ABOUT PeTARY

The Must-Know Vibes

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Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Rahman Ya’kub (PeTARY), the Library of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) was established in 1993 and has started its operation in May 1993 at Rumah Setia, Jalan Taman Budaya, Kuching by providing services and facilities to the first batch of students and academics, before moving to the East Campus, Kota Samarahan in early 1994.

The Library was officiated on 17 January 1995 by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia at that time, with the name Centre for Academic Information Services (CAIS). In February 2006, the library has moved to its impressive new and permanent building in the West Campus, with an area of about 22,600 square metres, spreading over 5 floors. 

After 26 years being known as CAIS, the Library is now gazetted as Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Rahman Ya’kub (PeTARY), named after the late Tun Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, who was the third Chief Minister of Sarawak and also the fourth Head of the State of Sarawak.

As part of its commitment towards providing quality services, the Library’s key processes such as purchasing of books and media, serials subscriptions, cataloguing, loan services and inter library loan is certified to MS 1SO 9001:2008 and later MS ISO 9001:2015.

As a fundamental partner in the University's research and learning ecosystem, the Library proactively support research activities by providing relevant resources both print and electronic, facilitating scholarly communication, and promoting research output, keeping pace with a dynamic and rapidly evolving information environment and creating distinctive opportunities for users to encounter global thought.

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OUR VISION AND MISSION

Vision

To be an efficient and effective one-stop information centre.

Mission

Support the University's commitment towards achieving excellence in learning, teaching, research and development of new knowledge. This is achieved through the following objectives:

  1. Acquire, manage, supervise, disseminate information resources to support UNIMAS teaching and research activities
  2. Provide access opportunities to the treasures of knowledge and information for UNIMAS and the community
  3. Develop search skills and use of information among users
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CLIENT CHARTER

1. Manage and provide relevant, quality and up-to-date knowledge resources in diverse subjects
  • Ensure feedbacks on the proposals for the acquisition of knowledge resources are given within three(3) working days.
  • Ensure that all subscribed electronic resources can be accessed within 24 working hours upon receipt of the notices from the suppliers/publishers.
  • Ensure that at least 85% of knowledge resources received through purchase or subscription can be accessed by users within twenty one (21) to thirty (30) working days upon receipt from Knowledge Resources Development Unit.

BRANCHES

Our two branch libraries

Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Rahman Ya’kub (PeTARY) includes PeTARY Main and two branch libraries: PeTARY Medical and PeTARY Pre-U. PeTARY Medical is located on the Main Campus and PeTARY Pre-U is in the East Campus of UNIMAS Kota Samarahan.
PeTARY Medical
Medical Library is in the West Campus of UNIMAS, Kota Samarahan. It is located on the ground and the first floor of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and was established in May 2014. With an estimated area of 404 sq. m., it can accommodate up to 100 sitting capacity. Previously, this branch library was set up in November 2002 at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science’s new building at Lot 77, Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, Kuching. With an area of around 6500 sq. ft. it could accommodate up to 200 patrons at a time, 2 Computer Laboratories with 60 PCs and bookshelves that could hold up to 80,000 volumes of medical and nursing books and journals.

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