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…

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…

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…