Perubahan dan perkembangan kurikulum pengajian sains perpustakaan dalam memenuhi tuntutan era digital

• Main Authors: Hashim, Laili, Abdullah Sani, Mad Khir Johari
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Z665 Library Science. Information Science
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/2215/1/drlaili_pwork.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/2215/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

In today’s global world, information explosion has created a variety of information formats. This issue has become one of the challenges faced by information professionals and librarians. Librarians and information professionals must pool their resources to solve the issue collectively. Many activities had been taken in getting the relevant skills and competencies in managing information, and these efforts are concurrent with the government's vision and mission to create an informed society. The Faculty of Information Studies (FIS), for instance, has taken the pro-active step to enable the curriculum that has been developed to emphasis competence-oriented learning concept. In this digital era, the faculty realizes that the curriculum can be used on all information professionals in Malaysia. The curriculum is very important to increase performance in managing, using, disseminating and storing information in the digital format. FIS has created a good benchmark based on developed nations like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand which have already change Library Science curriculum as to be on par with the development of technology. This includes incorporating new IT subjects/syllabus, and new programme in Library Science courses.