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Item Strengthening the Culture of Learning Outcome Assessment in LIS Programs through Student Self- Assessments(ALISE, 2024) Dilinika, J.M.S.Self-assessment empowers students to take ownership of their learning by assessing strengths and weaknesses in each area of competence they expect to achieve. This poster will illustrate perspectives gathered from a comprehensive examination and literature review to explore how LIS programs employ self-assessments, empowering students to understand their learning and competencies. Additionally, it aims to determine what lessons LIS programs can learn from other disciplines when creating an effective platform for facilitating student self-assessment. The review revealed that LIS programs use self-assessment tools such as self-reflective essays and journals, often combined with other direct assessment methods. Other professional disciplines, such as Medicine and Engineering, employ technology-based personalized self-assessment tools, aiding students in self-assessing at different program milestones. However, literature and best practices emphasize that self-assessment should not be individualistic but should be collaborative, involving peers and instructors. In addition to self-assessment methods, the review highlighted the importance of metacognitive awareness to ensure the accuracy of self-assessments and help students become more mindful of their learning. Many professional programs support students by facilitating rubric-guided judgments, self-rating, self-efficacy inventories, and metacognitive awareness inventories. LIS programs can adopt best practices from other disciplines to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of student self-assessment practices.Item Breaking the Loop, Finding the Balance: Predictors of Social Media Detox among Graduate Students(ALISE, 2024) Dilinika, J.M.S.; Huanga, Kuo-TingSocial media detox is recognized as an effective strategy for mitigating the negative impacts of excessive social media usage. This study explores the factors influencing graduate students’ decisions to engage in social media detox. Factors related to social media overload and general social media experience were examined as potential predictors. Data were collected using an online survey from 179 graduate students who are active on social media. The results of the study revealed a high prevalence of social media overload among graduate students, with information overload emerging as the strongest predictor of social media detox. This suggests that effectively managing the constant influx of information on social media platforms is crucial for reducing stress and promoting digital well-being among graduate students. The study provides practical implications and further research directions for promoting digital well-being and enhancing information management skills.Item Assessing the effectiveness of academic library services: A review on the formulation of a feasible conceptual framework(Information Development, 2023) Ajith, J.; Ramanayaka, K.; Weerasooriya, W. A.With the rapid development of internet technology and the gradually accelerating rate of information technology, library systems are progressively transforming into hybrid library systems that provide services from traditional and electronic means. For insightful planning toward a strong service to the community, there is a need to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of library services. Based on this requirement, the purpose of this study is to determine the criteria and their measuring indicators that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of modern academic library services by reviewing related studies found in the literature, and then build a conceptual framework. A comprehensive literature review related to library service effectiveness was conducted to identify, determine and suggest scientific evaluation criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of academic library services. The study revealed that User Satisfaction, Collection Development, Management and Staff Contributions, Service Efficiency, and Accessibility, were the top key evaluation criteria used or cited in the related works. Three or more indicator categories for each criterion have been identified, and the measurable indicators consisted of Likert-type questions on a five-point rating scale that can be used to measure indicator categories. Finally, the conceptual framework for assessing academic library service effectiveness has been developed based on these criteria and their measurement indicators. The study has presented a framework of service effectiveness, including assessment criteria and measurement indicators that can be used to evaluate modern hybrid academic libraries.Item Behavioral intention to use electronic resources by distance learners: An extension of the technology acceptance model(Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2023) Marasinghe, I. K.; Weerasooriya, W. A.; Rathnabahu, N.This study aimed to discover the factors affecting behavioral intention to use electronic resources by distance learners of the Open University of Sri Lanka, and to develop a model explaining behavioral intention to use such resources. Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as the theoretical basis, this study explored the effect of five external factors on the behavioral intention of distance learners toward using e-resources. A quantitative research approach was used, and data were collected from a survey of 379 active undergraduates of the Open University of Sri Lanka. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to obtain the results of the study. The results of PLS-SEM reveal that the distance mode of learning and relevance of information are the two major external factors that affect behavioral intention to use e-resources. Computer self-efficacy and user satisfaction also have a significant influence on the dependent variable. Social influence, on the other hand, shows no significant impact. Of the TAM constructs, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user attitudes significantly affect e-resource utilization behavior.Item Examining the relationship between competitive capability and perceived service quality in university libraries(https://jula.sljol.info/static/images/upress.png, 2021) Arachchige, J. J. G.; Singh, Diljit; Weerasooriya, W. A.As modern Information Technology has created a way to a variety of information service opportunities, many options other than the conventional library service are available for users. A stiff competition has emerged among information service providers and therefore university library professionals too have to think of their competitive advantage. Service quality has gained a high concern as a strategy for developing the competitive position of an organization and many studies in different fields have established a strong relationship between service quality and competitive advantage. Viewing inversely, some practitioners contemplate that the competitive position of resource capabilities can influence the improvement of service quality. In order to examine the relationship between competitive position and the service quality in a university library context, an exploratory survey was employed utilizing a VRIO based questionnaire and LibQUAL+ based instrument with 89 library professionals selected from 15 state university libraries in Sri Lanka. The study reveals that there is a moderate positive correlation between two variables (r = .286, n= 66, p = .020). As the relationship is moderate, further studies seem essential to support the hypothesis. The large percentage of residuals indicates that there are more factors contributing to the service quality in university libraries. This studyItem 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 An exploratory overview on Library Professionals’ Training Series (LPTS) of library, University of Kelaniya.(Felicitation Volume - Mr. N.T.S.A. Senadeera. Manuscript submitted for publication. Library, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Munasinghe, M.A.K.S.; Warnasooriya, ThrishalaComputer literacy is essential for library staff to provide a high quality, timely responsive, cost effective library services to its users in a techno-savvy library environment in this digital era. Specially computer literacy is a key requirement for non-academic staff to operate the library technical services. Most of the libraries across the world have taken actions to develop various staff development programmes. Those can be varied based on the type of the library and its users, capacity of the staff, attitude, technology, budget, mother institution, rules and regulations, and country. Therefore, developing a unique Computer literacy enhancement programme for a certain library is ideal. ‘Library Professionals’ Training Series (LPTS) containing 3 levels was developed by Interactive Media Unit (IMU) to enhance the computer literacy of the staff. As level I could be successfully completed, a progress of the staff was noticed. Therefore, this paper presents an exploratory overview on this programme by setting an example for other libraries in Sri Lanka.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.