Developing a Knowledge Society through Teacher Librarians

A Conceptual Model of Sri Lanka

Abstract

This paper briefly discusses the knowledge society and characteristics of the knowledge society at the beginning. Secondly it discusses the implications of knowledge society on education and the role of teacher librarian in the knowledge society. Then it goes on to discuss the education system of Sri Lanka, status of school libraries in Sri Lanka, the second General Education Project which supports the implementation of education reforms and the establishment of National Institute of Library and Information Science (NILIS) with an emphasis on training of teacher librarians by NILIS. Finally it describes the implementation model of its knowledge skills programme and the model and contents of the actual knowledge skills programme. The paper is concluded with some remarks on the factors, which will affect the success of the project.