The Library

The library is probably still your best source of in-depth information on most topics. A library is also probably one of the most misunderstood places in the academic institution. Many complain that they fail to get the information they want when they visit the library and thus say that the library is not good. In most cases, however, this happens due to the users’ own shortcomings.

There are a few things you need to remember when using a library.

Firstly, a library is a collection of an assortment of items ranging from books to electronically recorded material. Our library have more than one millions items but mostly in electronic format, not just books. When you have that many things in your collection, you need some way to organise them, and we do this by dividing the items into categories: books, journals, e-books, video tapes, et cetera – all of which are placed together in their respective collections. Each of these collections are then divided into subject areas (Library of Congress Classification Scheme – see the classification system below) . So just because you have a notion that one subject should be near another, it does not mean that they will be. To help you on finding items in library  just click our library catalog:

http://mmuopac.mmu.edu.my:8080/

The library of Congress system

A General work

B Philosophy – Religion

C History – Auxiliary Sciences

D Foreign History and Topography

E American History

F American History

G Geography  – Anthropology

H Social Science

J Political Science

K Law

L Education

M Music

N Fine Arts

P Language & Literature

Q Science

R Medicine

S Agriculture

T Technology

U Military Science

V Naval Science

Z Bibliography – Library Science

*The Library of Congres uses the basic alphabetical classification, as shown above. Further subdivisions are indicated using numbers and alphabets.

Secondly, items in the libraries can be borrowed and people do borrow them. So just because the computers says that a certain book can be found on a particular shelf, it does not mean that it will be there when you get there because others may have beaten you to it. This is where the online reservation forms come in useful.

For further information or inquiries please kindly contact us through email : libdesk@mmu.edu.my

Thank you and have a nice day!

CL of MMU Libraries

Merit Scholarship

MMU Now Giving Scholarships To High Achievers

Cyberjaya, 23^rd March 2011 – Multimedia University today announced its Merit Scholarship, a financial assistance programme that rewards and aids high performing Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) leavers.

The Merit Scholarship is a programme that aids the recipient by reducing the tuition fees of Foundation and Bachelor courses either by 25 per cent, or by 50 per cent. To qualify for the 25 per cent discount (structure B), the candidate should have 7 or 8 As for SPM leavers, or have a CGPA between 3.50 and 3.74 if they are STPM leavers.

To qualify for the 50 per cent discount (structure A), SPM leavers must have 9 As or more, while STPM leavers need to have a CGPA of at least 3.75.

MMU’s President, Professor Dato’ Dr. Muhamad Rasat Muhamad, said, “We are introducing the Merit Scholarship in order to attract students who are the cream of the crop to MMU. MMU has always produced graduates who are highly sought-after by employers, both locally and internationally. We are confident that having top students in MMU can bring about results that will truly be astounding.”

Prof. Dr. Rasat says that with the Merit Scholarship, suitably qualified and performing students pursuing an Engineering programme at MMU could end up paying about the same amount that would have to be paid at public Malaysian universities.

The Merit Scholarship is available for 28 programmes at Foundation and Bachelor levels, across both MMU’s campus in Cyberjaya and Melaka.

In the Melaka campus, the programmes available are: Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics majoring in Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics majoring in Robotics and Automation, Foundation in Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons.) Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons.) Security Technology, Foundation in Information Technology, Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) Human Resource Management, Bachelor of Business and Knowledge Management (Hons.), Foundation in Management, Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Medical Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Bio-Informatics and Foundation in Life Sciences.

In the Cyberjaya campus, the programmes available are: Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics majoring in Computer, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics majoring in Microwave and Communications, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics majoring in Optical Engineering, Foundation in Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons.), Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons.) Multimedia Systems, Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons.) Software Engineering & Games Design, Foundation in Information Technology, Bachelor of Electronic Commerce (Hons.), Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) Analytical Economics, Bachelor of Financial Engineering (Hons.), Foundation in Management, Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons.) Interface Design, Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons.) Digital Media, Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons.) Media Innovation, Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons.) Virtual Reality and Foundation in Creative Multimedia.

All courses offered through the Merit Scholarship programme are accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA). As such, MMU graduates from these programmes have a larger career choice as they can apply for employment within the private and public sectors.

All MMU staff and students are urged to share news of this Merit Scholarship with their friends and families. All qualified Malaysian students are invited to apply for Multimedia University’s Merit Scholarship. For more information, email wwwadmis@mmu.edu.my or call 013-6133144 (Mr. Rafiel) or 013-6306458 (Mdm. Tan). To make personal enquiries, visit either one of MMU’s campuses in Cyberjaya or Melaka during weekdays and also during our Info Day weekends on 9^th and 10^th April, and 7^th and 8^th May 2011.

 

“MMU Open Day 2011: Connecting You To Your Future…”

Recently, Multimedia University has organized Open Day 2011: two-day event from 9.00a.m. to 5.00p.m., which will disembark in MMU Twin Campuses, firstly in Cyberjaya, Selangor (Dewan Tun Canselor) on 19th March 2011 (Saturday), and secondly in Bukit Beruang, Melaka (Exam Hall) on 20th March 2011 (Sunday). MMU Open Day 2011 is the best place to answer all questions on furthering education, whether for a school-leaver looking to further studies or a working adult seeking to boost their career.

During this event, Siti Hasmah Digital Library also takes the opportunity to participate by doing the collection display in the library. The collection display includes text & reference books, magazines, journal, Library Special Collections and lots more. This initiative hopefully can increase the awareness among the students as well as visitors about the various collections that available in the library. Library Management would like to say thank you for those who participate to ensure this event is a  success.

Oiling the study gears

FOR any student studying is comparable to surgery with out enough tools and resources one is bound to suffer Not having your materials when you need them affects your academic pursuit.

Multimedia University (MMU) is fully aware of this and has taken steps to ensure its students always have sufficient resources at hand. In this day and age this means being connected to the world and having access to a great library.

The Internet has always been central to MMU even back when it was the Institut Telekomunikasi dan Teknologi Maklumat ITTM in Bukit Beruang Malacca ITTM students had Internet access in their dormitory rooms.

This commitment continues today In the last three years MMU has upgraded its Internet bandwidth five times it now offers a total band width of 289 Mbps. However the thing about bandwidth is that it is never enough. MMU thus intends to live up to its name and is currently implementing TM s UniFi wireless broadband in both MMU campuses.

Another repository of resources in a university is the library. Being an academic library you would find 133 000 copies of printed books, 47 302 e-Books, 1 2 million theses, 47 online and offline databases, 27 000 electronic titles, 370 printed journals and 2 513 institutional repositories.

The university also subscribes for both campuses 10 newspaper titles daily as well as 411 magazine titles. Of course all of this resources would mean nothing if MMU students didn’t use them. They do, with satisfying results.

MMU’s tracer studies have revealed that more than 90% of its graduates secure employment within six months of completing their studies. In recognition of MMU’s efforts, the Malaysian Qualifications Agency, in its
2009 Rating System for Institutions of Higher Learning (Setara) placed MMU in the Excellent (Tier 5) rank. This firmly cements MMU’s position among the top universities in Malaysia.

Candidates are invited to apply to MMU for the June 2011 intake in the fields of Engineering, Information Technology, Business and Management, Creative
Multimedia, Accounting, Law and Life Sciences.

For details call 013 626 4493 Noor Hamiza Azahar, 013 613 3144 Mohd Rafiel Abdul Malik or 013 630 6458 (Tan Kim Lean)

from The Star, 02 Mar 2011

Newspapers in SHDL

SHDL put more effort in providing digital resources and we also support green initiatives but  as an academic library, we still maintained printed newspaper for our readers.

Newspaper titles that available in our library :

Melaka Main Library

Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, The Star, NSTP, Tamil Nissan, Malaysia Nanban, Nanyang Sian Pau, Sin Chiew Ji Poh, Guang Ming Daily, China Press.

Law Library

Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, The Star, NSTP, Tamil Nissan,  Sin Chiew Ji Poh.

Cyberjaya Library

Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, The Star, NSTP, Tamil Nissan, Malaysia Nanban, Nanyang Sian Pau, Sin Chiew Ji Poh, Guang Ming Daily, China Press.

Research Library

The Star & Utusan Malaysia.

Online Newspapers

Online Newspaper are also available through library portal, click easy reference online newspapers http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/shdl/ERHome.php.

Online Database for Foreign & Local News

BLIS is available through our online database.

If you need further assistance or suggestion kindly email us at libdesk@mmu.edu.my

Book Fiesta@MMU 2011

“Book for life. Good for everyone” is the theme for the 2011 book fiesta. This event has been organized by SHDL team at 24 Hour Learning Point, Library Cyberjaya on 4-6 January 2011. The purpose of this event is to help academicians to select and purchase titles/copies for their respective faculty. About 18 booths from various publishers /suppliers/vendors are available during this 3-days event. Moreover, lot of activity has been arranged such as talk, lucky draw, aerobic, and seminar. This event has been officially launched by Senior Manager, Siti Hasmah Digital Library – En Kamal Sujak and after that, talk by Prof Madya Dr. Mohd Sharif Mohd Saad (President of Librarian Association of Malaysia) on “The Importance of Information Literacy Program in Relation to Quality Education”. Library management would like to say thank you for those who participate to ensure this 3 days event is a success and hopefully we can organize this event again in the future.

MMU’s R&D focus

Multimedia University is thoroughly committed to research and development in IT and communication Tou FOR many SPM leavers, the difficulty in choosing a university could be resolved by using two guiding principles in the decision-making process. First, your university must prepare you for the real working world. Second, the quality of teaching staff in a university is extremely important. For the first principle, Multimedia University (MMU) does incredibly well, thanks to its research and development (R&D) focus. Prof Dr Tou Teck Yong, vice-president (R&D) of MMU, describes R&D as “activities where students and academic staff participate in understanding and solving problems, and in the process, create new knowledge’. “R&D is central to being a university,” he says. “A university with weak R&D will never be a top university. MMU is thoroughly committed to R&D in the fields of IT and communication.” Tou describes the world as irreversibly enmeshed in IT and communication. Take away these two elements, and the world will be thrown back 20 or 30 years. As such, it makes sense to integrate IT, communication and multimedia into the subjects taught at university. MMU has researched into how to do this, and now integrates IT, communication and multimedia into its programmes. For the second principle involving the quality of academic staff, MMU again shines due to its R&D focus. Contrary to popular belief, R&D is not just about researchers in laboratories wearing white coats. “Researchers, especially senior ones with the title of professor, should not be hiding in their rooms,” says Tou. “They should be walking around campus, talking to students, being available. This is because they’re expected not only to teach and create new knowledge, but they’re expected to provide leadership and to inspire. They have to be more than teachers in schools. They have a duty to society.” MMU’s approach has resulted in more than 90% of its graduates securing employment within six months of graduation. The Ministry of Higher Education, in its 2009 Rating System for Institutions of Higher Learning placed MMU in the Excellent (Tier-5) rank. This cements MMU’s position among the top universities in Malaysia. Candidates are invited to apply to MMU for the January 2011 intake in the fields of Engineering, Information Technology, Business and Management, Creative Multimedia, Accounting and Bio-Informatics. Contact 013-6264493 (Madam Hamiza), 013-6133144 (Mr Rafiel), or 013-6306458 (Madam Tan).

New President for Multimedia University

We are proud to announce that the Board of Multimedia University has appointed Prof. Dato’ Dr. Muhamad Rasat Muhamad as the 3^rd President of the university. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Rasat replaces Prof. Dr. Zaharin Yusoff who had served MMU for the past 3 years.

Prof. Dato’ Dr. Rasat hails from the prestigious Universiti Malaya, the oldest higher education institution in Malaysia. He is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), at UM. He graduated with a  Doctorate Degree in 1981 from University of Durham, England in the area of semiconductor technology and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in 1977 from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In addition, he has attended a course on Global Leadership Development Program at ICLIF, Kuala Lumpur and Harvard University. He has the honour of being elected the  Fellow of the Academy of Science Malaysia and Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Physics. He was awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship at Cambridge University in 1987 and the Asian Development Bank Fellowship at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993.

He has also edited several prominent science journals, such as the Malaysian Journal of Science, Malaysian Journal of Physics, Journal of Solid State Science and Technology Letters, and INTI Journal. To date, he has published over 150 articles, journals and academic papers and has supervised over 30 PhD and Masters’ candidates. He also holds prestigious membership in several science based organizations.

Multimedia University welcomes Prof. Dato’ Dr. Muhamad Rasat Muhamad to the university and hopes his leadership will steer MMU to even greater heights.  Prof. Dato’ Dr. Rasat will assume his duties on 3^rd January 2011.

Note :

Announcement by CCU.

MMU Named Top Private Malaysian University

Putrajaya, 12 July 2010 – The Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, yesterday announced eighteen top Malaysian universities. According to the rankings released to Bernama, topping the public universities was International Islamic University Malaysia. Leading the category for private institutions was Multimedia University. Professor Dr. Zaharin bin Yusoff, President of MMU, admitted his surprise at the news. “Like any university in Malaysia,” he said, “we’re just trying to do what is best for our students and our stakeholders.”

“Our strategies so far have included formulating the best academic programmes we could think of, and creating an environment to produce the most marketable graduates in the country. I am pleased that the people whose opinions we care for agree that we’re doing the right thing,” Prof. Zaharin said.

The ranking system categorized institutions into one of six tiers. “Tier-6” or Distinction, “Tier-5” (Excellent), “Tier-4” (Very Good), “Tier-3” (Good), “Tier-2” (Satisfactory), or “Tier-1” (Weak). MMU is in Tier-5, along with 17 other institutions. 25 universities are in Tier-4, and four in Tier-3. However, Prof. Zaharin is quick to stress that MMU must not allow this achievement to “get to our heads”, as other private universities in Malaysia are also extremely capable. He cautions, “If anything, this announcement will only spur others to try and knock us off the top.”

“We must pay attention to the fact that absolutely no university earned Tier-6, no one got Distinction. This means there is still room for improvement for everyone, MMU included,” Prof. Zaharin said. The ranking is formally known as the Rating System for Institutions of Higher Learning (Setara), and is outlined by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA). 2009’s exercise was led by Prof. Muhammad Jantan of Universiti Sains Malaysia. The system assessed 25 criteria covering the input, process, and output of the universities. This is the first time the rankings covered both public and private universities.

Public universities in Tier-5 are International Islamic University Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Malaya, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara.

Private Tier-5 institutions are Multimedia University, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Sunway University College, Curtin University of Technology (Sarawak campus), Monash University (Sunway campus), Taylor’s University College, International Medical University, Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus), Nottingham University (Malaysian campus) and Management and Science University.



OCLC Presentation at Multimedia University

23 June 2010 (Cyberjaya) – Siti Hasmah Digital Library (SHDL) proudly has been selected as a host for OCLC presentation for private universities. The presenter for this program was Mr Andrew Wang (President of OCLC Asia Pacific) & Ms Tsu-en Tsai (Executive Director of OCLC Asia Pacific). The presentation is more focuses on OCLC and Global Library Cooperation, Union Catalog of Malaysia Academic, WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and Beyond as well as WorldCat Collection Analysis. In addition, this presentation started at 10:00 am and finished at 1:00 pm. Upon the successful of this event, Library Management would like to say thank you to all participants who involved in this presentations.