The destruction of a Sri Lankan library helped spark a civil war, and its reconstruction helps signal the war’s end Arunasalam Sanmugadas smiles when he remembers learning to read as a child. His ...

A strong backlash from politicians and intellectuals in Jaffna, over the renaming the India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre as Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre, has prompted Indian authorities to put up yet ...

The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981. Fully restored, the beloved landmark today is... Up From The Ashes, A Public Library In Sri Lanka ...

When the Taliban regime in Afghanistan announced and then carried out the destruction of the massive stone Buddha statues at Bamiyan, the action justifiably provoked outrage around the world. In Sri ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The programme to develop the Jaffna Library into an e-library was inaugurated this week by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The e-library is accessible via its website, jaffna.dlp.gov.lk. The ...

The programme to develop the Jaffna Library into an e-library was inaugurated this morning (01) under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Accordingly, the website jaffna.dlp.gov.lk ...

Colombo, Feb 19 (Daily Mirror) - While thanking President Anura Kumara Dissanayake for allocating Rs. 100 million in this year’s budget for the development of the Jaffna Library’s infrastructure, ...

Insufficient staff is a big setback for Jaffna Public Library’s e-library project, according to the Chief Librarian Anusiya Sivakaran. “Limited staffing has slowed the e-library’s progress. Users will ...

Rising two stories and capped by three domes, the Jaffna Public Library looks a bit like a stately wedding cake. Gleaming white under the Sri Lanka sun, the building's classical lines and beautiful ...