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    The Way of Using Social Media Networks for Current Awareness Services
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sumana Thero, Bodagama; Pagngnaloka Thero, K.; Sobitha Thero, Karapikkada
    Social Media networks are very famous informativesources at present when comparing with other technologies. The purpose of this research is to examine the usage of to social media networks to promote Library and Information resources in between librarians and patrons in Sri Lankan as current awareness services. Current Awareness Services help to library for notifying library services to researches and other persons who need information. Presently, there are more social media networks in the world. Some examples are Face book, twitter, likened, Google +, you tube. Face book Social media networks are used by 1,100 100 100 peoples in the current world meanwhile the Face book is most popular network in Sri Lanka too. Therefore current awareness services which containing CAS list" Content pages services" Periodical Circulation" Paper cutting services" Accession list and the notification of fourth coming conversion and Research in progress are used by the librarians. Nevertheless public, schools, University and special librarians paylmeagerattention for these methods. The sole intention of this evaluattion is to notify the knowledge and information to promote CAS services by using social media. According to the study, although theSri Lankan libraries are connecting with social media but not more with CAS services. Some of libraries used to use social media networks under the friend groups, pages and ask a librarian. Therefore librarians have to be promoted to use this technology to notify library activities for patrons.
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    A Comparative Study on Differences between Anglo - American Catalogue Rules (AACR II) and Resource Description and Access (RDA)
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sumana Thero, Bodagama
    Anglo - American Catalogue Rules II in 2008 and Resource Description and Access are basically used to cataloguing libraries. This study investigates differences between AACR II and RDA. Resource Description and Access is a new standard for description and access knowledge. AACR depends on ISBD standard and RDA was based on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records(FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data(FRAD). According to this study, it can be identified differences of both cataloguing rules such as Parallel titles, statement of responsibility, publication information and dates, relationship designators, capitalization , treatment of typos or errors found on the resource, square brackets and fictitious entities and non-human entities can be creators or contributors. Fundamentals of AACR II and RDA are also different. Mainly, AACR II is a printed source, rules are created for both content and display and designed for card catalogues. RDA is an online source and web based one, rules are created only for the content and designed for a digital world. Therefore, Librarians have been focusing attention on RDA rules rather than AACR II in order to develop future virtual library concept with regarding to web based description and access to digitized knowledge and information.