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This paper reports the study's finding on the preferable method used by students while searching their electronic resources for assignment accomplishment. In accomplishing academic assignments, retrieving the right information from relevant and precise sources using the right methods is very critical. This is because there are various types of information retrieval methods that have been provided by the institution. By choosing the right information retrieval method, it will enable the student to reduce their searching time, to focus more and increase thinking creativity in information searching. For that reason, this study has been conducted to explore the preferable method used in searching electronic recourses among post graduate students in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions. The methodology applied in this study is questionnaire survey. A set of 280 questionnaires have been distributed to seven (7) selected public institutions. The population selection is based on the amount of research works produced and the number of postgraduate enrollments. Out of 280 set of distributed questionnaires, a number of 200 questionnaires are valid for analysis. The results indicate that 162 respondents choose internet as a method in searching the electronic resources. The study concludes that the Internet is the most preferred method used in retrieving electronic resources. Therefore, subscribing the electronic resources from the Internet is the most important aspect. This is to ensure the student can reach an excellent value in their academic assignment accomplishment which has significantly correlates with their academic performance as well.

This paper has highlighted the level of social networking services (SNS) usage as part of knowledge sharing tool at Faculty of Information Management, University Technology MARA (UiTM). Social networking environment covered a wide range of functionalities and support of different sets of knowledge sharing activities. This is lead to the difficulties to identify the level of usage on social network services among the postgraduate student. Thus, it is also to proof the significant impact towards the knowledge sharing tools. Using questionnaires survey and data analysis, this paper has includes the aspect on demographic influences and level of social network usage in terms of knowledge sharing. Then, as a finding, level of social networking usage shows the social networking is part of knowledge sharing tools. As a conclusion, based on the findings and dimension driven in this study, it has show the social networking services has contribute to knowledge sharing activities.

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This paper is highlight on the preserving a metadata for electronic records (e-Records). It discover from the electronic government (e-Government) initiative until its revealing on the challenges on preserving e-Records metadata. The evolvement of electronic document (e-Document) and e-Records also being address in this paper. Besides on the explaining on preservation metadata, this paper also focusing on selecting appropriate attribute to represent significant challenges based on the scholars. Thus, there are ten (10) challenges has been discussed in this paper including figure 1. There are Metadata Standard and Tools, Precision of category, User Resistance to change, Metadata Conflict, Extracting Core Metadata, Date Last Access, Automatic Metadata, File Plan Repositories, Pre-defined Metadata and Metadata Authenticity. In the discussion section, this paper highlights most on the history of e-Records. This shows that the history or event history is the main focus of this paper. Finally, this paper conclude the issues by making a event history issues as a critical challenges that need to be focused in preserving an e-Records metadata