University Librarians Association (ULA) of Sri Lanka has organized the '2012 Achievers' Colloquium' on 23rd March, 2012 at University of Peradeniya. This is an annual forum for library professionals to share their achievements and new projects with peers in a friendly audience.
For more news on ULA, visit: http://www.ulasl.org/
Dear All,
December 2011 survey of Netcraft has received responses from 555,482,744 (555 million) websites.
This is an increase of 29.5 million sites, compared with the last month (525 million websites).
For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/
I found this very useful article written by Dorner & Gorman (2011) which appeared in "Information Research", where the researchers focus on how culture must be considered in planning ILE programs in a developing country. Understanding of local cultural norms in the context of the Lao education system is based on Hofstede's five dimensions of culture.
- Power Distance Index (PDI)
- Individualism (IDV)
- Masculinity (MAS)
- Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI)
- Long-Term Orientation (LTO)
Source: http://www.geert-hofstede.com/
Also the indigenous knowledge and local conditions are studied to demonstrate how these factors affect ILE.
I invite you to go through this case study in Laos and think how it can be relevant to Sri Lankan context!
Title: Contextual factors affecting learning in Laos and the implications for information literacy education
Authors: Dorner, D. & Gorman, G.
Journal: Information Research, 16(2), 1-23
URL: http://informationr.net/ir/16-2/paper479.html
With the aim of training university library professionals in "Information Literacy Education (ILE)", a workshop was organized by the PERii Project of the University of Colombo Library with the financial support of INASP from 18th - 20th October in Colombo. Dr. Dan Dorner from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeland was the Facilitator of the workshop which was co-facilitated by Dr. (Mrs.) Pradeepa Wijetunga, Librarian of University of Peradeniya.
The objectives of the workshop were to
- Consider different Information Literacy models
- Review existing local content
- Agree a common curriculum
- Include assessment methods
Around 35 library professionals representing almost all the national universities actively participated this workshop with the aim of gaining an insight into ILE and with a keen interest to implement and/or upgrade ILE programs in their respective universities.
Photograph 01: The participants listening to Dr. Dan Dorner;
Photograph 02: Dr. Dan Dorner, the Workshop Facilitator;
Photograph 03: Dr. (Mrs.) Pradeepa Wijetunga (Librarian, University of Peradeniya), the Workshop Co-facilitator, interacts with participants;
Photograph 04: Mrs. M.M. Mashroofa (SAL/SEUSL) is awarded the Ceritificate from Dr. Dan while the Workshop Organizer Dr. Chaminda Jayasundara (SAL/UoC, Country Coordinator for INASP/PERii) is at the Podium
(Photographer: Tharanga Ranasinghe on 20th Oct. 2011)
(Image: IL Logo from http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/information-literacy/Pages/default.aspx)
Dear All,
October 2011 survey of Netcraft has received responses from 504,082,040 (504 million) websites.
This is an increase of 18 million sites, compared with the last month (485 million websites).
For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/
Regards,
Tharanga Ranasinghe.
Since April 2010, I will be at the Medical Faculty Library of my university, for a period of one year. This challenging, but interesting responsibility has let me learn many things about medical literature, medical professionals and library administration. I am happy to work here but will report back to the duties at the Main Library from April 2011.
"Internet World Stats" is an important website for you! It provides up-to-date Internet usage statistics around the World including Internet user statistics. Visit the following URL and be updated about the increasing popularity of the Internet.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
On 23rd February, I was invited by the National Library of Sri Lanka (NLSL) to deliver a lecture on "National Library of Korea and its' Services" at the National Library Auditorium in Colombo.
My lecture was focused on the national bibliographic control in South Korea including the legal deposit system, Korean National Bibliography, Korean Decimal classification, Korean Cataloguing Rules, KORMARC, KOLIS-NET, and OASIS. Also I introduced about various services in the National Library of Korea (NLK) including CDRS, Document Delivery, ILL services, National Library for Children & Young Adults and conservation & preservation practices in the NLK.
The lecture was listened by the Chairman, Director General, and the Librarians of NLSL. They were very impressed about the sound bibliographic control system in South Korea as well as the effective services of the NLK.
gurulk.com (http://gurulk.com/) is a very useful site for Sinhalese speaking community to learn ICT in Sinhala.
It is an e-learning project which offers various video tutorials, online courses, study guides on various areas of ICT.
I hope you will get the maximum of Gurulk!!!
My article titled, "Korean language education and Korean studies collections in Sri Lanka", was published in "Trends in Korean Studies Libraries" no. 02, an international journal published by the National Library of Korea. You may view the article through the following link:
http://www.nl.go.kr/inkslib/eng/index.php?url=/fore_move/view/262
In my article, I have discussed about the past and the present status of Korean language studies in Sri Lanka. I also have given attention on the Korean language collections in Sri Lanka.
