We would like to inform our members that DBKU City Library will be closed on this coming Sunday, 04/12/2005 due to electricity interruption by SESCO maintenance.

According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia, e-book is “an electronic (or digital) version of a book. The term is used ambiguously to refer to either an individual work in a digital format, or a hardware device used to read books in digital format”.

An e-book can be accessed at any hour of any day.

Pustaka Negeri recently purchased 200 e-book titles, an effort to increase digital contents for Pustaka’s customers.

THE FEATURES OF THESE E-BOOKS ARE:

• Most books are viewed in HTML and PDF format
• Provides powerful full-text searching of every word in the book
• Link from the Table of Contents and the Index of the book
• An embedded dictionary linked to every word in each e-book
• E-books can be viewed by using only a PC with Web browser and Internet connection
• Unlimited number of readers can access these e-books at the same time

BENEFIT FROM THESE EBOOKS

• We offer 24X7 availability, remote access outside the physical library , there is no ‘library closed’ time
• Accessibility from anywhere – from home, from office etc, which makes it useful for distant education learning
• Ebooks will never be lost, damaged, stolen or overdue
• Ebooks are the first choice for information transmission between authors, publishers and users across the world as there is no posting involved
• No freight charges
• Users get the information immediately rather than having to wait for weeks
• Enriches the digital library and enhances the library role in the e-Age
• Provides useful usage statistics for library management.
• Tremendous cost savings:

     - cataloguing and physical processing tasks of printed books
     - physical circulation and follow-up with past-due books
     - theft, mutilation and replacement risks of printed books
     - shelving, re-shelving and shelf-reading tasks of printed books
     - provision of library shelf space for printed books

HOW TO ACCESS THE EBOOKS?

• Users must become a registered member of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak @ LibraryNet
• Must have internet connection

What are the other ebooks that we already have?

Free source of e-books:

• All Academic: the guide to free academic resource online
• Bartleby Great Books Online
• Complexity International
• Conservation Ecology
• Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs Collection
• Glacial Geology and Geomorphology
• HUKM Medical Virtual Library: E-book
• Project Gutenberg
• Sustainable Earth Electronic Library: master list of on-line environmental information

Free e-journals:

• Blackwell Publishing
• Haworth Press
• Taylor & Francis
• Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• Emerald

Currently, we also have 9 subscribed online databases that carry 13,350 journals electronically.

We would like to inform our members that the opening hours for the Sarikei Public Library during the month of Ramadan (5th Oct 2005 ~ 6th Nov 2005) would be as following:

Please be informed that our former librarian, Cik Fatimah Halalah Dawi has retired on 25th Aug 2005.

Dear Members,

Due to the maintenance activity, our library has limited our counter services. You may only return books on the following period:

Members of the general public are hereby notified that SMC Public Library will hold a book exhibition to introduce the newly acquired books as follows:

Library members can borrow the books on first come, first served basis. Non-members who wish to borrow the books are required to register with the library first before they can do so.

For adults and children to apply for library membership, they are required to pay RM6.00 registration fee, RM3.00 annual fee and submit 2 copies of IC-sized photographs.

All the public are welcome.

The reading month activity schedule from Pustaka Negeri Sarawak is available now.

In conjunction with reading month in July, Public Library, Sri Aman District Council is going to organise 5 activities. The details of each activity is as below:

Please be informed that Pustaka Miri, in collaboration with Library Division of Curtin University of Technology Sarawak Campus, will be organising an Information Literacy Skills (ILS) Workshop.

Details are as follow:

Kindly be informed that Pustaka Miri is organising a program specially designed for women entitled 'Women, Please Stand Up!' as one of the activities in April.

Detail is as follows:

Please support this activity by promoting and publicising it to your family & friends.

For further information, contact the event coordinators - Cik Jamilah, Puan Susan or Cik Veronica.

Students and staff of Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) have access to over 25,000 full text journal articles from 13 web-based online databases subscribed by the university. Swinburne is committed in investing in such ventures, which support research, and learning to further educational mission and with this, we are working closely with other academic libraries through the Malaysia and Australia consortia.

The 13 subscribed online databases are:-

All of the online databases cover a wide range of academic disciplines. There are few databases that cover one or two major disciples for example IEEE Online covers engineering materials published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; ACM Digital Library contains approximately 9,000 full-text articles from Associations of Computing Machinery (ACM) publication; while Fin Analysis provides a 12 year history of details financial information for all companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Online databases at Swinburne are licensed for use by the members of their staff and students only. They can access all of the databases throughout the campus network PCs.