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Item Disaster Management in Libraries: a Study based on the Museum Library of Sri Lanka(3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Amarasooriya, Y.W.N.D.As far as human history is concerned, disasters have been occurred simultaneously and the libraries evolved in the society faced the same disaster issues that have been damaged to intellectual resources owing to the fact. Although disaster management plans have been prepared in collaboration with disaster management experts in many countries around the world to prevent and respond to such incidents, libraries in Sri Lanka are still not satisfied with disaster management's interest, contribution and the workload. The main objective of this study is to identify the physical resources and human resources which are vulnerable for disasters of the Museum Library of Sri Lanka and disaster management activities and to present a suitable disaster management plan. Other objectives of this study are to investigate why the management of the institute was not interested in developing a disaster management plan and to educate the library professionals on disaster management. The Museum Library of Sri Lanka is used as the sample. Techniques like the observation and interviews are used to gather primary data for the research. Data analysis is carried out using the Excel software. A disaster management plan can be proposed for the libraries to face any challenge and to prevent disasters. In that plan, preventing the disasters, main preparedness, responding, and reconciling are the components of such a plan. These factors are taken into account in the Disaster Management Planning Proposal for the Sri Lanka Museum Library.Item Threat of Sea Level Rise to the Coastal Community in Sri Lanka: Use of Satellite Information in Disaster Management(3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Indika, K.W.; Priyadasa, R.U.K.; Wijerathne, E.M.S.Sea level rise is a profound indicator for circumstance of human activities relatively growing population and their requirements of the development during last three decades. The coastal area around the country consisted of most dense population, economically active land areas and interconnected infrastructures such as ports, fisheries harbours, industries, express roads and port cities. One of leading impacts of global warming is a progressive rise of mean sea level by the causing of thermal expansion of oceanic water and melting of glaciers. Sea level records were collected from Sri Lankan tide gauge network and 10 sampling stations from gridded satellite sea level observations during last 25 years around the country. The satellite data was provided by the Achieving Validating, Interpretation of Satellite Oceanography (AVISO). The high frequency tide gauge time series data were averaged to obtained monthly mean and was superimposed on the same axis of satellite time series mean sea level to compare the precision of expected sea level trend. The vulnerable coastal area was calculated under three ranking based on elevation factor from the mean sea level zero to 3m elevation in 1m contour using the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) 90 m Digital Elevation Map (DEM) originally produced by the NASA with horizontal datum WGS84 and Vertical datum EGM96 using Arc Map 10.1. Satellite derived annual average mean sea level trend 2.585mm around the country while tide gauge estimated trend 2.904mm were showed with a difference of 0.319mm positive deviation from satellite observations. The sea level trend in northern coast little lower than southern coast around of the country. The tide gauge observations showed root mean square differences (RMSDs) approximately 80% of the variance of the MSL signal estimated from satellite altimetry data. Annual variation was 20 to 30 cm according to the average monthly mean sea level signals during the last 25 years. The enumerated vulnerable land area were classified as highly vulnerable, moderately vulnerable and low vulnerable with the elevation gradient of 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, 20-30 cm. The maximum vulnerable land area was recorded in the Northern part of the country within 100 Sq.km of land area below 1m elevation exposing to the ocean based hazards induced by sea level rise.Item A Design of Disaster Management Plan for Safeguarding the National Knowledge Centers in Sri Lanka.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Gajanayaka, G.M.N.S.Human beings encountered natural disasters from the very first beginning. In the past, many natural disasters were the outcomes of natural incidents and however in the present natural disasters are increased in the number with the impact of human intervention coupled with the technological advancements. The history of library science has reported on incidents where intelligent properties were destroyed by natural disasters. In order to overcome such incidents library scientists and authors of the natural disaster management are presently working together. Conversely, the disaster management preparedness in Sri Lanka with regard to library sector is not at a satisfactory level. Among the leading government knowledge resource centers in Sri Lanka, the National Library of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka National Museum and the Sri Lanka National Archive were chosen as the study sample. The study will focus on the disasters that can have an impact on the collection, staff and physical properties of the selected institutions. In addition, the study will examine the currently available methods and means of disaster management. The aim of the study is to identify the issues related to disaster management and suggest possible solutions. The primary data will be collected through field observations and interviews of the officers in the disaster management sector as well as concerned national knowledge resource centers. Study will stress on the methods of disaster prevention, preservation and responding to the natural disasters. If the selected institutions do not have proper disaster management plans and programs, the study expects to introduce some of the key points related to disaster management planning and attempt will be made to explore any possibility of design and development of the appropriate components of a proper disaster management plan for these national knowledge centers of Sri Lanka.Item The Impact of Recent Flood Hazard on the Public Libraries in Sri Lanka: A Survey.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Wickramasinghe, W.P.D.Disaster is an incident which can be caused or produced by two main factors are like man-made and natural. This paper demonstrates the damaged suffered by public libraries of Kalutara and Ratnapura districts during May and early June 2017 floods. Other objectives are to investigate the actions being taken by librarians during and after the floods in those two areas and to examine how far the librarians ready to face natural disasters in the future. Nine public libraries were used to collect the primary data from Kalutara and Ratnapura districts. Two public libraries in Kalutara district-Tebuwana and Neboda and other seven public libraries in Ratnapura district- and they are Madduwa, Muwagama, Batugedara, Devalayagawa, Polhengoda, Dammulla, and Pathakada public library. The sample of this study involves librarians or their assignees of those inundated libraries and the questions consist of open-ended and the respondents were required to answer freely. Relevant data were collected from them by conducting a telephone interview. The collected data were analyzed and tabulated as per the set of objectives of the study. Among all libraries, disaster management teams have not been appointed yet and they do not possess duly prepared disaster plans yet. The study revealed a number of strategies are there to be implemented to ensure effective disaster management process which include a proper training on conservation and preservation, disaster management and planning, to use modern Information Communication Technologies, particularly the social media for the prevention, getting ready, pay attention and to have necessary skills and competencies in the deliberated area.