Social Media Capabilities In Academic Libraries: Influence on librarians’ agility and relationship quality (librarian-user)

This study explores the impact of social media on academic libraries, focusing on librarians’ agility and relationship quality. It collected quantitative data from 30 librarians at Tun Abdul Razak Library using an online survey. The study’s objectives included measuring social media capability, assessing its influence on librarian’s agility and relationship quality, and examining how library policies moderate the relationship librarians’ agility and relationship quality with users. The findings indicate that respondents had a high level of social media capability, which positively influenced both librarians’ agility and relationship quality with users

Best Practices of Problem-Based Learning Implementation for IT Courses from Students Perspectives

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a powerful learning approach that leads to enhance and sustain learning towards student centered, problem focused, self-reflective learning, and self-directed learning. This may improve student ability in problem solving, critical thinking, work as a teamwork, and leadership. All these soft skills are important to IT students as a preparation for their future career development. Unfortunately, there is no statistical evidence to support the effectiveness of the PBL implementation as claim by many researchers. Therefore, the top management of Higher Education Institution (HEI) is really concerned with the effectiveness of the Problem-based Learning (PBL) implementation of certain courses in the university. The effectiveness of the PBL implementation is actually depends on the best practices of the PBL implementation of the IT courses. Thus, this study aims to identify the factors and the relationship among factors that influence the best practices of PBL implementation of IT courses from students' perspectives. The student perception of the PBL implementation of IT courses also take-in consideration as one of the effective measurement in this study. The student’s perception is important to ensure the successfulness of the PBL implementation. The study involved three (3) main phases: firstly PBL implementation factors are identified, secondly, a PBL model of IT courses is constructing, and finally, the proposed PBL model is validated using statistical analysis. Four main factors are identified: PBL Course Assessment, PBL Characteristics, PBL Practices, and Students’ Perception. Based on these four factors, a PBL model is constructed. Then, based on the proposed PBL model, six hypotheses are formulated and analyzed to validate the model. The results show that all hypotheses are significantly acceptable. The result also shows that the PBL Characteristics and PBL Course Assessment factors are significantly influenced the PBL Practices and indirectly influenced the Students’ Perception of the PBL Implementation for IT courses. This PBL model can assist instructors, decision makers in enhancing the PBL learning strategy of IT courses. It is also can be tested to other courses in various educational domains in the future

Risk factors, prevalence, and co-Morbidities of Hypertension in adult villagers in Kampung Tajau Laut, Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia

Introduction: Hypertension is a condition where there is persistently raised pressure in the blood vessels. In Malay-sia, higher prevalence of hypertension could be explained by lifestyle factors such as higher rates of obesity, excess dietary intake of sodium and fat and lack of physical activity. The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence, risk factors and co-morbidities of hypertension in villagers aged 18 years and above in Kampung Tajau Laut, Kudat, Sabah. Methods: Non-probability convenience sampling method was used to select a total of 210 villagers for interview, anthropometric examinations and blood pressure measurements. House to house and face to face interview by trained year four medical students done using a pretested validated questionnaire. The ques-tionnaire contained data on socioeconomic status, tobacco use, physical activity, diet, extra-salt use, family history of hypertension, co-morbidity, anthropometric measurements and blood pressure. Results: Respondents noted to be hypertensive were 67.6%, and out of this, 61.3% were undiagnosed. There was a significant association between hypertension and family history (Chi-squared test=38.280, p=0.000), hypertension and smoking status (Chi-squared test=7.673, p= 0.006), hypertension and obesity (Chi-squared test= 8.731, p=0.003), hypertension and gender (Chi-squared test=5.126, p=0.024), hypertension and age (Chi-squared test=26.110, p=0.000) of respondents. There was no significant association between hypertension with vegetable intake, fruit intake, physical activity, marital status, ethnicity, economic status, level of education, and occupational status of respondents. Half of the known hyperten-sive respondents have comorbidities with most commonly being dyslipidaemia and diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: Hypertension was found to have a significant association with family history, smoking status, obesity, age and gender among the studied population

Library Community in Social Media: Exploration of Past Studies

This article explores the concept of a library through social media platforms, resulting in forming a community that offers support, knowledge exchange, research, and networking opportunities. Articles review was taken between the publication year 2006 until 2021. Libraries can also utilize social media to share specific resources and collections and educate and market what is available. Creating content is one of the virtues for libraries to create awareness among their users and followers on social media platforms. Past researchers of the study are discussed exponentially to provide a holistic view on this matter. Challenges faced by the libraries in using social media platforms are also mentioned in this paper

How Librarian’s Social Media Capabilities Influence their Agility in Developing the Services

This study developed a tool to measure social media capability's impact on librarians' agility in 20 Malaysian academic libraries. A 26-item survey gathered data from 200 librarians. Results, analyzed with SPSS and Smart-PLS, indicated strong internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha 0.787-0.945). While one hypothesis was unsupported, three others were confirmed, highlighting the significant role of social media capability in enhancing librarians' agility. The research suggests the potential for future studies in this area

Factors influencing a problem-based learning implementation: A case study of IT courses

IT students must be trained to work efficiently as teamwork.One of the techniques that can be used to train them is through Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach.The PBL implementation can be influenced by various factors depending on the ultimate goal of the study. This study is focusing on the IT students’ perception of the PBL implementation. The student’s perception is important to ensure the successfulness of the PBL implementation. Therefore, it is important to identify the factors that might influence the implementation of PBL of IT courses. This study aims to identify some catalyst factors that may influence the PBL implementation of IT courses. The study involved three (3) main phases: identifying PBL implementation factors, constructing a PBL model, and PBL model validation using statistical analysis.Four main factors are identified: PBL Characteristics, PBL Course Assessment, PBL Practices, and PBL Perception. Based on these four factors, a PBL model is constructed. Then, based on the proposed PBL model, four hypotheses are formulated and analyzed to validate the model. All hypotheses are significantly acceptable. The result shows that the PBL Characteristics and PBL Course Assessment factors are significantly influenced the PBL Practices and indirectly influenced the Students’ Perception of the PBL Implementation for IT courses.This PBL model can assist decision makers in enhancing the PBL teaching and learning strategy for IT courses. It is also can be tested to other courses in the future