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Item Trend in Reading Novels by the Students of Art Faculty: With Special Referee to Kelaniya, Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura Universities(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madhusanka, N.M.A.N.; Atthanayaka, M.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, non-issue 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.Item A Study on the Use and the Problems Faced by the Students in Using Library Web Page of University of Kelaniya(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Deepika, D.M.P.P.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.