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Item Women to Watch Movies?(Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Buddhika, S.All people can look at a picture, but not all of them can read the picture. Photography is a type of language. It can tell many things. In every artwork, there is a hidden purpose, but not everyone can read it because we need literacy to read a language. Without it we can’t get the full taste of that. If we have the literacy to read images in photography then we can look at the picture in different ways, and when we look at the picture,we engage in a series of complex readings. In such a reading, a series of problematic, ambiguous, and often contradictory meanings and relationships between the reader and the photograph will emerge. According to Bruno Barbey “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. “ Ansell Adams said that “you don’t make a photograph just with the camera, you bring to the act of photograph all the pictures you have seen the books you have read, the music you have heard the people you have loved”. According to Adams, the cameraman takes the best picture not just using his camera, so we want literacy to understand what the artist says. Without that artistic reading, it will be just a beautiful snapshot. Therefore, viewers of photography need to be literate in the language of photography to read it and get the best taste and feeling about it.Item Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries: (Public Libraries in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka)(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Herath, D.M.S.K.Literacy is ability to read and write or knowledge that relates to a specified subject or subject area. UNESCO has Convinced that “literacy is crucial to the acquisition, by every single child, youth and adult, of Essential life skills,” UNESCO was designated 2003 to 2012 as the decade of literacy. They directly recognize that everyone needs to develop the ability to access, assess, and use information in a variety of ways. Librarians recognize their huge growing role in literacy, reading research can help them gather facts and suggest good Solutions. Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries extends the first brochure by Focusing on the importance of wisely consuming, conducting and applying research Conducted by librarians and their partners in order to promote literacy and reading. People believe that libraries are uniquely situated to promote literacy and reading. It is a part of their mission. And it is a mission of all types of libraries, from school and public to special, Research, university and national. The main objective of this Research is to identify the Reading Promotion Activities that we can use to promote literacy and Reading in Sri Lankan Libraries. The problem of this research is lack of Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries. The selection of the sample involved in the selection of 10 public Libraries in Kurunegala district and the selection of Readers and Librarians in those Libraries. Due to time and other constraints it was necessary to limit the sample for 10 public Libraries in one district. In order to give a fair chance to all. Using simple random sampling method 05 Readers were selected to administer the questionnaire I. The second questionnaire was administered among the Librarians of public libraries. Studies on the Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries is one of the key research areas in the field of Library and information Science. The analysis of data revealed the following major finding, Public Libraries have been playing a vital role in the promotion of Reading promotion In Sri Lanka. Librarians require Good Practice about Reading and Literacy promotion activities.