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Vol. 7(3), pp. 62–65, April, 2019. ISSN: 2360-7858 DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2019.007
Full Length Research
Reading habits and information expectations of orphan children at Child Protection Centers in Central Province, Sri Lanka
1Sunil Premarathne ( B.A.sp, MLIS, MA, Diploma in E-Govt.) and 2Eranga Sanjaya Bandara ( BSc.Agri, BSc. IT- SLIIT)
1Senior Assistant Librarian, Dental Sciences Library, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2Assistant Librarian, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
Accepted 19 March 2019
Accesses
to the knowledge as well as lifelong learning and literacy skills have
become the priority of the society. Orphan children and the child
protection centers in Sri Lanka are gradually increasing. These children
are also members of the society and it is essential to given more
attention to educate them with the modern library facilities. It seems
that the child protection centers have given less priority to improve
the library resources. Therefore this type of survey will be very useful
to policy makers to give more attention to improve the library
facilities at the Child Centers. The main purpose of this study was to
investigate reading habits and information expectation of orphan’s
children at the child protection centers in Central Province Sri Lanka.
Open and closed ended questionnaire was used to this survey and also
observation on child centers also was used. Data analyzing was the
descriptive analyzing methods. There are 35 child protection centers in
central province and all of them were selected to this survey. Under
this survey 30 centers were responded. According to the results, it was
revealed that the best time for use the library by children is weekends.
There were 80% of the libraries have not separate building and also they
have not permanently allocated area as a library. Other 20 % centers
maintain their libraries using a book shelves, cupboards, in a small
room. There are very limited funds razing and donor support for the
development of libraries than the other supports at the child centres.
The majority of children use the school library for their information
needs as the outside of the child center. The survey found that the
above centers have given less priority to the library and reading
promotion. Therefore the policy makers and governing bodies of these
centers should be given prior attention to develop these centers.
Cite This Article As: Sunil Premarathne S., Bandara, E.S. (2019). Reading habits and information expectations of orphan children at Child Protection Centers in Central Province, Sri Lanka. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 7(3): 62-65
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