Browsing by Author "Balasubramani, R."

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    Impact of Social Media Tools in Promoting Library Services in Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Arumugam, J.; Balasubramani, R.; Natarajan, N.O.
    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. The data was obtained by quantitative survey method for the study from the 150 library science professionals working in engineering colleges of Tamilnadu. 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. Among them 48% of respondents are between the age group of 31 – 40. 18% respondents are under the age group of 41 – 50. 26 % respondents fall under the 20 – 30 age group and 8 % respondents are above 51years. This study revealed that 52% of the respondents prefer to access the library resources through library website. 21 % of the respondents prefer the social networking medium to access the library resources and only 19% prefer to go in person to access the resources. This reveals the increased trend of user’s preference to access library resources through online mode. Among the social media 30% respondents prefer Facebook as a knowledge sharing tool, followed by Whatzapp (26%) which is providing speedy information, Twitter (23.3%), LinkedIn, which 13.3 % of respondents have given their preferences. Among the respondent male respondents are using the social media enormously. 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.
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    Investigating Information Literacy Skills of School Teachers in Sri Lanka as an Effective Factor for Information Seeking Behavior
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2021) Gunasekera, C.; Balasubramani, R.
    Information literacy (IL) is a fundamental skill that needs for lifelong learning, and particularly the teachers who are imparting knowledge to students are required that skill to influence their students in their endeavours to become lifelong learners. The cognizance of information literacy would be an advantage for the understanding of information-seeking behaviour (ISB) as IL and ISB are two sides of the same coin. There is a need for studying information resource usage of school teachers by linking information literacy to understand the factors influencing the information seeking process. It was identified from the literature that no studies have yet been carried out to explore the information resource usage and information literacy skills of school teachers in Sri Lanka. These types of studies would help policymakers and information professionals to design and develop smarter tools that can incorporate and make use of the knowledge of ISB to behave more intelligently and provide more effective support for the teachers. Therefore, the study was designed to examine information resource usage and information literacy skills of school teachers in Sri Lanka. The population of the study was in-service graduate school teachers who work in government schools in Sri Lanka, and a multistage cluster sampling method was used to select the sample. The study adopted a quantitative research methodology, and a self-administered questionnaire was distributed among 3200 teachers, and collected data were analyzed by using SPSS (21.0). The results affirmed that professional books, the internet followed by magazines, libraries, and workshops, respectively, were the most preferred with having more than 34 of average Standardized Total Information Scores that used to calculate the preference of information sources used by the teachers. The results revealed that most of the teachers were uncertain about most of the statements of perceived skills of information literacy. But the results further revealed that most teachers perceived that they could identify their information needs, followed by the ability to access information from various sources, the ability to utilize information and awareness of various sources of information with having more than 3.6 of mean scores for each statement. Although these results gave an insight that they have certain skills which are imperative for effective information-seeking behaviour but it should be recommended to conduct more training programs on information literacy for the teachers, particularly the skills relating to information- seeking behaviour. Keywords: Information Literacy; Information Resources; Information Seeking Behavior; School Teachers; Sri Lanka.
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    R-Statistics Using Reproductive Biology: A Scientometric Approach
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019) Raja, S.; Balasubramani, R.
    Study describes R-Statistics Using Reproductive Biology: A Scientometric Approach, data was retrieved from Web of Science database. “Reproductive Biology “as a search term in all the field tags fetched 386 communications and the period covered from 1989 to 2018. The downloaded data were analyzed using R-Statistics, MS Excel and VOS Viewer software applications. The analysis revealed that there are 176 authors from among 16 countries; 206 types of documents (Journals, books etc.,); 3151 times cited by local and global references. Indian Journal of Fisheries has produced maximum number of records by this study. The highest productive year is 2016 (43 records). Of the 16 countries, India stands first, United State and England are occupied as second and third places respectively. Among the 1253 authors, “Shivanna KR,” has earned the highest publications, h- index average value is 23. Average of citation per article is 8.461.