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Item කරගම්පිටිය විහාර චිත්ර(සුභෝධාරාම පුරාණ මහා විහාරය දෙහිවල, 2012) Hettige, UdaItem Aesthetic traditions: a case study of paintings in Subodharama image house(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2015) Hettige, Uda; Sudasinghe, A.Situated in Dehiwla, the Subodharama temple which is also known as "Little Kelaniya" has a collection of paintings that date back to over 300 years. This temple is also famous for art, statues and mosaic art and it is beli eved th at in 1780 A.O. during the Kandian period, King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe has sponsored to build this temple. The most important paintings of this collection are found in Image-house (Shrine room). The objective of this study was to examine the musical instruments and dancing figures with special emphasis on style, European cultural and social influence, Sri Lankan traditional cultural and social influence. In addition to archeological evidence, data was collected .from field observations and personal interviews and analysis was based on qualitative research methodology in order to compare each costumes and figure forms. The data revealed an influence of Sri Lankan, Tamil, and European cultural influences where these paintings reveal the history of civilization and the cultural belonging. Furthermore, it was apparent that the instruments and classical dance forms revealed through these paintings are associated with the performance of various rituals and ceremonies which date back to the folk religion and beliefs some going as far as before the advent and acceptance of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.Item Past, Present and Future of Hamilton Canal(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2015) Hettige, Uda; Sudasinghe, A.The greatness of the irrigation systems of Sri Lanka is summed up in the book "History of Ceylon". Accordingly, during colonial period in Sri Lanka, especi ally in the Portuauese Era when new canals were constructed. Th e purpose of th e b original waterways was to transport goods to seafaring ships leaving from the port of Negombo; the cargoes consisting of precious stones, pearls a nd spices, cloves, cardamoms, pepper and above all, cinnamon. In Dutch Era, th ey expanded the canal system but some canals remain unfinished. During British Era, which is in the . beginning of nineteenth century, they completed construction of canals which were not completely built during Dutch Era . Some can~ls were expanded and some canals were newly built. The Hamilton Canal was built by Gavin Hamilton, Agent Revenue Commerce, Colombo. Hamilton Canal links the Kelani River with the Negombo lagoon. There was a boat system called "Padda boats" which were used to transport the goods in colonial Sri Lanka. Eventully, Hamilton cannel was no longer used but it has now been reconstructed in a modern way. It is now capable of attracting tourists, thus boat rides; water jets have been introduced. In this research we discuss the discovery of Hamilton canal, historical evidence on this canal, how to attract local and foreign tourist by introducing Boat Houses instead of Hotels, use modern barges to transport goods and use public boats to transport people. The objective of this study was to examine the history, heritage and to use it for tourism and as a transport. In this research we collected different data such as written documents on ancient irrigation work in Ceylon by R. L. Brohier, Muthuraja Wela by Abeysekara Henry P. and documents from Irrigation Department. We observed plans, maps and visual data for the research. As field data, we took photos and personal interviews from the elderly residents and analysis was based on qualitative research method. Further, we were able to find a very clear collection of photos of Hamilton cannel.Item ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චිත්ර කලාවේ බෞද්ධ අනන්යතාවය(සමාජීය විද්යා පීඨය, 2015) Hettige, UdaItem A study on the usage of social media by people in the sector of Information Technology(1st National Conference on Mass Communication, Department of Mass Communication (NCMC 2018), University of Kelaniya, Sri lanka., 2018-12-08) Kithulwatta, W.M.C.J.T.Information Technology (IT) can be considered as a major trend in the modern world. At present social media creates a better platform for communication and create public relations within people. Media ethics and media literacy help people for a good communication. This paper examines the need of social media for people in IT sector. The research question of this study is to understand the reasons for the need of social media to the people in IT sector. The first part of this study discusses about the current problems and the strengths of social media. The author used only Skype, Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack and YouTube as social media. The main objective of this study is to examine the factors related to the communication and social media in IT industry. In addition, this study aims to analyze the relationship between human factors and technical factors in communication, to identify the basic practices, ethical behaviors and how the media literacy helps people to continue good communication. The literature review discusses the theoretical models of presenting research topic. The methodology of this research study discussed about the identified variables; human factor and technical factors. The conceptual framework developed with an identified framework and indicators. A questionnaire was developed to cover all identified indicators. The target sample size is hundred people from both IT undergraduates and IT employers. The collected data was analyzed with Minitab statistical software. The results of this study shows majority of the people in the IT sector are using YouTube for IT development activities, Skype for industrial discussions and video conferences, LinkedIn for professionalism, research publications and academic works and Slack for official tutorials and webinar in the organizations and Twitter to get latest acknowledgments. Finally, it presents the need of Skype, LinkedIn, Slack, YouTube and Twitter for the people in IT industry and how they use the particular social media for their dayto- day communication activities.Item A new vision to LIS field: an overview of Green Library Concept(Pusthakala Vidya, 2019) Warnasooriya, Thrishala‘Green concept’ has become a trendy discussion not only among the library professionals but also in other fields as a result of severe environmental issues faced by the entire mankind. Besides other countries have already taken better solutions based on green concept and done various researches but rarely seen in the library Science field in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the green library concept as a new vision to the library science field. This article will be a supportive document to fill the knowledge gap of articles on green library concept in Sri Lankan library system.Item A study on the role of librarian in indigenous knowledge management.(National Research Symposium on Historical Studies, Rajarata University, Sri Lanka., 2018) Warnasooriya, Thrishala; Lakmali, H.A.N.Item An investigative study on the significance of creating a standard directory for museums to manage cultural heritage in Sri Lanka.(1st Undergraduate Conference on Archaeology, Bhiksu University, Sri Lanka., 2018) Warnasooriya, ThrishalaItem An analytical study on the challenges faced by the library of University of Kelaniya to apply green concept.(4th National Research conference on Applied Social Statistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2018) Warnasooriya, Thrishalaශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රථම ජාතික හරිත සරසවිය වශයෙන් 2015.07.10 දින සිට ක්රියත්මක වූ පරිදි කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්යාල පරිශ්රය හරිත සංකල්පය අනුව තවදුරටත් ක්රියාකරයි. එය ප්රවර්ධනය උදෙසා විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය "තිරසාර විසදුම් මධ්යස්ථානය” (Center for Sustainability Solutions - CSS) වැනි මධ්යස්ථාන මෙන්ම (Nature Club) වැනි කණ්ඩායම් ක්රියාකිරී ලෙස ජාතික මෙහෙවරක නියැලෙමින් සිටියි. ඒ අනුව මෙම පර්යේෂණයේ අරමුණ වන්නේ විශ්වවිද්යාලය තුළ ක්රියාත්මක වන හරිත සංකල්පය සඳහා යොමු වීමේ දී විශ්වවිද්යාල පුස්තකාලය මුහුණ දෙන අභියෝග හඳුනාගැනීම යි. එහිදී හරිත සංකල්පය ක්රියාත්මක කළහැකි ප්රධාන ක්ෂේත්ර 5ක් නිර්වචනය කරගැනිණි. එනම්, පුස්තකාල ගොඩනැගිල්ල, පුස්තකාල එකතුව, පුස්තකාල තොරතුරු පද්ධති, පුස්තකාල ක්රියාපටිපාටි හා ක්රියාකාරකම් සහ පුස්තකාල වැඩසටහන් හා සේවා වශයෙනි. කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය ප්රධාන පුස්තකාලයේ දැනට සේවයට වාර්තා කරන අධ්යන කාර්යමණ්ඩල සාමාජිකයින් 8 දෙනා අතරින් අහඹු ලෙස තෝරාගත් 5 දෙනෙකු සමඟ පැවැත් වූ සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡා හා ස්වයං නිරීක්ෂණ මඟින් රැස්කරගත් දත්ත අනුව නව ගොඩනැගිල්ල ස්වාභාවික වාතාශ්රය හා ආලෝකය ලැබෙන පරිදි ගොඩනැගීම, ඉලෙක්ටොනික පුස්තකාල එකතූන් ප්රතිග්රහණය කිරීම, පුස්තකාල ස්වයංක්රීයකරණය, ඉලෙක්ට්රොනික හා වෙනත් අපද්රව්ය මනාව කළමනාකරණය වැනි හරිත ක්රියාකාරකම් කිහිපයක නිරත වුවද හරිත පුස්තකාලයක් වශයෙන් සෘජුවම හඳුන්වාදීමට තරම් ක්රියාකාරී දායකත්වයක් හා උනන්දුවක් දැක්වීමට අපොහොසත් වී තිබේ. ඊට හේතු වශයෙන් වාර්ෂික ප්රතිග්රහණයේ දී මුද්රිත පොතපතට ඇති ඉල්ලුමට සාපේක්ෂව ඉලෙක්ට්රොනික මූලාශ්රයන්ට ඇති ඉල්ලුම පිටපත් 5ක් වැනි අවම අගයකි. එනිසා වැඩි ඉඩකඩක් මෙන්ම ගෘහභාණ්ඩ ප්රමාණයක් ද මුද්රිත ද්රව්ය සඳහා වෙන් කිරීමට සිදුවී ඇත. ස්වයංක්රීයකරණය කළ ද කඩදාසි තවමත් භාවිත කිරීමත් විශාල පරිගණක සංඛ්යාවක් හා පරිගණක මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය පැය 8කට ආසන්න කාලසීමාවක් පුරා කාබන්ඩයොක්සයිඩ් (CO2) ජනනය කිරීමත් සිදුකරයි. ඒවා ස්ථානගත කිරීමට වැඩි ඉඩකඩක් ද වෙන්කරවා තිබේ. පැය 24ක් පුරාවට සේවා සපයන පුස්තකාලයක් නොවන බැවින් දැරිය හැකි මට්ටමින් සූර්යකෝෂ පද්ධතියක් ස්ථාපනයෙන් විදුලිය ජනනය කිරීමත්, විදුලි අවභාවිතය වැළැක්වීමත්, විශාල පරිගණක මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධති වෙනුවට සයිබර් තාක්ෂණය හා "ක්ලවුඩ්" ක්රමවේද (Cloud computing systems) භාවිතයත්, පූර්ණ ස්වයංක්රීයකරණයට අවශ්ය විද්යුත් ආරක්ෂිත දොරටු හා උපාංග (Security systems) සවිකොට සංසරණ රිසිට්පත් වෙනුවට විද්යුත් ලිපින (email) වෙත පණිවුඩ යැවීමෙන් කඩදාසි භාවිතය අවම කිරීම මඟින් එම අභියෝග ජයගැනීමට උත්සුක වේ නම් ක්රියාකාරී ලෙස හරිත ක්රියාන්විතයට දායකවීමට කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය පුස්තකාලයට ද හැකිවනු ඇත.Item The Significance of Applying Green Concept as a Marketing Tool to Increase the Library Usage at University of Kelaniya(2018) Warnasooriya, ThrishalaThe decrease of library usage among consumers has become an issue to the library and the mother institute: University of Kelaniya. The issue faced by the university as a result of this is the drop of life - long education and research culture. The inability to create a good image of the library, non - popularity among library users, the distance between the library and the user as well as the failure to use the library collection adequately are the current challenges faced by the library. As a solution for those issues, library marketing should be undertaken. The traditional marketing tools such as conducting lectures, distribution of flyers, postures are now out dated in the digital world. Use of web sites, blogs and social media are also not effective, as the number of online visits to the library web pages are not satisfactory. Therefore, another creative marketing tool is needed. Hence, the objective of this study was to examine the significance of applying green concept as a marketing tool in the library of first state green university in Sri Lanka. Interviews were conducted with randomly selected 5 academic staff members of the library. Questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected 10 academic staff members in each faculty and 10 students in each academic year. 76% out of the respondents declared that library marketing is needed while 45% of them suggested that the most suitable method of library marketing is green concept. 88% of them prefer green concept. If green concept exists, 90% of them are ready to increase the number of library visits. Accordingly, it is evident that application of green concept is a timely requirement and a solution to market the library services among consumers and a marketing tool as well to increase their library visits.