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Role and Importance of public libraries in sharing the cooperative activity of managing indigenous knowledge with special reference to Sri Lanka: A framework for the advancement
(02nd International Conference for Academic Discipline, 16th – 20th March 2020, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2020) Piyarathana Thero, Rev. Legumdeniye
Indigenous Knowledge (lK) is the knowledge, experience derived and existed upon for the wellbeing of a parlicular community or culture, and its special characteristics are the sustainability, envirorutrental friendliness and the practical validity. Indigenous knowledge contained in palm leaf manuscripts, with aural traditions, practices, belief systems, printed and non-printed sources, folk norms and virlues. It is diverse in the areas of religion, indigenous medicine, myths, agriculture and farming, language and literatute, alt and crafts, rite and rituals. The principal objective of this paper is to study the role and importance of public libraries in sharing the cooperative activity of managing indigenous knowledge with special reference to Sri Lall