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Cloud Computing Efficiency in Developing Economics
(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Yuvaraj, M.; Nawarathne, I.M.
Cloud Computing has unfurled a new panorama replacing the traditional IT practices for the organizations striving to cut down computing costs as well as to execute painless IT. With the influx of IT, organizations have engaged in major deals on computers which have nothing to do with the mission and objectives of the libraries. Under such circumstances, Cloud Computing has emerged as a blessing in disguise that has brought decentralization to the computing world. The theme of this paper is to discuss the winds of change brought about to the computing world by the prominent cloud candidates: Microsoft, Amazon and Google. It describes in detail Amazon strategies of Elastic Computing, Microsoft Azure and the benefits of Pay per use model. Further, it brings to light various research initiatives undertaken globally and the use of Cloud Computing by OCLC, University of California and University of Berkley. Knowhow of using clouds of computing power like data centre, servers, online operating systems, online storage systems, online software will be also discussed. Discussion will include in detail the flair of Cloud Computing (IaaS- Infrastructure as a Service, PaaS- Platform as a Service, SaaS- Software as a Service) and the deployment strategies (Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud). Cloud Computing unconsciously is being used optimally by everyone and it is high time that people should know its significant use. It has received considerable attention from global and local IT players, national governments, and international agencies that are using the cloud infrastructure in education, health, commerce, governance, environment and telecommuting. For a country like Sri Lanka adopting Cloud Computing is the best solution for painless IT and usage of computing power with less investment and less infrastructure.
Current Situation of Information Literacy Pedagogy of Academic Libraries in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Nawarathne, I.M.
Information literacy is the ability of any national to locate, evaluate information, and analyse any problem of day to day life. It is scaffolding and intermingles with primary and higher education. According to the literature search, it is difficult to locate a unique format or curriculum in university level education and thus it is a dysfunctional situation. Information literacy programs have been discussed as the way of implementation to solve this problem. Many heated debates, conferences and seminars have been organized with the help of foreign experts to find a unique pedagogy and curriculum. As a result of development and deployment of Information Technology, information realm permeated the world. Every university has to take steps to include information literacy based credit- bearing courses in the curriculum with the purpose of making heuristic-reliant students in the university. The researchers observed available Information Literacy programs in all of the university libraries and found that they were unable to find a common structure relating to Information Literacy. Most of the university libraries have started this program under various names. It is also found that the curriculum and the assessment test varied from university to university. The researchers hope to apply their recommendations to the academic libraries to make a unique format and provide collaborative information to design literacy programs.