Abstract:
This study focuses on the current status future challengers of the public libraries where located in the
Polonnaruwa district in the North Central Province (NCP) in Sri Lanka with the perspectives of its
properties, services, users and the staffs and latter part of the discusses the future challenges with the
pattern change of the library professionals’ perspective. The questionnaire and interview were used as
instruments in this study to collect data. The study revealed that the public libraries of Polonnaruwa
District are not in the correct position by collection development. It also pointed out the most of the
libraries are administered by the non-professional staffs. The major challenger was examined that
library staffs are not in the good satisfaction level about their promotion mechanism. Finally it was
reviled that the need of deep study about their problems strategically and address them quickly to uplift
the service to the up to date level
