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…

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…

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක තොරතුරු ඇතුළත් අන්තර්ජාලීය විෂය පෝටල (Portals) පිළිබඳ ඇගයීමක් ( Archeological Information Portals in Sri Lanka.)

වර්තමාන සමාජය තුළ තොරතුරු සදහා හිමිව ඇත්තේ සුවිශේෂී වූ ස්ථානයකි. කුමන ආකාරයේ තොරතුරක් සදහා වුවද එම තොරතුරු වෙනුවෙන් සුවිශේෂී වු ග්‍රාහක පිරිසක් වර්තමාන තොරතුරු සමාජය තුළ ගොඩනැගී ඇත. ප්‍රවර්තන ගෝලීය සංකල්පය තුළ අන්තර්ජාලය මගින් නිර්මාණය කර ඇති නූතන තොරතුරු මූලාශ්‍රයන් තුළින් මෙම තොරතුරු වලට ප්‍රවේශ වීම වඩාත් පහසු කර ඇත. මෙහිදී අවධානය යොමු කරනු ලබන්නේ…