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The Staff Pick for August 2023 is brought to you by Magdalena Anak Lampas, Librarian in the Cataloguing Unit.

The Staff Pick for July 2023 is brought to you by Puan Hasniza Hashim, a Librarian in the Digitisation & OCR Unit.

This book contains the proceedings of the 22nd Perdana Discourse Series “Envisioning Malaysia’s Future Employment: Trends Vs Skills” which took place on 25th August 2022. The discourse featured Dato’ Professor Dr Elizabeth Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Sunway Education Group, as keynote  speaker, Dr Soo Wincci, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), as moderator and panellists Dato’ Ahmad Nadzarudin Abdul Razak, Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), Ms See Wai Hun, JurisTech, and Puan Noraliza Mohamad Ali, Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

The keynote addresses contained in the volume were delivered at the Perdana Discourse Series from 2004 to 2009. Also included are selected questions and answers from the audience dialogues held after each keynote address.

Through the black and white images, it’s obvious that what happened was not only disturbing, but also traumatising on individual, community, and national levels. The riots of 13th May 1969 was a harsh lesson in race relations that shaped our national policies thereafter. It may have taken place more than five decades ago but its impact still reverberates, which make it imperative that all Malaysians should understand what happened and why.

The Staff Pick for May 2023 is brought to you by Mr Adnan Haris, a Senior Librarian in the Collection Development Unit.

The Staff Pick for April 2023 is brought to you by Ms Maizatul Kartini Kamaruldin , a Senior Executive Accounts & Events, in the Admin & Communications Unit.

The Staff Pick for April 2023 is brought to you by Mr Roymax Sebastian, Assistant Librarian – Collections & Development unit.

The Staff Pick for March 2023 is brought to you by En Fakhrul Adam Bin Jose M Cruz, an Internship Student in the Admin & Communications Unit.

11th March 2023 marks the 101st birthday of the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysia’s second Prime Minister who is often referred to as the nation’s Father of Development. He was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1970 to 1976, and passed away from leukemia at the age of 44 while still holding office.