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Item Electronic Resources and its Impact on Students at Tamil Nadu Colleges: A study(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Yasmin.M.This paper analysis the status of e resources and its impact on students at Tamil Nadu engineering college, arts and science college and research institution. The study also analyzes the services, uses and satisfaction. The data were collected from 25 students out of the total population of 300 from the surveyed institutions in the study area. The present research aims at collecting primary data from the respondents of the surveyed institutes. Among the different data collection methods, questionnaire method was chosen and structured as a tool. The inputs collected from the respondents were analyzed and the tool questionnaire was modified accordingly to make the investigation closer in the study area. The researcher has distributed the questionnaire to the students. In addition, the researcher also has collected the data from the annual reports, institutional publication and websites of the surveyed institutes. The use of library e-resources among the students in the study area is found to be at optimum level. There is a need for the libraries in the study area to intensify the awareness and use of E- access scholarly resources and the web technologies information for teaching and learning process. The library and information environments in the study area is found to be with minimum infrastructural requirements and application of ICT including automation but e-resources access in colleges need to be improved and also there is a divide between the colleges in terms of acquiring resources and facilities in the study area. Many of the college libraries have not E resources facility even though the subscription cost is almost negligible. Majority of the research students are found to be good.Item Information Literacy and Public Library Services in Tamil Nadu, India(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Nattar, S.; Duraisingan, A.The present age is an Information Age, and the pedagogic implications of this age are that people should learn new skills to use information stored in computers. Libraries and Information Centers have responded by acquiring information technology and encourage computer literacy. The information that is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media and Internet comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, arising questions about its authenticity, validity and reliability. In addition, information available through multiple media poses new challenges for individuals in understanding the landscape of information and to acquire knowledge of how to gather, evaluate and use information in today’s world. Information literacy therefore, is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change and in proliferating information resources. It enables learners to master the content and extend their investigations, to become more self-directed and assume greater control over their own learning. With the advances in Information and Communication technologies, the traditional concepts of organization, user orientation, bibliographic description and dissemination of information are to be fine-tuned to the new environment by the Public Library and the librarian.Item Globalization, Gender and Governance in Irrigation: An Inquiry in to Preclusion of Women’s Participation in Tamil Nadu(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2014) Dasthagir, K.G.Globalization of Irrigation Management Transfer has brought institutional reforms to enhance the role of water users in the governance of bureaucratic irrigation systems in more than 60 countries of the world. Nevertheless, these new irrigation institutions have not really redefined rights which would make it more gender inclusive to enhance women’s participation in user organizations for water resources management. In the backdrop of primacy accorded by Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and irrigation management literature on the participation of women-farmers in water user associations as a precondition for the efficacy and sustainability of irrigation systems , this paper endeavours to analyse the impact of institutional reforms on gender participation in the governance of Sathanur Irrigation System with the following objectives: To examine membership and representation of women-farmers in Water User Associations and to explicate the relationship between heterogeneity among women-farmers and their participation in Participatory Irrigation Management. Premised on the perspective of post-structuralism that women do not constitute a single homogenous category’, this paper analyses membership, participation and representation of rural women in Water User Associations. While secondary data were drawn from the WRO election reports and Water User Associations records, primary data were gathered by means of a sample survey of women-farmers of Villupuram district adopting proportionate random sampling design. The survey data were analyzed with the help of SPSS package applying Chi-Square test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT). Analysis of secondary data elucidates the existence of gender gap in membership of Water User Associations in Sathanur irrigation system. The primary data brought evidences about the existence of heterogeneity among women in agrarian social structure. This research has also brought to light the differences among women members of Water User Associations in relation to their participation in cultivation and Participatory Irrigation Management. Thus, this paper demonstrates that gender insensitive legal framework in the absence of gender mainstreaming in water sector, is more likely to reproduce gender discrimination and reinforce women exclusion in PARTICIPATORY IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT.