPSS data analyzing software will be used in data analysis. As the population, the effective provincial library service boards like Uwa, Central, North Central and Sabaragamuwa will be taken. 100 selected public and school libraries representing these four provinces will be used as the sample. 60% among these are public libraries while the rest 40% is school libraries. It is important to study about the provincial library development project as it is a recently started project in library field.