UBD to hold information week
By James Kon

Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Library will be organising its 4`h Information Week, from February 5 to 10, at its premises. -

The event is aimed at creating awareness on the importance of information in supporting academic, personal and organisational needs.

The week-long event is also held to help create a society that is knowledge-based and information-conscious, as well as to encourage life-long learning towards independent and productive lives as responsible citizens.

Various activities have been lined up for the week include an information exhibition and book fair, information literacy road shows for faculties, workshops, financial and library career talks.

The highlights of the event will be the official launching of the university's Digital Library System (e-Library@.ubd portal) and the signing of the contractual agreement for the Virtual Library Systems (VILIS) project.

E-library@ubd is one of the Ministry of Education's digital library initiatives, which was initiated in May 2005. This project is aimed at improving the UBD Library's information management system infrastructure. The components of the project are the digitisation of the university's information resources and publications; upgrade of the library management systems; the implementation of the digital library portal.

VILIS, one of the Ministry of Education's digital library projects, will lead to the establishment of an integrated digital library system for higher educational institutions, secondary and primary schools in the country, as well as the application of other library management technologies such as digitisation, enterprise portal engine, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and many more.

The exhibition is open to members of the public. It will include the displays of these projects and the electronic resources which are to be subscribed.

Amongst the exhibitors at the event are Access Dunia Sdn Bhd, Proquest, Science Direct, Emerald and Ovid. Participating exhibitors will also provide product highlight talks during the week.

For further information, contact Awg Haji Mohd Yussop bin POKIDDP Haji Musa, Secretary to the Organising Committee of the UBD Information Week, at tel: 2463001 ext 1217 or email: Yussop@lib.ubd.edu.bn.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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