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    Managing Information Revolution: Strategies of Collection Development in Research Oriented Libraries
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Nanda Kumari, E.; Kavitha, E.S.
    The Philosophy behind information resource management is to design inventory and control of all the library resources required to produce information. If standardized and controlled, these resources can be shared and re-used throughout the network libraries, not just by a single user or an application. Obtaining, storing, and processing information is critical to an organization’s success and profitability. Ongoing innovations in information technology challenge managers, practitioners and researchers to create and adapt to new policies, strategies, and solutions for information management. Library patrons in today’s environment expect access to electronic items as well as physical materials. Also, publishers are abandoning the traditional print model in favor of electronic formats which is less expensive for them to deliver and easier access to users in the library. Information based organizations depends on computer databases and information systems for their ongoing operation and management. Information resource management is a program of activities directed at making effective use of information technology within an organization. These activities range from global level information planning to application system development operation, and maintain to support the end user computing. A significant reason for inability to integrate information management activities is the failure to adequately define the information resource. What is that must be effectively managed. What are the concepts to the problem of managing collections in an organization which provides a basic ingredient for effective information resource management and control in building valuable source of information for the end user etc. are the highlighting points to be focused in this paper.
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    A study on Local Knowledge practice in the district of Nuwara Eliya : Kothmale Divisional Secretariat
    (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Piyarathana Thero, Legumdeniye
    From the inception of the human civilization, people have been using a system of knowledge originated from the day today society. The society accepts the concept of knowledge as an important thing and it is of several types. The knowledge mingled with a particular place which passes from a generation to another is defined as the local knowledge. The traditional knowledge system in Sri Lanka is also very important. The local knowledge in Sri Lanka spreading widely throughout the country has organized places wise. The local knowledge tradition in the district of Nuwara Eliya has created with the geography in the area, social and environmental nature. This study is based on local knowledge tradition identify the local knowledge and thereby. The purpose of this study is to protect the future generation by using the local knowledge collected through Kothmale Divisional Secretariat. There are 96 divisions in the Kothmale divisional secretariat and only 5 out of them have been selected for this study. Data has been collected from 50 persons via interviews and association observation. Agriculture practiced from the ancient past, indigenous medical systems and traditional industries can be still seen in the area. But the little usage of the local knowledge can be seen in this area today. It was able to be proved in this study that the young generation is deviating from the use of local knowledge while the adult generation is still applying the local knowledge. There is a wide spread knowledge in this area which is typical of this area itself. So It is suggested in this study that this local or the indigenous knowledge has to be collected and introduced to the present and the coming generations via generations and written form in order to conserve that.