Reference services, social media, user education, information literacy, indigenous knowledge

BA (Hons) in Library and Information Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
MLS in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ph.D. in Library and information Science, School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China

1. Librarian, The Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka (hither to)
2. Deputy Librarian, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lnka (February 2016 to February 2023)
3. Deputy Librarian, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria (2014 to 2016)
4. Senior Assistant Librarian Grade I, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (2009 to 2014)
5. Senior Assistant Librarian Grade II, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (2003 to 2009)
6. Assistant Librarian (probationary) Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (1996 to 2003)
7. Senior Consultant, Information Studies Unit, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka.
8. Academic coordinator, Information Studies Unit, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka.

Wickramanayake, L., 2006, ‘’Library use by the academic staff of five universities in Sri Lanka: a comparative study’, The Issues and Challenges of the 21st Century: 10th Anniversary International Symposium 2006, Proceedings of the International Symposium at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya, 211-217.

Wickramanayake, L., 2010, ‘Information-seeking behavior of management and commerce faculty in Sri Lankan Universities: An evaluation’, Library Review, 59(8), 624-636.
Wickramanayake, L., 2012, ‘A Content Analysis of Instruction and Help Services Available via University Library Web Cites and Web Pages in Sri Lanka’, The Electronic Library, 30(03), 377-389.
Wickramanayake, L., 2014, ‘An Assessment of Academic Librarians’ Instructional Performance in Sri Lanka: a Survey’, Reference Services Review, 42(.2), 364-383.
Wickramanayake, L., 2015, ‘User Education - Its Present Situation in University Libraries in Sri Lanka: An Overview’, Journal of University Librarians Association, 19(1), 92-114.
Wickramanayake, L., 2016, ‘Where to from Here? Current status of School Libraries in Sri Lanka: a Survey’, New Library World, 117(3/4), 214-228.
Wickramanayake, L. Jika, S.M., 2018, ‘Social media use by undergraduate students of education in Nigeria: a survey’, The Electronic Library, 36(1), 21-37.
Wickramanayake, L., 2022, ‘Social media use by adolescent students of Sri Lanka: Impact on learning and behavior’. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 71(1/2), 70-85.

වික්රමනායක, එල්., 2013, ‘තොරතුරු සාක්ෂරතාව, එහි ඓතිහාසික වර්ධනය සහ තත් විෂයෙහි ජාතික අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්තියක අවශ්යතාව: ශ්රී ලංකා අධ්යාපන ක්ෂේත්රයට අදාල විමසුමක්’, සබරගමුව විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය ශාසත්රීය සංග්රහය. 7, 136-154.
වික්රමනායක, එල්., 2020, ‘සංවෘත හා විවෘත ප්රවේශයීය ශාස්ත්රීය සඟරා ප්රකාශනය හා තත් විශයෙහි කූට ප්රකාශකයින්ගේ සම්ප්රාත්තිය: ශාස්ත්රීය සමාලෝචනයක්’, ජාතික පුස්තකාල විමර්ශන, 4(1/2).

Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘History and introduction to the records management., In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp.1 – 13. Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Principles and basic concepts of records management’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp.14 – 29.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Records management process in organizations’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp. 30 – 41.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Records registration and classification’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp.42 – 54.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Alphabetic filing system’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp. 84 – 108.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Electronic records management’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp. 109 – 120.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Establishment of records management program for your institution’, In, HSU6305: Records Management, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, 121 – 130.
Wickramanayake, L., 2018, ‘Abstracting services’, In, HSU5304: Indexing and Abstracting, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp. 86 – 94.
Wickramanayake, L., 2019, ‘Fair use and library practices’, In, HSU5305: Intellectual property law, Nawala: The Open University of Sri Lanka, pp. 46 – 54.
Wickramanayake, L., 2016, A Guide to Library and Information Skills, Godage, Colombo.


*Bibliographies
Wickramanayake, L., 2006, ‘Bibliography of indigenous people in Sri Lanka’, In, Somasundara, D. (Ed.), Indigenous people of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Godage.
Wickramanayake, L. and Karunarathne, S., 2012, ‘Selected Bibliography on Primitive and Indigenous Communities in Sri Lanka’, In, Somasundara, D. (Ed.), Indigenous People and Primitive Communities in Sri Lanka, Colombo: Godage.
වික්රමනායක, එල්. සහ කරුණාරත්න, එස්., 2012, ‘සබරගමුව පිළිබඳව පලවී ඇති පොත්, ඇතුලත, සෝමසුන්දර, ඩී. (සංස්.), රත්නපුරයේ යටගියාව’, කොළඹ, ගොඩගේ.