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    Usage of Health Information Resources of Rural Women in Perambular District of Tamilnadu
    (3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Balasubramani, R.
    This paper aims to examine the perception and use of health resources in Perambular District of Tamilnadu. The prime objective is to find out how rural People using health information and sources and how they perceive the advantages of health resources and problems for accessing them. Data were collected from 300 Rural Women in Perambulaur District of Tamilnadu. The questionnaire consists of 15 main questions with many of them having a number of subsidiary questions. Questionnaires and Oral Interviews were the main instruments used for data collection. The articles also explained information needs, sources, channels and information seeking behavior. The questions are designed for the Rural Women’s to elicit their experience with the Printed Resources use for their study and research work.
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    Information Seeking Behaviour of Dental Science Professionals in Karnataka.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Umesha; Chandrashekara, M.
    The present study also tries to assess the extent of usage of various aspects of web resources, to evaluate the purposes and mode of information seeking on web resources by dental science professionals. The target populations of this study were the faculty and postgraduate students in the dental colleges in Karnataka. The researcher has been able to collect the data from 623 (430 faculty members and 193 PG students) respondents. The researcher has developed an information literacy model based on the research outcome of information seeking behaviour.