Lucia Quek Sai Gearn
Head of Educational Resource Management
Educational Technology Division
Ministry of Education
Malaysia

This paper describes the latest implementation (2009) of an on-line monitoring system of the ten thousand school libraries in the country by the Educational Resource Management Sector, Educational Technology Division (ETD), Ministry of Education. This is a systematic approach taken to monitor the progress, development and management of the School Resource Centers (SRC). Beginning June 2009, a comprehensive online management system called the index-Quality of SRCs also known as iQPSS was deployed via the ETD intranet service line to speed up the
process of collecting, validating and analyzing the data. This online management system of the SRC has made it possible for the Educational Resource Management Sector to plan, coordinate, evaluate and improve
the development of the School Resource Centres in terms of physical infrastructure, book collection, management system and training in line with current technology as well as the information literacy and reading
programmes. This paper will also look into the issues and challenges of its implementation. Recommendations for further enhancement of the system will also be discussed in this paper.

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