General

The University has a serial collection of approximately 10,000 titles in its three campus libraries. These serial materials are available on print, microform and CD-ROM formats.
In the Hamzah Sendut Library, there are approximately 1800 title which are currently subscribed and it receives another 2500 titles as gifts.

Subscription Policy

Each periodical subscribed must be approved by the University's Library Committee. Due to the high cost of subscriptions and annual increase in prices, a cancel-to-replace policy hase been followed since the early 1980s.
The Library actively searches for serials available on exchange and as gifts to enhance its collection

Location

All serials added to the collection are catalogued and classified using AACR2 and the Library of Congress Classification Scheme. Catalogued serials are displayed/shelved in various locations. Holdings of each serial and the location of the volumes can be searched from the Library catalogue (KRISALIS)

• Current Issues
  Issues for the current year/volume of each serial received are displayed in classification order in the Current Serials Area (Level 1) of both Hamzah Sendut Library 1 and Library 2. are only available in the Current Serials Area of Hamzah Sendut Library 1.
  A special display rack houses the most currently-received issue of several popular and in-great-demand periodicals. Previous issues of these popular serials would have been withdrawn and are kept in the Serials and Documents division Workroom.
  Malaysian periodicals especially those received as gifts are kept in the Malaysiana and Archives Division in Hamzah Sendut Library 2 where they available for reference only.
   

• Unbound Back issues
  Within the Serials and Documents Division Workroom are kept also unbound back issues and volumes for previous years of all serials. The Library catalogue (KRISALIS) will indicate whether a volume is in the process of binding. All unbound issues kept within the Serials and Documents Division Workroom as well as those in the process of being bound (i.e. sent to the Bindery) are available for reference on request.
   

• Bound Volumes
  Bound and complete volumes of periodicals are shelved in the Serials Area on Levels 2 and 3 of the Hamzah Sendut Library 1 and 2. Back volumes on microform format can be referred to in the Inter-Library Loan and Reprography Unit. The Library Catalogue will indicate the location and reference number of such titles/volumes.
   

• Serials on CD-ROM
  Serials on CD-ROM which are mainly abstracts and indexes, are available for searching in the Reference Division.

Newspapers

The Hamzah Sendut Library subscribes to 9 local and 4 foreign newspapers. Besides these, it receives 9 Malaysian newspapers as gifts. The titles are:

• Asian Wall Street Journal 
• Berita Harian 
• Borneo Mail * 
• Borneo Post * 
• China Press 
• Indonesian Observer * 
• International Herald Tribune 
• Kwong Wah Yit Poh * 
• Kompas (Indonesia) * 
• Miri Daily News * 
• Nanyang Siang Pau 
• New Straits Times 
• Overseas Chinese Daily News * 
• Sandakan Jih Pao * 
• Sarawak Tribune * 
• See Hua Daily News * 
• Star 
• Sun 
• Utusan Malaysia 
• Utusan Melayu 

Periodicals In-Great-Demand In Hamzah Sendut Library 1

Issues are not displayed daily in the Current Serials Area.

• Aperture 
• Art in America 
• Asia Magazine 
• Asiaweek 
• Bulletin 
• Byte 
• Communication Arts 
• Construction Law Digest 
• Dewan Budaya 
• Dewan Ekonomi 
• Dewan Kosmik 
• Dewan Masyarakat 
• Dewan Sastera 
• Dewan Siswa 
• Economist 
• Far Eastern Economist 
• India Today 
• Jurnal Dewan Bahasa 
• Malaysian Business 
• Mastika 
• Muscle and Fitness 
• National Geographic 
• Newsweek 
• Pelita Bahasa 
• Photo Technique International 
• Popular Photography 
• Print 
• Runner's World 
• Shape 
• Time 
• URTV 
• Wanita 

Contact Persons

For further information, please kindly contact:

Sukmawati Mohamad
Head of Division
Tel : 04-6577888 ext 2580
Email : sukmawati@usm.my

Shahriza Fadly Misaridin
Librarian
Tel : 04-6577888 ext 3721
Email: shahriza_fadly@usm.my

Rosnani Ahmad
Librarian
Tel : 04-6577888 ext 2581
Email: rosnaniahmad@usm.my