Summary: A mosque plays an important role as a centre for spreading Islam. This has been proven since the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Mosque libraries are vital in opening up readership opportunities to the society. However, only limited empirical studies looked into the establishment of Mosque libraries, particularly on the perceptions o

Summary: Marketing of library services provides more opportunities for a better relationship and engagement between the libraries and user community. Studies had established that the implementation of marketing strategies is to ensure and enhance the awareness and utilisation of library resources and services by the users. However, a few of th

Summary: A thematic interpretations of al-Qur’ān (TIaQ) - tafseer al-maudu’iy (التفسير الموضوعي)- has a sensitivity in information retrieval (IR) platform due to the interrelation of Qur’ānic verses with each other. Many online Qur’ānic search engines (OQSEs) scattered on the Internet and the themes or topics of al-Qu

Summary: The mainstream use of social media has impacted the library as it has been identified to be an efficient platform for libraries to foster networking and enhance engagement with their user community. The unique characteristics of social media with ‘high tech’, ‘interactive’ blend with the ‘human touch’ give a valuable means

Summary: Looking for information in archives seem to be a challenging task for archival researchers since they deal with special collections which are quite different from those found in libraries and other repositories. Archival researchers tend to be overwhelmed when looking for information to fulfill their needs as a result of the complexit

Summary: This research aims to investigate the practice of researchers’ use of the digitized Malay manuscripts in Malaysia, examine the relationship between researchers’ behavioral intention to use the digitized Malay manuscripts and its related predictors, and identify the factors that indirectly influence the behavioral intention through

Summary: Social networks are in the midst of a boom in terms of connecting and linking people. People are more active in this medium as compared to other mediums of communication, such as telephonic conversations or personal meetings. Conferring an estimate, Facebook holds 900,000,000 active users every month, while Twitter has 310,000,000 mon

Summary: Skyline queries attempts to return the superior data items from a database which are not being dominated by any other data items. In some real-world databases where data might not be complete, i.e. data items often have missing values in one or more dimensions, applying skyline algorithms designed for complete data is inappropriate du

Summary: The fundamental advantage of WSN is the ability to deploy them in an ad hoc manner. The clustering phenomenon plays an important role in the organization of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), as well as dramatically affects network performance. For this reason, there has been a considerable amount of researches into ways of creating t

Summary: The evolution of mobile communication systems began with the 1st generation (1G) in the 1980s, the second generation Global System for Mobile Communications (2G-GSM) in the early 1990s, the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (3G-UMTS) in 2002, and the fourth generation Long Term Evolution (4G-LTE) technology i