It is a popular belief that the students depend mainly on electronic resources in the digital age and that they are quite conversant with using the technology-based information resources in their academic research. In ...

The principal researcher undertook a research project titled "Information seeking and research strategies of undergraduates in the digital age: a survey" and the research problem involved the systematic study of the ...

The prior experiences in using the library resources, services and tools by the new entrants are not considered in planning the orientation programmes. A knowledge of the extent to which they have used the school library ...

Sri Lankan university sector is changing rapidly as a result of educational reforms and the government's emphasis on a knowledge economy. As a consequence, the work environments of the university librarians are also changing. ...

The researcher carried out a university-wide survey titled "Information seeking and research strategies of undergraduates in the digital age" and this paper discusses the findings of one aspect of the major survey with ...

The paper discusses the prior experiences of the use of a library in the stream of Law by new entrants of University of Peradeniya in 2015. Survey research strategy was used with a structured questionnaire administered ...

This paper discusses the information seeking behaviour of the agriculture undergraduates in a Sri Lankan university. It established that the undergraduates often use the search engines, Wikipedia, and their own classmates ...

Social network sites are profile-based web sites that allow users to maintain social relationships by viewing, visiting, and sharing their lists of social connections w i t h other members (Boyd & Ellison 2007]. The ...