AIMING to be a world-class library with comprehensive information provision to serve the needs of teaching, learning and research for the community, Universiti Brunei Darussalam's (UBD) Library is promoting the use of electronic resources (e-journal and databases).
Staff of the library, headed by its Chief Librarian Dr Hj Suhaimi Hj Abdul Karim, held a press conference yesterday to introduce the library's collection and its services.
During the presentation, Dr Hj Suhaimi talked about their mission, which is to provide client-oriented, innovative and competent professional services. To achieve an ideal strategic objective, the library hopes to provide adequate resources, excellent physical and virtual services, efficient technical and professional support, quality human resources and development as well as an effective community service.
Librarians are sent for conferences locally and overseas to equip them with the relevant skills so they can better serve the public, he said.
"The library building is looking to get an extension and more e-resources; streaming facilities will be added. We are also looking to obtain ISO 9001 certification for quality services and work processes."
"There will be continuous training of staff for service improvement and succession plans. Also, outsourcing plans of digitalisation work to specialised vendors are going to be introduced along with digital publishing," he added.
Completed in 1996, UBD's Library has come a long way with a lot of technological and sophisticated improvements. Dr Hj Suhaimi believes that the library can be comparable to what foreign universities have to offer.
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