Dr. Michael Roberts donates his research collection to National Library

Prof. Michael Roberts giving his letter of consent to W Sunil, Director General, National Library and Documentation Services Board

Dr. Michael Roberts, former professor, Department of Anthropology at Adelaide University, Australia, has donated his research collection of books, articles, journals, documents, etc., to the National Library of Sri Lanka. The collection is available for the benefit of the academics, researchers and general public worldwide.

Michael Roberts is a Sri Lankan-Australian, who received secondary and university education in Sri Lanka. He attended St. Aloysius College, Galle, and graduated with Honours in History at the University of Ceylon at Peradeniya before proceeding to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. After securing his D. Phil in History, in 1965, he taught at the University of Peradeniya from 1966 to 1976. He joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1997. He has since retired and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the same University.