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"TO ACQUIRE
KNOWLEDGE ONE MUST STUDY,
BUT TO ACQUIRE WISDOM ONE MUST OBSERVE"
Marilyn Vos Savant
Metadata: a discourse
on managing digital information
A talk on
Metadata was held on 15 September 2000 at Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.
It has attracted around 20 participants mainly librarians and information
managers all around Kuching.
The speakers
were Ms. Fitri Suraya Mohamad, a lecturer on Instructional Technology
from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Mr. Johan Ismail, Chief
Technology Officer at Patimas Computer Berhad.
Ms. Fitri
serves as a secretariat member of the National Strategic Thrusts Implementation
Committee (STIC) on E-Learning and is currently a deputy head of the
Centre for Applied Learning and Multimedia at the University, an entity
that looks into the online education and training designs for the campus.
Meanwhile, Mr. Johan Ismail has worked on numerous software development
projects worldwide, including one for the British government, to systematically
train their teachers with Information and Communications Technology
Skills.
The sole
objectives of this talk was to give new insight to metadata and its
importance in today’s library world. It also introduced the key terms
of reference and concepts used in digital information management. The
participants are made aware the important development in the information
management, particulalry to support knowledge acquisition and development
in this digital age.
Prepared
by Siti Sumaizan Ramli
Efficient and
effective library Buildings
Do you want
to know how to plan a good library building or do you want to know who
designed our State Library’s Building. If you want to know the anser to
the above questions, you should have attended a talk given by Dr. David
Jones, organized by PNS which was held on 24 August 2000 in cooperation
with PPMKSAR.
Dr. David
Jones and his team from The State Library of New South Wales have consulted
on over 10 library and information services in Australia and overseas
including The State Library of Sarawak.
The purpose
of the talk was to provide opportunities for the Sarawak librarians
to discuss the importance of planning an efficient library building,
in terms of sizing, accessibility issues, layout and the concept of
“future proffing”. These are important questions to ask an expert
in library designs.
Training : Cataloging
of Non-Book Materials
A 2-day Workshop
on “Cataloging of Non-Book Materials (NBM)” was successfully held at Pustaka
Negeri Sarawak (PNS) on 28-29 August 2000.
The workshop
was organized by PPMKSAR with cooperation from PNS and the coordinator
for the workshop was Dayang Zarina Abang Ismail, a librarian from Universiti
Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The registration fee was RM100.00 and covered
course materials, lunch and tea break.
The workshop
has attracted 50 participants from all over Sarawak mainly District
Councils and State Departments.
The workshop led participants with the importance of NBM and discussed
problems encountered organizing them. The activity was designed to help
participants to focus on the need to catalog and process the materials
to enable easy retrieval and usage to library users.
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