Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu

Outreach is often used interchangeably with synonyms such as an extension of service and the phrases, for instance ‘service to the disadvantaged’ or ‘service to the unserved’ and ‘service to the community’ and/or the ‘inner-city service’. What many fails to understand is that the modifications i...

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Main Authors: Abd Halim, Nur Amira Eliana, Abu, Roziya
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32007/
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description Outreach is often used interchangeably with synonyms such as an extension of service and the phrases, for instance ‘service to the disadvantaged’ or ‘service to the unserved’ and ‘service to the community’ and/or the ‘inner-city service’. What many fails to understand is that the modifications in the goals and the type of library service will describe its outreach approach differently, although the interchangeability of terms and the lack of specificity of their definition still remain. The aim of this article is to discover and deliberate on the factors that affect an outreach program in an academic library. In doing so, study result from two Institutes of Teacher Education (IPG) in the State of Kedah is selected. This study adopts a qualitative case study approach with in-depth individual interviews of the leading librarian for each institution, and later the thematic content analysis and cross-case analysis is used throughout this study in order to analyze the data. From the result of the interviews in the two Institutes of Teacher Education (IPG) in the State of Kedah (namely, CS1 and CS2), two most important factors emerge, and it is said to be the key factor the effect an academic library outreach programs. Those factors are: 1) Financial Factor and 2) Staffing Factor
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spelling uitm-320072020-07-08T03:27:05Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32007/ Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu voa Abd Halim, Nur Amira Eliana Abu, Roziya University and college. Academic libraries Academic libraries Outreach is often used interchangeably with synonyms such as an extension of service and the phrases, for instance ‘service to the disadvantaged’ or ‘service to the unserved’ and ‘service to the community’ and/or the ‘inner-city service’. What many fails to understand is that the modifications in the goals and the type of library service will describe its outreach approach differently, although the interchangeability of terms and the lack of specificity of their definition still remain. The aim of this article is to discover and deliberate on the factors that affect an outreach program in an academic library. In doing so, study result from two Institutes of Teacher Education (IPG) in the State of Kedah is selected. This study adopts a qualitative case study approach with in-depth individual interviews of the leading librarian for each institution, and later the thematic content analysis and cross-case analysis is used throughout this study in order to analyze the data. From the result of the interviews in the two Institutes of Teacher Education (IPG) in the State of Kedah (namely, CS1 and CS2), two most important factors emerge, and it is said to be the key factor the effect an academic library outreach programs. Those factors are: 1) Financial Factor and 2) Staffing Factor Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32007/1/AJ_NUR%20AMIRA%20ELIANA%20ABD%20HALIM%20VOA%20K%2018.pdf Abd Halim, Nur Amira Eliana and Abu, Roziya (2018) Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu. (2018) Voice of Academia (VOA) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Voice_of_Academia_=28VOA=29.html>, 13 (1). pp. 9-16. ISSN 2682-7840 https://voa.uitm.edu.my/
spellingShingle University and college. Academic libraries
Academic libraries
Abd Halim, Nur Amira Eliana
Abu, Roziya
Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title_full Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title_fullStr Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title_full_unstemmed Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title_short Academic library outreach program encounters / Nur Amira Eliana Abd Halim and Roziya Abu
title_sort academic library outreach program encounters / nur amira eliana abd halim and roziya abu
topic University and college. Academic libraries
Academic libraries
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32007/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32007/