Pengoptimuman pengurusan fasiliti Perpustakaan Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Abstract

Library is a non-profit organization. Starting in 2016, the government has reduced funding for the Ministry of Higher Education. At the same time, fund allocation for libraries also has reduced. The lack of fund allocation from the government has made the library having difficulties to manage the operation and facilities that available in the library, constraints in purchasing books and reduce online database. However, the facility manager needs to act wisely to manage all facilities by leveraging the existing financial resources. The objective of this study is to identify facilities provided in the library, identify management expenses that can be reduced by the library, and also to propose optimize the management cost in the UTM library. Content analysis and thematic analysis will be used to analyze the data obtained through interviews session conducted against several library staffs. The result of this study found that there are various facilities provided in the library such as lobby, room, discussion room, showroom, seminar room, meeting room, foyer, 24-hour study room, information search laboratory, database reference room, exhibition space, as well as audio visual room There are some management expenses by the library, which are the library system maintenance, repair for damaged books, the purchase of reference books, the database subscription and the expenses for purchasing and repairing computers and printers in the library. While to optimize costs can be done by suspends the renewal works of the library system, priorities the interlibrary loan service and also filter the purchases of new books. To optimize the facility utilization, sponsor library space for any program, providing cafe facilities, conducting book exhibition and also provide research space for student.