Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu

Amongst the various kind of community library models that haven been developed around the world, it is said the only model that appears to offer the best prospect of sustainability, viability, and a suitable emphasis on users’ service quality and needs are the library authority-led community lib...

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Main Authors: Wan Haron, Wan Fadzli, Abu, Roziya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31701/
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description Amongst the various kind of community library models that haven been developed around the world, it is said the only model that appears to offer the best prospect of sustainability, viability, and a suitable emphasis on users’ service quality and needs are the library authority-led community library; also known as `community managed library’. The term `community managed library’ emphasis on maintaining community private individual libraries that is designated for community intervention and management of different types. In theory, such arrangement exists in a very formal basis, which means a library authority should be able to include the services offered by such community [managed] libraries for such members of the community [users]. This paper will enlighten the pragmatism of the `community managed library’ notion in Malaysian setting and values. Several current Malaysian existing community managed library will be put forward as the foundation of the investigation on this `new’ community library model. The success and challenges faced by current Malaysian community library will be discussed.
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spelling uitm-317012020-07-06T01:56:18Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31701/ Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu voa Wan Haron, Wan Fadzli Abu, Roziya Library Science. Information Science Information organization Library administration Amongst the various kind of community library models that haven been developed around the world, it is said the only model that appears to offer the best prospect of sustainability, viability, and a suitable emphasis on users’ service quality and needs are the library authority-led community library; also known as `community managed library’. The term `community managed library’ emphasis on maintaining community private individual libraries that is designated for community intervention and management of different types. In theory, such arrangement exists in a very formal basis, which means a library authority should be able to include the services offered by such community [managed] libraries for such members of the community [users]. This paper will enlighten the pragmatism of the `community managed library’ notion in Malaysian setting and values. Several current Malaysian existing community managed library will be put forward as the foundation of the investigation on this `new’ community library model. The success and challenges faced by current Malaysian community library will be discussed. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31701/1/AJ_WAN%20FADZLI%20WAN%20HARON%20VOA%20K%2017.pdf Wan Haron, Wan Fadzli and Abu, Roziya (2017) Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu. (2017) Voice of Academia (VOA) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Voice_of_Academia_=28VOA=29.html>, 12 (1). pp. 62-68. ISSN 2682-7840 https://voa.uitm.edu.my/
spellingShingle Library Science. Information Science
Information organization
Library administration
Wan Haron, Wan Fadzli
Abu, Roziya
Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title_full Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title_fullStr Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title_full_unstemmed Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title_short Community managed library? / Wan Fadzli Wan Haron dan Roziya Abu
title_sort community managed library? / wan fadzli wan haron dan roziya abu
topic Library Science. Information Science
Information organization
Library administration
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31701/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31701/