One hundred years ago, Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam laid the foundation for a library — by donating more than 1600 books in memory of his son Padmabah Arunachalam who died in a London car accident. It ...

The new six storied library Building at the University of Peradeniya, which cost around Rs. 240 million, was opened this week, by the University’s Vice Chancellor Upul B. Dissanayake. “President ...

The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova with a team from UNESCO examines the Ola Leaf books in the security section of the University Library and on the far end is Dr. Rasiah Maheswaran. The ...

The Peradeniya University was literally ‘more open than usual’ on the 01 July 2023, when it celebrated the very first Founder’s Day on her 80th (or 81st to be exact) birthday. Thousands of people, the ...

The Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra’s corner at the University of Peradeniya Library had a ‘gap’ and that was a Bust this man who spotlighted the University of Peradeniya as the premier seat of ...

University of Peradeniya (UoP) is the heir to a seventy-year old university tradition, which commenced with the inception of the University of Ceylon, the first institution of its kind to be ...

Ian Goonetileke decided to bequeath his extensive collection of Keyt’s art – sketches, paintings, both large and small sized, plus work of other artists such as George Claessen and Ivan Peiris, to the ...