Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of encountered information literacy program. To
provide a quality service for students, the staff of school libraries have to be competent about
information skills and information literacy program. However, according to the first-hand experience
of the researcher and related research findings, school` library staff in Ampara district have lack of
awareness on IL programs. Ampara district located in the Eastern part of the country and 350 km
away from the capital city of Sri Lanka. Results revealed that the school library staffs are engaged in a
traditional custodian role of the library, and which negatively affects the quality of the lifestyle of
school library staff in the study area. As a quantitative approach researcher found 92 school library
teacher librarian and library attendant as the population, who speaks Tamil and it considered only 46
members as the study sample. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample
consisted of 46 school library staff. The data were analyzed using SPSS version (20). This study is
useful to understand the weaknesses/barriers of school library staff skills.
