30 research outputs found
Training programmes and achievement of organizational objectives of public libraries in the northern province of Sri Lanka
Public libraries are social entities of any community, thus, play significant roles
in upgrading literacy of society. Especially, in remote zones of Northern Province of Sri
Lanka, where resources are scarce, public libraries’ presence to help in education cannot be
underestimated. With steady developmental activities taking place after ending the war in the
area, public libraries are in need to transformation. Managing these libraries within limited
resource-level is highly dependent on the capacity of human resources.
In this regard, training in a systematic approach to enhance skills in acquisition
management, reference services, circulation, current awareness services, and mobile library
services will prove the worth of public libraries in rural areas. As a component of human
resource development, training provides improvement in job performance of public librarians
and library staff as per the expectation of their local government. This study identified a
specific problem as to what extent the outcomes of the training programmes lead to achieve
the objectives of the public libraries in Northern Province. Therefore, objectives are drawn to
explore the beliefs and attitude of public librarians with respect to the existing training
programme that expect the achievement of objectives of public libraries. Correlation between
the existing training programmes and achievement of objectives in the public libraries will
also be analyzed.
For the purpose of establishing the relationship between the variables, a field survey was
executed to collect data from the respective public libraries in Northern Province. Of 134
public libraries in the province, sample of 68 public libraries were selected applying stratified
random sampling method from five district level public libraries for this study. A
questionnaire, which is the commonly used tool to measure attitudes, was used as a tool for
data collection.
This study focused on the relationship between the training programme and its outcomes i.e.
public library’s development, self-development, and performance improvement. The
correlation (R) (0.610) explains a positive and moderate relationship. The coefficient of
determination (R2) (0.373) explains that only 37.3% of the variance from the total variance.
Hence, the statistical result of the present study concludes that training programme
enhances the organisational development, self-development and performance improvement.
There is a positive and moderate relationship between the training programme and the
organisational development, self-development and performance improvement, which leads
to the achievement of public library’s objectives.
Due to the rapid change in the human resource management environment, Public Libraries
have to adopt various techniques to achieve organisational objectives. Training librarians is
one technique to achieve such objectives. Provision of training is the responsibility of the
management of local government for the organisational development, self-development and
performance improvement. Anyhow certain factors like lack of fund, inadequate number of
librarians and management’s interest in training hinder training of librarians and that training
could be improved through adequate funding, formulating training policy and recruiting
adequate librarians
Support for traceability management of software artefacts using natural language processing
One of the major problems in software development process is managing software artefacts. While software evolves, inconsistencies between the artefacts do evolve as well. To resolve the inconsistencies in change management, a tool named “Software Artefacts Traceability Analyzer (SAT-Analyzer)” was introduced as the previous work of this research. Changes in software artefacts in requirement specification, Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams and source codes can be tracked with the help of Natural Language Processing (NLP) by creating a structured format of those documents. Therefore, in this research we aim at adding an NLP support as an extension to SAT-Analyzer. Enhancing the traceability links created in the SAT-analyzer tool is another focus due to artefact inconsistencies. This paper includes the research methodology and relevant research carried out in applying NLP for improved traceability management. Tool evaluation with multiple scenarios resulted in average Precision 72.22%, Recall 88.89% and F1 measure of 78.89% suggesting high accuracy for the domain