A unique library on Sri Lanka, perhaps the only one of its kind overseas, exists in Melbourne, Australia. This library was begun by Victor Melder in 1968, when he migrated to Australia. Victor, who ...

Jaffna Public Library has a painful history behind its pure white walls. It was burnt down during days of mob violence between May 31, 1981 and June 2.Sri Lankan state-sponsored authorities had been ...

Mahinda Dasanayaka rides his motorbike which doubles up as a mobile library in a village in Kegalle district, about 53 northeast of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.AP Children look to borrow books from a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Seran Sivananthamoorthy is only 25 years old which is why his knowledge of the Jaffna Public Library is limited to memory and anecdote. The library with some 95,000 volumes including the only original ...

Prof. Jayasiri Lankage (1936-2024): Prof Jayasiri Lankage born 10th September 1936 at Kekanadura, Matara, studied the GCE (AL) from Ambalangoda Dharmasoka Vidyalaya in 1957 and entered Vidyodaya ...

‘’Librarians have an important role to play in the eSri Lanka initiative’’, says ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chairman, Senior Presidential Advisor and Peradeniya University Chancellor Professor P.W ...

Tucked away in a corner of the Directorate of Public Libraries in Chennai are stacks of books in the Tamil language neatly tied up in bundles. The collection features the ancient Tamil grammar book ...

From a technical point of view, access to library content seems to have never been as easy as it is today with the possibilities of digitisation and the widespread availability of internet connections ...

The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, donated as many as 16,000 books to the iconic Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka on Thursday. The library had lost many of its precious titles and ...