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Item Librarians’ Perceptions of Successful Leadership Skills of University Libraries in Sri Lanka : With reference Western Province Universities(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Dharmarathne, B.A.N.D.Leadership skills are the strengths and abilities of individuals which help the oversee processes, guide initiatives and steer their employees toward the achievement of goals. Leadership skills are an essential component in positioning executives to make thoughtful decisions about their organization's mission and goals, and properly allocate resources to achieve those directives. Valuable leadership skills include the ability to delegate, inspire and communicate effectively. Other leadership traits include honesty, confidence, commitment and creativity. Librarian should have Leadership Skills. The purpose of this case study was to explore Librarians’ perceptions of successful leadership skills in the 21st century. The data gathered from selected University Librarians consisted of demographic information and responses to six open-ended interview questions. From the Data analysis, several significant themes emerged regarding successful library leadership skills in the 21st century at two levels: foundational and interpersonal. At the foundational level, technical and knowledge skills form the building blocks for the next level of interpersonal skills. Persuasion and collaborative skills are interwoven with these interpersonal skills, both of which are at the core of the postindustrial paradigm of leadership. These two levels of skills, with an emphasis on persuasion skills, should form the basis of succession planning programs for next generation librarians. Implementing such programs could lead to increased leadership diversity, greater job satisfaction, improved job performance and effectiveness, all of which help retain librarians and ease staff shortages.Item Use of ICT for Reader Services in University Libraries: Kelaniya, Jayawardhanapura and Open University in Sri Lanka.(2017) Dharmarathne, B.A.N.D.“Library is a Growing Organism as according to Ranganathan. Present day society is categorized Information Society. Therefore, ICT is an important thing for all communities. The Knowledge is door of the Libraries in country. The main objective of thestudy is to examine the use of ICT for reader services in libraries. The study based on survey method. Questionnaires were used for data collection. Microsoft Excel was used analyzed the collected data. Under the survey research method, three Universities of Kelaniya, Sri Jayawardanapura and Open University were used as the sample. Comprising 300 students in universities. Result show that most of the students use ICT library services in universities. But libraries are not adequately using ICT for their reader services in universities. University libraries provide e database, e journals, e books for their readers as user services. University librarians should use more ICT techniques an application is providing their reader services. The time has come introduce more training and awareness programmes, Workshops and Seminars for using ICT in the use of reader services in university libraries in Sri Lanka.