Exploring First Year Undergraduate Students� Information Literacy Skills: Experience at the Faculty of Management, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Gunasekera, Chamani

doi:10.17821/srels/2018/v55i6/131122

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“…Majority of the respondents (93.22%) reported that they have been instructed by their school teachers to refer subject-related materials in addition to classroom notes. This result is in conformity with results obtained by Wijetunge and Gunasekera (2015) and Gunasekera (2018). It is important that school teachers encourage students to use the library in order to find information to consolidate their classroom notes, which in turn will pave the way for students to participate in active learning, facilitating the process of knowledge construction.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Almost all of the participants (96.61%) except a few (3.39%) asserted that they utilized the school library while studying for their GCE Advance level examination which is a positive trend towards library usage. Similar results were found in prior studies (Wijetunge & Gunasekera, 2015;Gunasekera, 2018) that were focused on studying library experiences of new comers of the Management discipline.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The authors concluded that library training programs for new entrants could be designed in accordance with the study results (Wijetunge & Gunasekera, 2015). Along similar lines with the study of Ukpebor and Emojorho (2012), Gunasekera (2018) sought to analyze the entry-level Information Literacy (IL) skills of first year students via surveying Management freshmen of University of Peradeniya in 2017. This survey revealed interesting results about the prior school library experiences of the new entrants.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, most of the new entrants confirmed that they had prior experiences in using computers and Internet. The author outlined the importance of designing effective IL programs for university freshmen (Gunasekera, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Previous Experiences of University New Entrants’ School Library Usage: with Reference to Veterinary Medical Students, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Weerasinghe

2020

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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This study attempted to examine the prior school library experiences of new entrants in the field of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science and their pattern of information source usage. Data were gathered by performing a questionnaire-based survey among the study population (N=71) of all the new entrants to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science in 2020.The findings revealed that 93% of the students have been instructed by school teachers to refer additional reading material to complement classroom notes and almost all the students confirmed that they utilized the school library while studying for their GCE A/L exam. It was observed that 73% of the students had visited the school library once a week or few days a week. Regarding the availability of library facilities all the students stated that they had facilities to borrow books while 47% of them had facilities to borrow magazines too. Yet, only 32% of students reported that library catalogs were available in their school libraries. In addition, 90% of the respondents did not have computers as well as internet access in the school library. Findings further demonstrated that most of the students (98%) had borrowed books from the school library while only few students (13%) had used the catalog for information retrieval. It was interesting to note that 95% of the students perceived the need to refer additional material to complement their classroom notes. 95% of the respondents confirmed that other than the school library they gained subject-related material from tuition classes. Inevitably, all the respondents verified that they had an email account and 97% of them stated that they used social media. Moreover, 93% of students ascertained

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confidence: 99%

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