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    Usage Patterns of Medical Information E- Resources among Postgraduate Medical Doctors in Sri Lanka
    (3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Dilhani, M.P.P.
    The main focus of the research was to examine the Usage pattern of electronic resources by the postgraduate medical doctors in Sri Lanka. . The study was carried out for researchers who are doing study to explore the information usage patterns of postgraduate trainees at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Questionnaire method was used to examine and collect data from the research scholars. The collected data has been analyzed with the help of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The results revealed that there is a significant difference among researchers in different age groups who are familiar with utilization of electronic resources. Course oriented web pages should be linked with library websites which in turn help the research scholars to use these resources easily and effectively
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    Internet Use and Its Impact on Library Usage by Trainiees at Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA), Sri Lanka
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Ranawella, T.C.
    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.