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Books |
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Journals |
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Government gazettes |
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Annual reports |
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Newsletters |
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Bulletins |
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Conference and seminar papers |
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Loose-leaf reference manuals |
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Newspaper clippings |
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Directories |
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Compiled sets of past year ICSA examination question papers |
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Examiner's Reports and Suggested Answers |
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CDs on selected MAICSA events |
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The Library also stocks other sources of information pertaining
to ICSA coverage and syllabus, as well as business, management, finance,
accounting, law and administration at large and will be acquiring non-book
materials such as video and cassette tapes on management and training.
To date, the library holds 8,437 volumes of books and the number is
expanding based on monthly new acquisition of books. There are 9 journals
placed on subscription and about 30 titles of journals, bulletins and
newsletters received on complimentary basis from various sources such as
companies, professional bodies, government departments, colleges and
universities, publishers and other ICSA regional associations. Occasionally the
library receives annual reports from most major public listed companies and
banks.
Collections are catalogued according to the Anglo-American cataloguing rules
2nd ed. And classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification Systems
20th edition. Subject classification follows the Library of Congress Subject
Headings List 15th ed. And also the Sears List Subject Headings.
The library acquired the IRIS (Information Retrieval Imaging System) library
software in April 1997 to computerize the library catalogues. In January 2004,
the library system has been upgraded to "PUSTAKA which provides online
literature search and supports the installation of the local OPAC ( Online
Public Access Catalogue ) for the library. With this installation, members are
able to check on the availability of any book in the library either by Author,
Title or Subject search just at a click of a button from the
local OPAC terminals in the library. It enables members to browse
through the library catalogues without the hassle of going through the card
catalogue system. In May 2004, the computerised library catalogues under
‘PUSTAKA" was made accessible on the Internet as
web-enabled OPAC which allows members to browse through the catalogues
from the Internet, anywhere and anytime.
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