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The Resource
Library is the knowledge reservoir of the Board. It is the depository
of all the by-products of R&D work generated from the laboratories
and pilot plants of the Board, in the form of patents, publications,
conference / seminar papers, reports, theses, research notebooks
etc. These publications, being the intellectual property of the
Board are housed in special collection, PALMA collection.
Beside the corporate
knowledge assets, the Resource Library maintains a sizeable collection
of books, monographs, journals, standards, patents, reports, theses,
and other sources of information, both printed as well as electronic
sources.
Specialised
user rooms are allocated for user instruction and discussion, namely
PALMOILIS Customer Clinic and I-chat rooms respectively.
Information
Services
Online Search Services
The online
public access catalogue (OPAC) is the lifeline of the centre.
Searches can be done by author, title, subject É in fact any term.
Borrowing
Borrowing
is limited only to registered members of the Centre in possession
of valid access cum membership cards issued by the Centre.
Interlibrary
Loans
The Centre
also provides interlibrary loan facilities to encourage information-sharing
with library / Information centres in the country. It also undertakes
interlibrary transactions with overseas libraries especially BLDSC,
UK, after exhausting the entire national collection.
Reservations
The system
allows registered users, whether walk-in or remote access, to
do their own reservations at their end.
Photocopying
Photocopy
services are provided on a do-it-yourself-basic, subject to a
minimal charge of 20 sen, Alternatively, photocopy cards are available
for purchase.
Literature
Searches
Online literature
searches on subscribed international databases via the Internet
can be executed with guidance from the Counter Personnel/Reference
Librarian. Literature searches on CD-Rom are also provided via
the CD-Server within PMS Intranet.
Current Awareness/SDI
Services A
hit list is provided to users registered for this service based
on their interest/subject profiles every 2 months. Users, will
receive photocopies of titles selected from the hit list, upon
request.
Multimedia
Services
Multimedia
materials such as video tapes, cassettes, slides etc. are allowed
to be borrowed subject to availability of their duplicates.
Membership
The
Centre offers two categories of membership.
Individual:
Open to all
MPOB staff members and the general public.
Corporate:
Members of
the Industry can also register on an Organisation at basis, both
from public and private sectors.
Walk-in users
- Monday-Thursday:
8.30am - 4.30pm
- Friday: 8.30
am - 12.30pm; 2.45pm - 4.30pm
- Saturday:
8.30am - 12.30pm
- Sunday: Closed
& Public Holidays
Remote Access
Log-in
hours:
PALMOILIS
is available at:
http://palmoilis.mpob.gov.my
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