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Item Fashion Trendings (Attitudes) Among Undergraduates (Reference to University of Kelaniya)(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Gunarathna, D. D. W. N.; Herath, H.P.C.N.; Hettiarachchi, H.A.N.D.; Hansini, S.G.L.O.; Gunarathna, D.D.Y.N.Fashion is a communicational product. In easphepips, fashion has been defined as it is a collection of uppredicapevly (beautiful) ideas and according to history, fashion is a center of alter social trending, through the history. In the literature review, it was highlighted that many of the surveys have been based on women. There is a limited number of surveys which considered university students as the research field. Therefore, research problem is what is the opinion of the undergraduates in university of Kelaniya, towards the fashion trending. Is there any influence on the fashion selections, by the educational background of the undergraduates and does it vary between the various economic levels and fashion trending? Key objective is to finding out the social, economic and educational impact on the fashion trending of undergraduates. 80 undergraduates selected form the faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities, Commerce and Management and Science using stratified sampling method used. Collecting data for Primary data is selected to using a questionnaire and secondary data obtained from the ICCMS and Academic Division. In order to present and analyze data the specified statistics soft wares such as SPSS, Excel and Minitab used. Several data analysis methods were used to present data analysis. Therefore, mean comparison test, multiple response cross tabulation table, correlation, regression analysis and chi square testing. It was possible to get a lot of findings on the data analysis. Many of undergraduates select clothes, Shoes and cosmetics as their fashion types. Few of undergraduates select bags and salon as their fashion types. There is a weak positive correlation between the monthly income and the expenditure on fashion. There is no relationship between time for fashion and time for education of undergraduates. Friends and the culture are the most external factors on focusing for fashion. 65% of undergraduates use technology for their fashion. There is no significant relationship between faculty & taste of fashions of undergraduates. We suggest organizing programs to improve the awareness of undergraduates on how important fashions in accordance with personality development and the undergraduates should be led to participate in the programs held by cultural centers in the universityItem Usage of E - Resource for Academic Purposes among the University Temporary staff: special reference with faculty of social sciences, University of Kelaniya(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Sewwandi, H.K.I.; Jayawardana, M.C.N.; Wimalawansha, B.G.U.N.Electronic Resources have become a necessity in the modern information society. Today information and communication technology has given more opportunities for the information seekers, scholars and researchers. This new trend has changed expanded and added value to the library collections as well as has widened the scope of the library user communities. E Resource comes with various forms such as E- books, E-Journals, E-Databases etc. Through the electronic media temporary academic staff makes aware himself with the current information and updates. The study investigated the usage of E-resources by the Temporary staff. The objectives of the study were to examine how the university temporary staff search required information through the e-resources and how they use e-resources for their academic purposes. Structured questionnaires were distributed among all the temporary staff 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 74% use electronic media for their academic works. According to the results 40% percent of temporary staff uses e-books to search information, 15% percent use online databases and 19% Percent of students use e-Journals. 26% Percent of staff didn‘t appear to use electronic media for their academic purposes. Major Reason for this issue is staff used to go for the university library for search information without electronic concept. Other Problems were lack of awareness about electronic media, Connection problems Suggestions were made to conduct training sessions, workshops in order to awareness among stakeholders.Item Growth of Library Science Education and Continuing Professional Development for Library Professionals in State University Libraries in Tamil Nadu: A Study(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Natarajan, N.O.The aim and Purpose of the present Study is to investigate the predominant scenario of library and Information Science (LIS) Education system in Tamil Nadu to focus about the courses offered, qualitative education in the discipline of library and information science. To find out the effectiveness of the training programmes for State University Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals and various aspects of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the State Universities, Tamil Nadu, India. The findings of the study reveal that most of the professionals do have a positive look on CPD activities and satisfied with the effectiveness of training programmes particularly on, on-the- job training. In-house training will improve their job performance and prefer to develop new services from what they had learned. The ideal duration for CPD courses should be one week is what the research shows. Institutional problem is the major issue in participation of CPD activities. This study is the first of its kind dealing with effectiveness of CPD programmes for LIS professionals in the State Universities, Tamil Nadu, India.Item Understanding Faculty Contribution for the Institutional Repository: A Case Study at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasekera, C.An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual productivity of a university. The faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an IR; in fact there is a need to explore their knowledge and willingness to contribute to the IR. The main objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of academic authors towards the IR and the factors that motivate the use of these repositories.Questionnaire based survey method was employed and the self administered questionnaires were distributed among all permanent academic staff members in the University of Peradeniya on May, 2015 and out of 751, 279 duly completed questionnaires were received making a 37.1% response rate. The results revealed that most of the respondents learnt about the IR as a result of a web search engine (26%), information provided at faculty or any other meeting held in the university (24%) and by working in a field with established subject based archives (23%). Only 44% of the respondents were aware of the university IR and 49% mentioned that they are not aware of it. With regard to the frequency of IR use, only 14% use IR very frequently while 25% somewhat frequently, and surprisingly 17% rarely used and majority of the respondents (31%) has not used IR at all. The interesting finding is that 56% of the respondents reported their willingness to contribute to the university IR while 18% of them were not willing to contribute in future. Those who willing to contribute to IR mentioned they contributed because they support the principle of open access (39%) and it enhances visibility and recognition of the author’s work within the institution (35%) and beyond that. With regard to the depositing materials to the IR, 49% of the scholars prefer to publish conference papers rather than research reports and post print articles. The major barrier to contribute to IR is fear of plagiarism (32%). In light of these results, there is a need to create more awareness and to educate the faculty on the importance of the IR as it enhances visibility and recognition of the author’s work. At the same time the university should conduct an open access advocacy campaign and training sessions for researchers to demonstrate access and publish in open access repositories.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.Item Abuse Potentials of the University Students(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Weliange, W.S.; Kularatne, M.G.Lack of facilities for various extra-curricular activities for all the students in the university community is one of the major reasons for student unrest in Sri Lanka. According to the investigation carried out in 1988, 20% and 80% students involved in competitive and non-competitive extra-curricular activities respectively, before they enter the university. 75% and 23% students expect jobs in the government sector and private sector respectively, only 5% prefers self-employment. Sports and aesthetic activities are most important for the well-being of the body and the mind. Involvement in different kinds of extra-curricular activities and continuation of activities that they have been doing since their childhood would probably help students 1) learn more about various challenges; 2) meet different people from prospective job markets and interests; 3) for capacity building; 4) in imagining about future prospective jobs; 5) develop the self-confident in facing the private sector and involve in self-employment. Therefore, the university education system should be reformed in a productive way to produce better graduates who can face any challenging situation in the country. Therefore, university as a learning organization should improve various activities to develop active participation of students in developing their skills in addition to academic activities. Thus, ongoing research should be carried out encompassing extra- curricular activities of the students in order to enhance active participation in the university environment.