http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/332 Search the Channel search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/simple-search http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/1075 Title: Making Malaysian modern visual arts visible through MyMAOVA <br/> <br/>Authors: Shahnim Mohd Safian <br/> <br/>Abstract: This study was motivated by reports that indicated even though Malaysian art resources are abundant, access to these information are scattered, incomplete and not easily accessible to students, researchers and people who are less skilled in searching for information. The objective of this study are: (a) to explore the opinions of selected persons in the arts industry about their perceived usefulness of an online archive for Malaysian visual arts resources; (b) to use a matrix to compare three sets of art gallery websites; and (c) to compare the performance of the prototype archive in terms of usability and design with the three sets of art gallery websites in order to gauge the performance of the prototype. The methods used to collate data were interviews with selected art personalities and viewing selected art gallery websites to identify best practices. The Interviews confirmed the prevailing ‘disconnection’ between content existence and content provision on the web. Findings indicate positive receptivity towards a web-based repository. In developing the prototype, a set of ‘best practice’ principles was identified. A customized Attributes Evaluation Checklist based on the Olsina Web-QEM steps was used as a tool to compare the designs of several sets of art repository websites. Findings indicate that the prototype (MyMAOVA) performs well against other similar art-related websites and the digital surrogates would be able to complement original resources presently available nationally and regionally. MyMAOVA would thus afford the public, access to Malaysian art resources at both national and international levels <br/> <br/>Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/1074 Title: The landscape of open access institutional repositories in the Asian continent: a 2010 census <br/> <br/>Authors: Abrizah, A; Noorhidawati, A; Kiran, K <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper reports on the 2010 survey of Asian institutional repositories, highlighting the current state of the repositories and describing their characteristics in terms of types, contents, disciplines, language, technical and operational issues, and policy. It also identifies the web performance of Asian institutional repositories as reflected through global visibility and impact of the repositories; as well as the performance of the Asian top-ranked universities in the archiving and sharing their research output through institutional repositories. Data obtained from the Open Directory of Open Access Repository (OpenDOAR) and the Ranking Web of World Repositories (RWWR) were used to analyse the current state and global visibility respectively. Findings indicate that the total number of institutional repositories in Asia is 191 with Japan as the biggest contributor (38%), followed by India (19%) and Taiwan 22 (11%). Out of the 191 Asian institutional repositories identified in this study, 48 (about 23%) are listed in the Top 400 RWWR. This suggests that only 12% (48 out of 400) Asian institutional repositories are visible and incorporate good practices in their web publication as extracted from the quantitative webometrics indicators used by the ranking. Out of these 48 institutions, 29 are among the Asian Top 200 universities. However, only 14 of these 29 universities were ranked top 100 in the RWWR. The paper concludes that if the web performance of a research institution is below the expected position according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases of the volume and quality of their intellectual output / research publications through institutional repositories <br/> <br/>Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/1073 Title: Open Access repositories and journals for visibility: Implications for libraries <br/> <br/>Authors: Zainab, A.N. <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper describes the growth of open access repositories and journals as reported by monitoring initiatives such as ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories), Open DOAR (Open Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Directory of Web Ranking of World Repositories by the Cybermetrics Laboratory in Spain and published literature. The performance of Malaysian OA repositories and journals is highlighted. The strength of OA channels in increasing visibility and citations are evidenced by research findings. It is proposed that libraries can champion OA initiatives by making university or institutional governance aware; encouraging institutional journal publishers to adopt OA platform; collaborating with research groups to jumpstart OA institutional initiatives and to embed OA awareness into user and researcher education programmes. By actively involved, libraries will be free of permission, licensing and archiving barriers usually imposed in traditional publishing situation. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/1072 Title: Open Access to scholarly communications: Advantages, policy and advocacy <br/> <br/>Authors: Furnival, Ariadne Chloe <br/> <br/>Abstract: The Open Access (OA) movement regards OA modes of disseminating research as the unequivocal future of scholarly communication. Proponents of the open access movement itself have, over the last ten years, carried out systematic research to show how OA can tangibly benefit researchers, institutions and society at large. Even so, the number of research papers being uploaded to OA institutional repositories remains relatively low, frequently based on concerns which often contradict the facts. Policies for OA have been introduced to encourage author uptake, and these are also discussed here. Briefly delineating aspects of these phenomena, this paper outlines and discusses advocacy for OA in organisations, and whether this should be “downstream”, in the form of informational campaigns, or “upstream”, in the form of top-down change management. This paper seeks to make a contribution to these issues in the OA sphere, by bringing into the debate strands from the literature of the sociology of science and management science that will hopefully elucidate aspects of author reactions to OA, and the perceived changes that its adoption gives rise to. <br/> <br/>Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/1071 Title: Understanding emotions to empower the Net generation <br/> <br/>Authors: Kwon, Nahyun <br/> <br/>Abstract: In my address, I will be talking about a pivotal need for librarians and information professionals to understand information users’ emotions to truly empower the Net Generation to educate them as informed citizens in the future. For this purpose, various characteristics of the Net generation reported in the literature will be introduced first. Subsequently, I will introduce the environment where higher education and academic libraries are situated currently, and the challenges and opportunities they are meeting now. Educators in higher education see the importance of teaching information literacy to help students prepare for their uncertain futures, and thus teaching critical thinking and critical use of information resources and services have become pivotal in the process. Yet, there are many indications that suggest many barriers for the Net Generation to access needed quality information. Among the many barriers that hamper effective information access, I will draw attention to the barriers caused by irrelevant emotions in particular, library anxiety. I will be sharing the research findings from recent studies, including my mixed-methods study of library anxiety and critical thinking dispositions among college students. These reports will demonstrate how both positive and negative emotions play a vital role throughout the information search and use process. Finally, I will share both theoretical and practical implications drawn from the empirical findings on emotions within the frameworks of affective information behavior and information literacy. <br/> <br/>Description: Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society (ICoLIS2010) 9 - 10 November 2010, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/307 Title: AN E-COLLABORATIVE SELECTION AND USE OF E-RESOURCES TOOL FOR INFORMATION LITERACY IN A SAUDI ARABIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR FEMALES <br/> <br/>Authors: Abuzaid, Rana Ahmed S.; Diljit Singh <br/> <br/>Abstract: Today, a knowledge society is characterized by information literacy, and the introduction of new business models in many domains, including education. However, in developing countries, information literacy is very limited. This can be attributed to many reasons such as less accessing and availability of e-resources, technical problems, cultural aspects, and the lack of qualified librarians. Earlier studies have indicated that students need exposure to e-resources to overcome the information literacy among students. The purpose of this study was to help to overcome the limitation of e-resources exposure by learners in Saudi Arabia or in other words how to let school students in developing countries get exposed to e-resources .To attain this objective, the researcher developed an E-Collaborative Selection and Use of E-resources Tool (ECSUET) for coursework development. The study methodology was descriptive methods; it used interview and questionnaire for data collection. This study was carried out at Al-Bayan Model Girls’ Secondary School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study examined the learners’ satisfaction with the availability, variety, accessibility of e-resources using ECSUET for science subject. The study covered all 116 students enrolled in Semester 1 and 2 of the school’s 2007/2008 academic year. The study findings showed that the overall mean of the questionnaire was 3.91 which means that the students are receptive of using ECSUET. A total of 88.8% students gave ECSUET evaluation mark of 8-10 (out of 10 marks), which indicates that students’ satisfaction level of using the tool is high. In addition 97.4% of students stated that ECSUET should be used for all subjects. These findings would be useful for other developing nations which would like to apply using similar tool in different languages in order to inculcate information literacy among their students. <br/> <br/>Description: In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/306 Title: TAKING SNAPSHOTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSMENTS OF HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION COMPETENCE <br/> <br/>Authors: Cacha, Lleuvelyn A.; Abrizah Abdullah <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper attempts to take snapshots of the numerous information literacy assessment procedures for higher education using the lens (through selected evaluation criteria) through which many different teaching and learning assessment approaches with their composite cognitive activities unfold. In the process, we recognized that the lens itself shape how we interpret the salient aspects and diverse construct of information literacy and the conceptions, as well as pedagogical approach of information literacy for higher education in the context of a technological environment. While looking closely at these assessment procedures, it becomes clear to us that helping students achieve high information competence cannot be accomplished in one setting. Information literacy must be integrated throughout academic career, because the skills that revolve around information literacy have become the critical skills of today’s society. This study is still in its infancy, and in this paper we present the preliminary evaluation of the different types of information literacy assessment procedures offered for higher education. There are certain aspects that need to be scrutinized such as reliability and validity and other psychometric and statistical concepts, and how these aspects were achieved in some instruments. However, through the assessment reviews, various measurement approaches have indicated interactive tutorials and quiz modules are not, by their very nature, easily validated by standardization procedures. Some are more complicated to administer - with complex set of variations, yet they are clearly aimed to analyze and evaluate the magnitude of learning competence to predict future performance in the academia and corporate settings. There is no assessment that fits for all population and no single formula that allows one to match the perfect delivery method to particular circumstances. Each assessment methodology has its weaknesses and strengths. However, the guiding principle should always be to choose the most appropriate assessment method available to measure the desired learning outcome. Significantly, the realization that information literacy exists as an integral part of students’ basic learning assessment is now widespread globally. Information competence is vital to university’s students’ academic achievements and professional success and it will contribute to their lifelong learning. This paper is undertaken towards development or adaptation of such a quantifiable assessment tool for measuring the level of information literacy among students of higher education. <br/> <br/>Description: In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/305 Title: TEACHER LIBRARIANS’ ROLES IN INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION IN BANGKOK SECONDARY SCHOOLS <br/> <br/>Authors: Songsaengchan, Suphat; Chansawang, Boonyuen; Prapinpongsakorn, Sasipimol <br/> <br/>Abstract: The purposes of this study are to: investigate the situation of library instruction in secondary schools in Bangkok; study the roles of teacher librarians in these schools regarding information literacy instruction; and compare these teacher librarians’ roles by classifying them according to their Library and Information Science(LIS) educational background, length of working experience and library instruction experiences. The samples are 102 teacher librarians. The first research tool is AASL and AECT standardized questionnaires covering three standards: information literacy, independent learning and social responsibility. The second tool is an interview with eleven teacher librarians. SPSS for Windows is used to analyze the data and F-test and t-test are used to assess the hypotheses. The results are as follows: (a) The status of library instruction comprises both formal and informal instructions. As for formal instruction, a customized library class is included in the lower secondary education curriculum, while most organized activities for informal instruction includes advice on learning resources and information retrieval; (b) Considering teacher librarians' roles in information literacy instruction, both overall and specific results are high. However, the results from the interview reveal that most teacher librarians do not have true understanding of what they are teaching; (c) The comparison results of teacher librarians’ roles in information literacy instruction are first, on the LIS educational background item, the overall differentiation of statistical significance is 0.5. Teacher librarians with LIS degree have more important roles than those who do not. The specific results also show some differences in terms of information literacy and independent learning. Second, on the item of the length of working experience, no difference is found from both overall and specific results. Third, the overall results on library instruction experience item show no difference. However, the specific results show some difference on the social responsibility item. Teacher librarians with high level of teaching experience have more important roles than those with moderate level of experience. <br/> <br/>Description: In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/304 Title: THE NET AS RESEARCH TOOL - AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES USE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INFORMATION LITERACY IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION <br/> <br/>Authors: Kim Hong, Yeoh; Teck Chai, Lau <br/> <br/>Abstract: This study reports the use of Internet search engines as an information and research tools among business undergraduates at a private university in Malaysia. It attempts to investigate students web searching behavior in using the Internet as an information seeking and searching tools via the commercial search engine in academic learning. The study compares the statistical differences on years of computer technology experiences, levels of study and gender with the types of Internet search engines. A total of 361 respondents from 3 levels of study; year 1, 2 and 3 consisting of undergraduate students from three business courses participated in this research. The extent and pattern of Internet search engines use in searching information for research were examined on the relationships between the following independent variables: years of computer technology experiences, levels of study and gender with the dependent variables of three Internet search engines, namely Google, Yahoo and MSN, as research tools. Hypotheses tests were conducted to examine if mean scores were significant using one-way ANOVA and independent sample t-test. Differences were observed in the case of gender with all the three search engines. As for years of computer technology experiences, significant difference was observed only for Goggle. The post hoc test conducted shows a significant difference in the search engines use between respondents reported with less than 2 years of computer technology experience and those who have more that two years of technology experience. The mean score results suggested that those who have more experience using computer technology tend to use Google more often as a research tool compared to students who have less than 2 years of computer experience. In the case of levels of study, no significant differences were observed among the three types of search engines. The results provide insight into business students use of the Internet search engines in information seeking for research activities in their undergraduates course studies. The findings of this study have its implications for information literacy initiatives in higher education in Malaysia. The importance of disseminating information skills to students through various concerted efforts and approaches between the management, information professionals and the faculty to inculcate the ability to recognize, find, and discerning the quality of information retrieved from the Internet are discussed. <br/> <br/>Description: In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/303 Title: INFORMATION LITERACY FOR MANAGING COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN A KNOWLEDGESOCIETY ENVIRONMENT <br/> <br/>Authors: Neelameghan, A.; Chester, Greg <br/> <br/>Abstract: This paper focuses on and discusses the knowledge, competencies, and qualities necessary for information professionals, knowledge managers and others undertaking information provision and knowledge management among, rural and indigenous communities especially in developing countries where knowledge societies are emerging. We propose that it is useful and possible to widen the scope of knowledge management (KM) beyond the enterprise environment, applying it to community knowledge, taking into consideration not only the Collaborative and Semantic dimensions but also the Structural/Organizational, Technological, Policy, Legislative, Cultural, Spiritual, Space, and Time dimensions. This implies trans- or multi-generational transference of knowledge both formal and informal. These factors may play an enabling role or create barriers to communication and knowledge transfer. The common characteristics of rural, native communities need to be understood and the valuable tacit environmental knowledge acquired by indigenous communities need to be shared and used for the benefit of the nation as a whole and the global community of nations and nation states. The need to create the means and methods of accessing, acquiring, disseminating and using such knowledge for the good of the society at large are considered to be within the scope of the work of information professionals and knowledge managers. The problems and barriers in interacting with indigenous and rural people and the role of emerging information and communication technologies in reaching out are examined. Enabling the rural community members to become information literate to seek and obtain the information they need and ensuring that they are not exploited, but that they benefit from and enjoy their participation in the national development process through appropriate information services. All these are an integral part of the information literacy of the professionals. In designing and developing programs for the education and training (formal and informal) of information professionals, knowledge managers, and extension workers to perform effectively with indigenous and rural communities, the inclusion of the topics suggested in this paper are worth considering <br/> <br/>Description: In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT