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    Libraries and COVID-19: What users expressed on Twitter
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Kavya, Asok; Vysakh, C
    Due to the pandemic hit, libraries worldwide face hard choices around which services to offer and how. In this study, we present the Twitter sentimental analysis on libraries and COVID-19. We used the Mozdeh Big Data Text Analysis to collect 23 tweets in the English language. The findings reported that most female and male tweets have come under the score of “1”, which means the positive and negative sentiments are “None”. The hashtag ‘#libraries’ was the most occurred hashtag in the user tweets (3 times). Furthermore, the word occurrence delineated that the words “and”, “librarie” and “covid-19” were the frequented ones with 49, 41 and 39 times, respectively. The present study results give the stakeholders a hint to analyse the user sentiments for different decisions to improve the library services amid these uncertain pandemics
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    Use of video conferencing software platforms for learning among Indian students during covid-19 pandemic times
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Manu. B.K; Vysakh, C; Rajendra, Babu
    The purpose of the present study was to investigate how Indian students used video conferencing software platforms for learning amid the pandemic. An online survey questionnaire by using Google Forms was used to collect the data from 106 participants across the country. The participants consisted of 59 % female and 41% male students ranging from primary to PhD/Postdoc level. Out of this, 88(84%) participants hooked on various video conferencing platforms for learning. Google meet (96.60%) and Zoom (95.50%) were the most used platforms by the participants. Multimedia learning (75%) and self-paced learning (68.2%) were the top advantages of online learning as cited by the respondents. Lack of face to face interaction and internet problems were the frequent hurdles faced by the students. Overall, 62.50% of participants were satisfied and 6.81% were dissatisfied with using online video conferencing platforms for online classes during pandemic times.