Notes on Malaysian Librarianship, Libraries & Resource Centres, Librarians, Vendors
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Knowledge Sharing
Ramlee Abdul Rahman (MIMA) & Dr. Basri Hassan (IIUM) presented an opinion paper. For their literature review, they found out the success factors to Knowledge sharing is the quality of human resource.
KM is about cultural change or behavioral change. They quoted few authors on the subject of Knowledge Sharing such as:
1. O’Dell, Elliot & Hubert (2000) mentioned about the context of knowledge sharing. The strongest resistance in organization is knowledge sharing.
2. Lack of understanding about the benefits from Knowledge Sharing and technological inadequate(Dore, 2001).
3. The promotion of KS within an organization depends on changing employees’ attitudes and behaviors – willing to share their knowledge.
4. Rewards and recognitions vital to encourage Knowledge Sharing. However, hard rewards provide only temporary effect(American Productivity Quality Center, 1999).
Most of the authors mentioned about rewards (monetary), attitudes and behaviors of people in organization.
The presenter referred to Islamic teaching that promote Knowledge Sharing.
1. Islam is a knowledge-based religion and the Islamic culture is a knowledge culture (Hosseini, 2006)
2. Muslims K workers – Kworker s of god (individual’s obligation); K-workers of Society
Ultimate goal for knowledge sharing:
1. Enhancement of individual capability and innovation
2. Acquiring knowledge it to be closer to Allah
FORMULA for Knowledge Sharing
KS = Ibadah = Recognising the supremacy of Allah
How to encourage(buy out) staff to share their knowledge. The following points may be implemented
1. Rewards (hard reward/monetary)
2. Treat Knowledge sharing an an Ibadah
3. The staff must have passion for knowledge (comment from : Ustaz Muhammady)
4. Sharing Knowledge is more powerful
5. Understanding the nature of Knowledge. The knowledge will not depleted when share with other; and knowledge is everchanging.
6. There should be an elements of trust and reciprocal.
7. Change to culture of documentation; listserve is a good example and give keyword and structure.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Exhibition Booths.. Promote your products and services at wCOMLIS 2008
More than 300 delegates from over the world consisting of librarians, information scientists, information managers, etc. will be meeting at PWTC from 25th-27th November 2008. The wCOMLIS will be officiated by our Prime Minister, YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badawi.
For further inquiry, please drop an e-mail at azmanrahim@unitar.edu.my
www.wcomlis.org
Friday, May 16, 2008
Online Databases
1.EBSCO
Contact Person: Noor-Ashikin Abas
Email:nashikin@epnet.com
2. ProQuest
Contact Person: Jennifer Chew
Email:jennifer.chew@asia.proquest.com
URL: http://www.il.proquest.com/
3. Elsevier
Contact Person: Cassandra Teo
Email: c.teo@elsevier.com
Harganya mungkin tinggi. Tetapi kita boleh tawar-menawar atas asas-asas berikut:
1. Populasi - jumlah pengguna
2. Minta akses melalui ID&password bukan IP
3. Harga Consortia
Kemudian minta syarikat berkenaan membuat demo kepada pihak atasan supaya mereka faham nilai/harga online databases.
Jika masih mahal.. cuba tanya perpustakaan yang dapat menawarkan keahlian untuk kita menggunakan online database mereka.
Selamat mencuba...
Friday, March 28, 2008
World Congress of Muslim Librarian and Information Scientist (wCOMLIS) 2008
The World Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists (wCOMLIS) is continuation of the Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists (COMLIS) one of the congresses that gather information professionals (consisting of librarians, information scientists, information managers, etc) from Islamic and non-Islamic countries all over the world.
The objectives of the conference are:
- To function as an effective and relevant forum to empower and to enrich Muslim librarians.
- To enhance cooperation, networking and information sharing amongst libraries in the Muslim world.
- To be updated on current library and information developments in the Muslim world.
- To work towards the establishment of guidelines and standards designed to improve library and information sciences in the Muslim world.
- To develop wCOMLIS 2008 as a source of strength and cooperation for the development of libraries and information professionals in the Muslim world.
Date: 25-27 November 2008
Venue: Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
For further information, please contact:
1. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Bakeri Abu Bakar
Tel: ++[6]03 - 6196 5672
(Location at Kuala Lumpur)
2. Mrs. Nor Azzah Momin
Tel: ++[6]06 - 798 8312
(Location at Nilai)
3. Mr. Mohd Zain Abd Rahman
Tel: ++[6]03 - 2031 1010 ext 571
(Location at Kuala Lumpur)
4. Mr. Ahmad Yazid Ahmad @ Abdul Rahman
Tel: ++[6]06 - 798 8346/ 8341
(Location at Nilai)
Mailing address:
wCOMLIS 2008 Secretariat,
Library of Islamic Science University of Malaysia,
Bandar Baru Nilai,
71800 Nilai,
Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus,
Malaysia.
Email: wcomlis@usim.edu.my
Websites: www.wcomlis.org
Fax: ++[6]06799 3508
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
ISO 9001:2000 in Academic Libraries
Núria Balagué PhD
Deputy Director
Library Service
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Edifici N
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) SPAIN
e-mail nuria.balague@uab.es
web http://bd.ub.es/pub/balague/
Friday, March 14, 2008
Kursus Pencarian Maklumat
Date: 25-26 March 2008
Telefax : 03-6140 9295 / 013-268 0272.
E-mail : kntech1@yahoo.com
Conference on Customer Focused Culture
Date: 9 - 10 June 2008
Venue: The Zon Regency Hotel, Johor Bahru, Johor
Details: http://portal.psz.utm.my/conference08