Student Support

Knowledge Centre (Physical & Digital Library)

With a history of educational and technological innovation, AeU has established an extensive university library with a comprehensive array of scholarly and professional reference and research materials. The AeU Knowledge Centre offers an excellent combination of traditional and electronic information resources in a well-designed conducive ‘living library’ ambience with the interface for the e-library in a virtual environment for the e-learning community.

The extensive resources have been specially designed for the unique needs of AeU and to enhance our students’ experience. It provides a comprehensive collection in print, electronic and multimedia formats to meet the information needs of the University. In the development of the Library’s resources priority is given to meet the course needs of the University. Special focus is given to the development, access and delivery of the e-library or digital library. The digital library is accessible to all AeU Library members, students, staff, researchers and scholars from any place and at all times.

Quick facts :

• State-of-the-art library with latest technology, including RFID and the KOHA integrated library system
• A Discovery Service (Search All) to search across the catalogue, library e-resources and internet resources at one go
• Excellent collection comprising over 6000 books, 25 e-databases, 95,000 e-journals, 190,000 e-books, 2.4 million e-thesis and 324 audiovisual materials.
• More than 100 seater to suit students’ individual learning styles.
• WiFi access, plus 3 computers with LAN network
• Research support for staff and students, including Education & Information Skills workshop.
• Online access to the Knowledge Centre’s e-resources using PCs and mobile devices from anywhere anytime

Opening Hours

• We are open almost every day to provide you with the best possible service.
• Our Operating Hours:

Services

1. Borrowing Privileges
   • Based on the category of membership of the AeU University Library, loan privileges are as given below:
     

     Patron	Category	Load Period	Quantity	Fees
     Student	Postgraduate Undergraduate	3 weeks 3 weeks	5 books 3 books	– –
     Staff	Academic Staff Non-Academic Staff	3 weeks 3 weeks	5 books 3 books	– –
     External Members*	Ordinary Member Honorary Member Day Member Alumni Academic Facilitator Consultant	3 weeks 4 weeks Library use only 3 weeks 3 weeks Library use only	1 book* 2 books Library use only 2 books 2 books Library use only	MYR 500 / year – MYR 20 / day MYR 200 / year – –

     * External members may borrow if they pay a deposit of RM500 per book. Maximum of 2 books per membership, this deposit is refundable at the point of termination of membership.

2. Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Service
   • Interlibrary Loan scheme is a service to obtain materials needed primarily for research or academic purposes which are not available in AEU Digital Library. (This service however is only limited to the Staff and Students of AEU)
   • The AeU library has signed a memorandum with the National Library which gives access to 500 libraries in the country under this Scheme. In addition to this, under the Document Delivery Service (DDS) of the same scheme, copies of journal articles and/or book chapters may be obtained from member libraries.
3. User Education & Information Skills
   • With information becoming increasingly complex and varied, it is essential that users know how to access information resources, how to evaluate, manage, and use them effectively. Information skills are essential to the success of a student’s academic career, and to become an independent and lifelong learner.
   • User Education and Information Skills sessions are provided by the library. Special workshop sessions to aid users on information searching are organised regularly by the librarians. For postgraduate students, they will be provided with information skills workshops as part of the Research Methodology Sessions.
   • On-line information searching guides are available from the library website. Furthermore, the library staff is available to help users within the Library at all times
4. i-Desk
   • The library’s i-Desk is a platform for professional librarians to provide the library users with directions to library materials, advise on library services and assist users to find general information from the library’s resources.
5. Library Counselling
   • Special information needs for researcher may be discussed with the librarian through our library counselling services.