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Abuse of Library Materials by the Undergraduate Students with Special Reference to Main Library, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Dayananda, A.P.M.M.D.B.
dc.contributor.author Jayawardana, K.G.I.
dc.contributor.author Malkanthi, D.G.A.S.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-16T10:00:11Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-16T10:00:11Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Dayananda, A.P.M.M.D.B., Jayawardana K.G.I. and Malkanthi, D.G.A.S. (2019). Abuse of Library Materials by the Undergraduate Students with Special Reference to Main Library, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka. 3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p71 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/20699
dc.description.abstract The study sought to identify abuse of library materials in the Library, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka. User malpractices of Library materials by highlighting, underlining, removing papers/ parts of the page, damaging barcode labels, call number labels and damaging or defacing library materials is a threat to the library collection. Such practices can be described as abusing of the library materials. This survey was conducted with following objectives; to identify the various forms of abuse, to examine the reasons for the abuse and to suggest the possible solutions to protect the library collection. The survey was conducted by using questionnaires with close and open ended questions. Students (240) were selected for the study and out of it 204 were responded and the rate was 85%. The responders mentioned that text books were mostly abused material in the library and respondents gave their answers to the ways of abusing library materials mainly tearing away pages, folding pages, writing on pages of the materials. According to the reasons for the abuse of the information materials, 62% of students mentioned that high demand of a particular book, 58% limited copies of the information materials, 48% poor photocopying machine and 30% indicated selfishness. The respondents proposed a variety of strategies to protect the collection too. The study recommended that abusers should be subjected to heavy and well defines penalties and mount cameras (CCTV) in the library. The number of copies of demanded text books should be increased. Improving photocopying services of the library. Introduce and electronic system as RFID machines. Regularly reviewed set of library instruction should be drawn. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher 3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Library abuse en_US
dc.subject University libraries en_US
dc.subject Preservation en_US
dc.subject Malpractices of readers en_US
dc.subject Library materials en_US
dc.title Abuse of Library Materials by the Undergraduate Students with Special Reference to Main Library, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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