New Library System

Puncak Alam, Selangor, 23 Nov. 2013 – A group of Experimental Library UiTM Puncak Perdana with 25 students and 1 lecturer was successful build one system to the library of Surau Al-Furqan, Puncak Alam. The activities that has been done is key-in data in system, barcode system, book tagging, arrange the book and magazine to shelve according to subject related. 

This activity was takes 6 sessions. It start with arrange the book to shelve and tagging the book by color on 4 -5 October 2013 and it was followed to next weekend to finish the work. This program was conducted by Nur Izzati as a leader for this program and Mr. Amzari as lecturer also was helping the students in finish key-in the data.  This program was introduced for this “surau”. So that it have a good system to monitor the movement of the library materials. It makes the librarian easy to detect the library materials either it is missing or borrow by their user. So that, the librarian easy to do their work than before they are using manual system if the user want to borrow the library materials. Certain of the library materials were donated by people that live around the “surau” and there is also books and magazine that the library buys for children reading. 

The program was launched by Ustaz Haji Zakaria Bin Mustafa, president of Surau Al-Furqan and he is also one of UiTM lecturer that teaching CTU Subject at UiTM Puncak Perdana and Puncak Alam. Experimental Library has invited Dr. Wan Abdul Kadir Bin Wan Dollah as VVIP yesterday. The lecturer and president Surau Al-Furqan was introduced the system to him to show how the systems work for the library future. The system that was used is KOHA and nowadays, many libraries use the system to keep the all library data.

Report by: Wan Nor Azian Binti Wan Abdullah

Photo by: Nur Afiqah Binti Bahman.