%0 Journal Article
%T Modeling a National Collaborative Digital Library for Malaysian Secondary Schools
%A N.N. Edzan
%A Abrizah Abdullah
%J Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences
%D 2004
%I Tamkang University Press
%X This paper describes the conceptualisation of a model for a collaborative digital library specially tailored for Malaysian secondary schools, which will support classroom teaching and learning. The move towards collaboratively building the contents of a digital library is a fairly recent trend and it simulates an environment where partners are empowered to participate in building and up keeping the knowledge contents of the system. The conceptualisation of a Malaysian digital library is in line with the governments efforts in establishing SMART schools. However, various issues such as identifying local resources, ascertaining the needs of it users, and establishing a framework to meet these needs, must be addressed before the digital library can be fully implemented. It may be approached through the establishment of test beds in a particular learning institution, before nationwide implementation.
%K Digital libraries
%K Smart education
%K Educational technology
%K Collaborative resource development
%K Malaysia
%U http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/fulltext/42/42-1/13-20.pdf