Inculcating ICT Skills through a Collaborative Digital Library Initiative for Educational Use

摘要: Digital libraries revolutionise the traditional pedagogy of providing learning resources and way can be accessed. It helps students to practice self-accessed self-directed reference at their own pace. changes conventional process seeking information speed spread obtained. Masullo Mack (1996) succinctly summarize three roles digital play in education; (a) as a resource for teaching; (b) an environment learning; (c) authoring space. The educational value is authentic activities that they allow engage in. supportive interfaces, selection, organisation documents are designed provide learners with enough context knowledge enable them use resources. Hedman (1999) pointed out electronic world situation, anyone could both author publisher. This situation perpetuates creation communal cooperation. existing entities dynamic generation content. enables from grass root levels. In context, this type collaborative venture brings about achievement following objectives: a) content collaboratively; b) enhance IT literacy through very act collaboration; c) creative presentation contents using multimedia elements (Stahl, 2000). These objectives embedded proposed library portal historical collaboratively used by public institutions develop A proto-type system was developed biographical selected Malaysian personalities buildings chosen domain test bed.