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Jurnal PPM: Journal of Malaysian Librarians
Vol. 14, 2020
As shown in Figure 1, only a small group of selected library media teachers have
attended the in-service SRCM one-year course on Library and Information Management
or enrolled in a master’s level programme at one of the four Malaysian library schools
(Lee, et al., 2003). There is, therefore, a need to improve opportunities as well as to
motivate them to continue their education in LIS (Morizio & Henri, 2003).
Figure 1: Library media teachers under the management of
three divisions in MoE (Tan, 2012).
It can be seen that our library media teachers, especially in public schools, are managing
school libraries without any well-structured Library and Information Science or Teacher
Librarianship training programmes. Although these teachers may be effective school
library managers, they would still need more current, practical, reliable, knowledge and
skills in areas such as Digital Citizenship in Schools, Information Literacy and Cyber
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