Information Resources Usage and Information Literacy Skills of School Teachers in Sri Lanka: a Survey

This study examines information resource usage and information literacy skills of school teachers in Sri Lanka. The study population was in-service graduate school teachers who work in government schools in the country. Multistage cluster sampling method was used to select the study sample. The study adopted a quantitative research methodology, and a self-administered survey questionnaire was distributed among 3200 teachers, and collected data were analyzed using SPSS (21.0). The results gave an insight that school teachers in Sri Lanka used a wide array of sources of information to fulfill their professional information needs. The results revealed that teachers have specific information literacy skills, which are imperative for the effective use of information resources

Working Architecture of Active Directory Applications in Libraries

Information Technology revolutionized era offer several tools for creating; organizing; storing and visualization of information in libraries in various perspectives. This paper highlights the application of Active Directory in library and information centers. In this context, Active Directory is an extensible directory service that enables managing and storing the detailed information about each network resources efficiently and also used to record the user access count as well as the duration of time spent by the user in the library. It is also used to maintain the institutional User restriction policies in the Server-Client architecture in libraries. This paper explains the steps to deploy the User access and reporting modules, credentials to the user by using the Windows Active Directory and also explores the technical aspect of working architecture, application and its limitation in the libraries

Challenges Faced by School Teachers when Seeking Information: How Barriers be Addressed

The present study explored the challenges faced by school teachers when seeking information for teaching purposes and made suggestions to overcome these challenges. The study used a mixed-method approach, comprising a questionnaire survey and focus groups discussions. The data collected through the questionnaires were mainly quantitative and were analysed using the SPSS (21.0) while the qualitative data from the focus group discussions were analysed using thematic content analysis. For the quantitative approach, 318 school teachers were sampled in questionnaires survey where the descriptive statistics were used for analysis. The study found a variety of barriers that influenced teachers’ information seeking process either the problems with the library resources, school environment barriers or personal barriers. The study recommended that school libraries should be improved and expanded with library resources while providing better information technology facilities within the school environment and also should provide more support and training to school teachers with information literacy skills to empower them to face these challenges

ASSESING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LIBRARY INSTRUCTION AMONG THE POST GRADUATE STUDENTS IN BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

Library instruction plays a vital role in facilitating the patrons in imaginative and artistic thinking about research and information resources. In the present technological era, libraries need to interact with the patrons more in order to help them in locating the information resource and organizing the resources in such a way that the patrons can find their information with assistance. This study investigates the effectiveness of library instruction among the Post Graduate students in Bharathidasan University. The study adopted a survey method and structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The Study found out that majority of the students were able to make use of the library resources and services without much help of the library staff

A STUDY ON THE ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING BEHAVIOUR AMONG RESEARCH SCHOLARS IN BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

This study analyzed the knowledge sharing behaviour of research scholars among Bharathidasan University. The study adopted a survey method and self designed questionnaire was distributed to the respondents. The total population of the study is 150 research scholars of Bharathidasan University. The findings of the study revealed that face to face communication was found to be most used mode of sharing knowledge and portal was the least mode of sharing knowledge among research scholars and the factor lack of social network skill stands as a barrier to share knowledge among research scholars. Further, Descriptive and Inferential statistics were used to analyze the data

User’s Satisfaction with Library Resources and Services in Polytechnic College Libraries in Coimbatore District

This present study is an investigation of user’s satisfaction with library resources and services in polytechnic college libraries in Coimbatore district. A survey research method was adopted to address the research questions. 150 questionnaires were distributed among final year graduate students, postgraduate students, research scholars and faculty members of polytechnic college libraries to collect relevant data regarding their satisfaction. 130 filled -in questionnaires were received and analyzed. On the basis of finding, some suggestions have included in this study to increase user’s satisfaction from libraries

Usage of Electronic Resources by the Faculty Members of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore: A Study

This paper examined the awareness and usage of e-resources by the faculty members of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College. The present study is based on primary data collected from the faculty members working in the various departments of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College. This study is conducted using a total number sample of 277 Faculty Members were randomly selected from thirteen departments. The data were collected by using empirical method of the questionnaire. The study aims to analyze the awareness and purpose of e-resources, frequency of using e-resources, Utilization and Satisfaction level of e-resources. It is found that the majority of faculty members are highly aware on IEEE 218 (86.17%), Springer Open 128 (50.59%) and O’reilly Open book and Free Engineering books 91 (35.97%) and further found that majority of 203 (80.24%) faculty members fully satisfied with about NPTEL resources

Study of Information Seeking Pattern of School Teachers in Sri Lanka with respect to Curriculum Planning

The study was conducted to examine information seeking pattern of school teachers in Sri Lanka. The survey method was adapted for this study and a self-administered questionnaire was used as main data collection tool. The school teachers who enrolled to follow postgraduate courses in the Department of Education, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka were selected as the study population and the collected data were analyzed using SPSS (21.0). The study found that most of the respondents used face to face discussions and mass media as communication channels and most of the respondents study curriculum, teachers’ guides and students’ text books before preparing the lesson plans. Most of the teachers seek information with a perceived idea in mind. The teachers consider whether the contents of the documents address the topics on the syllabi adequately when evaluating information sources. This study also identified several problems that encounter by the teachers when seeking information for Curriculum planning

Impact of Social Media Tools in Promoting the Library Services in Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu

Abstract Background: Social media tools play a vital role in every domain especially with Library and information Science. This study analyses the various promotional activities done by using the social media tools in Engineering Colleges with respect to Tamilnadu. Materials and Methods: The data was obtained by quantitative survey method for the study from the 150 library science professionals working in engineering colleges of Tamilnadu. Results: 150 respondents were actively participated in this survey and resulted that Facebook is the predominant tool used by the library professionals to share the library products and services in the age group of 31-50. Male respondents are using the social media enormously. Conclusion: Tamilnadu has an ample number of engineering institutions especially in the accessing the information products and services, this study analyses the impact of social media in libraries and its extent to promote the activities of library and information centers. Keywords: Social Media Tools, Library and Information centers, Engineering Colleges, Tamilnad

Finite Difference Analysis of Thermal Radiation and MHD Effects on Flow past an Oscillating Semi-Infinite Vertical Plate with Variable Temperature and Uniform Mass Flux

MHD and thermal radiation effects on unsteady flow past an oscillating semi-infinite vertical plate with variable surface temperature and uniform mass flux have been studied. The dimensionless governing equations are solved by an efficient, more accurate, unconditionally stable and fast converging implicit finite difference scheme. The effect of velocity, concentratiion and temperature profiles for different parameters like magnetic field , thermal radiation, Schmidt number, thermal Grashof number, mass Grashof number are studied. It is observed that the velocity decreases with increasing values of the magnetic field parameter or radiation parameter