Hazman Aziz.com

About Hazman Aziz.com
Hazman Aziz.com is a blog about Library 2.0 Webology. In short, it is where information, design and technology emerge as an experience for new generations to benefit. This is also where message and medium meld and the conversion of interface interaction on a Library 2.0 become useful, usable and desirable.

The most of the exploration for new emerging Library 2.0 tools will be illustrated here, giving out tips and pointers to the network of librarians in the exploration of today web 2.0 technology. Questions like design governance vs community governance, open source vs proprietary, the brick and mortar of library services vs the click and mortar of library services, the information literacy, the Google generation, the cyberians vs the librarians are some of the questions that we will ponder here.

Nurhazman Abdul Aziz
Better known as Hazman Aziz is a trainee librarian at the Nanyang Technological University Library in Singapore. He is currently working under the management of Library Technology and System Division and also a Business Subject Librarian for Information Technology and Operations Management with NTU Business Library. Hazman is also currently reading Master of Science (Information Studies) at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. Now, he is in his final term drawing out his dissertation on the topic, “Building NTU Library’s Enquiry Automatic Feedback (LEAF) system using the Technology Acceptance Model to create value concepts and adopt decisive approaches in developing a Library 2.0 environment in the academic community”.

Hazman Aziz is the man behind the interface design of NTU Library’s Enquiry Automatic Feedback (LEAF) and a number of upcoming Library 2.0 projects. They as such as the new intuitive interface on Database Access page, NTU Business Library Corporate Blog, NTU’s ISBN & Proxy Bookmarklet, NTU Desktop 2.0, NTU Library’s Virtualization project, Channel Library and various integration with web 2.0 application like bookjetty.com and OCLC xISBN. He is also the facilitator behind Librarians in Singapore’s Facebook version, where the community able to meet and collaborate efficiently and effectively.

Previously, Hazman was a training officer at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he helps out in the hospital e-learning projects. There, he has initiated couple of project such as e- Resources Information Centre portal and a small facility to cater fast production on e-learning materials. Mainly, he has administrated the hospital’s e-learning management system. During his national service with Singapore Armed Forces, he also has involved with the School of Infantry Specialist’s computer aided instruction centre projects in the delivery of electronic military lessons – such as project Self-Paced On Time On Need (SPOT-ON) project.

His Academic Path
Hazman Aziz graduated from University of Wollongong, Australia with a Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology (e-Business Management) in December 2005. He is also has earned a Diploma in Multimedia, Information & Communication Technology from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore in 2001. Prior to this, Hazman Aziz was from a Normal (Academic) stream from a neighborhood school, Commonwealth Secondary School. He graduated from Commonwealth in 1998 with a GCE O and N level, before going to the tertiary education. His primary education was from Shuqun Primary School.

Currently, he is reading Master of Science (Information Studies) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He hopes to proceed to PhD in a couple of year time. Hazman also have attended a military school before proceed to university at SAF’s school of Infantry, where he is trained to be an infantry section leader.

The Podium: A Library 2.0 Webology
Today, Hazman Aziz runs The Podium, where he will start to present his working papers in a number of conferences starting in August 2008. The Podium is a stage where he will share and collaborate new ideas how Library 2.0 can be implemented and taken place. So sit back and follow, the work of Hazman Aziz, since 1997.