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Item Digital Library Initiative at Library of Navarasam Arts and Science College for Women.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Subha, S.; Magudeeswaran, T.; Velayutham, Sri. A.Digital Library Initiative paves the way to get required information to the users. The importance, advantage of a Digital Library over the traditional library were emphasized. The Digital Library Initiatives are redesigning the services and information products to add a value to the Library services and satisfy the changing need for the user community. In this study an effort taken to create a Digital Library Initiatives at Library of Navarasam Arts and Science College for Women.Item Role of the Modern Libraries on Information and Communication Technology Era.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Dayananda, A.P.M.M.D.B.Information is very essential thing for human development as air is essential for the survival of all living organisms on earth, including human beings. At 21st century has ainformation exploration on the modern society. There for every person have to expose for the Information and Technology. The pace of change brought about by new information technologies has a key role on the way people live, work, and play worldwide. The increasing role played by information and communication technology in the development of library services for an active reaction to the challenges of the information service providing. The paper attempts to discuss the development of Information Technology, its application and also its effects in the library services. Today libraries are equipped to accomplish the newly Information Technology based services. Information are the kind of basic want in the modern society. Information Technology enabled services fulfill the information needs of the users at the right time in the right place to the right person.Item Miṉcuvaṭi: Digital Library for Tamil Imprints Using J-ISIS(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Prakash, I.; Muthiah, R.; Sadik B.‘Computerised Documentation Service’ and ‘Integrated Set of Information Systems’ software package, known as CDS/ISIS is a software developed by UNESCO for creating textual databases in the 1970s, before information technology became a day to day affair. J-ISIS and ABCD (Automatisation de BibliothèquesCentros de Documentación) were introduced in 2008. The ISIS Software family has a unique technological concept to cope with Information Storage and Retrieval Systems (ISRS), particularly for developing countries where the technology is widely known and used. Library professionals are now facing ever before technological challenges in the library services. They need to have minimum level understanding of computer applications to cope with user’s demand. J-ISIS is user friendly and flexible application, which will help us to design and maintain server-client database system. This paper explores the possibility of creating and maintaining the digital library system without any complexity in the Unicode environment.Item A Study on the use of Digital Libraries for Searching Academic Information, by Lectures and Students of Sri Lankan Universities(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Somananda, B.The main purpose of this research is to find out the problems and issues that university lecturers and undergraduates face when they are searching information by using digital libraries. All the lecturers & undergraduates of university of Kelaniya has been considered as the research population and a sample was selected among lecturers of Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanity and the undergraduates of the bachelor of art (BA) special degree programmer of the same faculty. The main data collection instrument used was questionnaire method and primary data were collected through distributing questionnaires. Secondary data were collected through the printed sources which was considered relevant to the research. As result of researching the academic information it was revealed that the most of the lecturers and undergraduates of the two faculties were not using digital libraries, compared to faculty of Humanity the lecturers and undergraduates of Faculty of Social Sciences are highly depended on using digital libraries and in that they preferred more foreign digital libraries. The lecturers and undergraduates of the two faculties give more priority to searching academic information in using digital libraries. It was also revealed that they use those information for their research activities. The main problem behind the usage of digital libraries by lecturers and undergraduates was the lack of understanding about that concept of digital libraries. Some of the solutions proposed based on findings were by awareness seminars and workshops to share knowledge about digital libraries and its contents, workshops to socialize by the responsible persons in the library field to solve many of the problems successfully which were identified through the study.