My first time boarding a flight is to Sydney Australia. Never in my wildest dream to cross the oceans to live outside Malaysia for one and a half years. But it happened.. It really did happen. I was young then. Just graduated the year before and worked to fund my IELTS examinations and other preparations before flying off to the Wallabies Island. It was quite a terrifying thought as the furthest that I've been on my own was when I took the express bus to Perak to attend an interview. I remembered the day before. We had a small feast at home. Organised and prepared by the villagers. I was considered the first who went abroad at that time and in a way became the pride of the village. It was overwhelming to see how high was people expectation towards myself. The day we left for Sydney I didn't know what to expect. Being a control freak I've checked out the university's website for more than 10 times. I even printed all the information that I thought may be useful (bus /
In conjunction with the National Librarian's Day on the 6th of June 2020, the Sarawak Chapter of the Malaysian Librarian Association together the the Sarawak State Library have organised the Fourth Sarawak Librarian Colloquium. Although the colloquium was the fourth in the colloquium series, it was the first online colloquium that gathered speakers from all over the state of Sarawak and audience from all over the nation. With the theme Librarian.Connect. Community (LCC) the colloquium managed to have four paper presentations as well as four poster presentations from librarians and lecturers from Sarawak State Library (Kuching and Miri), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Institute of Teachers Education and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. While the forum session involved librarians from Curtin University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA and Sarawak State Library. These are the summary of SAL.CO 2020 Papers: 1. Empowering through Library-ing (Hajah Imilia Ibrahim & Saba