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Issue no. 3 | 2022

Winner of NIIDR 2022 in conjunction with
Media and Information literacy seminar

The Faculty of Information Management, UiTM in By Dr. Yanti Idaya Aspura
collaboration with the National Library of Malaysia (PNM)
have held the National Innovation, Invention, Design and
Research Competition (NIIDR 2022) in conjunction with
the 2022 National Media and Information Literacy Seminar
on 27 Sept 2022 at the UiTM Hotel, Shah Alam.

A silver and two bronze medals were awarded to the
Department of Library and Information Science, FASS UM
during the event, under the Higher Education (Students)
category.
1. SILVER: An event-based ontology model for the content
knowledge of historical Malay manuscripts - Zahila Mohd Dr Zahila Haji Mohd Nor winning a silver medal
Nor, Noorhidawati Abdullah & Yanti Idaya Aspura Mohd
Khalid.
2. BRONZE: Developing a Manual to Create Tactile Map for
Blind and Visually Impaired Users of MAB Library -
Manimala Thavandran & Samsul Farid Samsuddin.
3. BRONZE: Lembah Bujang Archaeology Digital Library
(LBADL) - Asma Nadia Zanol Rashid & Abirami Ganesan &
Ali Fauzi.

The department and faculty would like to congratulate the
students and the supervisors for their achievements. Miss Abirami Ganesan won a bronze medal in the competition

Public Lecture by Professor Emeritus Dato'

Dr Abdul Rahman Embong

By Dr Dayana Ariffin
On September 14 2022, Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (The
People's History Center) in collaboration with the
Department of History, FASS and Naratif Malaysia
organized a Public Lecture delivered by Professor Emeritus
Dato' Dr Abdul Rahman Embong from the National
University of Malaysia. The FASS Dean, Professor Datuk Dr
Danny Wong started the event with the words of welcome.
The event was chaired by Dr Mohamed Azwan Abdul
Rahman, also from the National University of Malaysia.
Professor Abdul Rahman Embong emphasized on common
The title of Prof Emeritus Dato Dr Abdul Rahman Embong's aspirations and shared goals as key to creating a Malaysian nation,
Public Lecture was THE QUESTION OF THE NATION- as members of the panel look on
STATE AND THE MALAYSIAN NATION: REMEMBERING Policy proposal, and then again in the declaration of the
HISTORY, LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. The Lecture focused national Plan, Vision 2020 by the Fourth Prime Minister,
on the question of the nation-state and Malaysia as a Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. This Lecture discussed the
nation from a historical perspective and analyzed the challenges faced in building a united Malaysia within the
related policies, especially the New Economic Policy. framework of the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030. The
Lecture was followed by an academic discussion led by
The concept of the Malaysian Nation was officially FASS's Dr Nur Dayana Ariffin along with other historians
expressed by the Second Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak including Dr Abdul Halim Ali, Tan Sri Datuk Dr Kamal Salih
Hussein in 1971 when presenting the New Economic and Dr Syed Husin Ali.

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