Impact of instruction improving information literacy skills of school library staff in Ampara district

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.