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Item User survey on online library resources and services during the Covid-19 pandemic: A case of University of Kelaniya.(University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2021) Ranaweera, R.A.A.S.; de Silva, A.P.U.; Rubasinghe, A.S.Covid-19 is one of the tragic outbreaks of the world. Emergence of Covid-19 has become a global crisis and has created a massive impact on the day today lives of people including business, education, health, transportation and careers. Temporary closures and social distancing were introduced to limit the spread of the virus in the society. Education was drastically affected by these restrictions and preventive measures. Universities were physically closed but methods were devised to continue their educational process. Online teaching and e-learning technologies were applied in university education. Along with that, university libraries round the globe also shifted their services more towards to digital and virtual environments. In Sri Lanka too, university libraries also shifted their formal services to digital platforms as much as possible to cater to the academic community who study and work from home. This study reflects on the user’s opinion on the library resources and services rendered to them by the library, university of Kelaniya during the outbreak of Covid-19. It also investigated the challenges and barriers faced by the users using library facilities in this period. There were 264 undergraduates from the faculties of Commerce and Management Studies, Computing and Technology and Humanities participated in this survey. Adhering to the health guidelines, an online questionnaire was distributed among the study sample using the Google online form to collect data for this study. Study findings confirm that the 59% of the users were satisfied with the online library services and facilities offered by the library. Past papers repository (74.6%) was the most frequently used online library resource Technical issues and lack of awareness prevented the undergraduates from fully utilizing the online resources and services offered by the library during the pandemic.Item හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ඕකේවෙල ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ දේශීය දැනුම භාවිතය පිළිබඳ අධ්යයනයක්(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item Government sector contribution foe census and survey in Sri Lanka: a case study on the Department of Census and Statistics(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item Contribution of Marxism theory for Economic development(Department of Economics, 2006) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item Establishment of faculty libraries in Sri Lankan university system(Department of Library & Information Science, 2008-03-01) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item contribution of census and survey for the government sector in Sri Lanka: case study on the department of Census and Statistics(Research Center for Social Sciences, 2008-07-18) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item Indigenous knowledge of Okewela Secretariat division in Hambantota district(Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2012-11-22) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item A historical study on the publication of books in Sri Lanka(Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, 2013-03-28) Rubasinghe, A.S.Item ත්රිපිටක ග්රන්ථාරෑඪ කිරීම හා අනුරාධපුර යුගයේ ග්රන්ථ ප්රකාශනය පිළිබඳ අධ්යයනයක්(University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2015-02-06) Rubasinghe, A.S.; Dolage, G.S.Item Bibliometric study on University Librarians Association (ULA) Publication(Book of Abstracts, Annual Research Symposium 2014, 2014) Rubasinghe, A.S.Bibliometric is closely related to Bibliography and Information Science and is also related to the field of Library and Information Science. There are a number of techniques that can be used to examine the body of literature. Statistical method is one of such technique. This research method is mostly used to analyze information science and services quantitatively.