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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Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah
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| author | Wan Haron, Wan Fadzli Abu, Roziya |
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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/ |