Abstract:
Enhancing opportunities for research works is a premier objective in universities due to researches
contribute in many ways for knowledge creation. Serve and meet the needs of researchers are
considered as a foremost aim of university libraries. Newly introduced non-traditional resources and
services create many openings for researchers. University libraries have being focusing more strongly
on learner-centered and researcher-centered services today. Information commons, research
commons, human library projects, counseling and consultation services, digital resource collections
are new services in libraries. Research Commons is a very important concept among them and it has
become “one-stop shopping” model for researchers in foreign universities. There is no Research
Commons experience yet in Sri Lanka and it need to be developed in all libraries. Research Commons
is a “knowledge-creation space” than “learning space”. Reviewed research articles, books, and web
sites relevant to this concept were facilitated to conduct this study very much. Objective of this research
work is to introduce the concept of “Research Commons” and discuss the approaches to initiate
Research Commons in university libraries in Sri Lanka
