Staff Profile: Nurashikin Bte Mohamed Jasni

Nurashikin is a Librarian with NTU Library's Academic Engagement Team.

- Master of Science (Information Studies), Nanyang Technological University, 2013

- Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Management, University of South Australia, 2011

- Diploma in Information Studies, Temasek Polytechnic, 2004

Nurashikin worked in the Civil Service College Library as a library intern and during this stint, her interest in librarianship grew and has since decided to make librarianship as her career. Shikin joined NTU Library in 2004 shortly after obtaining her Diploma in Information Studies from Temasek Polytechnic and continued to further her studies. She then obtained her Bachelor in Communication and Media Management from University of South Australia in 2011, followed by her Master of Science in Information Studies from Nanyang Technological University in 2013. With the qualification obtained, she advanced to become a librarian with the Communication & Outreach Team in 2017 and the Digital Scholarship and Education Team in 2019. Currently, she is with the Academic Engagement Team.

- NTU 15 Years Long Service Award, 2019

Nurashikin's professional interests include library instructional literacy, library marketing and information services, social computing, institutional repositories and open access.

Publications:

1. Sin, S.-C. J., Wong, J. P. H., Somasundram, V., & Nurashikin M. J. (2014, May). Convergence or divergence between national and international journals? Subject and collaboration trends in Singapore’s LIS research. Paper presented at the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

Presentations:

1. Nurashikin, M. J., & Somasundram, V. (2011, September). Youth to youth: paraprofessional in NTU Libraries (Singapore). Paper presented at the ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference, Perth, Australia.
2. Somasundram, V., Nurashikin, M. J., Julinah A. B., He, A., Rajid., S. S., Norlisa, O., (2011, April).  From Youth to Youth, young paraprofessional staff engaging the e-connected generation with the university library. Poster presented at the LAS Libraries for Tomorrow: Seminar and sharing session, Singapore.