Relationship between the Undergraduate University Library Usage for Academic Purposes and its Learning Outcome with Special reference to the Universities in Sri Lanka

Abstract

University libraries are the knowledge hubs of universities. Therefore, Sri Lankan government as well as the universities spends a large amount of funds for the development and the maintenance of university libraries. However, most of the library professionals in Sri Lankan universities complain that the library usage for the academic purpose among the undergraduates is decreasing year by year. Any undergraduate enter the University with the final aim of having good results in examinations. As such, if there is a positive relationship between undergraduate academic outcome and the university library usage, undergraduates will automatically tend to use university libraries even if they do not receive information according to the way they need. Therefore, by conducting this study, researcher hopes to find out whether there is any significant relationship between the undergraduate university library usage and their examination results according to different faculties. Data with respect to seven faculties in each of nine government universities which admit more than 2500 students per year will be gathered using different sampling techniques. These data will be analyzed using statistical methods.