This is what gave birth to the ‘Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library’, which today is used by many Australiawide, as a primary source of reference on Sri Lanka. In 1968, Victor states many Australians were ...

According to the National Library of Sri Lanka, there are some 1,135 public libraries for the country's 20 million citizens. A small municipality can house its modest collection in the town hall.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — During his leisure time, Mahinda Dasanayaka packs his motorbike with books and rides his mobile library — across mostly muddy roads running through tea-growing mountain ...

Eventually the library was rebuilt by Sri Lanka’s government and reopened in 2003. It has plenty of new books in Tamil and English on its wooden shelves.

There was a complete silence in the Colombo media, however, over the parallels in Sri Lanka to the Taliban's cultural vandalism—notably to the destruction of the Jaffna Library in 1981.

The Jaffna public library has emotional significance for the Tamils of northern Sri Lanka. Organised Sinhalese mobs attacked and burnt it over two days in mid-1981, reportedly with the connivance ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka 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.

WAYNE — The Cary Memorial Library will host summer resident Mark Rochkind, who will share observations and photography from his recent trip to Sri Lanka. “Sri Lanka is a multicultural island ...

He also has expanded it to some villages in Sri Lanka's former civil war zone in the northern region, more than 340 kilometers (211 miles) from his home.

Sri Lanka’s colonisation and subsequent political movements have been particularly effective in marginalising voices that belong to the nation’s minority Tamil-speaking communities.

His contribution to Sri Lanka Library Association (SLA) holding different posts like the Education Officer is worthy to mention. His advisory services to National Library and Documentation Services ...

Sri Lanka backgrounder - Links to UN organizations, relevant documents, treaties, declarations, reports, speeches and statements, etc ...