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Item Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Agriculture Scientist of the Department of Agriculture in Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Dilrukshi, W.P.T.Information seeking patterns are consisted to be different among usergroups.This study examines the issues of information needs and seeking patterns of the user group of Agriculture scientist of the department of Agriculture in Sri Lanka.The specific objectives of the study first,to identify the information seeking patterns of the Agriculture scientists. Second, to find out what are the resources they need to use. Third, to find out satisfaction level of the agricultural scientists with the available information of their libraries and suggest the possible solutions to overcome the problems faced/encounter when accessing the required information by the agricultural scientists.A survey was conducted by using structured questionnaire among the all agricultural scientist of the two research institutes of the Agriculture Department.The findings revealed that Agriculture scientist in the category of very weaker competence in relation to use of library and also spend less time in the library of their institutes. Most of the respondents are seek information for their research work. It has reveled that respondents are preferred to used journals when find the information for their research work. The paper conclude that scientist are required proper instruction and programs aiming at improving their information seeking skills. They are facing lot of barriers when used the library in their institutions. It is recommended to librarians that the existing strategies should be re design and re shape to address these problems properly and to improve the information searching skills of agriculture scientist of the department of Agriculture.Also more IT and other facilities should be implemented to the Agriculture Libraries.Item Study of extensive reading preferences among the science-based undergraduates in Sri Lanka: A case study of Medicine and Agriculture faculties at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Wanasinghe, W.M.P.G.K.T.; Illangarathne, S. K.; Dilrukshi, W.P.T.Extensive reading of undergraduates would be more influential & valuable habit in so many different ways during their academic lives as they become confident, happy readers can be both challenging and immensely gratifying. Since measuring this habit quantitatively would be bit difficult due to the various aspects, however this study attempts to measure the ratio level of extensive reading of undergraduates instead of their intensive reading. Finally it tries comparatively analyzing the extensive reading preferences among the science-based undergraduates in Sri Lanka with reference to the Medicine and Agriculture faculties at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (RUSL) based on the time-series data retrieved from the Koha Integrated Library System. The main objective of the study was to identify the level of extensive reading of general reading books by science-based undergraduates. The specific objectives of the study were to find out the level of availability of library resources related to the extensive reading, to find out the existing extensive reading behaviors and to identify the comparison and gaps of extensive reading by the science-based undergraduates of RUSL. The case study method was used to conduct the study and time series data set retrieved from the Koha: Open-Source Library Integrated System called ‘ISURa’ which has been installed at the file server of RUSL during the time period from 2016 to 2019. The main assumption of the study was that checking out books from the library by the above students is the only use for them. The limitation of the study was not considering the Adhoc reading at the library during the selected period. The major finding of the study was that science-based student’s extensive reading behavior is satisfactory compared with their intensive reading (Agriculture students 50% and Medicine students 20%) further authors were recommended to enhance the available resources by increasing the annual budget proportionately.