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"The increasing prominence of China on the world stage has sparked scholarly interest in studying the country’s representation in the media. Also driving the enthusiasm is the global expansion of Chinese state media, which some refer to as an attempt to export Chinese propaganda. Research on the topic in Southeast Asia remains lacking despite the region’s being in China’s backyard. This qualitative study aims to narrow the knowledge gap by looking at China’s representation in Malaysia. Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, it examines specifically the coverage of former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 2016 visit to China by the Malay, Mandarin, and English bulletins on public and private television. The results show that China’s portrayal in the coverage is positive, notwithstanding the stories indicating concerns about the implications of China’s rise. The outcome points to the dominance of the state narrative, with instances of the press breaking the authorities’ restrictions to inform the audience. It appears that the reportage was not much impacted by Chinese media’s efforts to go global. Drawing on the Hierarchy of Influences model, the study demonstrates that the representation of China in Malaysian media coverage is a product shaped by intertwined social, cultural, and political factors as complex as Malaysian society."

"Party identification has a crucial influence on individual political attitudes and behavior. Although many past studies have identified the factors affecting individual party identification, little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationships between dispositional factors and party identification. Therefore, this study aims to examine how personality traits influence individual partisanship, that is, whether the traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience would make individuals become partisans or independents. By using two original survey datasets, this study finds that the Big Five personality traits have no direct effects on Taiwanese people’s partisanship, but they could exert indirect effects on partisanship through political interest and strength of individual position on the independence-unification issue. Specifically, agreeableness and conscientiousness could respectively have a negative or positive indirect effect on partisanship via political interest. Besides, agreeableness and openness to experience could respectively have a negative or positive indirect effect on partisanship via individual position on the independence-unification issue. Consequently, although this study reveals no direct relationships between personality traits and partisanship, it does not necessarily mean that personality traits have nothing to do with partisanship. In fact, personality traits could indirectly influence Taiwanese people’s partisanship through the mediation of political attitudes. To sum up, this study confirms that dispositional factors could have a certain influence on Taiwanese people’s partisanship and provides a new theoretical perspective to explain Taiwanese people’s party identification. However, due to data limitations, this study only provides an exploratory analysis, and calls for future research to identify more complete relationships between personality traits and Taiwanese people’s party identification."

"Scholarly attention for Old Javanese literature so far has mainly focused on poetry. The apparently simple nature of narrative prose texts, while making them excellent sources for linguistic and lexicographic research, at the same time denies them any literary value. In this article an impression is given of the art of storytelling in one Old Javanese prose story, taken from the Adiparwa of around A.D. 1000. Quite unexpectedly, a sophisticated tradition unfolds in which a rich variety of devices enables the storyteller to create a meaningful world of words."

"Scholarly communication and academic environment are interelated and interdependent to each other. Academic environment is where scholars consisting of faculty members, researchers and student meet. They produce most of scholarly writing and access to scholay resources as their references. They are both author and reader components. In library perspective, they are users. Libraries in academic environment will function well in the support of information technology. Information technology supports scholarly communication as well. Internet, if you like, has provided a significant support on scholarly communication process. Access to scientific writings in any formats is easier and faster using internet than other tools. Searching current articles and sending email to authors can be done directly in second. It is clear that the use of information technology is a must in supporting scholarly communication. Library as an established institution that has long supported scholarly communication needs continues reformation. Sustainable action of reform to scholarly communications have to be done. There are many factors to be paid attention to such as university policies; partnership between library and working units in university; involvement of civitas academica; use of handbook; information library sites; human resources development."

"Pustakawan referensi merupakan seorang pustakawan yang memiliki tugas untuk memberikan bantuan kepada pemustaka dalam menelusur sebuah informasi dalam berbagai subjek. Salah satu jenis pemustaka yang mereka layani di lingkungan perpustakaan perguruan tinggi ialah dosen sebagai aktor utama dalam ekosistem perkuliahan di kampus. Dosen diharuskan untuk memiliki sebuah publikasi karya ilmiah untuk menunjang profesi mereka serta dapat menciptakan sebuah pengetahuan baru. Dalam penulisan karya ilmiah dosen, seorang pustakawan referensi memberikan sebuah layanan penelusuran informasi yang menjadi bagian dari sebuah proses komunikasi ilmiah. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dengan pendekatan studi kasus yang mengambil lokasi penelitian di Universitas Negeri Malang. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana peran pustakawan dalam komunikasi ilmiah untuk menunjang produktivitas karya ilmiah dosen. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini adalah observasi, wawancara dan analisis dokumen yang dilakukan mulai bulan Juli hingga November 2024. Observasi dilakukan secara langsung untuk melihat interaksi yang terjadi antara pustakawan dengan dosen. Wawancara dilakukan terhadap tiga orang dosen Universitas Negeri Malang dan satu orang pustakawan referensi di Perpustakaan Universitas Negeri Malang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran pustakawan pada sub dimensi product lebih menonjol karena, komunikasi antara pustakawan dan dosen terjadi ketika dosen sedang membutuhkan bantuan untuk mengakses e-journal milik perpustakaan serta pustakawan berperan sebagai seseorang yang dapat mencegah adanya pelanggaran hak cipta suatu karya ilmiah. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini menjelaskan bahwa peran pustakawan dalam sebuah proses komunikasi ilmiah hanya terlihat pada sub dimensi property dan problem. Hal ini terjadi karena dosen menganggap pustakawan hanya bekerja secara adminitratif dan merasa bahwa dosen tidak percaya kepada pustakawan untuk melakukan kolaborasi karena, dosen merasa mereka yang paling menguasai dan mengetahui ilmu di bidangnya.

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A reference librarian is a librarian who has the task of providing assistance to users in searching for information in various subjects. One of the types of users they serve in the university library environment is lecturers as the main actors in the lecture ecosystem on campus. Lecturers are required to have a scientific publication to support their profession and create new knowledge. In writing scientific papers, a reference librarian provides information search services that are part of a scholarly communication process. This research is a descriptive qualitative research with a case study approach that takes place at the State University of Malang. The purpose of this research is to describe how the role of librarians in scientific communication to support the productivity of lecturers' scientific work. Data collection techniques in this study were observation, interviews and document analysis conducted from July to November 2024. Observation was done directly to see the interaction that occurs between librarians and lecturers. Interviews were conducted with three Malang State University lecturers and one reference librarian at Malang State University Library. The results showed that the role of librarians in the product sub-dimension is more prominent because, communication between librarians and lecturers occurs when lecturers need help accessing e-journals owned by the library and librarians act as someone who can prevent copyright infringement of a scientific work. The conclusion of this study explains that the role of librarians in a scientific communication process is only seen in the property and problem sub dimensions. This happens because lecturers think that librarians only work administratively and feel that lecturers do not trust librarians to collaborate because, lecturers feel that they have the most expertise and knowledge in their field."