Positive and negative feedback Feedback is defined as the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, n.d). In a learning environment, feedback can be perceived as any response regarding a learner’s performance or behavior. In spite of different forms of feedback, it…
Author: Shalani Dilinika Jayamanne
Can E-Books Replace Printed Books in the Future?
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Cicero What is the difference between e-books and printed books? In general, the main difference between printed books and e-books is that printed books are made of paper while e-books are in digital/electronic format. Accordingly, if you want to read an e-book, you should…
Are you a bookworm?
Like one’s body needs exercise to stay fit, our thinking faculty, the brain, needs reading. Hence, reading is an exercise to the brain as well as a good habit that makes people more intelligent and broad minded. Therefore, the benefits one can obtain by reading books are manifold and immeasurable. However, due to the advancement…
Does Early Childhood Acclimatization to Library Culture accrue individual and social dividends?
Why childhood habits are important? Childhood is the most formative and value-congruence period of one’s life. During childhood, the capability of learning is unusually high and therefore it is perceived that children learn more quickly during their early years than in the grown up period in their life. Hence, good habits and practices that they…
Information Overload: It’s the Time for a Digital Diet.
If you go to the Library of Congress and look at one book, manuscript or other library resource each minute eight hours a day, five days a week, it would take you more than 688 years to see all 85,895,835 items. What is Information Overload? It is an undeniable fact that Information has become predominantly…
Why Managing Change is Vital for Libraries?
“The Only Constant in Life is Change.” – Heraclitus- What is change Whether we accept it or not, a change is undeniable and imperative for all animate and inanimate objects. Hence, managing change is crucial for the surveillance of individuals, organizations, or existing things all over the universe. Therefore, a change can be considered as…
Role of Public Libraries in Community Learning
What is a Public Library In general, a public library can be described as a common space that collects, organizes, stores, and disseminates knowledge & information to the public irrespective of their race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, or any other peculiar characteristic. Hence, on account of their potential to serve a diverse community, they distinguish…
Can Human Libraries Mitigate Cultural Conflicts?
What is a human library? Can users lend a human book? In general, a library is a place that provides knowledge and life-long education for people. The salient functions of any library are identifying, acquiring, organizing, disseminating, and preserving the knowledge for the utilization of their users. A traditional library contains printed books, newspapers, magazines…
Public Library Services Beyond Physical Boundaries during Covid-19 Era: A Catalyst for Change.
Public Libraries. Are they vital? A library is an integral part of any society that wishes to provide access to different avenues of information for creating a knowledge based society. In the period of yore, a library was considered as a symbol of wealth. The great emperors such as Asurbanipal and Ptolemy II Philadelphus had…
ඔබ සාහිත්යය රස විදින්න දන්නවද ? (Do we really need literature in our lives?)
නූතන ලෝකයේ අධිවේගී සංවර්ධන මාවත තුළ මිනිසාගේ අවශ්යතාවන් පෙර නුවූ විරූ ආකාරයෙන් උච්ඡාවචනය වීම වර්තමානයේ දැකිය හැකි සුලබ දසුනකි. එය තුළ වන වෙනස්වීම අතීත ශිලා යුගයන් හි සිට කාර්මික යුගය දක්වා වූ කාල පරාසය මෙන් නොව එයට වඩා දස දහස් ගුණයකින් වේගවත් වූ අසුරු සැණයකින් වෙනස් වන තප්පර කිහිපයකි. එවන් වු සමාජ ආර්ථික රටාවක් තුළ…