IPRC - 2015
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Item Use of Electronic Media for Academic Purposes among the University Students: special reference with faculty of social sciences, University of Kelaniya(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dilinika, J.M.S.; Jayawardana, M.C.N.Within the Information society, electronic media are playing vital role. It has revolutionized the information system and sessions. Electronic media comes with various forms such as Ebooks, online databases, CD, DVD and etc. Through the electronic media Students make aware himself with the current information and updates. The study investigated the usage of electronic media by the students. The objectives of the study were to examine how the university students search required information from the electronic media and to identify the usage of electronic media for academic purposes and to ascertain the problems encountered by the university students in the process of searching of information. Structured questionnaires were distributed among 100 first year undergraduates in the Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya. Questionnaire was the main data gathering method. It was identified that from the total population only 44% students use electronic media for their academic works. According to the results 20% percent of students use e-books to search information, 8% percent use online databases and 10% Percent of students use e-Journals. Another 6% use CD/DVD to find academic information. But, 56% Percent of students didn‘t appear to use electronic media for their academic works. Major Reason for this issue is students used to go for the university library for search information without electronic concept. Other Problems were lack of awareness about electronic media, Connection problems and Students used to surf internet only as a social media. Suggestions were made to conduct training sessions, workshops in order to awareness among stakeholders.Item Provision of Internet access among public libraries in Sri Lanka: Special reference with Tsunami reconstructed Public Libraries in South Coastal area(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Dilinika, J.M.S.December 26th, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people and caused a massive damage to properties. It was recorded as the worst tragedy of the century. It devastated 65 public libraries in coastal areas and out of these 65 public libraries 28 Libraries were completely destroyed. Though several reconstruction projects were operated to facilitate the tsunami affected public libraries in south coastal areas, there are no adequate internet facilities provided for them. The present research attempts to address this problem. The principle objective of this paper was to identify the availability of internet facilities among tsunami reconstructed public libraries in Sri Lanka. The other objectives were to identify reasons for not having sufficient facilities for libraries and to examine to what extent these libraries were providing Internet facilities. The population of the study consists of all tsunami affected public libraries in south coastal area. The researcher visited all of the above libraries and investigated the situation and gathered data using research techniques such as, structured questionnaires, direct observations and 16 librarians and library assistants were interviewed during the survey to gather data. Out of the reconstructed libraries in the sample only 12.5% had Internet facilities and the rest, namely 87.5% did not have this facility in the library. From all the reconstructed libraries in the sample 50% libraries didn‘t have computers and the provision of computer facilities too in them was limited. According to results, the following measures are recommended: Provision of sufficient computer facilities, improvement of infrastructures and making internet facilities available at the library.