Collections of PKPJ
Collection of Library Materials
The library’s vast collection of fiction and non fiction collections are arranged according to adult and children categories. The fiction collection comes in two sections-English and Bahasa Malaysia-and is arranged alphabetically by the author’s name. The non-fiction collection is arranged according to the Dewey decimal classification shelving system.
Reference Books
The Petaling Jaya Community Library has reference collections in several areas include :
- Encyclopedia and Dictionaries
- Malaysiana
- General references / Administration and Management
- Examinations: UPSR,PT3,SPM and STPM
- Braille
- Workshop and Seminar
- Prime Minister's Collections
Multimedia Collections
Materials are on educational, motivational, religious, documentary, environmental and music categories. They are available in compact disk, VCD, DVD and Blue-ray.
Magazines and Newspaper
The library subscribes to 15 daily newspapers, and provides newspaper-clipping services on certain current issues. There are also more than 40 magazine titles from Malaysia and other countries, and backdated issues of many magazines available at the library for reference.
SUMMARY OF COLLECTION AT EACH LEVEL
GROUND FLOOR
- Children's books
- UPSR revision
- Children's encyclopedia
Level 2
- DDC 600-999 collection
- Latest magazines
- Collection of articles from Periodicals
- Magazine articles for reference
- PMR,SPM,STPM revision
- Encyclopaedias and Malaysiana
- Map Collection
Level 1
- DDC 001-599 collection
- English and Bahasa Malaysia fiction
- The Cyber Centre
Level 3
- DDC 001-999 collection
- Multimedia collection
- Seminar and workshop papers
- Prime Minister's collection
- Daily newspaper collection
- Specific newspaper cuttings collection
- Braille Collection