Using Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) Standards as a “Wake-Up Call” to Information Resource Assessment: An early view

Asmah Sabtu; Saidatul Akmar Ismail

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI9.4287

Authors

Asmah Sabtu Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak, Universiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah Alam Selangor Malaysia
Saidatul Akmar Ismail Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak, Universiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah Alam Selangor Malaysia; Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Branch, Puncak Perdana Campus 40150 Shah Alam, Selangor Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI9.4287

Keywords:

Collection Assessment, Malaysian Qualifications Agency's (MQA) Standards, Library Collection , Academic Library

Abstract

The purpose of collection assessment is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of library collection. This article is to uncover the extent of academic library collection in supporting the needs of academic programmes. This study chose Malaysian Qualifications Agency’s Standards as an assessment guideline. The research approach is a mixed-method and exploratory approach. The main finding revealed that the information resources seemed to be imbalanced in its capacity and was less incorporating with the MQA guidelines for collection timeliness. The finding is valuable to the library administrators as a “wake-up call” to further improve their collection development process.

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