Experience

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

• Malaysia
• Education Administration Programs
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Director

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Newcastle University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager

  • Jun 2011 - Jul 2022

  I am responsible to • set up, operate and manage the Library and Learning Resources Centre to provide library, information and IT services to students, academic and administrative staff. • initiate, develop, implement and review relevant plans and procedures. • manage the Learning Resources Centre and its facilities to ensure that it provides an effective learning and study environment for students, staff and visitors to NUMed. • responsible for local Library and IT service delivery to all NUMed customers. • ensure effective line-management and supervision is provided to Learning Resources Centre staff including recruitment, training, and performance and development review. • liaise with academic and other staff of NUMed and Newcastle University to ensure the effective provision and development of library, information and IT services for the campus to provide an appropriate student and academic experience. • manage budgets and procurement processes for locally sourced library materials, IT equipment, etc. ensuring that such equipment and services are obtained based upon appropriate service levels and offer value for money to NUMed. • ensure that the delivery of information skills and IT training and support to students, staff and visitors to NUMed is provided. • ensure that promotional and support materials, management information, statistical indicators and other feedback is collected on the services provided by the Learning Resources Centre team to enable service development. I work closely with colleagues at the main campus in the Newcastle University, UK to ensure all the resources, facilities and services are accordance to the standard in the UK to support NUMed’s teaching and learning, and students’ experience. Show less



Curtin University Malaysia

• Malaysia
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Librarian

  • Feb 1999 - May 2011

  I was appointed as one of the pioneering staff of Curtin University, Sarawak Campus in year 1999 to set up, operate and manage the Library. Since the inception of the Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia in year 1999, being a self-starter and self-directed person, I has successfully initiated the set up, selected the right staff, managed and operated the library to where it is now. My responsibilities: • established Library and Information Service as one of the core service provider to Curtin community; • built and maintained strong commitment to established and promote the library information service according to the University’s goals, visions and missions; • built and maintained strong cooperation, teamwork and trust with staff and students by actively promote the use of library resources and services by assisting academic staff in identifying, locating, acquiring, offering, and using library resources and services to support classroom instruction, be an effective liaison to schools in assigned programs and helping students by providing information literacy skills training; • organised access to wide range of collections and online resources provide for easy access via The Library website; • set priority to provide quality Customer Service and fulfilled the customer needs; • built good cooperation with the main campus Library at Curtin University , Perth Australia and other libraries within Malaysia for good understanding in term of resource sharing, exchange of ideas, inter library loans (ILL) and document delivery service; • made contributions to the library profession and engage in professional development and community service activities as appropriate. I worked closely with colleagues at the main campus in Perth Australia. In my capacity as the founding Chief Librarian of the Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia Library, I successfully established the Library as one of the core service providers to the Curtin community. Show less



Sarawak Information Center, Sarawak Chief Minister

• Kuching, Sarawak

• Assistant Library Officer, Technical Services

  • 1993 - 1996

  My responsibilities: • Set up, managed and administered the Technical Section: Cataloguing and Acquisition • Evaluated, processed, and catalogued new materials for department collection (books, serials, audio, video) • Maintained, preserved, and organized library collection and archive • Maintained the acquisition records in the acquisition module • Maintained the cataloguing records in OPAC and cataloguing module • Received and responded to internal and external clients information requests • Performed circulation desk functions • Managed the Information Desk (answered ready reference and research queries) • Supervised the Library Assistants • Trained the Library Assistants • Submitted monthly report of Technical Section progress and development to the Chief Librarian Show less