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    How Does Motivate a Library Atmosphere and Human Resources: A Psychological Approach.
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Chandaratana, Rev. Dapane,; Pagngnarathana, Rev.Welipitiye; Sumana, Rev. Bodagama
    Library is the utmost institute that which enriches the man of a country with knowledge and attitudes. Generally with the word “library” it comes to mind of many patrons a place, where endowed with dust, and scatter books as well as librarians and assistances who stare at clients. Today the world is modernizing. Many institutes use different types of psychological methodologies with the purpose of well developing and well organizing their institutes. Following are such methodologies which are appropriate for well organizing of a library. They are, 01) Awareness 02) Searching information 03) Comparison 03) Evaluation 04) Testing 05) predispose. Above methodologies can be used by a librarian to give correct information for good reader in right time through a right media. The library is a place where the knowledge is stored. There are different types of criteria of storing materials in modern world. Library also has such criteria. For example preservationof books, classification, cataloguing etc. Even though there are many criteria for preservation and development of materials of a library. It is very rare to see any usage of psychological methodologies for developing and motivating of library atmosphere and human resources. The education is psychological process. Therefore to achieve good success in education at any institute, the atmosphere of library should be well organized. Well organized atmosphere create calm and quite mental situation of patrons as well as librarians and assistances. When there is noise and heat in a library the patrons become exhausted, languished and uneasy. Therefore the atmosphere of a library must be consisted with light, clearness, ventilation etc. Thus above methodologies which are conduce to motivate the patrons as well as librarians and assistances effect to bring forth well balanced library atmosphere and human resources.
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    Parental Purposes for Motivating Children to Engage in School-Based Sports
    (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, N.B.; Kalansooriya, J.; Kumari, H.V.M.; Arachchige, O.; Pitigala, P.K.G.C.
    This Study examines the effects of parental attitudes on children’s school sport participation. It will focus on different people and institutions that are linked to promoting sports in School -aged children. The main purpose of the study is to assess the parents’ expectations when motivating their children for school sport programs. We have also analyzed the relationship between parents’ attitudes towards their children’s sporting habits. The primary research question for this inquiry is “what are the parental beliefs about extracurricular sport activities and what their expectations of these programs are?” There are many researches already carried out to find the relationship between the present situations in Sri Lankan school children’s participation in sports, which is considerably high. A measure of parental attitude that is independent of the child’s behavior is important in covering the gap in the existing research. I have collected responses from nine schools in the Gampaha district, Sri Lanka. The primary data was collected from 270 school children who are engaged in and not engaged in school sports. Data was analyzed for statistics, percentages, factor loading and group comparisons by using the software SPSS 21.0. The findings show mainly seven expectations influencing parents’ attitudes. The key parental attitude that determine their encouragement of their children to engage in sports is the approachability of coaches. Parents are of the opinion that sport participation has had a positive influence on attitudes towards making good grades, and they believe that children would be less likely to hang out with the wrong crowd if they are involved in sports. The positive recognition received from participating in sports was beneficial, and children seem to be more satisfied with school when participating in sports. All these factors have 81% variance to the dependent variable. Female children’s sport participation is only marginally influenced by female parents when female children are growing up. The results imply that promoting sports to the younger generation seems to be a fruitful strategy in creating a sporting habit and promoting sports participation among parents. However, there are challenges to be overcome in promoting female participation.