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Education for Librarianship in Malaysia: With Special Reference to Law Librarianship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Radha Nadarajah
Radha Nadarajah*
Affiliation:
School of Library Science, MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia
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The Federation of Malaya received her independence from Britain in 1957. On September 16, 1963, the eleven states of this Federation, the former colonies of Sarawak and Sabah on the western coast of Borneo and the State of Singapore united to form Malaysia. In August 1965, however, Singapore seceded from this newly-formed federation to become an independent republic. Malaysia as it is known to-day consists of eleven states of the peninsula that constituted Malaya in 1957, (this is referred to as peninsula Malaysia) Sabah and Sarawak. Peninsula Malaysia is separated from Sabah and Sarawak by the vast South China Sea.

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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1975 , pp. 134 - 151
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Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1975 

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References

1 Malaysia. Second Malaysia Plan 1971–1975 (Kuala Lumpur, Govt, pr., 1971).Google Scholar

2 Nadarajah, Radha, Education for librarianship in Malaysia: it's history and development and comparisons with parallel developments in Indonesia and the Philippines (Aberystwyth, College of Librarianship Wales, 1974).Google Scholar

3 Wijasuriya, D. E. K., Tee, Lim Huck and Nadarajah, Radha. The Barefoot Librarian: Library developments in Southeast Asia with special reference to Malaysia (London, Bingley, 1975).Google Scholar

4 ASEAN stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations which was established in 1967. It consists of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.Google Scholar

5 Lester, Asheim, ed. The core of education for librarianship. (Chicago, 1960), p. 1.Google Scholar

6 Throughout this article the term “librarian” has been used as one who is a professional qualified librarian. A graduate librarian is one who holds a first academic degree and has professional qualifications. A non-graduate librarian is one who holds a professional qualification in librarianship only. A law librarian is one who has a degree in law and has a professional qualification in librarianship.Google Scholar

7 The Barefoot Librarian, p. 46.Google Scholar

8 Discussions with the Chairman of the Bar Council Malaysia, Mr. V. C. George.Google Scholar