Dear Patrons

Library patrons must come in person and present a valid Open University Malaysia Student Card or Staff Card to check out books. Any book may be recalled after 14 days, regardless of the loan period, if it is requested by an OUM student, staff or faculty member.

Overdue fines are charged for RM 0.50 per item per day. Patrons will be billed replacement costs, including a RM25.00 processing fee, for significantly overdue books.

Loan Facility is not extended to Tutors, SMEs and facilitators.

All members are eligible for book loans based on the table below:

Dear Patrons

Please be informed that the Library Portal is now using new domain name : library.oum.edu.my previously, ldms.oum.edu.my. However, the old domain will be retained to avoid broken links from previously posted items or news. Please do report to En. Munawar should you encounter any broken links or any unusable links.

The Library Management

The Tan Sri Dr. Abdullah Sanusi Digital Library subscribes to databases with access to thousands of articles. We do understand the troubles of searching articles from these databases on one-by-one basis. To facilitate the ease of searching for articles, the Library provides Unisearch Discovery Service to search all databases we subscribe simultaneously.

Using the same process to get access to the Library Portal as explained in previous articles, you find this function in the Search Form under the tab: Discovery. This function will concurrently search for aticles from multiple databases including library catalogue.

When is the best time to use this service?
Let say you are in need of articles and do not have slight ideas of which databases to use. Or perhaps you do not like to search for articles from the databases we subscribe on one-by-one basis. The Unisearch Discovery Service or Library Find Articles service is your friend.

Take a look at this example:

1. You are looking for articles related with “management and education” & you have no idea which databases to use.
2. Access the Library Search Function from the “Search Library” button on the left sidebar.
3. Select the “Discovery” tab from the Search Form
   The Unisearch Discovery Service
4. Key in the title of the journal in the search form. Eg.: ‘management and education’.
5. Click search button to start searching.
6. The system will start searching based on your keywords and will display the result. See example below:
   Unisearch Search Result
   

Remotes Leaners from outside Klang Valley can request printed books from Main Campus Library ONLY to be sent to their respective Learning Centres (LC). Please follow this request for printed books to be sent to your LC.

Click at the image followed by ‘original’ link for better & bigger image view.

1. From myVLE, click DIGITAL LIBRARY icon to access the Library portal. 

2. Click the “Search Library” button on the Library left side-bar. 

                                              Search Library

3. In the search form, there are tabs you may select to categorise your search process. To search for printed books, make sure tab named “FACETED SEARCH” is selected.

                      FACETED SEARCH  menu

4.  Key in your keyword(s) at SEARCH TERM at box. Then, choose PRINTED RESOURCES at Item Types. Next, click FIND button.

Insert Keyword(s) at SEARCH TERM and choose PRINTED RESOURCES at Item Types. Click FIND button.

5. List of related books/printed resources will appear. Click at particular title to select a book.

                         SEARCH result

6. Click at ‘POST THIS BOOK TO MY LEARNING CENTRE (Malaysia only)’

7. Click the link : Post this book to my Learning Centre. The Library Backend System will take you to Intra-Library Loan Request Form page (see image below)

Request Form

As explained in the image above. Patrons will have to

1. Fill in all the required fields
2. Leave your contact No
3. Select your nearest Learning Centre.
4. And click “Send Request” Button to submit your request.

Once the Form has been submitted, our Librarian will process your request and may contact you to complete the request.

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