| Summary: | The deterioration of assets or facilities far beyond their expected life are because lack of
maintenance being carried out after completed built up or during the period in which the
assets or facilities operating. Therefore, this study is aim to explore the effectiveness of
maintenance management practices in the building. All the process of this study is carried out
at Sabah State Library (SSL) Headquarters. The research instrument is applied in this study
that is the questionnaire form to collect data from the respondents. A total of 83 respondents
involved in this questionnaire, of which 53 respondents were from the employees of SSL
Headquarters while another 30 respondents were the visitors of SSL Headquarters. Besides,
semi-structured interview also has been adopted in this study with two officers of SSL
Headquarters. In doing so, it is to gain an in-depth understanding into maintenance
management practices at SSL Headquarters. The findings shows a very encouraging results on
the effectiveness of maintenance management practices at SSL Headquarters. Due to there are
only minor defect factors existed instead of major defect factors. But, there are still a room of
improvement to avoid major defect factors occur. As a result, recommendations are provided
for continuous improvement. In short, it can be concluded that the research objectives have
been achieved in this study. (Abstract by author)
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